Walking Artist Reaches Tate Modern
An exhibition of Hamish Fulton's walking art has opened at London's Tate Modern gallery. Worth a look?
Posted: 25 March 2002
by Jon
Walking meets art in an exhibition of Hamish Fulton's photography
at London's Tate Modern running till 4 June.
Walking Journey is a collection of Fulton's work over the last ten
years. Fulton calls himself a 'walking artist' and his work is based
on a series of major walks including a 1,022 miles in 47 days epic
from John O'Groats to Lands End.
The exhibition includes pictures (works?) from all over the world
including Britain, Tibet and Japan along with terse descriptions. The
exhibition also includes 'handmade works' and other representations
of his walks.
He's also reached 8,175m on Cho Oyu in Tibet which provides some
of the inspiration for his later work.
If you think that all sounds a bit pretentious, he is an artist...
You can get a better idea of what it's all about by checking out the
exhibition
room guide at the Tate Modern web site.
For some sort of critical assessment, see this
review of the exhibition in the Observer. Apparently 'his latest
work do away with the photographic image altogether, aiming instead
for a poetry of facts'. Pretentious moi?
Still, the top-floor restaurant at the Tate has a stupendous view
out across the Thames and is worth the trip for in its own right.
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