My fantasy, trained for a lifetime to feel differently the existing around me, allows me to ‘see’ what apparently does not exist. Rather than invisible sculptures, I would define them as immaterial sculptures. The “Invisible Sculptures”, what they are? Garau said in an interview with the auction house (translated via Google): While the name of the buyer has not been made public, the auction house wrote on its website that this anonymous buyer brought home a certificate of authenticity from the artist in addition to their intangible sculpture: We reached out to the auction house for more information about this sale.

We added a red arrow to help viewers find this invisible sculpture: The following image comes from this tour. This invisible sculpture was also put on “display” by the auction house. Art Rite auction allows visitors to their site to take “ 3D tours” of their auctions. You can see the listing for Garau’s “Lo Sono” below. But the sculpture? Let’s just say we haven’t seen enough evidence.Īccording to the Art Rite auction house, this invisible sculpture, entitled Lo Sono, outdid its estimate and sold for €14,820.00 (about $18,030) on May 18, 2021, during the “4-U new Contemporary Art Auction.” The auction house lists all of the items sold at this auction here. The Art Rite auction house where this sculpture was “sold” exists. There are a number of things about this story that we can confirm. Popular podcast host Joe Rogan posted a screenshot of one such article to their Instagram page which quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of likes. Of course, not only was this an astute and enduring piece of art, it has also proved to be a shrewd investment.In June 2021, news articles were published about an Italian artist who reportedly sold an invisible sculpture at auction for more than $18,000. Reportedly, this fetched an eye-watering sum at the time with some cheeky brickies suggesting they could knock one up with a few half-inched blocks and the cost of a pie and a pint. Show me the Monet: Late Samsung chairman's family settles inheritance tax bill, massive art donationĬulture Vultures of a certain age will, no doubt, reflect on the unfathomable contradictions between space and energy posed by Garau when recollecting that other great work, Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII or 'a pile of bricks' as was so shamelessly coined by the popular press.PSA: The 2020 monolith is a dead meme.We'll explore Titan with a methane submarine, a methane submarine, a methane submarine.WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple.

“The intuition I had as an artist, for which abstract and spiritual, is instead supported by science,” he said.

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