Italian Artist Sells Invisible Sculpture For €15,000

ITALIAN Artist Salvatore Garau Sells Invisible Sculpture For €15,000

Salvatore Garau, a 67-year-old artist from Italy – at a time when the art world, like everybody else, is going through a very difficult time with the pandemic – has achieved a remarkable feat, which should be impossible to do, but he has sold an ‘invisible sculpture’ for the sum of €15,000 (£10,570).

Originally, the price was set at between €6,000 and €9,000 (£4,200 and £6,350), but when he kept receiving more offers, the price increased and he ended up selling it for the higher amount.

Garau’s sculpture – christened ‘Io sono’ (I am) – is an immaterial sculpture, which, in so many words, means it does not exist, or that if it did exist, then it only exists in the mind of its creator, with many art skeptics criticising the artist’s curious creation, but Garau’s response is that he has not sold ‘nothing, but has sold a vacuum.

Garau explained it, 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”.

The Italian artist continued, “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. After all, don’t we shape a God we’ve never seen?”, as reported by as.com.

The artist points out that his work can not be displayed just anywhere, but must be located in a space measuring about 150×150 cm, that is free from obstructions, with lighting and climate control being optional, as you can’t see the object anyway, all which will be detailed in a signed and stamped guarantee certificate from the artist to the buyer.

This Friday 28, Garau had another one of his invisible sculptures – ‘Aphrodite Piange’ (Aphrodite cries) – being exhibited in New York, a piece which is another immaterial sculpture that, supposedly, rests on a circle drawn on the ground, which is the only thing that is visible, and the artist claims that with these works of art, he has started “a new, small, authentic revolution”.

His first invisible sculpture, called ‘Buddha in contemplation’, was placed 25 metres from the entrance to the Gallerie d’Italia, in Milan’s Piazza della Scala, in the Intesa San Paolo exhibition grounds, where, among other things, there is a large canvas of Garau.

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Chris King

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Comments


    • Bill

      29 May 2021 • 23:03

      Fools and their money are easily parted…this is one better than the Irish man selling tinned air

    • Bill

      29 May 2021 • 23:03

      Fools and their money are easily parted…this is one better than the Irish man selling tinned air

    • Hans Assenberg

      30 May 2021 • 08:50

      I have 2 of his invisible sculptures. We can agree on the price

    • Hans Assenberg

      30 May 2021 • 08:50

      I have 2 of his invisible sculptures. We can agree on the price

    • John McLean

      30 May 2021 • 09:06

      Con-Artist?

    • John McLean

      30 May 2021 • 09:06

      Con-Artist?

    • Chris

      01 June 2021 • 12:49

      I have an air guitar for sale, if any one is interested

    • Chris

      01 June 2021 • 12:49

      I have an air guitar for sale, if any one is interested

    • Robusta

      02 June 2021 • 16:13

      I have stole that sculpture. I anybody wants to buy Im ok to sell it for 5k eur.

    • Robusta

      02 June 2021 • 16:13

      I have stole that sculpture. I anybody wants to buy Im ok to sell it for 5k eur.

    • Anya

      02 June 2021 • 18:56

      The philistines here criticizing this man’s work have probably never even seen this sculpture.

    • Anya

      02 June 2021 • 18:56

      The philistines here criticizing this man’s work have probably never even seen this sculpture.

    • Tom Miller

      03 June 2021 • 20:42

      Guy stole my idea. I did Nothing in 2016.

      And there was a documentary made into an award-winning short film:
      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13813352/

      So the record should be corrected. I’m the first artist to make Nothing into a sculpture, and a movie.

      • Tom Miller

        06 June 2021 • 18:13

        Yes, that would be great. Cage playing nothing is what gave me the idea to sculpt nothing into a sculpture in 2016. Please use all my evidence with my permission, and happy to see the record corrected. Nothing can be seen here: https://thesmalls.com/video/nothing-1

    • Tom Miller

      03 June 2021 • 20:42

      Guy stole my idea. I did Nothing in 2016.

      And there was a documentary made into an award-winning short film:
      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13813352/

      So the record should be corrected. I’m the first artist to make Nothing into a sculpture, and a movie.

      • Tom Miller

        06 June 2021 • 18:13

        Yes, that would be great. Cage playing nothing is what gave me the idea to sculpt nothing into a sculpture in 2016. Please use all my evidence with my permission, and happy to see the record corrected. Nothing can be seen here: https://thesmalls.com/video/nothing-1

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