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Canto di strada (2 books)

Hamish Fulton, Michael Höpfner - Canto di strada (2 books)
The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.
For this catalog Fulton has synthesized his path in texts, photographic prints and drawings made during his two week journey. Fulton's art is a kind of geographic poetry, with phrases and signs that, like maps, recall places, heights, toponyms and the miles he has covered, capturing the essential elements of his journey. The experience of walking is the work of art, while the texts and photos are simply means to convey it. Höpfner, on the other hand, has produced a series of photographic negatives, organized in sequences of four groups that correspond to different moments in his walk, together with a series notes from his journey superimposed on photographs. The works in the exhibition constitute a sort of reflection on art through an analysis of the relationship between experience and narration. For both artists, the object is a residual part of the experience – the real work – and is for the public. The books contain photos, wall drawings, installation views and the original essays The Song Line (The plain truth) by Lorenzo Giusti, The Value of Experience by Muriel Enjalran and Off the Beaten Track by Heike Eipelduer.
Published following the joint exhibition Canto di strada (Street Song) at the MAN Museum in Nuoro, Italy, from January 6 to April 5, 2015.
Hamish Fulton (born 1946 in London) began his career at the end of the 1960s, defining himself as a "walking artist" in order to distinguish his work from the practices of Land Art which it had initially been likened to. His is an experiential art, one which feeds off the places visited on foot in natural settings (especially those of the mountainside) from Europe to South America, and from Tibet to Japan. Starting from the 1990s, a part of his work shifted towards a participatory dimension, finalised towards the sharing of the walking experience, and which has since also been applied and developed in urban contexts.
Michael Höpfner (born 1972 in Krems, Austria) ) is an itinerant photographer and a significant member of the "walking artists" movement. His work revolves around the journey on foot, through deserted or barely inhabited areas from Ukraine to China, and from Kirghizstan to South Korea. His is a path that began as a physical and mental exploration of geographical spaces and which then continued as a reflection on the very concepts of reality and place.
Texts by Lorenzo Giusti, Muriel Enjalran, Heike Eipelduer.
 
published in October 2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
22,5 x 16,5 cm (2 vol., hardcover, cloth binding, in a cardboard slipcase)
66 pages + 60 pages (color & b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-88-97503-57-6
EAN : 9788897503576
 
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