The Amazing World Of Buying & Selling Art

[Vinayaka]

In the news....
Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD
Excerpted....
Italian artist Salvatore Garau has just sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 USD. The Io Sono (I am) sculpture, as the artist explains, exists but just not in material form, and is actually more like a “vacuum.”

The 67-year-old went on to elaborate that, “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. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.” Much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”

The “sculpture” is intended to be displayed in a 5×5-foot square and must be displayed in a private space free from obstructions where lighting and climate control are not required. Reiterating that even if you can’t see it, it does exist, Garau included a certificate of authentication to the purchaser.

Gonna be hard to determine a counterfeit piece.

 

[Revoltingest]

Hire a ghost writer then. Doesn't sound too hard to stick with the original intent. Your outline is coherent and excellent. Heck, I'll volunteer.

I hired an invisible ghost writer.
And paid with invisible money.
I'm up to 1500 pages now.
But if I make it too long, people won't read it.

 

[Revoltingest]

Gonna be hard to determine a counterfeit piece.

It's a very faithful reproduction.
Even experts would be fooled.

 

[Vinayaka]

I hired an invisible ghost writer.
And paid with invisible money.
I'm up to 1500 pages now.
But if I make it too long, people won't read it.

Excellent point, although it seems skimming might draw out the meaning as well as a full fledged study would.

 

[Vinayaka]

It's a very faithful reproduction.
Even experts would be fooled.

They'd be compelled to study the certificate of authenticity rather than the artwork itself. The artist may have been wiser to make said certificate invisible as well. His loss.

 

[Revoltingest]

Excellent point, although it seems skimming might draw out the meaning as well as a full fledged study would.

Next I'll write the Cliff's Notes version.

 

[Revoltingest]

They'd be compelled to study the certificate of authenticity rather than the artwork itself. The artist may have been wiser to make said certificate invisible as well. His loss.

The dog ate the certificate of authenticity.
Bad @sun rise...bad....bad dog!

 

[Vinayaka]

Next I'll write the Cliff's Notes version.

I though Cliff wrote those. You might need his permission first, so I suggest you contact his lawyer before proceeding. Nobody needs a copyright lawsuit.

 

[PureX]

The art market is a lot like a flea market in that there are only a few real gems buried in an ocean of junk. But even the junk can be a 'gem' to someone. So you just have to keep looking.

 

[Revoltingest]

I though Cliff wrote those. You might need his permission first, so I suggest you contact his lawyer before proceeding. Nobody needs a copyright lawsuit.

My invisible ghost writer is named Cliff.

 

[Vinayaka]

My invisible ghost writer is named Cliff.

Okay then. That settles it. I just planted a white lilac.

 

[Revoltingest]

Okay then. That settles it. I just planted a white lilac.

Mine are violet....the visible ones, that is.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

In the news....
Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD
Excerpted....
Italian artist Salvatore Garau has just sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 USD. The Io Sono (I am) sculpture, as the artist explains, exists but just not in material form, and is actually more like a “vacuum.”

The 67-year-old went on to elaborate that, “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. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.” Much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”

The “sculpture” is intended to be displayed in a 5×5-foot square and must be displayed in a private space free from obstructions where lighting and climate control are not required. Reiterating that even if you can’t see it, it does exist, Garau included a certificate of authentication to the purchaser.

If this world were sane, such an obvious fraud would be illegal. Think of all the good that money could've gone to. There's people struggling and destitute all over the US. This is shameful and corrupt. Salvatore Garau is a con man making a mockery of art. I want to go to a gallery and spit on his "invisible art".

 

[Revoltingest]

If this world were sane, such an obvious fraud would be illegal. Think of all the good that money could've gone to. There's people struggling and destitute all over the US. This is shameful and corrupt. Salvatore Garau is a con man making a mockery of art. I want to go to a gallery and spit on his "invisible art".

I don't see any fraud....just a really strange idea of value
placed upon things with no tangible value. The Soviets
tried making socially damaging art illegal, eg, jazz.
Such law never works out well.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I don't see any fraud....just a really strange idea of value
placed upon things with no tangible value. The Soviets
tried making socially damaging art illegal, eg, jazz.
Such law never works out well.

It is a fraud because there is nothing he is actually selling. He's a hack. I see this a lot with people who fancy themselves "very important artists" but who have zero talent, so they pull stunts like that to fool the rubes (who think it is so profound as they buy or muse about literally nothing, garbage, human waste, and so on believing it is "high art"). Modern art is full of losers like that.

 

[Revoltingest]

It is a fraud because there is nothing he is actually selling. He's a hack. I see this a lot with people who fancy themselves "very important artists" but who have zero talent, so they pull stunts like that to fool the rubes. Modern art is full of losers like that.

The buyer is no doubt fully aware that there's nothing
other than a concept & a certificate of authenticity.
This differs from frauds like priests selling indulgences
to believers.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

The buyer is no doubt fully aware that there's nothing
other than a concept & a certificate of authenticity.
This differs from frauds like priests selling indulgences
to believers.

You call it whatever you please. My point remains.

 

[Revoltingest]

You call it whatever you please. My point remains.

Total agreement would be boring.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Willing seller & willing buyer of something
that entertains art lovers, & harms no one.
That must really offend you.

It's offensive to all people who love art and creativity. Things like this debase both. Fine arts continues its decline.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's offensive to all people who love art and creativity. Things like this debase both. Fine arts continues its decline.

I find it highly amusing.
It's like Pet Rocks, but with a more outrageous price.

I think fine arts will survive.