‘Invisible sculpture’ sells for $23,500
Eliza Bavin
4 June 2021
An Italian artist, Salvatore Garau, has sold an “invisible sculpture” for a whopping $23,500 (US$18,000).
Garau said the Io Sono (I am) sculpture is made from “air and spirit”, exists like a “vacuum” and does not take any material form.
“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.”
Garau said the piece can be explained in the way humankind creates a shape for “a god we’ve never seen”.
“Rather than invisible sculptures, I would define them as immaterial sculptures. My fantasy, trained for a lifetime to feel differently the existing around me, allows me to ‘see’ what apparently does not exist,” Garau said.
“The intangible sculptures are works that I feel as physical. Into the void there is a container of positive and negative possibilities that are constantly equivalent, in short, there is a density of events. “
