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LONDON, April 7 — It is sometimes said that absolutely anything can be bought and sold. Sotheby’s appears to have proved this by auctioning Yves Klein’s Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle Série n°1, Zone n°02. This receipt, confirming the transfer of ownership of an invisible...
The winning bidder scored a receipt for a “zone of empty space,” a conceptual piece created by Klein in 1959.
The Italian artist sold his invisible sculpture for 15 thousand euros (over Rs 13 lakh).
From the department of “They sold that for how much?!” comes today’s story, about an Italian artist who, for the cool price of €15,000 ($18,300), recently auctioned an artwork that is… well, nothing. Last month, the 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture”—which is to say that it doesn’t exist. To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, titled Io Sono (which translates to “I am”), finds form in its own nothingness. “The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty i...