"Italian artist sells invisible sculpture for $18,000 that 'only exists in his mind'".
The sculpture is titled "Io Sono" or "I Am" in English, but it really isn't anything. Unlike the great I Am, it neither currently exists, nor has it existed in eternity past or future. The invisible sculpture "I Am" exists "in the mind of its creator," artist Salvatore Garau, only.
Hope the buyer got it insured. Art theft is a serious risk, these days.
The buyer must have had some money he needed laundered but didn't want the clutter of an actual artwork in his house.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of opening an art gallery filled with the works of a little known but brilliant artist by the name of Toulouse Paqueau; he, too, is a member of the "One Born Every Minute" school of art, and he has an enormous collection of amazing sculptures and paintings - all stored safely in his head. And our certificate of ownership is practically a work of art in its own right: an engraved print on heavy parchment paper of Mona Lisa tucking a roll of hundred dollar bills in her décolletage.
ReplyDeleteI bought a copy of that. I'd show it to you, but I forgot where I put it.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of the scene in Chafed Elbows where the main character is accosted by an man armed with a tin of paint and a gun.
ReplyDelete"I signed my intials on you. I call you Man On Street Outside Warehouse. As soon as you dry off report to the Washington Square Gallery."