Daniele Castellano
Born in Rimini in 1989, he graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and in Illustration from ISIA Urbino. In 2016, his work was selected for Ilustrarte and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, for which he created the visual identity of the 2017 edition. In 2019, he was awarded the Renner Prize. He currently lives in Bologna and collaborates with a range of American and international publications.
THE PROJECT
Pareidolia – the perceptual phenomenon that leads us to recognise patterns in the shapes and objects around us. It is this mechanism, closely linked to the idea of perception itself, that underpins the five illustrations that follow. The story they unfold traces a gradual emergence: that of a human figure arising from the vegetal world. First as an eye, then as a face, and finally as a body.
The illustrations
