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Jorit
Born
Jorit Ciro Cerullo

(1990-11-24) November 24, 1990 (age 33)
Naples, Italy
Alma materNeapolitan Academy of Fine Arts

Yuri Gagarin by Jorit, in Odintsovo

Jorit Ciro Cerullo (born 24 November 1990[1]), professionally known as Jorit, is an Italian street artist. He is known for painting murals depicting faces of people with red streaks on their cheeks.

Childhood and education

Jorit was born in Naples. His father, Luigi Cerullo,[2] was a Neapolitan and his mother, Jeannina,[3] was Dutch. He grew up in Quarto, on the northern perimeter of the city. After studying at the scientific lyceum Galileo Galilei in Naples, he attended the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts,[4] obtaining a first class degree.[5]

His interest in street art began when he was 13 years old. Jorit has defined his approach as one of picking out ordinary faces from the working class to embody famous people, in the style of Caravaggio. Thus, his depiction at Forcella, Naples [it] of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, draws on features of a 35-year-old friend who is a factory worker.[6]

Graffiti artist

In the murals made by Jorit there are "hidden" writings, words and phrases that often expand the meaning of the works. They were collected for the first time by Vincenzo De Simone, a Neapolitan psychologist and photographer, as part of the "La gente di Napoli" photoproject.[citation needed]

In 2023, Il Giornale estimated the typical value of a graffiti work by Jorit at €25,000. Jorit earlier won a competition for funding from the Campania region at a value of €300,000.[7]

Notable street murals

In August 2019, Jorit painted the face of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, on the facade of a twenty-story building in the district of Odintsovo, Russia. At the base of the mural is "СССР", the abbreviation for the official name of the Soviet Union in the Russian alphabet.[8][9][10] It is the largest portrait of Gagarin in the world.[11]

On February 22, 2021, he painted the face of Valerio Verbano [it] on the facade of a building in Rome. Verbano was an Italian communist militant, killed in 1980 in an ambush by three fascists who had entered his home.[12]

Painting in the West Bank and expulsion from Israel

Ahed Tamimi by Jorit and Tukios

Jorit and another artist Salvatore Tukios were detained for three days after painting a mural depicting a Palestinian adolescent activist, Ahed Tamimi, who had become an iconic figure among Palestinians after slapping the face of an Israeli soldier outside her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih. The mural – whose completion was scheduled to coincide with Tamimi's release from an 8-month prison sentence – was set on the Bethlehem side of Israel's Separation Barrier.[13][14] Upon their return to Naples on July 30, their families, waiting at the airport, asked that no photos be taken, as they wished to remain anonymous.[15][16]

Russo-Ukrainian war

After the 24 February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jorit made a mural in Naples of Fyodor Dostoevsky, in whose eye is a child in the colours of the Donetsk People's Republic. He argued that the issue had to be seen from 2014, and that the peoples of the Donbass had self-determined through two referendums, and that children of the two republics had been killed by Ukrainian army for eight years.[17] His street art was mentioned and praised by Vladimir Putin during the invasion of Ukraine.[18]

He described his mural in occupied Mariupol as seeking to present a narrative of the bombing of the city and its inhabitants by "NATO missiles".[19] Jorit's mural was criticised on the basis that the bombs that killed children in Mariupol were Russian, and that the Mariupol hospital airstrike was attributed to Russian forces.[19] Jorit also said the mural was "a living little girl from Donbas who spent her first years in Mariupol surrounded by war”.[19] Helen Whittle, an Australian photographer, protested that the mural is based on a photo of her daughter and unauthorized.[19][20] Jorit later said he had come across the photo by searching on Google for "pigtails", and he had redrawn the shirt and the pigtails.[19]

Points of view

After the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Jorit stated that Italy should support the Donbass separatists against the Kyiv government.[21][22] His street art was mentioned and praised by Vladimir Putin during the invasion of Ukraine.[18]

Acknowledgments

Jorit was nominated by Michelina Manzillo, Knight of the Italian Republic, for the 2023 Wolf Prize.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Napoli - Jorit Agoch racconta su Instagram la sua odissea in Israele". Monitore Napolitano (in Italian). 2 August 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ^ Del Porto 2018.
  3. ^ TG 2018.
  4. ^ Guida 2016.
  5. ^ Maselli 2016.
  6. ^ de Rosa 2015.
  7. ^ Angelo Allegri (14 July 2023). "Jorit, il graffitaro finanziato dalla Campania che dipinge murales per gli occupanti russi" [Jorit, the graffiti artist funded by Campania who paints murals for Russian occupants]. Il Giornale (in Italian). ISSN 1124-8831. Wikidata Q120791946. Archived from the original on 21 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Jorit, il Bansky italiano approda in Russia: a Mosca un suo murales gigante dedicato a Gagarin". it.rbth.com (in Italian). 30 August 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Jorit, la sua arte approda in Russia: un murale dedicato a Jurij Gagarin". 2anews.it. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  10. ^ "La nuova opera di Jorit è in Russia: un murale dedicato a Yuri Gagarin". bonculture.it (in Italian). 20 August 2019. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  11. ^ "AUTHOR OF LARGEST GAGARIN GRAFFITI VISITED STAR CITY". russkiymir.ru. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2020.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Valerio Verbano: a Roma un gigantesco murale firmato Jorit". ansa.it (in Italian). 19 February 2021.
  13. ^ Ma'an 2018.
  14. ^ Reuters 2018.
  15. ^ La Stampa 2018.
  16. ^ "Israele, rilasciati Jorit e Salvatore". Roma (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Jorit, Dostoevskij e Putin". la7.it (in Italian).
  18. ^ a b "Italian street artist paints mural in support of Donbass children in Mariupol". TASS. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  19. ^ a b c d e Tondo, Lorenzo (19 July 2023). "Photographer criticises use of image in Italian artist's pro-Russia mural". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  20. ^ Redazione online (15 July 2023). "Perché si parla del murale di Jorit a Mariupol". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  21. ^ Redazione online (13 July 2023). "Jorit, un murale a Mariupol su un palazzo colpito dai russi. E si schiera dalla parte di Mosca". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 15 July 2023. The resistance that we should have supported is that of the people of the Donbass, who have been fighting for eight years to get rid of a regime, the Kiev regime, that now has nothing democratic about it.
  22. ^ "Hanno tutti ragione | Un capolavoro di vergogna, lo street artist italiano che decora i palazzi sventrati da Putin". la Repubblica (in Italian). 14 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  23. ^ Armiero, Mirella (6 December 2022). "Jorit in lizza per il Wolf Prize 2023". Corriere del Mezzogiorno (in Italian). Retrieved 16 July 2023.

General references

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