This is a plaster sculpture of almost two meters in height created by Jago in 2024 and as in other works by the artist, also in this case Jago draws on classical iconography and the tradition of the great masters, reinterpreting the myth of David and Goliath in a modern key to tell a different story, but always full of courage and revenge. The iconography is identifiable thanks to the proud posture of the woman (which recalls the famous David by Michelangelo), the sling and the stone (symbol of the last masterpieces of Iago) that is ready to be thrown. The David project was born in 2020 with Jago hand-making the first clay sketch. From that first image Jago then created a plaster model, which will be translated into marble from a block of Carrara more than 4 meters high.
The Jago museum is located in the church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi in the Sanità district of Naples - of which Don Antonio is the rector - reopened in 2023 giving life to numerous projects of social and cultural inclusion, fundamental for the territory, also thanks to the support of Intesa Sanpaolo.
JAGO is an Italian sculptor born in Frosinone in 1987
His artistic research is rooted in traditional techniques and establishes a direct relationship with the public through the use of videos and social networks, to share the production process. At 24, he was selected to participate in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale, exhibiting the marble bust of Pope Benedict XVI (2009). The youthful sculpture was then reworked in 2016, taking the name of Habemus Hominem and becoming one of his best-known works. In 2019, on the occasion of ESA's Beyond mission, JAGO was the first artist to have sent a marble sculpture (The First Baby) to the International Space Station. In November 2020, he created the installation Look Down, which was placed in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, and then exhibited in the Al Haniyah desert in Fujairah (UAE). On October 1, 2021, JAGO will install his Pietà in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto, in Piazza del Popolo (Rome) and on March 12, 2022, he will inaugurate the exhibition JAGO – The Exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome. On May 20, 2023, the laboratory in the Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi (Naples) will open to the public as the Jago Museum.
The work was unveiled by Michele Coppola, Executive Director of Art, Culture and Historical Heritage of Intesa Sanpaolo, and Don Antonio Loffredo, President of the San Gennaro Foundation, which manages the additional services of the Jago Museum, the place where the work comes from.
