![]() With I Am, Garau has provided nothing of value, taken the money and forced others to create the ostensible work themselves. Laughable as it is, this is the artist’s most pertinent remark about his “work.” Taking this nonsense at face value, Garau has entirely abdicated the artist’s responsibility to communicate something important about the world through his or her art. “It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” said Garau. It was allegedly displayed inside a taped square on the cobblestone. I Am is not Garau’s first invisible “sculpture.” In February, Garau exhibited Buddha in Contemplation in Milan’s Piazza della Scala. After all, don’t we shape a God we’ve never seen?” “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. “Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”įor those confused by this double-talk, Garau appealed to mysticism. “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. How is one to conceive of an invisible sculpture? Garau had a ready pseudo-scientific explanation for Spanish tabloid Diario AS. Special lighting and climate control are optional. Garau stipulated that the work must be exhibited in a private home in an area of approximately five square feet that is free of obstruction. In exchange for this sum, the buyer-a private Milanese collector-of the putative work, the latest version of the Emperor’s New Clothes, received a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s instructions for displaying the sculpture. During the auction, bidders pushed the price up, and Garau walked away with €15,000 ($18,300). Even though the work has no material existence, the Art-Rite auction house estimated its value at between €6,000 and €9,000 (that is, between approximately $7,000 and $11,000). The invisible piece of art consists literally of nothing. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.In May, Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold his “immaterial sculpture” I Am at an auction. EtherRock #42’s current owner is reportedly also one of the few to snag a coveted CryptoPunk, paying 4,200 ETH in March, which was worth about $7.6 million at the time. 23.ĮtherRock, as they’re called, has become something of a status symbol among crypto-traders, according to Motherboard. Just last week, the rocks were selling for a mere few hundred thousand dollars before spiking Aug. They’re free online yet worth potentially millions when purchased via non-fungible token (NFT). Crypto-traders are clamoring for these variously shaded rock doodles, called EtherRocks. “I think this might be the best investment of my life so far,” he said of the transaction. UK crypto-trader Tom Osman came forward as the seller of EtherRock #42, which he purchased just a few weeks prior at only 1.7 ETH, or about $4,800 at the time. The project has existed since 2017 without much attention, Vice’s Motherboard reported - that is, until NFT sales broke through the mainstream last year. The geologic doodle, supplied from the free clipart website, is one of a series of 100 such images of the same stone, each a slightly different shade, and attached to its own non fungible token (NFT). On Monday night, an anonymous buyer purchased a computer-based illustration of a rock with 400 ethererum (ETH), a cryptocurrency with the current equivalent value of over $1.3 million. NFT.NYC events head to dive bars, apartment buildings as crypto crashes Trump’s financial disclosures show millions earned from speaking engagements and NFTs Trump returns to Instagram to market his NFT trading cards ![]() ![]() Logan Paul still hasn’t refunded fans who lost ‘millions’ on CryptoZoo game
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