Ghiaccio vivo

The mountaineers of the seventeenth century saw the advance of the Alpine glaciers as a curse, but in the eighteenth century this vision was reversed thanks to the progressive revaluation of the high mountains and the positive perception of the glaciers, revealed in the artistic representation, in the mountaineering adventure and in colonization tourist. If our ancestors feared the descent of frozen rivers, a source of disorder and destruction, on the contrary we fear and suffer the rise of freezing temperatures and the retreat of the snow. The "dragon" of primordial fears and legends frees himself from his icy shroud and reappears in the night terrors of the improvident people of the internet at the time of the thaw.