A recent research published in the international scientific journal Climate Dynamics has predicted the total disappearance of all glaciers currently located below 3500m in the Alps within the next 20-30 years. Summer 2022 was then the most disastrous for the Alpine glaciers for centuries, and it had a very high cost in terms of safeguarding biodiversity and human lives.
Events related to natural disasters generated by climate change can sometimes rise to media phenomena, leading to general uproar and indignation, but everything is forgotten in a very short time to move on to something else. The speed of contemporary life is such that it seems to prevent people from dwelling on things – positive or negative – but above all on those ‘potential’ problems such as many of those that concern the environment. The impression is that the mind is overwhelmed, and drunk with inputs, prevents any form of effective collective reaction.
The painting wants to give a form to this absence of reactivity in response to the alarm signals that come from our planet, for this reason I have chosen to represent a headless figure, extraneous to the context in which it stands out but unknowingly connected to its downfall. The landscape in the background is freely inspired by the Travignolo glacier, as I was able to observe it in August 2019: today, a few years later, it has almost completely disappeared.
