Street art, Ericailcane stars in Ravenna with a solo show at Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste

From Saturday, June 6, to Tuesday, July 7, the exhibition Potente di fuoco e altri disegni, a solo show by artist Ericailcane (Belluno, 1980), one of the leading names in Italian street art , can be seen in Ravenna in the spaces of Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste.

The exhibition starts with a question: what happens if you rediscover the animals you drew as a child and reinterpret them with your own style today? This is the bet from which the idea of the “Powerful of Fire” project was born a few years ago and took shape in a publication published by Modo Infoshop. The exhibition Potente di fuoco e altri disegni consists of 88 drawings on paper, depicting real and fantastic animals: on the one hand, those made back in 1985 by little Leonardo (this is Ericailcane’s real name) at the age of 5 and carefully preserved by his parents who, twenty-five years later, decided to “give them back” to their son, who became the famous artist Ericailcane. The temptation to redraw/reinterpret them for him was irresistible. And so this singular challenge to time was born. Yesterday’s animals have become “adults”; the uncertain childish sign, traced by Leonardo with markers and pencils, (but already endowed with extraordinary quality, freshness and descriptive effectiveness) has been replaced by the one controlled over years of exercising an uncommon talent, in a challenge between the before and the after.

The city of Ravenna dedicates to Ericailcane one of the richest exhibitions ever in terms of variety and quantity of drawings on display. Central body is the project “Powerful Fire,” which here is enriched with new unpublished drawings developed on the same idea, a preview of the artist’s next editorial work.

Among the unpublished drawings in the exhibition is a series of very recent large-format black-and-white papers created in the dark days of the lockdown resulting from the health emergency to contain the spread of Covid-19, works that will greet visitors at the entrance to the exhibition route. And it is also possible to admire a selection of color drawings (as well as some installations, videos and objects including the limited edition skateboard designed by Ericailcane thanks to the collaboration with Marco Miccoli’s Bonobolabo ) created in recent years.

Originally from Belluno, Ericailcane began to make a name for himself at the beginning of the new millennium with graffiti and paintings on walls in Bologna and in video art events organized by theAcademy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he trained. Ericailcane’s works, now internationally known, are characterized by the extreme precision with which he delineates animals with human movements, placed in estranging contexts charged with social and ecological significance.

Ericailcane’s bond with the city of Ravenna, where he created one of his most important and monumental works, in the Darsena area, painted on the brick walls of the old former Mosa feed mill, is strong. A work of great emotional impact, it seems to draw inspiration from the fantastic animals, the Colombre and the Sea Snake, created in the 1950s by the genius of Dino Buzzati, a Bellunese writer much loved by the artist. In 2019 Ericailcane returned to the city, invited by “Subsidenze” the street art festival curated by the Ravenna-basedcultural association “Indastria” and created the monumental Non facciamo di tutte le erbe fasci.

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Pictured: Ericailcane, Snail

Street art, Ericailcane stars in Ravenna with a solo show at Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste

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