The wood: Cover of the art and metaphor of the return from 1968

Abstract

The landscape genre resurfaced with renewed forces beginning in the sixties of the twentieth century through the land art and the earthworks. The pioneers Americans felt a special love for the desert and the places which are difficult to access by placing their works, a gesture that broke the relations of the work of art with the traditional places of exposure (museums, galleries). At the same time, is also accentuated the mental dimension of art, opening the way toward the conceptual. In recent years a second generation of creators, which also operate in the nature, choose the forest as scenario of their proposals. The object of this work is to demonstrate how the works of these artists are warns a intention of double return: on the one hand, to the materiality of a work of art and at the other end to a metaphorical origin through the figure of the forest, a space that, since the eruption of the environmentalism is understood as a synonym for paradise.