WALKING MOUNTAINS
Andreco, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Beerstecher, Ellie Berry, Ruben Brulat, Manuele Cerutti, Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago, Hamish Fulton, Bepi Ghiotti, Michael Höpfner, Jan Hostettler, Richard Long, Claudia Losi, Linda Jasmin Mayer, Luana Perilli, Ramona Ponzini, Laura Pugno, Francoise Vanneraud
Curated by Andrea Lerda, with Hamish Fulton and Michael Höpfner as mentors of the project
The Museo Nazionale della Montagna presents the exhibition Walking Mountains, a project that concludes a year-long journey of exploration focused on the theme of walking, in the 150th anniversary year of its founding. This research was initiated in November 2023 with the exhibition Stay with Me. The Mountain as a Space of Resonance and developed over the following months via a wide-ranging and multidisciplinary program entitled Stay with Me. A Whole Growing Exhibition.
The exhibition, curated by Andrea Lerda, has two outstanding mentors: the founder of Walking Art, Hamish Fulton, and walking artist Michael Höpfner.
The project, which is not conceived as a show of Walking Art, nor intends to present a complete, historical-type review, explores the experience of walking as an opportunity for immersing oneself in mountain contexts and for rethinking our way of being-in-contact with the world.
In Walking Mountains, crossing the mountain becomes an opportunity for a new dialogue with otherness, with the biotic and abiotic dimension; a tool for an evolution in feeling; an experience in renewing the individual and collective conscience; an occasion for recognising that the human species is not an essential part of a whole; a radical act – both intimate and political – of disobedience and revolution.
The exhibition narrative presents the works of 20 artists – whose research is triggered by the awareness that walking can represent a revitalising, subversive gesture – present their works in dialogue with those of historic artists such as Richard Long and Joseph Beuys.
A bilingual catalog is presented on the occasion of the exhibition, which collects the program on walking developed by the Museum between 2023 and 2024.
The exhibition is flanked by a program of public performances that will take place from November 2024 to June 2025.
Furthermore, the show is enlarged with a group of works exhibited in the Lou Pourtou centre in Ostana (Cuneo) with the collaboration with the Viso a Viso cooperativa di comunità.
