For a general supervision of veteran trees:
life laugh at Oak!
Antimo Palumbo Viavai May 2009
€ 9,018,789! That is almost 18 billion pounds of the old coinage. This figure was sold the painting by Lucio Fontana Spatial Concept Waiting "for auction at Christie's in London on April 12 2008. Who is Lucio Fontana? As someone who is! It 's the famous Italian artist who from 1949 began to make cuts on the white canvas. Yes, you read that right with a blank white canvas just above the vertical cuts. Perhaps we do know (or just remember) to our directors, increasingly being taken and distracted by party meetings, roundtables, conferences that "it seems" as Astolfo (in the Orlando Furioso) lost his mind and point of view on the values \u200b\u200bon which to move and invest resources. And if art is in the hands (thankfully) and superintendents of critics (which "means above" that is, decide on the cultural and what is important or not and what resources to invest to preserve them) not the same thing happens to the trees Monumental: living trees that give us more leaves, flowers and fruits and miraculously through random events and accidents that have kept them away from the dark and expansionist deforestante men are still alive. Their fate, however, when something happens to him is in the hands of technicians to diagnose "plant doctors, agronomists, agro-technicians. Good doctors and good surgeons who spend their days in the "operating rooms of the city" to cut and prune trees and branches, but do not look at the tree as a historical and cultural value. I do not understand their economic and social value. So that when it comes to spending 8000 for € groped to raise a monumental oak tree 400 years old, Rome's largest engineers and politicians to which they rely do not think it's something cheap. Think and then act with the idea of \u200b\u200b"I'm sorry that it has fallen, but after all we can do, there are more important things to think about what "is a sign of regression of values \u200b\u200bcontained in a culture, a sign of impending barbarism. Attila and his entourage that left behind them the desert was not so called barbarians? At this launch a little story / question on which we all think, give our attention and to suggest solutions, "if a monkey, quick and nasty, escaped from near Bioparco entered the National Gallery of Modern Art and steal a fountain (I repeat a white canvas with the vertical cuts around the middle) and take him on the highest peak of the building. What would happen? First Movement: The Mayor and the authorities felt would call firefighters and technicians. Critics would certainly shocked and horrified. There would be articles that would run quickly on all media in the world (remember Piazza Navona dyed red?) And after a quick and immediate consultation you decide to invest energy and money to save the groped framework: a common good and national. But if the opinion was binding to a technician (I know a policeman or a guard) and not that of a critic who could say "Well what's the problem, we take another cloth and cut the same way" as you think end face that picture? And that figure in Europe and the world we'd Italy? And if you still the coach said - "a monkey gall is the framework and the integral recovery rates are very low" that does not try also to recover and then restore it later? Here, taking this story as part of the monumental trees, is it not now time to think about a superintendence of veteran trees, concerned not only to survey and monitor but also to invest resources to maintain and care for?. The oak Quadraro is still alive. We can and must be groped for it again. And 'the superintendence "political" (because that culture is still nonexistent, and we will work on this in the next few years) to think that this intervention as necessary. The day that happens, the day when the huge crane will pass the gate area near which stands the old oak tree fall will be for the whole city of Rome a great event. The sign that the folly of men, their abrupt departure from "true values" and the nature of the new aesthetic of malls you can still stop. A gift for the children of our children who will still be able to enjoy the shade and the beauty of a majestic tree and secular. A tree with its 400 years of age and his hair globosa feeds us and wrap us up, a link between the materiality of the earth and spirituality the sky: a tree that connects us to life. For this we use your head, laugh life tree.
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