The result of an ideal dialogue arising from the sharing of a conception of the journey as a driver of artistic experiences, the exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Giusti, presents a series of new works – photographs, wall drawings, drawings and installations – born from the common travel experience in the mountains of central Sardinia. Hamish Fulton (London, 1946) is one of the most representative figures of English art of recent decades. Together with Richard Long he is considered the founding father of an international movement of “ walking artists ”, of which the Austrian Michael Höpfner (Krems, 1972) is today one of the most significant exponents.

The exhibition at the MAN in Nuoro compares the work of the two artists for the first time, identifying the journey on the mountains of Supramonte and Gennargentu a common ground for comparison. An experience of total immersion in the harsh nature of eastern Barbagia which saw the two artists move for two weeks in the same environment, without ever meeting. United by the same passion for the mountains and by a common vision of artistic practice as an expression of personal experiences (even when done in groups), Fulton and Höpfner open, through the use of different languages ​​- the former’s more conceptual, with texts or route graphs, the second one is more visual, with photographs and installations – a significant reflection on the role of art, on the concepts of experience and creation, as well as on the relationship between man and the environment.

A catalog will complete the project, published by BLACK , with lyrics by Lorenzo Giusti, Giovanni Carmine and Muriel Enjalran .

The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of laboratory activities edited by the educational section of the museum and by walking experiences for the public, in collaboration with local artists and environmental guides.

He began his career at the end of the Sixties, defining himself as “Walking Artist”, a way to distinguish his work from the Land Art practices with which he had initially been lumped together. His is an experiential art, which is nourished by long walking routes in natural contexts, particularly in the mountains, from Europe to South America, from Tibet to Japan. Since the 1990s he has declined part of his work in a participatory dimension, aimed at sharing the experience of walking, which has also found application and development in urban contexts. His works are preserved in the collections of the most important museums in the world, from the MOMA in New York, to the Center Pompidou in Paris, to the Tate Modern in London.

He lives between Vienna and Berlin. His work focuses on the experience of traveling on foot, through desert or sparsely inhabited areas from Ukraine to China, from Kyrgyzstan to South Korea. A journey that began as a physical and mental exploration of geographical spaces and which continued as a reflection on the concepts of reality and place. Among the most recent exhibitions are those at the Kunstforum Bank in Vienna, at the Kunsthalle in St. Gallen, at the Kunstverein in Salzburg, at the ar/ge Kunst in Bolzano and in the Olaf Stüber galleries in Berlin and the Hubert Winter galleries in Vienna.