An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing
“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” Salvatore Garau said of his sculpture.
The Italian sculptor Salvatore Garau has “installed” one of his “sculptures” in front of Federal Hall, right at GW’s feet, and I have never found a better use for snarky air quotes than in this context. (Thanks to Jolene Howard for the heads up.) “Aphrodite Crying” is in a circle marked on the cobblestones at the corner of Wall and Broad.
The press this week revolved around his sale of another sculpture of, well, nothing for $18,000. “It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” Garau told the Spanish news outlet AS. “After all, don’t we shape a God we’ve never seen?”
I’m all for high concept but this one has got me. Still, the video is a lovely tribute to Fidi (despite the time lapse that has all the passersby jogging) and the buildings that surround the sculpture. And the more you think about it, the more you realize that he may be on to something: I am not sure I will ever pass this spot again and not think of Aphrodite. (This also happens to be the site where the city wants to relocate Charging Bull, the work of another Italian sculptor with a radical bent.)
There’s one flash of an image of a sculpture in the video, which I caught here as a still.
The video has subtitles that have the occasional English translation:
“You don’t see me but I exist, right above this white round shape.“I am Aphrodite, an intangible sculpture made of air and spirit.“Still don’t see me? And yet I am here, in front of you.And I cry because I am beauty and love which is disappearing.”
11 comments:
donald tRump's meme coin is a much more profitable scam.
Best stick to NFTs Derv.
Has NY’s Attorney General Leticia James gone full- tantrum after her meltdown on criminal referral for mortgage fraud? It sure looks that way to me.
S he swore in the State of Virginia, that her home, there in Virginia, was her “primary residence.”
So, unless she lied on that official state document in Virginia (which could yield a prosecution for various crimes in Virginia), She Needs to Resign Her Official Position in Ny State.
Hopefully they go after that corrupt bitch and send her to prison. Those are her words, her intent, and her signature.
She Was Committing Fraud, and She Knew It.!
That Fat Pig should be sent to CECOT. (a maximum security prison in El Salvador)
I bet even those prisoners would not touch her.
Well, when one drops ones usual relative conceptual reality and enters the unrestricted spacious absolute reality this makes perfect sense. :)
This is ironic, as the case she made against Trump was for "falsifying documents". I suppose she realizes now just how bogus her case was.
Not if you exist in quantum reality, then all possibilities exist and are reduced to "1"ONLY when the wave function is collapsed by its' "observation".
Cat lives... cat lives... cat dead... cat dead. So where are we in the process now?
Did you "observe" her in the "phantom frame"? A quark popped out of the ether? Shame it dove back out of your "reality" and is no longer in a state of Superposition. Is time running "backwards" in that parallel Universe?
For as Socrates states in his "Parmenides" (& Zeno) dialogue... "If One is not, the nothing Is"
I wonder if the sculptor in the other reverse time reality has added all the stone back to Aphrodite yet... ;)
;p
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