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Sold; Invisible Sculpture for $18,000

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Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD

Made from "air and spirit."
hypebeast.com

Italian artist Salvatore Garau has just sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 USD. The Io Sono (I am) sculpture, as the artist explains, exists but just not in material form, and is actually more like a “vacuum.”

The 67-year-old went on to elaborate that, “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. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.” Much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”


I say, why not? They sell religion, and it's all so esoteric.

BTW, I have got $100 million in invisible gold I'd like to sell.
 
He over paid. Just last year another one sold at Christie's for $12,500.
 

There's a sucker born every minute​

Let's just hope that this artists didn't get any US government grants / funding for this.
 
It seems some have more money than they need along with no brains. I would be embarrassed if I was the buyer.

BTW, will you accept "invisible money" for payment for your "invisible gold"?
 
mike2810 said:
It seems some have more money than they need along with no brains. I would be embarrassed if I was the buyer.

BTW, will you accept "invisible money" for payment for your "invisible gold"?
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Hey, just because it's invisible doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact. Like a fart.
 
Italians... what a disgrace.
 
With conceptual art, it's the artists concept you're paying for, not the physical object (or in this case, non-physical object). The person didn't pay $18,000 for empty space, he paid it for the certification of authenticity and the legal right to 'display' the artwork.

Conceptual art gets a lot of stick from people who think art is meant to be beautiful.
 
Hey great! I got a bunch for sale, cheap!
 
The 67-year-old went on to elaborate that, “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. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.” Much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”



Jesus facepalming Christ, could you perhaps not butcher some barely-understood mish-mashed fragments of phyiscs when selling your silly bullshit?
 
The Emperor's new clothes...
 
Yeah, the artist is the idiot in this equation.........
 

The "concept" is incoherent bullshit as given by the author. If the modern art world has become so impressed with itself that a butchering of various concepts that were mutilated after being kidnapped from quantum physics is accepted as "art", then the art world is high on its own fumes.

And it is. We already have any number of tits claiming they painted invisible paintings and the lkke. Entirely blank walls in museums. A rope hanging from a ceiling. A square-shaped array of copper squares. I've given it a try. It's not enjoyable, thought-provoking, or anything. Indeed, the 'modern art' wing of any museum typically looks like a bunch of people taking the piss. Or taking a piss in the American sense a la "piss Christ."

If "art" is such a broad term that it refers to anything a self-identified "artist" does/says/makes/writes as art, then the term has no content. No meaning. I'd at least think that for it to mean anything, it must refer to a physical thing that a person made and others take some form of enjoyment from viewing/considering. Then you can squeeze back in the bulk of modern art, making me a person who simply does not enjoy looking at, thinking about, or being in the proximity of it.

But if we stretch it to include a piece of paper saying that there is an invisible statute somewhere else that an artist "made", it doesn't mean a damn thing. Anything anyone says is art would thus be treated as a "concept", thus art.



I'd bet the guy didn't even bother pretending to sculpt the air. Just put some damn tape down, got really stoned, wrote some dumb crap, and someone even dumber bought the piece of paper it was written on.
 
MamboDervish said:
Well, the disgrace isn't the artist's. They merely filled a need. (or emptied one, as it were)
The disgrace is the buyer's. And perhaps the under-bidder as well.
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Naw, the artist is an idiot. The biggest one of them all.
 
Aristaeus said:
A bunch of what? There's only one of this artwork.
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I have about 1,000 pieces of 'conceptual art' for sale, really reasonably priced at only $50 a piece. Cut you a deal, I'll sell you 2 for $75.
 
"When I decide to 'exhibit' an immaterial sculpture in a given space, that space will concentrate a certain amount and density of thoughts at a precise point, creating a sculpture that, from my title, will only take the most varied forms," Garau said of his sculptures, according to as.com. "After all, don't we shape a God we've never seen?"

Italian Artist Sells Invisible Sculpture for More Than $18,000

Though he's received much critique for the sale, Salvatore Garau argues that his work of art isn't "nothing," but is instead a "vacuum."
www.newsweek.com




I feel bad for anyone who so desperately needs to feel 'cultured' that they pretend that is anything but absurdist bullshit designed to dupe them.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. People buy expensive stone eggs to ram up their vaginas because a loopy actress insists they contain "healing energies", whatever the spastic **** that is supposed to be.
 
BTW - is the phrase "Ultimate Minimalism" an oxymoron?

 
Does a virtual vacuum still suck?
I was thinking that it is possible to climb too high on the ladder of abstraction!
 
longview said:
Does a virtual vacuum still suck?
I was thinking that it is possible to climb too high on the ladder of abstraction!
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However high you climb on the ladder of abstraction, are you ever more than one rung from the bottom?
 
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