Jago Museum

The Jago Museum is not a museum in the traditional sense. It is a "forge," a living laboratory, a powerful symbol of cultural rebirth housed within the Baroque Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crocifori. This space, once closed and now given back to the community, has become the studio and permanent exhibition center for the artist Jacopo Cardillo, known as Jago.

Here, art becomes an act of sharing, breaking down the barriers between the artist and the public. Visiting the museum means stepping into the creative process, observing the works in the very context of their creation.

The beating heart of the exhibition, worth the visit alone, is the Figlio Velato (The Veiled Son).

It is a work that establishes a profound and painful dialogue with the city's most celebrated icon, the Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ) in the Sansevero Chapel. But while the 18th-century masterpiece represents the divine and redemption, Jago's sculpture is a punch to the gut that brings us back to reality.

It is lost innocence, a child symbolizing all the young victims of modern tragedies, covered by a veil that fails to conceal his form, instead amplifying his silence.

The Jago Museum is the perfect destination for those seeking contemporary Naples—the one that uses beauty as a tool for social regeneration and demonstrates how high art can be born and thrive far from traditional circuits, deep within the city's living core.

ADDRESS: Piazzetta Crociferi, 4, 80137 Napoli NA
PHONE NUMBER: +39 392 801 3284
WEB: https://jago.art/it/museum/ 
MAIL: https://jago.art/it/contatti/museo/