GENS PUMPS. Burjassot, 54
Hamish Fulton makes walking art. The English artist was one of the innovators of the artistic language of the late 1920s. 60, linked to the emergence of the conceptual, and in 1973 decided that his artistic form would be born from walking and would transform that physical and emotional experience of stroller rural in wall paintings, words, drawings, photos and wooden sculptures that make up the latest Bombas Gens exhibition. Their processes have nothing to do with land art, in fact, nature does not intend to intervene, but to leave as little footprint as possible during long walks, that can last, since one day, several weeks. We will see the result of some of the 16 walks he took through the Iberian Peninsula between 1979 y 2016, and the commission made by Vicent Todolí – advisor of the Per Amor a l’Art collection –, a walk through Benicadell. In this world dominated by roads, cars and smartphones, Keeping walking is for Fulton a way to question how we live, the priorities established by a society that corners nature and the walker. In his static photographs that capture havens of peace, Fulton incorporates text and seeks adjustment between process, text and images so that everything fits together harmoniously like a puzzle. The walk made art. S.M.
