Sacred Ethnographies in the Streets of Naples
A Comparision between Urban Art and Folk Devotion
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9473Keywords:
sacred, Naples, street art, votive shrine, BaroqueAbstract
The streets of Naples are dotted with countless works of urban art that reactivate, almost obsessively, signs and symbols taken from Christianity and baroque culture. From the nineties to today, artists such as cyop&kaf, Jorit, Pignon-Ernest, Mandragora and others represent the devotional cults of the Neapolitans, inspired by the porous stratifications of a city where coexist high and low culture, public and private life, legality and illegality, ancient and contemporary. The interweaving of Art History, Anthropology and Semiotics makes it possible to compare different murals and serigraphs to some elements of faith such as the pantheon of photographs and statues of Purgatory’s souls, the fragmented body of the relic and the Trickster, the mixture of the ironical and the tragical in the votive micro-architectures and the Christian icons.
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