The Vagabond Tree is a wandering tree: it walks and travels. It is the keeper of the mountains and asks the people not to destroy the country; and here in Irpinia, it implores us to stop mistreating the land. This idea recovers and, in a certain way, develops the "Re e della Regina Albero" ("The Tree King and Queen") fairy tale; a subject dating back to the '70s in Giovanni Spiniello's works and plastoggettografie. The Vagabond Tree is an installation made up of "polluting" material (polyurethane), waste matter, virdigris, natural material (brushwood, branches, shrubs, leale). Imagine all this stuff scattered in the small unauthorized rubbish dumps in the mountains. Imagine them taking shape, merged into a hybrid one hold together by the poisonous foam of polyurethane. Imagine, then, the virdigris, this age-old element used by the ancient Romans, that fossilizes the sky and the hope in the Tree eyes making it kinder; and, the "semina del colore" ("colour seeding") technique, linked to the old gesture of fertilizing the soil, that covers the Tree underlining its traces and nervations. The first time of the installation was in the historical center of Avellino, now the vagabond tree is among the Irpinia mountains, in S.Stefano del Sole, asking for stopping pollution in the Irpinia woods.
The Vagabond Tree's journey is starting...