
DEC ART
D.E.C., Davide Edoardo Cassano, is a young Italian draftsman and illustrator born in Turin in 1993 and currently living in Marsciano, in the province of Perugia. His dreamlike and surreal drawings, all characterized by an almost obsessive attention to detail, are spontaneous creations of his imagination. This imagination unconsciously gathers raw material from emotions and unexpressed thoughts and shapes it at will into images and stories. Each work hides a message, reveals a specific emotional or existential state, and encodes a certain meaning—or multiple meanings—that are often unknown even to the artist himself during the creative process. These meanings only become clear once the drawing is finished, revealing parts of his unconscious that had previously been ignored or misunderstood. Much like what happens in dreams—spontaneous and sincere creations of the mind, free from the filters and inhibitions of consciousness—these works, through proper analysis and thoughtful reflection, bring to light aspects of ourselves that we know deep down, but at the same time, "do not know that we know."