Ercole’s work is based on the certainty that drawing is capable of making the invisible visible and, in his latest works, he focuses on the study of light as the axis and central character of his system. He is interested in identity, corporal and iconographic aspects of this entity through history, ancestral knowledge, stories and in an encounter between diverse geographies and territories.
His usually large works are presented as if the architecture were a literal display of the painting, so that the observer no longer contemplates the painting as something external to him, but rather sees it from within.
Using mostly the sgraffito technique, his drawings are constructed by tearing material and through an infinite number of incisions that allow us to discover underlying layers of color and light, which cut out contours and embody natures. Printed landscapes of a mystical and subtle character that carry archeology on their backs: other images, other stories, other various times; where it seems that the artist’s ultimate goal is to place us in front of the mystery, force us to travel through it, but knowing that we cannot see what is on the other side of it.