Rome, June 7: In a bizarre event, a sixty-seven-year-old artist, Salvatore Garau sold his unusual sculpture ‘lo sono’, which translates to ‘I am’, for €15,000 to an anonymous buyer. What made this event bizarre was that the sculpture was invisible; it did not exist. His art evoked the idea of nothingness; a state of vacuum. Vacuum is an empty space filled with energy. According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, when we refer to an empty space saying there’s nothing, that nothing has weight, and that is what he sold. Although the buyer bought nothing, he did not go empty handed, he was given a ‘certificate of authenticity’ and instructions to display the art. The instructions listed that the art needed to be displayed in an unobstructed 25 sq ft of space.
Report by Gurpreet Kaur
