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Eduardo De Filippo 2014
The mural, created on the occasion of the Universal Forum of Cultures and in collaboration with the City of Naples and INWARD-Osservatory on Urban Creativity, is a tribute to Eduardo De Filippo on the thirtieth anniversary of his death. To celebrate the best-known playwright, actor and director to whom the city of Naples gave birth, Jorit has chosen to take portions of his private life and frames from his best-known works, highlighting both the man and the public figure. The Teatro San Ferdinando is a symbol of the Neapolitan theatre tradition and is closely linked to the figure of Eduardo, who invested his earnings in the reconstruction in 1948. While on the central shutters Jorit shows Eduardo stripped of his stage clothes, on the side shutters the artist portrays him as the interpreter of two of the most famous characters from his theatre production: Il sindaco del rione Sanità (1960) on the left and Questi Fantasmi (1945) on the right.
