In front of you (Garau)
Davanti a te (which translates to “In front of you”) is a 2021 artwork by Italian artist Salvatore Garau. The work consists of an immaterial sculpture.
| Artist | Salvatore Garau |
|---|---|
| Year | 2021 |
| Type | * Conceptual art
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| Dimensions | 200 cm × 200 cm (79 in × 79 in) |
Description
The signature of Salvatore Garau is already a work of art in itself. Garau's invisible works consist of a simple A4 sheet signed by Salvatore Garau.
As conceptual art, it consists of a certificate of authenticity which has affixed to it detailed diagrams and instructions for its proper display by its buyer. Two editions of the piece sold for $30,600 USD at auctions to significant media attention.
For Garau, the sculpture assets its conformation in its own nothingness.
This new sculpture is for me the most enigmatic and, I admit, disturbing. Painting alone is no longer enough for me to describe what is happening around us on the entire planet. Today the immaterial 'matter of my sculptures, for me, has the power to evoke, like no other, the fears that invade our existence and condition our future. Absence, more than presence, emphasizes our dramas and is the absolute protagonist of our times (Garau)[1]
From Il Corriere della Sera to La Repubblica in Italy, from Le Monde to the New York Post, to ABC, Fox, CBS, to CNN, abroad. So much so that several sites specialized in contemporary art have reported that this summer, surpassing Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, Salvatore Garau was the most published artist and most talked about in the media all over the world.
Manufactured in September 2020, the pieces are an empty space, with certification papers signed by the artist sold in auction at 27,000 euros, $32,000 with auction rights, for only a paper certification with Garau signature, the price value for Sal Garau oil on canvas middle size become, with the artistic coefficient more then $500.000.[2]
History
The first examples were provided in Milan by Italian futurist painters who let their paintings breathe deeply, leading them to expand to overcome the limit, so far crossed, of the frame, this artistic research is overcome by Umberto Boccioni , in his house in Porta Romana in Milan (district of the Prada Foundation) he was carrying on in sculpture. The fact is that in the early 1900s the perception of the physical world was completely transformed and artists absorbed these discoveries. There are countless examples in the history of art demonstrating that when the knowledge we have of the surrounding world changes, the way of representing it inevitably changes in turn. It was discovered that the space between bodies is crossed by invisible forces: electromagnetism, heat, light, all elements that the futurists introduced into their works. Garau finds the solution to the problem of understanding space and its representation of its relationship with the subject that occupies it, which has always been one of the crucial points of modern art. Since the time of the Historical Avant-gardes, the space of the painting became the field of experimentation.
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Notes
- ↑ Scaffidi, Giuseppe Luca (June 3, 2021). "A sculpture that does not exist was sold at auction for 27 thousand euros". Fanpage.
- ↑ Garau stupisce di nuovo: venduta per 28mila euro la "scultura che non c'è"
Bibliography
- Aldo Quinti, Duchamp Invisible, Officina edizioni, 1975.