![]() He commented in The Observer newspaper, “why anyone would pay that kind of money for a piece that had questions about it is very strange. What made Syson decide that the painting was actually by Leonardo? Syson explained that when he looked at the painting it “seemed to hover somewhere between our realm and something spiritual.” That “hovering” didn’t persuade former FBI art crime specialist, Robert Wittman. Other experts doubted its authenticity, but the approval of the National Gallery increased the painting’s value by $450 million. How did the picture increase in value so quickly? British art historian Luke Syson decided that it was probably painted by Leonardo da Vinci, and he included it in an exhibition in London’s National Gallery in 2011. Twelve years later, the painting was resold for over $450 million. He sold it at a local auction house for $1,175 in 2005. He tried hanging it in the stairwell of his home for a while, but eventually decided to get rid of it. The artwork and many others following that sold for a whopping $120,000 each.Basil “Tookie” Hendry, a construction contractor in Louisiana, didn’t like the small painting he inherited. “So you really just taped a square and called that a sculpture?” reads the most-liked comment on the video page.Įarlier, in February 2019, a banana taped to a wall titled, “Comedian” by Marizio Cattelan’s started a media hype at Art Basel Miami Beach in the US. However, netizens seem to be having trouble tapping into that power. “It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination, a power that anyone has, even those who don’t believe they have it.” ![]() “You don’t see it but it exists it is made of air and spirit,” he explained in a video documenting the Milan piece. The effort, evidenced by an empty white circle, was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute. Meanwhile, earlier this week, he installed “Afrodite Cries” in front of the New York City stock exchange. ![]() In February, at the Piazza Della Scala in Milan, the artist exhibited “Buddha in Contemplation,” a similarly invisible sculpture demarcated by a square of tape on a cobble-stoned walkway. Lo Sono is not the only work of art of its kind under Garau’s belt. The “lucky” owner of the invisible sculpture also got a certificate of guarantee of the sculpture's authenticity. How does buying the invisible sculpture actually work? Italy 24 News reported that the work must be placed in a space that allows the dimensions of approximately 4.9x4.9ft (150x150cm) to be free of any obstructions. The pre-sale estimate valued the piece between €6,000-9,000, but competing bidders pushed the price tag to €15,000. The sculpture is entitled “Lo Sono” (I am) and it was sold in an auction organized by Art-Rite, one of the rare Italian auction houses that handle exhibitions dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, as per artnet news. ![]() The Italian artist has created a completely invisible, immaterial sculpture (“I am”), which recently sold for €15,000 - Amanda Kelly May 30, 2021 "Not to mention that Salvatore Garau’s intangible works have zero environmental impact" After all, don’t we give shape to a God we have never seen?” It, therefore, has an energy that condenses and transforms itself into particles, in short, in us! When I decide to ‘exhibit’ an immaterial sculpture in a given space, that space will concentrate a certain quantity and density of thoughts in a precise point, creating a sculpture that from my title alone will take the most varied forms. “The successful outcome of the auction testifies to an irrefutable fact: The void is nothing but a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and nothing remains, according to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle that nothingness has a weight. The sculpture - or non-sculpture - is the work of artist Salvatore Garau, 67, who had the following to say about his work of art: The world's first invisible sculpture selling for €15,000 euros ($18,300), reports Italy 24 News. How much would one pay for nothing? Can “nothing” be a work of art? According to Salvatore Garau, it can, and to those who bought his latest work.
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