Street art
28 places
Street artMurales di Maradona
Napoli (NA)
In the Quartieri Spagnoli a giant mural of Maradona has turned a courtyard into a secular shrine, among scarves, votive candles and fans on pilgrimage.
Street artStazione Toledo (Stazioni dell'Arte)
Napoli (NA)
Toledo station descends into the deep blue of the sea through Tusquets' 'Crater de luz', where the shimmering mosaics turn the metro into a plunge into water and light.
Street artStazione Università (Karim Rashid)
Napoli (NA)
Karim Rashid has turned Università station into a flash of magenta and fluid surfaces, futuristic geometries conceived as a hymn to knowledge and connection.
Street artStazione Materdei
Napoli (NA)
Materdei station weaves together natural light and coloured mosaics, bringing back to the surface the breath of a hillside neighbourhood often left off the usual itineraries.
Street artStazione Dante
Napoli (NA)
At Dante station contemporary art inhabits the daily passage, from Joseph Kosuth's neon to the works that accompany commuters between the piazza and the bowels of the city.
◆ Street artFontana della Sirena (Piazza Sannazaro)
Napoli (NA)
Rejected by Ulysses, the siren Partenope let herself die and the sea laid her on this shore: from her the city took its name. Here she is in marble, lyre in hand, on a rock of horses, lions and dolphins.
◆ Street artMurales di Jorit a Piscinola-Scampia (Pasolini, Angela Davis, De Andre')
Napoli (NA)
You come out of the metro and Pasolini is waiting for you, as tall as a building, next to Angela Davis and De André. Scampia told by those who live there, not by those who use it as a set.
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Murale di San Gennaro (Jorit)
Forcella
Fifteen metres high on a facade in Forcella, Jorit's San Gennaro has the face of a young worker marked by the two red stripes of the human tribe.
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Madonna con la pistola (Banksy)
Napoli (NA)
In piazza dei Girolamini, Banksy's Madonna wears a pistol in place of a halo, the street artist's only Neapolitan work, now protected behind glass.
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Murale Maradona-Pino Daniele-Troisi (Torre Enel)
Napoli (NA)
On the former Torre Enel of the Centro Direzionale, Jorit has raised vertically the faces of Maradona, Pino Daniele and Troisi: the Neapolitan trinity watching over the city from on high.
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Maradona 'Dios Umano' di Jorit
Napoli (NA)
In San Giovanni a Teduccio a colossal Maradona fills an entire suburban building, suspended between the divine and the human in the gaze Jorit painted for the neighbourhood.
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Parco dei Murales (Parco Merola)
Napoli (NA)
Among the tower blocks of Ponticelli, the courtyards of Parco Merola have become an open-air gallery, with tender figures and giant faces painted on the facades of the public housing.
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Murale di BLU all'ex OPG
Napoli (NA)
On the walls of the former judicial asylum of Materdei, today an occupied space, the huge figure signed BLU turns the memory of confinement into a gesture of collective redemption.
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Murale 'Totò e la Banda degli Onesti'
Napoli (NA)
Totò and Peppino De Filippo return to the walls of Napoli in the scene from 'La Banda degli Onesti', funny and tender, where a little cup of coffee becomes a lesson in life.
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Murales di Cyop&Kaf 'Quore Spinato'
Napoli (NA)
In the alleys of the Quartieri Spagnoli a great red heart girdled with barbed wire, signed Cyop&Kaf, tells without words the rough, stubborn love of this part of Napoli.
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Iside / Pudicizia di Bosoletti
Napoli (NA)
In the Quartieri Spagnoli Bosoletti rewrites in negative the veiled Pudicizia of the Sansevero: a woman's figure surfaces on the plaster, at once delicate and monumental.
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Murale di Massimo Troisi di Jorit
San Giorgio a Cremano (NA)
In San Giorgio a Cremano, his birthplace, the face of Massimo Troisi painted by Jorit watches over the neighbourhood with the same gentle irony as his films.
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Borgo dipinto di Valogno
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
A tiny hamlet of Sessa Aurunca amid the woods of Roccamonfina, Valogno answered depopulation with colour, painting the walls, vaults and balconies of its houses with dozens of works.
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Bonito, borgo dei murales
Bonito (AV)
A borgo (old village) of the Irpinia where the Collettivo Boca summoned artists from all over the world: among the alleys stands out Bosoletti's 'Genesis', a female figure painted across three abandoned houses.
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Piano Vetrale, borgo dipinto
Orria (SA)
In the Cilento the facades of Piano Vetrale have been covered with murals since the 1980s, between scenes of peasant life and fairy tales, in the village that gave birth to the painter Paolo De Matteis.
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Rione Fornelle — Muri d'Autore
Salerno (SA)
In the ancient heart of Salerno the Fornelle quarter has been reborn with 'Muri d'Autore': verses by Alfonso Gatto and other poets turned into murals, where the street reads like a page.
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Murale di Trotula de Ruggiero di Jorit
Salerno (SA)
Along the wall of a car park in via Vinciprova, Jorit devotes an immense face to Trotula de Ruggiero, the woman doctor of the Scuola Salernitana who treated women a thousand years ago.
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Murales di Ozmo ed Eron (Capri: The Island of Art)
Capri (NA)
Murals by Ozmo and Eron inspired by the island (Eron's 'Epic Fights').
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Murale Genesi di Bosoletti
Bonito (AV)
On three abandoned houses of Bonito, Francisco Bosoletti painted an ethereal female figure offering liquid gold: the 'Genesi', among the most beautiful murals in the world of 2018.
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Cimitero di Procida
Procida (NA)
A cemetery made of little domes and small white houses: the same round volumes as the homes of the living, just below. On Procida even the dead live in a miniature version of the town.
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Murale di Maradona di Jorit (Taverna del Ferro)
Napoli (NA)
On the blind wall of a social-housing block, Maradona watches over the neighbourhood from above: a giant secular icon painted where the city ends and nobody expects beauty.
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Murale del Che Guevara di Jorit (San Giovanni a Teduccio)
Napoli (NA)
Che Guevara looks at Maradona from one end of the neighbourhood to the other, as tall as a building. Two secular saints on the social housing of San Giovanni.
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Stazione Municipio (Stazioni dell'Arte)
Napoli (NA)
The station-museum in Piazza Municipio, designed by Siza and Souto de Moura, incorporates the remains of the ancient harbour of Naples and five Roman ships found during the excavations.