Ericailcane

Originally from Belluno, the artist began to make a name for himself at the beginning of the new millennium with wall paintings made mostly in social centres in Bologna, as well as through a number of video art events organised by the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he received his formal training. Particularly important was his collaboration with the street artist Blu, with whom he has worked since the beginning of his career on numerous murals, almost always of enormous dimensions.

Ericailcane’s works are characterised by the scientific precision with which the artist depicts disturbing animals with human features and movements, placing them in alienating contexts that are sometimes charged with social or ecological significance. The same iconography recurs in his refined drawings, artist’s books, videos and installations, including works produced on public commission: from the traditional Vecchione set up in 2009 by the City of Bologna to the façade decoration of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, Colombia, in 2013.

Over the years, his fame has grown and, overcoming his lack of interest in the art market, he began to work occasionally with galleries such as Biagiotti Progetto Arte in Florence, D406 in Modena, Squadro in Bologna, and the renowned Pictures on the Walls, a branch of the London gallery Lazarides. However, more than his exhibitions, in which he participates only occasionally, it is above all his murals that have made him known around the world. In addition to Italy, he has been active in Great Britain, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Morocco, Palestine, France and Germany.
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