The painting channel

By Genevieve Paiement

Incorporating ancient archetypes of Eastern religions, vaguely voodoo-like imagery, splotches of screaming colour, fashion, cars, circuses (he's a founding member of the Circo de bakuza), film, installation, trance music (the Free Bamboo Butterfly nights at Sona) and mysticism, former Montrealer Carlito Dalceggio's art is hard to classify. But mainly, he says he's a painter.

"When I paint I become a kind of channel," Dalceggio muses. "I think that all the information in the universe is condensed in every human being, and painting is an intense and beautiful way to access this information." Now a New Yorker, Dalceggio's exhibit Color Prophecies will be up for just one week in the Lufthaus space. These new works, portray "moments of infinity, the journeys of the gypsies, the nomad way of life, of letting go of what you own," says Dalceggio. "I'm a gypsy in my soul!" he giggles mischievously. Open your third eye, until June 27 at 6250 Hutchison, second floor, 12-7 p.m. Info: 278-1548.

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