12/30/2023 0 Comments Invisible sculpture andy warholThis receipt from Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, which sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Paris to a private collector for $1.2 million this past month, belonged to Jacques Kugel-the original buyer of a zone who refused to burn the receipt in this ritual, giving the receipt increasing value over the years. Countless contemporary artists have done the same, including Italian artist Salvatore Garau’s “immaterial sculpture” Io sono which sold last year for $18,300. Andy Warhol famously displayed his Invisible Sculpture in the legendary nightclub Area, where he stood on a pedestal for a short while before exiting, a writeup explaining that his aura would remain. Klein was not the only artist to see empty spaces-voids, negative space, absence-as their own form of artwork. The endeavour is now considered an early advent of conceptual art. Truly ringing more of ritualism than materialism in its transactional nature, Klein would offer empty zones of space to collectors, giving them a receipt in exchange, and finishing the procedure by having the recipient burn the receipt before art world witnesses to verify the claim as he would dump half of the gold he gained from the sale into the Seine river. Yves Klein-the French pioneer of Nouveau réalisme whose namesake of International Klein Blue was central to his creative practice-conducted the performance and sale of Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility from 1959 till his death in 1962. But quite possibly the epitome of humanity’s absurdity and the fine line of modern art is seen in work like Yves Klein’s Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility- which a receipt for just sold at $1.2 million. Fleeting online experiences that amount to singular serotonin boosts (hopefully), shiny costumes for digital avatars, or the ability to let people know that a particular. If you want to investigate more of Bethan Huws’s always interesting ideas check out this YouTube.In our modern, digital-consumerist society, we are no strangers to paying for…well, nothing. * Invisible: Art of the Unseen 1957-2012 is on at the Hayward Gallery in London. If you happen to be in London why not go and see Bethan's work - well, sort of. She has apparently hired some beautiful actors to wander about the gallery distracting art lovers from their picture viewing thus rendering the exhibition itself even more invisible. One of the contributing artists in the Hayward Gallery show is Bethan Huws from Bangor. In the 1980s Andy Warhol created an invisible sculpture in a New York nightclub which just consisted of a label saying: Andy Warhol, USA/Invisible Sculpture/Mixed Media 1985. She also, notoriously, didn’t appear at an art event in Cardiff in 1968 but sent instead a photograph of herself. Yoko Ono has written instructions for invisible paintings. In the late ‘50s Klein displayed in what appeared to be an empty room “immaterial pictorial sensibility”. Invisible art actually has a venerable tradition which includes works by Yves Klein, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol – all of whom are included here. The Hayward Gallery in London is currently hosting an exhibition of invisible art – an event that is guaranteed to infuriate both art philistines and the humourless.
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