Michael Höpfner - Plateau - A Walking Life, 2024 - Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei

Michael Höpfner, Plateau - A Walking Life, 2024. Installation - Silver Gelatine Prints, Drawings, Collages, Yarn. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by La Boîte, Tunis. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Dl nrescida artistica de Michael Höpfner fejel pert fotografies analogiches a blanch y fosch, dessënies, nstalazions y scultures che conta de si viages lonc a pé tla zones plu desman dl mont, dantaldut dl Europa urientela, dla Cina y dl Asia. Cun si aparat da fé fotografies dla Hasselblad, va Höpfner a pé tres la natura salvera, te luesc dalonc o arbandunei dala dala ziviltà, pensan al ji a pé sciche n prozes artistich bon de ti dé qualità y senificat al ejistënza. L pont de scumenciamënt de chësta nrescida ie stac i mënsc lonc sun la montes tibetanes sëura 4.500 metri de autëza, danter l 2000 y l 2008. Te na nrescida ejistenziela ie l lëur dassënn cunlià al acunteda cun pastri y nomac y al se lascé ite te si stil de vita. Ajache l artist va truep a pé, metel scialdi a verda al fonz sota i piesc y a coche monc desfrënc se conta ora var do var. La fotografies deventa material per ti cialé y lauré ora tl detail y a distanza ala mesura y al uet dl vester sëui.  Per The Parliament of Marmots, à Michael Höpfner nrescì la dimenscions mitologiches, geo

logiches y filosofiches dla mont de Fanes, tl cuer dla Dolomites, ulache l vën dit che l vivësse l popul antich n alianza cun la muntanioles. Pian via dal idea dla montes coche strutura rizomatoca y coche “raion che dura for inant y auto - sbinghënt de ntesività” sciche l vën descrit da Gilles Deleuz y Félix Guattari te Mille plateaux (1980), à Höpfner svilupà n nuef lëur antologich per la sales dla vedla Pension Ladinia a Urtijëi. Daujin a la jites te Gherdëina, à l artist enghe traversà l Djebel Serj, tl Atlas dla Tunisia. L à nsci abinà adum nuef material y tl medem tëmp se al dat ju cun milesc y milesc de negatifs y cënc de tacuins che conta de si viages sula montes y dla populazions de pastri y nomac che l à pudù ancunté ti ultimi 25 ani. (S.G.)

MICHAEL HÖPFNER

Michael Höpfner (1972, Krems/Donau, Austria) is a walking artist based in Vienna. His work reflects on the landscape starting from solitary walking trips that can take weeks or months. Over the years his walks often merged into life-time projects. He started as a student in Europe and Middle East and since 1997 he has walked through Western China, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Qinghai, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, South Korea as well as in the mountains of the alpine arch. His work has been exhibited in institutions such as MAN, Nuoro; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Kunsthaus, Graz; Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo; Klovicevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb; Kunsthalle St. Gallen; Siena Art Institute; MUAC, Mexico City; Kunstverein, Salzburg; Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; Kunstraum Noe, Vienna; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.

Michael Höpfner - Plateau - A Walking Life, 2024 - Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei

Michael Höpfner, Plateau - A Walking Life, 2024. Installation - Silver Gelatine Prints, Drawings, Collages, Yarn. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by La Boîte, Tunis. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Dl nrescida artistica de Michael Höpfner fejel pert fotografies analogiches a blanch y fosch, dessënies, nstalazions y scultures che conta de si viages lonc a pé tla zones plu desman dl mont, dantaldut dl Europa urientela, dla Cina y dl Asia. Cun si aparat da fé fotografies dla Hasselblad, va Höpfner a pé tres la natura salvera, te luesc dalonc o arbandunei dala dala ziviltà, pensan al ji a pé sciche n prozes artistich bon de ti dé qualità y senificat al ejistënza. L pont de scumenciamënt de chësta nrescida ie stac i mënsc lonc sun la montes tibetanes sëura 4.500 metri de autëza, danter l 2000 y l 2008. Te na nrescida ejistenziela ie l lëur dassënn cunlià al acunteda cun pastri y nomac y al se lascé ite te si stil de vita. Ajache l artist va truep a pé, metel scialdi a verda al fonz sota i piesc y a coche monc desfrënc se conta ora var do var. La fotografies deventa material per ti cialé y lauré ora tl detail y a distanza ala mesura y al uet dl vester sëui. 

Per The Parliament of Marmots, à Michael Höpfner nrescì la dimenscions mitologiches, geologiches y filosofiches dla mont de Fanes, tl cuer dla Dolomites, ulache l vën dit che l vivësse l popul antich n alianza cun la muntanioles. Pian via dal idea dla montes coche strutura rizomatoca y coche “raion che dura for inant y auto - sbinghënt de ntesività” sciche l vën descrit da George Deleuz y Félix Guattari te Mille plateaux (1980), à Höpfner svilupà n nuef lëur antologich per la sales dla vedla Pension Ladinia a Urtijëi. Daujin a la jites te Gherdëina, à l artist enghe traversà l Djebel Serj, tl Atlas dla Tunisia. L à nsci abinà adum nuef material y tl medem tëmp se al dat ju cun milesc y milesc de negatifs y cënc de tacuins che conta de si viages sula montes y dla populazions de pastri y nomac che l à pudù ancunté ti ultimi 25 ani. (S.G.)

MICHAEL HÖPFNER

Michael Höpfner (1972, Krems/Donau, Austria) is a walking artist based in Vienna. His work reflects on the landscape starting from solitary walking trips that can take weeks or months. Over the years his walks often merged into life-time projects. He started as a student in Europe and Middle East and since 1997 he has walked through Western China, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Qinghai, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, South Korea as well as in the mountains of the alpine arch. His work has been exhibited in institutions such as MAN, Nuoro; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Kunsthaus, Graz; Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo; Klovicevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb; Kunsthalle St. Gallen; Siena Art Institute; MUAC, Mexico City; Kunstverein, Salzburg; Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; Kunstraum Noe, Vienna; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.