The mural, painted on a public housing complex with 360 apartments and 84 garages built after the 1980 earthquake, allows you to see a 50-year-old Maradona, with a beard, similar to the one who coached Argentina in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
As the largest mural in the world dedicated to the player, over the years it has attracted visitors and tourists to the neighborhood known as the “Bronx” for its degradation, unemployment and drug trafficking.
He mural in tribute to Diego Maradona Located in the “Bronx” from the Italian city of Naples and painted by the artist Jorit seven years ago, It will be destroyed on February 2 when the Taverna del Ferro building complex is demolished as part of the city’s modernization process.
The mural, painted on a public housing complex with 360 apartments and 84 garages built after the 1980 earthquake, allows you to see a 50-year-old Maradona, with a beard, similar to the one who coached Argentina in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The mural was painted by the street artist Jorit who, when asked about the decision of the city municipality, was in favor of the measure, even if it would ruin his work: “We must regenerate the neighborhood, it is more useful have comfortable houses.”
In the drawing of the mural you can see Maradona’s face like a “human god” and it was painted thanks to the contributions of the then Napoli captain Marek Hamsik and neighborhood associations. As the largest mural in the world dedicated to the player, over the years it has attracted visitors and tourists to the neighborhood known as the “Bronx” for its degradation, unemployment and drug trafficking.
“Obviously I’m sorry but let’s not forget that the work served to put the spotlight on the Bronx and give a voice to the people who live there. The important thing is that people have comfortable houses to live in,” said Jorit, when asked by the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Jorit has another mural dedicated to Diez, located in Los Campos Phlégreos, which was painted in 2021. That time he decided to paint his young version, at the height of his activity as a footballer.
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