67-year-old Italian artist Salvatore Garau has sold an invisible sculpture titled Lo Sono (meaning “I Am”), emphasizing the power of the unseen. Garau argues that even empty spaces are charged with energy, referencing the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which suggests that even “nothing” has mass.
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Initially estimated to fetch between $6,000 and $9,000, the immaterial artwork ended up being auctioned for an astonishing $18,000. Remarkably, people vied to purchase something they couldn’t see. Is this a stroke of bold genius or a profound statement on the value of emptiness in art?