Invisible sculpture
The juxtaposition of seminal works by Beuys with specially selected materials – including many unpublished items – is designed to reignite the debate regarding the significance of his oeuvre and to locate his work in a broader cultural and socio-political context. Taking Joseph Beuys’s expanded concept of art as its starting point, »the invisible sculpture« resists the historicization and canonization of his work. Taking Joseph Beuyss expanded concept of art as its starting point, the invisible sculpture resists the historicization and canonization of his work. You don’t see it but it exists it is made of air and spirit.
INVISIBLE SCULPTURE FREE
The artwork titled lo Sono I Am in Italian is a 5-by-5 foot square free of obstructions, according to ArtNet. The sculpture is nothing more than empty space.
INVISIBLE SCULPTURE FULL
The work consists of a 5×5-foot square full of nothing. Italian artist Salvatore Garau just sold his invisible sculpture for over 18,000, reports ArtNet. You can not see it displayed in this video from Milan’s Piazza della Scala.
This exhibition revisits his work in the context of the present global debate on ecology and democracy. Because this invisible sculpture isn’t real. The concept of invisible art has in fact been around for quite some time now, way before Miller and Garau’s works. Beuys’s visionary commitment to democracy expanded the international concept of art. It’s also apparently superior to the novel NFT artworks, as not only is is just as unique and impossible to reproduce, but it also has zero environmental impact.This exhibition at the UNESCO world heritage site highlights the socio-political dimension of the work of Joseph Beuys and addresses its importance for the present and the future. Garau considers his invisible sculpture to be a perfect metaphor of our time.
The work, titled Io Sono or 'I Am,' doesnt exist except in the artists imagination.No, seriously. After all, don’t we give shape to a God we have never seen?” Italian artist Salvatore Garau just sold an invisible sculpture for 18,000. “It therefore has 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,” Salvatore Garau said. Invisible Sculpture 1 Lorraine Oades Concordia University 1395 Rene Levesque Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2M5 ABSTRACT Invisible sculpture 1 uses interactive digital interfaces to question the nature of materiality within information-based post-corporal societies. Special lighting and climate control are optional, since “I Am” is immaterial…
So how does one keep an invisible sculpture? Well, the artist suggests storing the artwork in a special room, in a space free from obstruction, of about 150×150 cm (4.92×4.92 feet). Wondering what the new owner of this invisible sculpture will be getting for their money? Well, if we’re talking visible, tangible things, he will receive a certificate of authenticity that proves “I Am” is the property of the buyer.