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A WALKING ARTIST: HAMISH FULTON, CHARLOTTENSTRASSE,

26 January TO 9 March 2019

A WALKING ARTIST: HAMISH FULTON

Past Exhibitions In The Gallery exhibition
  • Introduction
  • Installation Views
  • Artists on view
  • Introduction
    A WALKING ARTIST, HAMISH FULTON

    I describe myself as ‘a walking artist’.
    Walking art is the bringing together of two entirely separate activities,
    walking and art.

    I transform ideas into experienced realities.
    If I do not make a walk I cannot make any art.

    I am an artist who walks, not a walker who makes art.
    Not every artist enjoys walking
    and not every walker is tolerant of contemporary art.

    An artwork may be purchased,
    but my walks cannot be sold,
    stolen or re-produced by artificial intelligence.
    An artwork cannot re-present the experience of a walk.

    My walks range from multi-week solo camping treks
    to short communal urban walks
    involving up to several hundred participants.

    Every piece of art I materialise contains a walk text.
    I make art exclusively from walks that I have personally experienced.

     

    When the walk has been completed, the text can be written.
    The facts of the walk cannot be altered,
    but as time passes
    the walks may be re-evaluated and re-contextualised.

    When I say that ‘the walk is the art’,
    I simply mean that ‘the walk’
    is my contribution to contemporary art.

     

    ‘A walk’ may exist purely as a walk,
    but the ‘artwork’ cannot be created without the walk.

     

    Walks are facts for the walker and fiction for everyone else.

     

    Walking Art.
    Neither of these two words specify an art medium,

    thereby suggesting openness and potential.

     

    Walking is the connecting experience
    for a wide range of concerns and disciplines.
    Slowness. Slow transport, health, meditation,
    protest, escape,
    pilgrimage, ritual,
    dance, art…
    walking is magic.

    Although I made my first ‘artwalk’ with other students in 1967,
    it took me a further six years of trial and error
    to arrive at a total commitment to walking.
    In 1973, after completing one coast to coast walk
    of just over a thousand miles,
    I made the single most important decision of my creative life:
    To Make Art Resulting Only From The Experience Of Individual Walks.
    A Decision To Choose Only Walking.

    Inupiat Arranda Dongria Quechua Arapaho Huichol… Dzambha
    The Seven Stars. Oceti Sakowin… ‘For The Seventh Generation’.
    In 2019,
    it is the indigenous peoples of the world who may guide us
    to a more respectful relationship with what they call Mother Earth.

    As we look down into our iPhones we simultaneously
    reject non-human ‘life’ forms.

    There is more than just one story to be told.
    Since the 1970’s, art historians have categorised me as a Land Artist.
    From my side, as a symbolic gesture of respect for nature,
    I wish no association with any art form that intentionally
    re-organises the surface of the land,
    and introduces natural objects
    into the international art market.

    ‘THE RIGHTS OF NATURE.’
    Regarding the question of how to relate to the land,
    my disagreement is with the limited attitudes of art historians,
    not the freedom and creativity of artists.

    Land art contradicts walking art.
    My art begins with walking,
    not the history of gardening.

    My restraint
    in the use of art materials is merely symbolic,
    it would be hypocritical for me to think otherwise.

    Walking into the distance
    beyond imagination.

    Walks are like clouds,
    they come and go.
    In my memory
    nowhere to be seen.

    All my walks are related,
    from the first to the most recent.

