“consistently revisiting origins, these artists hold a direct and simple relationship with the land”

This publication brings together a group of artists who consistently revisit origins and nature, holding a direct and simple relationship with the land, water and the mountain.

Published by Repetto Gallery to coincide with the exhibition ‘We Land’, and containing works by Antonio Biasiucci, Alberto Burri, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Daniele De Lonti, Walter De Maria, Olafur Eliasson, Hamish Fulton, Mario Giacomelli, Frank Gohlke, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Tancredi Mangano, Ana Mendieta and Giuseppe Penone.

These artists have dedicated most of their work to the return of the land. Biasucci with his dramatic volcano craters; Burri with his famous and elegant cretti; Calzolari with his sali inspired by the drapery of Efebo di Mozia; De Maria with his conceptual lines drawn on the desert; Eliasson with his melancholy of indented and yellow horizons; Giacomelli with the scars of his hills; Goldsworthy with his arabesque of leaves, snow, stones and land; Heizer with his love for the desert; Mendieta with the imprint of her body, land and dust.