This time we want to tell you two stories set in the most famous square of Naples, that Piazza Plebiscito which more than a quarter of a century ago was freed from the oppression of parked cars and has become a large free space where important cultural and spectacular events took place; just to say, only the pandemic prevented the highly anticipated Paul McCartney concert from being held in June last year.
In this large square one day in November 2020, Jago, a young artist already known for having created several works in the city, including the Veiled Child exhibited at the Sanità, "placed" a marble sculpture entitled Look Down which represents a bound baby with a heavy chain, as if to symbolize the most fragile humanity under the ax of the virus.
More or less in the same period, another story was recalled on the other side of the square, in that Royal Palace which on the facade houses the statues of the kings who succeeded each other over the centuries on the throne of Naples. In the center of the photo, the white point that can be seen is the sculpture we talked about before:
Almost Home - The Rosa Parks Project by the American artist Ryan Mendoza was installed in the Courtyard of Honor of the Royal Palace. The work is nothing more than the authentic house in which Rosa Parks lived, the African American woman who in 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up the seat on the bus she had occupied and which was in the area reserved for whites. Mendoza saved the modest building from demolition, and since then it has been "exhibited" around the world; the Neapolitan stop was supposed to end on January 6, 2021, but was extended until May 31:
And we close this brief visit to the Royal Palace with the Fountain of Fortuna, a work of 1820 restored in 1994 by the Mario Brancaccio Association:
