"Wanderlust" tra i Pirenei e le Alpi: parole e immagini nell'Antropocene (Hamish Fulton e Richard Long).

The essay explores some of the artworks by two contemporary British artists: Hamish Fulton and Richard Long. In particular, the study highlights the practice of walking as an artistic gesture in the Anthropocene. The environmental consciousness of the two artists is considered particularly relevant to their art: walking in the open air and in the mountains, – e.g. the Alps and the Pyrenees – following the footsteps of the Romantic poets of the first generation, such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, while renovating art to a new vanguard status. The natural, minimal and impermanent sculptures by Richard Long leave slight traces in the landscape. Both artists resort to black and white photographs and to a variety of multimedia forms, even ephemera, such as text-works, diagrams, graphic art in order to represent their experiences, as unique trace of their artistic interventions and as a way to communicate with their audience. In conclusion, the study underlines how the Vitruvian Man – iconic emblem of the Anthropocene – is no longer the center of the Universe. That center now is the artist in nature, surrounded by it, embraced by it.