    — Hamish Fulton, 2019

  • Works
    • Hamish Fulton A Fourteen Day Walking Journey On Pavements Roads Tracks And Footpaths Starting From Sea Level At Cala Gonone Continuing Up To The Highest Point Of Land At 1834 Metres Camping For Seven Nights In The Gennargentu Mountains Region Returning Back Down To The, 2014 wall paint and vinyl
      Hamish Fulton
      A Fourteen Day Walking Journey On Pavements Roads Tracks And Footpaths Starting From Sea Level At Cala Gonone Continuing Up To The Highest Point Of Land At 1834 Metres Camping For Seven Nights In The Gennargentu Mountains Region Returning Back Down To The, 2014
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    • Hamish Fulton No Talking For 14 Days A 21 Day Wandering Walk 20 Nights Camping Beartooth Mountains Of Montana USA Ending With The September Full Moon 1997, 1997 wall paint and vinyl
      Hamish Fulton
      No Talking For 14 Days A 21 Day Wandering Walk 20 Nights Camping Beartooth Mountains Of Montana USA Ending With The September Full Moon 1997, 1997
      wall paint and vinyl
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    • Hamish Fulton 14 Pieces Of Wood For A 14 Day Circular Walk West North East South West Full Moon 11 Nights Camping In A Tent 3 Nights Sleeping Indoors Western Picos De Europa Spain 4-17 October 2016, 2016 14 parts work , text on wood 62 x 240 cm 24 6/16 x 94 7/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      14 Pieces Of Wood For A 14 Day Circular Walk West North East South West Full Moon 11 Nights Camping In A Tent 3 Nights Sleeping Indoors Western Picos De Europa Spain 4-17 October 2016, 2016
      14 parts work , text on wood
      62 x 240 cm 24 6/16 x 94 7/16 ins
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    • Hamish Fulton Tsampa Kailash Kora Walking One Circuit Of The Pilgrimage Route Round Mount Kailash Tibet 5+6 October 2007 Cold Wind And Sleet Over The 5668 Metre Drolma Pass Following In The Energy Of A Buddhist Nun, 2007 watercolour , ink and graphite 28.2 x 20.2 cm 11 1/16 x 7 15/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      Tsampa Kailash Kora Walking One Circuit Of The Pilgrimage Route Round Mount Kailash Tibet 5+6 October 2007 Cold Wind And Sleet Over The 5668 Metre Drolma Pass Following In The Energy Of A Buddhist Nun, 2007
      watercolour , ink and graphite
      28.2 x 20.2 cm 11 1/16 x 7 15/16 ins
    • Hamish Fulton 14 Pieces Of Wood For A 14 Day Circular Walk West North East South West Full Moon 11 Nights Camping In A Tent 3 Nights Sleeping Indoors Western Picos De Europa Spain 4-17 October 2016, 2016 14 parts work , text on wood 70.5 x 151.5 cm 27 12/16 x 59 10/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      14 Pieces Of Wood For A 14 Day Circular Walk West North East South West Full Moon 11 Nights Camping In A Tent 3 Nights Sleeping Indoors Western Picos De Europa Spain 4-17 October 2016, 2016
      14 parts work , text on wood
      70.5 x 151.5 cm 27 12/16 x 59 10/16 ins
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      Hamish Fulton
      A 19 Day Coast To Coast Walk Across Honshu Ontake Summit Fuji Summit Japan 1988 #2, 1988
      2 parts work , text on wood
      9.5 x 22 cm 3 11/16 x 8 10/16 ins
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    • Hamish Fulton Footpath, 2016 photograph Acid-free cardboard 55 x 36.2 cm 21 10/16 x 14 4/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      Footpath, 2016
      photograph Acid-free cardboard
      55 x 36.2 cm 21 10/16 x 14 4/16 ins
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      Hamish Fulton
      4. Counting 539 Coloured Dots For: Counting 49 Barefoot Steps From And To The Tent For Eleven Nights Camping A 14 Day Circular Walk West North East West Full Moon Western Picos De Europa Spain 4-17 October 2016, 2016
      drawing and text on graph paper
      15.8 x 22.7 cm 6 3/16 x 8 14/16 ins
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    • Hamish Fulton From And To A Truck. Guided Walks To The Tops Of Seven Volvanic Ridges. Aymara Land Northern Chile 3-13 July 2016, 2016 drawing and text , graphite and ink rice paper 20 x 29 cm 7 13/16 x 11 6/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      From And To A Truck. Guided Walks To The Tops Of Seven Volvanic Ridges. Aymara Land Northern Chile 3-13 July 2016, 2016
      drawing and text , graphite and ink rice paper
      20 x 29 cm 7 13/16 x 11 6/16 ins
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    • Hamish Fulton Mountain, Skyline, India, 1984 pencil on paper and ink stamp 19.5 x 29 cm 7 10/16 x 11 6/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      Mountain, Skyline, India, 1984
      pencil on paper and ink stamp
      19.5 x 29 cm 7 10/16 x 11 6/16 ins
    • HFUL_22
      Hamish Fulton
      A Seven Day Wandring Walk Seven Nights Camping Myrldalssandur Icland March 1996, 1996
      7 parts work, text on wood
      17 x 8.5 cm
      6 11/16 x 3 5/16 in
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    • Hamish Fulton A Walk To The Top Of Mulhacen Sierra Nevada Spain Easter 1984, 1984 2 parts work , text on wood 18 x 26.3 cm 7 1/16 x 10 5/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      A Walk To The Top Of Mulhacen Sierra Nevada Spain Easter 1984, 1984
      2 parts work , text on wood
      18 x 26.3 cm 7 1/16 x 10 5/16 ins
    • Hamish Fulton Mount Fuji, 1988 2 parts work , text on wood 9.5 x 24.3 cm 3 11/16 x 9 9/16 ins
      Hamish Fulton
      Mount Fuji, 1988
      2 parts work , text on wood
      9.5 x 24.3 cm 3 11/16 x 9 9/16 ins
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      Hamish Fulton
      Mountain Skyline: 21 Day Walking Journey Via The Tops Of Seven Small Engadin Mountains Switzerland Summer, 2007
      text on wood
      8.3 x 31.8 cm 3 4/16 x 12 8/16 ins
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