DANIEL ANGELI

Daniel Angeli is a Brazilian author, visual artist, and children's book illustrator whose creative practice has focused on literature, visual narratives, and books for children and young readers since 2009.

Throughout his career, he has developed projects involving literature, visual storytelling, arts education, and cultural initiatives, collaborating with publishers, schools, cultural institutions, and literary events in Brazil and abroad.

His editorial production includes approximately forty published titles as author, illustrator, or editorial collaborator. Among them are works released by publishers such as Paulus, Mediação, Florear Livros, Habilis Press, and Pantograf. His illustrations also appear in books by acclaimed Brazilian authors, including Daniel Munduruku.

His work has reached international audiences through publications released by the Finnish publisher Wickwick Ltd, with commercial distribution in Finland and other European countries.

Over the years, he has participated in literary events, exhibitions, educational projects, and initiatives dedicated to reading promotion and visual creation. His work has also been presented in international contexts, including the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Current Research

Since 2025, Daniel Angeli has been engaged in an ongoing artistic investigation focused on the relationships between word, image, materiality, and human experience.

His work begins with attentive listening. From this process, language and visual matter become different paths for exploring and shaping the same experience.

Writing and image are developed as part of a shared creative process, preserving their distinct qualities while contributing to the construction of a unified work.

His artistic practice is guided by synthesis, expressive economy, and formal tension, transforming content into form through a language that seeks precision, density, and openness of meaning.

Current research explores increasingly concise forms of expression in which literature, visual language, and formal construction operate as inseparable dimensions of a single creative gesture.

Recent works present fragments of this investigation and form the core of an evolving body of authorial work.

The result is a body of work in which word and image do not explain one another, but instead sustain, together, the unity of the experience.