Niclas Castello
Biography
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The political background in which he grows up is extremely painful: the extremely coercive Soviet regime deprives him of the typical carefree life that we imagine a child could have.
As he grew up, he began to cultivate a discomfort that repressed him in every aspect. Despite the fact that his dream of becoming a professional footballer stimulated him greatly, he could not give himself peace seeing the hostility of the city towards him, full of stock buildings that prevented him from dreaming of any other future than the greyness of Neuhaus am Rennweg, his home town.
It was in 1989 that, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, 11-year-old Niclas Castello felt reborn: and with the fall of the wall, the greyness inside Niclas also began to fall, a world of creativity, colours, shapes, experiences, travel opened up for him.
Castello tries to explore the Berlin of the late 1990s, discovering German Street Art, his starting point in his artistic career.
Out of a deep need to find something that would elevate him from the suffering territory in which he had grown up, at the age of 24 he decided to leave the demons of the past behind and in 2002 went to Montmartre where he found an art scene that welcomed him with open arms.
The great artistic and fashion influence Salvador Dali left in Paris began to shape what would become his Symbolist artistic thinking.
Castello began by drawing and writing letter after letter for weeks on end, then moving on to elementary colour drafting until his inner, creative world is rediscovered.