An Italian artist has left everyone scratching their heads after selling an invisible sculpture for over $18,000 (Rs 13.36 lakh) and even gave the buyer a certificate of authenticity to prove it¡¯s real.?
Though that price is relatively low in the art world, it¡¯s pretty significant when you consider the work is an ¡°immaterial sculpture,¡± meaning someone dropped thousands of dollars on an invisible piece that is literally made of nothing.?
Salvatore Garau sold his piece, entitled ¡°Io Sono¡± (I am), to an unidentified buyer last month.
Italian auction house Art-Rite organized the sale of the ¡°immaterial¡± statue in May with a beginning estimated value coming in between $7,000 and $11,000.?But the hype?surrounding the item pushed the final selling price to US$18,300.
Garau spoke to Spanish outlet?Diario AS?about the piece, saying he likes to think of the sculpture as a ¡°vacuum.¡±??
¡°The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight,¡± he explained. ¡°Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.¡±??
After being criticised for what people have deemed as anything but art, Garau defended his invisible sculpture with a grandiose comparison: ¡°After all, don¡¯t we shape a God we¡¯ve never seen?¡±
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As per a report in New York Post, this isn¡¯t the first piece of Garau that is invisible so to say. In February, the artist exhibited?¡°Buddha In Contemplation,¡± another invisible sculpture at the Piazza della Scala in Milan.?
This week, Garau was again at it, as he installed?his most recent statue, ¡°Afrodite Piange,¡±?facing the New York Stock Exchange.??
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