SF-P 16-12

Picos Malditos, Big

Sergio Frutos, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
200.0 x 110.0 x 2 cm
78.7 x 43.3 x 0.8 in

Unique
Vallibierna XII






Vallibierna

In the series Vallibierna I worked manly from dia-films from my father, shot in the 1970’s in the Pyrenees, and depict the valleys back then empty and wild and now menaced by tourists and global warming.

This project revolves around how the human action has changed the world in an unstoppable tide1: The romantic concept of victorian explorer has decayed as these unknown regions, the wild, have disappeared2. There are no more ‘Hic sunt Draconis’ left and these glaciers don’t exist anymore3.

  1. Vidaller et al., “Toward an Ice-Free Mountain Range.” ↩

  2. Ellis, Erle C, and Navin Ramankutty. “Putting People in the Map: Anthropogenic Biomes of the World.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6, no. 8 (October 2008): 439–47. ↩

  3. Izagirre et al. “Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 2023.” Reg Environ Change 24, 172 (2024). ↩



Picos Malditos, Big

Picos Malditos, Big. Acrylic on canvas, 110 x 200 x 2 cm, 2016