U taroccu (The blood orange) print - 2022 edition

2022 limited edition print from the 2016 Wealth of the Land exhibition.

Created from the streets of La Vucciria market in Palermo 2014-2016, these prints celebrate the fruit and vegetables of the streets. The markets, established by Arabs more than 1200 years ago sell seasonal, mostly regionally grown in Sicily.

Each of the images in the show were hand drawn digital images, based on a series of photographs taken from different angles and light sources. They each took from 40-60 hours to make.

The work in Wealth of the Land was exhibited in Palermo, Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney

Limited edition print of 19
30cm x 30cm / 45cm x 45cm
Digital print on Ilford paper
Unframed

A pdf of the Wealth of the Land catalogue will be emailed to you on purchase.

The blood orange
Taroccu is said to be derived from an exclamation of wonder expressed by a farmer
when he was shown this fruit for the first time. It is one of a number of varieties of sweet, redjuiced blood oranges which have sprung from hybrids from perhaps the beginning of the 19th century around Lentini in the province of Siracusa. They are harvested from March through to May. Within Europe, the Arancia rossa di Sicilia (Red Orange of Sicily) has Protected Geographical Status.

U taroccu
I tarocchi sunnu aranci siçiliani e si curtivanu sulu a livanti ra Sicilia, sunnu rrussi rrussi
e tantu ruçi ca a voti pari ri manciari frauli. S’accumincianu a cogghiri a finiri ru mmernu.

Il tarocco
Taroccu si dice che derivi da un’esclamazione di meraviglia espressa da un contadino quando gli fu mostrato questo frutto per la prima volta. È una delle tante varietà di arance dolci, dal succo rosso sangue che sono nate dalle hibridi probabilmente dall’inizio del XIX secolo vicino Lentini in provincia di Siracusa. Sono raccolte
da marzo fino a maggio. L’ Arancia rossa di Sicilia ha il riconoscimento dell’UE di IPG
(indicazione geografica protetta).