(Finance) – Naples, where the walls do not divide: this is the claim that accompanies the 2022 edition of “May of Monuments”, historic event that this year focuses on the street art festival “Muraria”. Just this morning preview of the mural that the street artist Jorit dedicated to Fabrizio De Andrè.
“Scampia is the example of a populated neighborhood from the people Fabrizio loved and always sang, and if he managed to express himself in a certain way he owes it to the people who live here, he drew a lot “. These are the words of Dori Ghezzi in seeing the face of Faber give new life to a vast wall in via Labriola, recalling the deep bond between the Genoese singer-songwriter and Naples.
“With the 2022 edition we have renewed the historic mission of May of Monuments, explained the mayor Gaetano Manfredi, alongside the creation of new works of public art to enhance the existing extraordinary monumental heritage.
THEhe mural of Jorit in Scampia and installing Zevs to Ponticelli tthey value our attention to the suburbs and give shape to our vision of a polycentric city, which finds in art the instrument to reaffirm its international vocation and extend its cultural and tourist offer to the whole territory “.
Together with Jorit, for the realization of the mural, also Trisha Palma, a very young street artist from Scampia. “I chose to pay homage to Fabrizio De Andrè because I have always admired his being a character against the tide – declared Jorit – an artist who has never been afraid of take a stand and take sides with the last ones, to support the reasons and the desire for justice. Remembering him with a mural was like giving a face to the beauty of his music, doing it in Scampia meant enriching the neighborhood with a new artistic space, going beyond the narrative that in recent years has only described it as a place of degradation and violence. This is also why I made use of the collaboration of Trisha Palma, a talented painter who lives a stone’s throw from Via Labriola and represents the many young people in the suburbs who have decided to live in art. You used acrylic paint, I used MTN 94 spray cans: the result is a 5-story high mural, which I hope will stimulate people to deepen their knowledge of Fabrizio De Andrè and to overcome the stereotypes that imprison Scampia “.