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Walking Sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto
On a visit by Michelangelo Pistoletto to Philadelphia, to celebrate the opening of two major exhibitions devoted to his work, the artist recreated his Scultura Da Passeggio (Walking Sculpture), a seminal 'action' first performed in 1967 on the streets of Turin, Italy.
Walking the Unspoken
This gamified sensory walk fosters embodied dialogue with others and the landscape, exploring trauma-informed design, somatic movement, and socially engaged walking art. Through subtle constraints, participants experience challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals, prompting adaptation and reflection. Checkpoints encourage movement-based prompts, conversation, and reimagining walking as a political, inclusive practice.
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Walking Sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto
On a visit by Michelangelo Pistoletto to Philadelphia, to celebrate the opening of two major exhibitions devoted to his work, the artist recreated his Scultura Da Passeggio (Walking Sculpture), a seminal 'action' first performed in 1967 on the streets of Turin, Italy.
Walking the Unspoken
This gamified sensory walk fosters embodied dialogue with others and the landscape, exploring trauma-informed design, somatic movement, and socially engaged walking art. Through subtle constraints, participants experience challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals, prompting adaptation and reflection. Checkpoints encourage movement-based prompts, conversation, and reimagining walking as a political, inclusive practice.
• On December 4th 1967 Michelangelo Pitoletto carried out an action entitled Walking Sculpture [Scultura da passeggio] as part of the group exhibition “Con temp l’azione”, which was held simultaneously in three Turinese galleries (Sperone, Stein and Il Punto). For this action Pistoletto utilized one of the Minus Objects, the Newspaper Sphere, a ball with a diameter of about a meter made of soaked and compressed pages of newspapers. On the evening of the exhibition’s opening the Newspaper Sphere was renamed Walking Sculpture and rolled along the route between the three galleries by Pistoletto and some of the other artists participating in the exhibition, including Gilberto Zorio, Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, Gianni Piacentino and Ugo Nespolo, as well as the curator of the exhibition Daniela Palazzoli, the gallerist Gian Enzo Sperone, the critic Tommaso Trini and some passersby.
The action would be repeated in January 1968, again in the streets of Turin, this time with the participation of Maria Pioppi. Ugo Nespolo filmed the action in December and January and used the footage for the film Buongiorno Michelangelo. Over the following decades the Walking Sculpture would be staged many times, with or without the involvement of Pistoletto. In 1993 the action was also included in the project of artistic instructions “Do It” curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The piece is a typical manifestation of the Arte Povera movement.
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