A Walking Artist.
Arnaud Bizalion Editor| N° d'inventaire | 29365 |
| Format | 22 x 27 |
| Détails | 192 p., numerous photographs, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Arles, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782369801160 |
Hamish Fulton has been developing a committed body of work for nearly fifty years, concerned with the major environmental issues and challenges that our societies face today. Since the early 1970s, this British artist has been traveling the world on foot. He has completed several hundred walks covering thousands of kilometers, which alone constitute his entire body of work. These solitary artistic experiences integrate a diversity of practices that "attempt" to translate the experience of these walks: photographs, texts, photo-texts, drawings, murals, artist's books, public readings... His work is present in numerous private and public collections and has been presented on the international scene for more than forty years. Hamish Fulton does not seek to transform nature but to show that it is nature that transforms you: walking is for him a militant, political act. In a humanist approach, his committed practice, which has expanded to include collective walking practices, challenges us on our links of interdependence with nature and on our productivist model of society. He does not claim to be a Land Art artist, nor a performer or a poet. "I am often considered a sculptor or a Land Art artist. I am neither. I am a walking artist. I do not work with a particular material. Working with a single element seems dubious to me. I do not favor any one; I am free to combine the mediums that please me, whether it be glass, wood, photography, or video."
Conceived as an experience in itself, the book contextualizes fifty years of an artistic career dedicated to the question of otherness and the ways of being in the world of problems whose stakes remain, more than ever, topical.
Hamish Fulton has been developing a committed body of work for nearly fifty years, concerned with the major environmental issues and challenges that our societies face today. Since the early 1970s, this British artist has been traveling the world on foot. He has completed several hundred walks covering thousands of kilometers, which alone constitute his entire body of work. These solitary artistic experiences integrate a diversity of practices that "attempt" to translate the experience of these walks: photographs, texts, photo-texts, drawings, murals, artist's books, public readings... His work is present in numerous private and public collections and has been presented on the international scene for more than forty years. Hamish Fulton does not seek to transform nature but to show that it is nature that transforms you: walking is for him a militant, political act. In a humanist approach, his committed practice, which has expanded to include collective walking practices, challenges us on our links of interdependence with nature and on our productivist model of society. He does not claim to be a Land Art artist, nor a performer or a poet. "I am often considered a sculptor or a Land Art artist. I am neither. I am a walking artist. I do not work with a particular material. Working with a single element seems dubious to me. I do not favor any one; I am free to combine the mediums that please me, whether it be glass, wood, photography, or video."
Conceived as an experience in itself, the book contextualizes fifty years of an artistic career dedicated to the question of otherness and the ways of being in the world of problems whose stakes remain, more than ever, topical.