Ero Biography
Ero, pseudonym of Dominique Philibert, was born in New York in 1967. At just 15 years old, Ero sold his first canvas for 500 dollars, thanks to Patti Astor, director and founder of the Fun Gallery in New York. In the following three years he participated in national and international projects, such as the Arte di Frontiera New York Graffiti exhibition, organized at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna in 1984, designed by Francesca Alinovi, or the historic collective New York Graffiti Writers 1972-1984 at the Gallozzi gallery - La Placa in New York. Between 1984 and 1985 ERO lived in Martina Franca, collaborating with Studio Carrieri. With around ten works created between 1983 and 1985, including the series entitled Urban Mystical Expressions, he participated in the exhibition La Lettera Emancipata - Quattro Strateghi with Daze, Phase Two and Rammellzee in January 1985, and then at the international fairs in Madrid, Milan and Basel. This important group of works offers a unique and essential insight into the latest evolution of New York Graffiti Writing before the aesthetic - and commercial - crisis caused by the repression of this movement carried out by Mayor Edward I. Koch from 1978 to 1989. on a par with the sacred names of New York Graffiti Writing and legitimized those acid tones that contrasted the evolution of the New York soundscape and the diffusion of the electronic sounds of New Wave, as well as Hip Hop. He was considered one of the greatest representatives of New York Graffiti Writing of the 80s and passed away in 2011.
