Häusler Contemporary Zurich proudly presents the unique art of «Walking Artist» Hamish Fulton in an exhibition of a retrospective character. With a specific selection of rarely shown elder and recent works, the artist draws attention to the value of a contemplative experience of nature that has become rare in our today’s society.

By titling his exhibition «Indoors Outside», British «Walking Artist» Hamish Fulton (*1946, London, lives in Canterbury, GB) points to a fundamental antagonism that defines life in our technological and consumerist society like never before. «Indoors» has become the normal everyday surroundings where we focus our attention on screens, on media and a never ending flow of information. We stay «outside» only on vacation or on Sundays – and in those cases mostly with an attitude of entitlement. Apart from that, «outside» has become a mere and unnoticed way station for many of us.

With untiring consistency, Hamish Fulton opposes this fact with his art that venerates «walking on the world» as an active and decelerating perception of nature. In numerous conceptually based walks since 1967 he has been spinning an invisible net of steps all around the globe. This net is precondition for the artworks that finally hang in the gallery space – «inside» again – and conjure the experience of nature in a most particular way. Our exhibition that the artist specifically conceived for Häusler Contemporary Zürich with works from different decades, enables visitors once again to meet with this fascinating and unique approach of Hamish Fulton.