Hamish Fulton

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Hamish Fulton (born July 21, 1946 in London , Great Britain ; lives in Canterbury , Kent ) is a British photographer , conceptual artist , painter and sculptor . He calls himself the " Walking Artist ".

life and work

Hamish Fulton: seven paces - Remagen Sculpture Bank

Hamish Fulton studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London from 1966 to 1968 , at the same time that artists such as Jan Dibbets , Barry Flanagan , Gilbert and George , John Hilliard , Richard Long and Bruce McLean were there. He continued his studies from 1968 to 1969 at the Royal College of Art in London.

The basis of his work are hikes that last from one day to several weeks. Fulton captures his physical and emotional experiences of the landscape by photographing them in black and white with a 35mm camera . The documentation and the work are then a single photo or the sequence of photos, which are usually exhibited on a large scale and in a rich tonal range, often in conjunction with printed captions. His texts either describe prosaic questions such as B. the length, the duration or the date of the hike or the climatic conditions. Other texts contain word sequences intended to make poetic moods understandable, so that the viewer has access to the feelings, looks, memories and encounters of the " walking artist " with the landscape.

With his conceptual art and land art, Hamish Fulton sees himself in the British tradition of landscape painting with new means and forms of expression. As an artist, however, he also feels obliged to nature, while avant-garde Land Art artists often "disrespected" nature. His work is also published in his books.

He participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Idea + Idea / Light department and was represented as an artist at Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 7 in 1982.

Hamish Fulton managed to reach Mount Everest on May 19, 2009 . An expedition team successfully climbed the highest point on earth in the Himalayas after 49 days.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015: Indoors Outside - Espaivisor - Galería Visor, Valencia
  • 2014: Walking Transformation - Villa Merkel - Galleries of the City of Esslingen, Esslingen
  • 2013: MAUREEN PALEY, London
  • 2012: Pedestrian Road Crossings Considered As Works Of Art - Galleri Riis - Stockholm
  • 2011: Mercantour - TORRI, Paris
  • 2010: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
  • 2009: Chomolungma - Häusler Contemporary - Munich
  • 2008: Group Walks - Gallery for Landscape Art, Hamburg
  • 2007: Water from the Mountains - Häusler Contemporary - Zurich
  • 2005: Keep moving - MUSEION - Museum for modern and contemporary art, Bolzano
  • 2004: Walking Cuts a Line Through 21st Century Life - ewz-Unterwerk Selnau, Zurich
  • 2003: THE FLOW OF WATER - Museum DKM, Duisburg
  • 2002: placing one foot in front of the other - Bawag Contemporary - Bawag Foundation, Vienna
  • 2001: The way to the mountains starts here - Museu Serralves , Porto
  • 2000: The Clouds are Moving - Häusler Contemporary - Munich
  • 1995: Hamish Fulton - Thirty-One Horizons , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich

Literature and Sources

  • Peter Lodermeyer, Karlyn De Jongh & Sarah Gold, Personal Structures: Time Space Existence, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 2009.
  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  • Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
  • Hamish Fulton and Peter Hutchinson . Catalog book for the exhibition in the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Ed .: Raimund Stecker. Düsseldorf 1998. ISBN 3-925974-53-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nock-Art: Land-Art in Bad Kleinkirchheim at the Nockberge National Park on thegap.at from May 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 244 .
personal data
SURNAME Fulton, Hamish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London