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Jorit Ciro Cerullo (born 24 November 1990), known mononymously as Jorit, is an Italian street artist. He is known for painting murals depicting faces of people with red streaks on their cheeks.
Jorit was born in Quarto on the northern perimeter of Naples. His father, Luigi Cerullo, was a Neapolitan and his mother, Jeannina, was Dutch. After studying at the scientific lyceum Galileo Galilei in Naples, he attended the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining a first class degree.
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 of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, draws on features of a 35-year-old friend who is a factory worker.
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.
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. It is the largest portrait of Gagarin in the world.
On 22 February 2021, he painted the face of Valerio Verbano on the facade of a building in Tufello, Rome. Verbano was an Italian communist militant, killed in 1980 in an ambush by three fascists who had entered his home.
In Florence, Jorit published a mural depicting the young Antonio Gramsci in 2020. In the wall is Gramsci's words: "Even when all is or seems lost, one must quietly set to work again, starting from the beginning ... The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born".
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Jorit Ciro Cerullo (born 24 November 1990), known mononymously as Jorit, is an Italian street artist. He is known for painting murals depicting faces of people with red streaks on their cheeks.
Jorit was born in Quarto on the northern perimeter of Naples. His father, Luigi Cerullo, was a Neapolitan and his mother, Jeannina, was Dutch. After studying at the scientific lyceum Galileo Galilei in Naples, he attended the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining a first class degree.
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 of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, draws on features of a 35-year-old friend who is a factory worker.
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.
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. It is the largest portrait of Gagarin in the world.
On 22 February 2021, he painted the face of Valerio Verbano on the facade of a building in Tufello, Rome. Verbano was an Italian communist militant, killed in 1980 in an ambush by three fascists who had entered his home.
In Florence, Jorit published a mural depicting the young Antonio Gramsci in 2020. In the wall is Gramsci's words: "Even when all is or seems lost, one must quietly set to work again, starting from the beginning ... The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born".