«Italy is a Wood is a breath of a human in the landscape» Tiziano Fratus Tiziano Fratus has given birth to the concepts of Homo Radix (Rootman) and alberografia (Treegraphy) fecundating a rich editorial production (15 books, poems, reportage) and a wide photographic archive in gradual expansion, itineraries and paths sewn in different regions and walks that he loves to guide. Previous solo exhibitions: I giganti della natura (Nature s Giants) at Landscape Museum / Letteraltura Festival in Verbania; Grandi alberi fuori dal bosco (Big Trees outside Wood) for Natural Sciences Regional Museum in Turin; Il bosco di Palermo (Palermo Wood) at Botanical Garden in Palermo / Italian Botanical Society. Many readers follow his treegraphies on the newspaper «La Stampa» where he writes the column Il cercatore di alberi (The Tree Seeker). L Italia è un bosco is a new book forthcoming by prestigious publisher Editori Laterza and presented at Cinemambiente Festival in Turin, the day 31 of May 2014, at Circolo dei Lettori. Other presentations: - June 6, Florence, Travel Festival; - June 7, Anghiari (Arezzo), Free University of Autobiography; - June 9>16, Genoa, Internazionale Poetry Festival; - June 21, Monteriggioni (Siena), Festival della Viandanza / Walkabout Festival.
The Exhibition «He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theatre of evolution» A Sand County Almanac (1949) by Aldo Leopold 35 panels printed on forex (depth: 5 mm), size 70 cm (height) x 50 cm (width). Subject: a travel along Italy of the Big Monumental Trees and Ancient Woods. Huge trunks of giant sequoias in North Italy. Aerial roots of Australian fig trees dominating Palermo. Light among leaves of old conifers on the Alps. Holm oaks of the largest primary forest in Europe resisting in Sardinia. Solemnity of the ancients pinewoods in the National Park of Sila, Calabria. Bent Chestnuts and Elms of Apennine Forests. Rarities acclimatized in the little measures of the botanical and academic gardens. But also the deafened big trees living in the urban green spaces, as avenues, roads, squares and public gardens in crowded and congested towns. Tiziano Fratus crosses all these places where you could go to lose time and collect magnificence and guides us, as a enthusiastic Virgil of our Times, to recognize the diversity of species, to distinguish shapes colors leaves and geometries, to retrace and rebuild history of the oldest creatures living in our country.
List of panels and subjects: 1) European Spruces in the Latemàr Forest (BZ), Trentino South Tyrol; 2) Ornellaia s Downy oak, Bolgheri/Castagneto Carducci (LI), Tuscany; 3) Larches of Selva di Chambons, Fenestrelle (TO), Piedmont; 4) Chestnuts trees in the Grou Wood and at Molini di Triora (IM), Liguria; 5) Larches of the Fleet of Bien, National Parc of Gran Paradiso, Aosta Valley; 6) Cedar of Libanon next to Villa Mirabello, Varese, Lombardy; 7) Millennial Wild Olive tree in Luras (OT), Sardegna, the Italian Patriarch; 8) The Giants of Sila in Fallistro (CS), National Park of Sila, Calabria; 9) Pinocchio s or Collodi s Oak, Capannori (LU), Tuscany; 10) Giant Sequoias in Fennhals, along the road from Cortaccia to Favogna (BZ), South Tyrol; 11) Beech of Tetti Baudinet, Valle Pesio (CN), Piedmont; 12) Sweet Chestnut of One Hundred Horses, Sant Alfio (CT), Sicily; 13/14) Signposts: Tavern of the Hole (Emilia Romagna), millennial larches in Ulten (South Tyrol), to the Champion Tree on Alpe Savoney (Aosta Valley), a yew in the park of Villa Manin in Passariano (Friuli Venezia Giulia); 15) Angel s trumpets in Hanbury Botanical Gardens at Ventimiglia (Liguria) and Handkerchief trees in the park of Villa Taranto, Verbania (Piedmont); 16) Maremma, Tuscany: stone pine-lined roads and dancing olve trees; 17) Trees of Milan: the huge cigar tree in the gardens of Guastalla, Lombardy; 18) Arolla pines: the wood of Alevè beyond 2000 mt in Val Varaita, Piedmont; 19) A beautiful Treehouse in Manta (CN), Piedmont; 20) Padua: the queen magnolia of Italy in the inner garden of Basilica of Saint Antony and the botanical and academic garden founded in 1545; 21) Pines planted by Giuseppe Garibaldi at White House in Caprera, Sardinia; 22) Stone pines with an age of more than 200 years old at Isola d Elba, Tuscany; 23) 400 years old for oriental planes in the park of Villa Borghese, Rome, Lazio; 24) A monumental Mastic near Ragusa, Riserva Macchia Foresta, Sicily; 25) A champion bunya pine in the public park of Genoa Nervi, Liguria; 26/27) Fig trees in Palermo, largest exotic trees of Europe: incredible specimens are in the Botanical Garden, in English Garden, in the parks of Villa Trabia and Villa Malfitano-Whitaker; 28) A Virgilian oak in Novi Ligure (AL), Piedmont; 29) 800 year old for the cypress planted by Saint Francis in person at Villa Verucchio (RN), Emilia Romagna; 30) Lou Merze Gros, the larch of Pietraporzio (CN), Piedmont; 31) 500 olive trees of S Ortu Mannu and Sa Reina (The Queen) in Villamassargia (CI), Sardinia; 32) Surprises in the woods: fountains and coral red berries of the rowans.
Italy is a Wood is supported by FITO-CONSULT of Daniele Zanzi (Varese) I pionieri dell arboricoltura italiana CONTACTS Progettualità Homo Radix, Tiziano Fratus Ideas & actions for Tree Seekers and Huggers www.homoradix.com info@homoradix.com