Jorit: The Italian Street Artist’s Global Impact and Political Engagement

Jorit, or Jorit Agoch, born Ciro Cerullo. Born in 1990, originally from Quarto, in the metropolitan city of Naples. “An Italian artist, specialized in urban art”, reads the bio on his official web portal. He is the author (among others) of the murals of Pasolini and Angela Davis in Scampia and the perhaps even more famous one of Maradona – the Italian street artist protagonist of the exchange with Putin at the international youth forum. Jorit, Putin, and the Italian street artist: “Russia and Italy united by art and the desire for freedom”. Jorit and the mural in Mariupol Last year, the street artist jumped to the headlines for the large mural made on a building in Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine occupied by the Russian army. The work was made to denounce what, according to him, were the oppressions suffered by the local population by Ukraine and Western allies. There was much discussion, both because of his positions on the war and a presumed plagiarism. The mural depicted a girl with the colors of the Russian flag painted in the irises and surrounded by two missiles with the NATO inscription. The bio As reported in his official biography...