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The famous Italian artist Edoardo Castaldo resorted to an innovative way to declare his solidarity with Gaza by transforming famous paintings in the city of Naples into paintings that embody some of the Israeli massacres that are happening to the residents of the Gaza Strip over a period of 39 days.
Eduardo posted on his Instagram account scenes of transforming artistic and advertising panels into drawings symbolizing solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip, as a result of the crimes they are exposed to due to the Israeli occupation raids.
A video published by the painter the day before yesterday, Sunday, showed the transformation of a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merizzi, nicknamed “Caravaggio,” displayed in the streets of the city, into paintings that support and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause in creative and distinctive ways.
He commented on the video, saying, “Art needs truth in order to exist. This is why Zionism will always fail in its colonial efforts. Caravaggio stands with Palestine.”
The footage showed that Castaldo added simple additions and modifications to cultural and commercial signs and advertisements, which contributed to completely changing these drawings.
Last October 14, in another scene, Castaldo transformed a Nike advertising billboard, in which an athlete appeared holding a basketball and preparing to shoot it, into a painting of a Palestinian carrying a Molotov cocktail, and placed the Palestinian keffiyeh to cover the athlete’s head in the main panel. While I replace the basketball with a Molotov cocktail.
The advertising poster that he redesigned, titled “Resist The Occupation,” was captioned in the video, “Our latest artistic work to support Palestine. These days, Zionism is colonizing our media, our public opinion, our police, and our laws.” Resistance is now, more than ever, a global issue.”
After that, the Italian police arrested the painter and detained him for 4 hours, and sentenced him to a fine of 400 euros, but he then left to continue his career and wrote, “The investigating police stopped us and took us to the police station for hours because we were making works of art to express solidarity with Palestine. We left after 4 hours with a fine of (400). Euro) We will continue to support our Palestinian brothers and sisters. The technical work will be completed very soon.”
He wrote in another post, “This is Naples today, our latest work of art in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. We were forcibly taken to the police station while making this painting. They kept us for hours. We will not stop. Israel cannot colonize art because art needs truth to exist.” .
Last October 19, he wrote, “Naples is in memory of the martyrs of Palestine. We will never forget and we will never be silent about what our eyes and souls witness in these dark days.”
On October 8, Eduardo Castaldo re-published an artistic image showing occupation soldiers climbing a ladder to a house, and said in the text attached to the image: “Today, more than ever, Naples stands with the Palestinian resistance.”
The Al-Aqsa Flood operation was not the beginning of the Italian artist showing his solidarity with Palestine and Gaza, as he had previously published on November 4, 2022 a video showing him placing a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind iron bars, and commented in the attached text by saying, “Benjamin was killed.” “In his previous governments, Netanyahu killed thousands of innocent people, and hundreds of children were subjected to imprisonment and torture daily under his rule.”
For 39 days, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a “destructive war” on Gaza, leaving 11,240 Palestinian martyrs, including 4,630 children and 3,130 women, as well as 29,000 injured, 70% of whom are children and women, according to official Palestinian sources on Monday evening.
