"Lookdown," Jago's opera in Naples: "I invite you to look at the problems of society"

On the night of Nov. 5, a sculpture depicting a cowering infant nailed to the ground by a chain was placed in Naples, more specifically in Piazza del Pebliscito. The work is by sculptor Jago and is titled Lookdown.

The sculpture’s name resembles “lockdown,” the most frequently used word in this historic pandemic period, so it is a play on words. “The meaning of my work? Go ask everyone who, right now, has been left chained in their condition,” said artist Jago. Lookdown, he says, is "an invitation to ’look down’ on the problems that plague society and the fear of widespread poverty that is looming large, especially for the most fragile.

Jacopo Cardillo, this is his real name, is a 33-year-old artist originally from Frosinone. In the past he had “offered” to Naples another of his works, entitled Veiled Son, a sculpture that recalls in name and execution Giuseppe Sammartino’s masterpiece, the Veiled Christ, kept in the San Severo Chapel in the heart of the city. He usually creates his works by carving marble by hand: the material with which he made Lockdown is Danby marble from U.S. quarries in Vermont.

"Lookdown," Jago's opera in Naples: "I invite you to look at the problems of society"

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