Thanks to capitalism, you can now put a price on everything…even nothing. Yep, an Italian artist just sold an invisible sculpture for $24k and I think I need a career change.
The man behind the art that you can’t see is Salvatore Garau, who titled the artwork Io Sono (I Am). The sculpture supposedly doesn’t exist in a material form, but exists in a vacuum of energy. Ahh yes that old chestnut, why didn’t I think of that? (that’s sarcasm by the way).
“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,” Garau told HypeBeast.
“Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”
He also said it’s much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”
Why does that sound like something a softboi would put as one of his Hinge prompts? Too bad Garau is 67 (low key he actually looks really good for his age), because I think he would have a field day on the dating app.
I Am is meant to be displayed in a 152 x 152cm square in a private space, without artificial lighting (?) or air conditioning (??). So what he’s basically saying is to put the ‘sculpture’ outside.
Similar to NFTs, the piece of air comes with a certificate of authentication for the purchaser. It’s like an NFT, but for boomers.
Garau also refuses to reveal the name of the buyer who forked out $24,000 dollarydoos for literally nothing. So the buyer’s his mum? It’s defs his mum, right?
This isn’t the Italian artist’s first rodeo either, he also created another invisible sculpture called Buddha In Contemplation. The artwork LOOKS like a square of tape, BUT it’s actually an invisible Buddha in contemplation. How perplexing?
Once again I am questioning why I studied communications, and didn’t just go to art school.
