Italian Artist Sells 'Invisible' Sculpture For Rs 13 Lakh And Gives Buyer Certificate Of Authenticity
An Italian artist has left that whole world scratching their head 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.
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.
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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.
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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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