WALKING IS THE CONSTANT
THE ART MEDIUM IS THE VARIABLE

Vortrag von Hamish Fulton und Michael Höpfner
anschließend Gespräch mit Lorenzo Giusti, Direktor von MAN_Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro

WALKING ART – THE BRINGING TOGETHER OF TWO ENTIRELY SEPARATE ACTIVITIES – WALKING AND ART.
AN ARTWORK CANNOT RE-PRESENT THE EXPERIENCE OF A WALK.
EVERY PIECE OF ART I MATERIALIZE CONTAINS A WALK TEXT.
WALKING IS THE CONSTANT – THE ART MATERIAL IS THE VARIABLE.
AN ARTWORK MAY BE PUCHASED BUT A WALK CANNOT BE SOLD.
HAMISH FULTON

In Kooperation mit Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich.
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Discussion on art in public space

Walking is The Constant – The Art Medium is The Variable

with Hamish Fulton and Michael Höpfner

on Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 18:00

in the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna

After a series of discussions on the thematic topic around the complex of art in public space, the coming discussion evening concentrates on two artistic positions. In cooperation with the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum has invited Hamish Fulton and Michael Höpfner to present their work and to reflect on it in conversation with the curator and museum director Lorenzo Giusti (MAN_Museo D’Arte Provincia Di Nuoro), among other things with a view to the concept of performance. The lectures and the discussion will be in English.

“Walking is living, art reflects life in the most varied ways. Walking is just being there, is a direct form of understanding the environment; but nevertheless the process always remains the same: one step follows the next step.

People’s thinking and art changes over the years; but the steps stay the same.

This is why Hamish Fulton has been walking for more than 40 years and making art with and about it. For Michael Höpfner walking is likewise the search for a different state of being that artistic action makes possible in the first place.

Höpfner got to know Fulton 20 years ago at the beginning of his studies and since then their paths have repeatedly crossed in far-away landscapes – but without necessarily having to meet.

Both seek and explore people’s relationship to nature. Both have repeatedly travelled in Asia, for different reasons but but nevertheless following a similar conviction.

In many of their wanderings both have sought a direct confrontation with still unspoilt nature, with lifestyles of people who have a deeper, often historic understanding of nature, who demand a different form of freedom, who stubbornly subordinate themselves to nature and do not want to follow a suggested form of law and living.

Walking is an art form, it is a simple human state of living.”

(Michael Höpfner)

Hamish Fulton, * 1946 in London, lives and works near Canterbury. Fulton studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London, and the Royal College of Art, London. Solo exhibitions i.a. in the Turner Contemporary, Margate / GB (2011); Museo Transfrontaliero del Monte Bianco, Courmayeur / IT (2010); Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz / SP (2009); Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu / JP and Museum of Modern Art, NY (2006); Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano and Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2005); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH (2004); and Tate Britain, London (2002).

Michael Höpfner, *1972 in Krems/Donau, lives in Vienna. Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Glasgow School of Art. Exhibitions i.a. in the Tresor, Kunstforum Wien (2015), in the MAN, Sardinia (2015), in the Camera Austria in the Kunsthaus Graz (2015), in the Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2013) and in the Sienna Art Institute (2013).