LONDON, April 7 It is sometimes said that absolutely anything can be bought and sold. Sotheby’s appears to have proved this by auctioning Yves Klein’s Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle Série n°1, Zone n°02. This receipt, confirming the transfer of ownership of an invisible.
From the department of “They sold
that for
how much?!” comes today’s story, about an Italian artist who, for the cool price of €15,000 ($18,300), recently auctioned an artwork that is… well, nothing.
Last month, the 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture” which is to say that it doesn’t exist.
To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, titled Io Sono (which translates to “I am”), finds form in its own nothingness. “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 told the Spanish news outlet
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