ERICAILCANE

Ericailcane's bestiaries depict this as an awakening after a dream. Anthropomorphic creatures are an allegory of human weakness, wondrous animals that re-emerge from our childhood memories to illustrate fairy tales that are morally crude and disenchanted. The fine and delicate lines in the drawings, the masterful etching and drypoint technique in the refined engravings, the stop-motion animation in the video are the keys which lead us into an extraordinarily poetic world.

Ericailcane was born between the Alps and the Apennines. He has no face but has eyes and hands, he sees and draws. He is everyday food that is chewed but not digested. He's a collage from another world and another time. He speaks of nightmares as if they were dreams, of animals as if they were humans, he says humans are nothing but animals. In Bologna he's a writer and designer, he creates videos with traditional animation techniques and anti-conventional software.

Some of his noteworthy recent solo shows: La beffa, D406 Modena, Italy, 2016Man Is The Bastard, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2009; Fur, curated by Inigo Martinez Moller, Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2008; Il Numero Delle Bestie, D406 Modena, Italy, 2008; Muffins, Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, USA, 2008; Ericailcane + Blu, curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Stefano Questioli, Spaziorazmataz, Prato, Italy, 2007; Super Fluo, Lazarides Gallery, London, UK, 2007; Epistassi, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy, 2006.

Some of his main group exhibits: No somos nada, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Bogotà, Colombia, 2013; Pagine da un bestiario fantastico. Disegno italiano nel XX e XXI secolo, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, 2010; Original Cultures. Connecting cultures through modern performing arts, Bologna, Italy, 2009; Drawings in action. Disegni animati dall'Italia, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2008; El mundo pop, Galleria MondoPOP International, Roma, Italy, 2008; Manifesta #7, Fuori Luogo/Out of Place, Trento, Italy, 2008; Videominuto- Microcinema, curated by Andrea Mi, Centro per L'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2007; L'immagine Sottile, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy, 2007; Santa's Ghetto, curated by Banksy, Bethlehem, Palestine, 2007; Spina Festival curated by Stefano Questioli and Silvano Voltolina, Comacchio, Italy, 2007; Street Art Sweet Art, curated by Alessandro Riva, PAC, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2007; Sound Zero, Merano, Kunst Merano Arte, Italy, 2006; Re-Generation, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Termoli, Italy, 2006; Untitled, curated by Alessio Ascari and Edoardo Bonaspetti, Via Ventura XV, Milan, Italy, 2005.