I visited inside the ancient rooms of theFormer Convent of San Francesco in Bagnacavallo (RA)the artist’s solo exhibition ERON edited by Davide Caroli. The exhibition, promoted by Municipality of Bagnacavallo and organized by Civic Museum of the Capuchins in
occasion of Feast of St. Michaelpresents a selection of various works, the sole common thread of which is consistent with the title of the exhibition ERONis the artist’s own research. His works often touch on political and social themes through a pictorial research that combines power, delicacy, poetry and visual harmony. Among the works on display there will be also some unpublished works created specifically for the exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that includes images of various works by the artist including some of the works on display and texts by Davide Carolidirector of the Civic Museum of the Capuchins of Bagnacavallo, and of Pietro Rivasiindependent curator, expert in contemporary urban art, organizer of exhibition projects and scientific member of URBANER, the first center for the analysis and documentation of urban cultures created in Italy in the municipality of Modena (urbaner.it).
Eron (Rimini 1973) is an Italian artist considered among the most gifted and virtuous interpreters of figurative art and international contemporary painting (Treccani Italian Encyclopedia) and is one of the best-known exponents of Italian graffiti and street art between the 20th and 21st centuries. He trained at the Urbino art school and continued his journey through underground urban art. In 2018 he created what is considered one of the largest works of urban mural art in the world. The work, entitled WALL (Walls Are Love’s Limits), was created in the City Life district of Milan. A 1000 square meter painting that transformed the large wall into a monumental “wall against walls”. In 2010 he created what is now considered the first and only work in the world painted by a contemporary urban artist inside a place of worship, “frescoing” the large ceiling of the church with spray paints. 
Church of San Martino in Riparotta in Rimini. In 2016 he created a work dedicated to migrants painted on the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia Institute.
side of a titled naval wreck Soul of the Sea where he portrays some faces of women and children who seem painted by the rust of the wreck itself. The image of the work quickly went around the world and was published byEconomist and from Chicago Tribune as the best image of the day in the world.
In 2016 the City of Santarcangelo di Romagna awarded him the Golden Archangel, a prestigious award that the municipal administration attributes to particularly illustrious and deserving citizens and personalities. In 2019 the City of Rimini awarded him the Golden Sigismondo, the highest honor given to citizens who have distinguished themselves for their work. Eron does not show up at the ceremony and sends Mbacke Dieng, an African immigrant who now lives in Italy, to collect the award. Close your eyes and see is the title of Eron’s personal exhibition inaugurated in 2020 at the Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milan. The most important work in the exhibition was immediately purchased by the manager of Banksy’s company.
In 2017 the Italian street artist Blu invited Eron to Val di Susa to collaborate on the urban mural art project against the TAV “Wall Susa”. Eron elevates the spray technique to conventional painting, confusing its results and equaling it in its ability to mimesis of reality, where in some cases the optical illusion is so surprising that it misleads the viewer. Emblematic in this sense is the episode involving a worker called to repaint the walls of the Art Museum of Ravenna in 2014, who, not realizing the pictorial fiction of a hole that the artist had created on the wall for the exhibition just concluded, tries to plaster it. The news makes the rounds of the national and international press. Achille Bonito Oliva comments on the fact with the phrase: “Healthy ambiguity between 
life and art…”.
Eron’s wall paintings are present in Italy, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Portugal, France. His works were
exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including: Chelsea Art Museum New York, Venice Biennale, Saatchi Gallery London, Bristol Museum United Kingdom, Galleria Patricia Armocida Milan, PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Horizon One Gallery, Museum of Modern Art of El Cairo Egypt, Civic Center Ozumba Mbdiwe, Lagos, Nigeria, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Museum for Urban Contemporary Art Berlin, Italian Cultural Institute New York, just to name a few.
Carlo Franza