Main image via Salvatore Garau / Instagram
We all remember how the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes goes and it looks like it’s happening in real life too!
An Italian artist named Salvatore Garau just sold an invisible sculpture for over RM75,544 (15,000 euros)!
The invisible sculpture was initially auctioned between RM30,217 (6,000 euros) and RM45,326 (9,000 euros) but was raised after several bids.
The artist explains that the sculpture titled Io Sono (I am) exists but just not in material form, and is actually more like a “vacuum”.
"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 said.
"Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us."
Salvatore said that the sculpture must be displayed in an area in a private home about 5ft by 5ft long and wide, free from any obstruction.
The buyer will receive the “invisible sculpture” and a signed and stamped certificate by the artist himself.
This isn’t the first immaterial sculpture that Salvatore has sold, with his previous one displayed last month in the Piazza della Scala in Milan, near the entrance to the Gallerie d'Italia titled "Buddha in Contemplation”.
"Now it exists and will remain in this space forever," he said in a video of the displayed invisible sculpture. "You do not see it but it exists. It is made of air and spirit."
He said that viewers are supposed to “activate” their imagination, a power Salvatore said exists in everyone.
"When I decide to 'exhibit' an immaterial sculpture in a given space, that space will concentrate a certain amount and density of thoughts at a precise point, creating a sculpture that, from my title, will only take the most varied forms," he said.
"After all, don't we shape a God we've never seen?"
Info via Newsweek
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