Posted on 07/03/2021 6:17:06 PM PDT by simpson96
Last month, we reported about an Italian artist, Salvatore Garau, selling his invisible sculpture for $18,300. Well, a performance artist from Gainesville, Florida, seems to have heard the news as well and is now suing, claiming Garau stole the idea from his own “Nothing” sculpture.
Florida artist Tom Miller claimed he installed his own invisible sculpture in Gainesville’s Bo Diddley Community Plaza, an outdoor event space, back in 2016. The piece was aptly titled "Nothing." Understandably, seeing some artist across the pond cash in $18,000 for a similar idea didn't sit right with Miller.
“When I saw that I thought ‘that’s exactly my idea’ and ideas are important in the world, and recognition for those ideas are important. So I simply wanted that attribution so I contacted him, he dismissed it away, and then I hired an Italian attorney,” Miller told Gainesville news outlet WCJB. “The space in our world is legitimate to work with as an artistic product. So the idea is fashioning nothing into a sculpture, and that’s what the lawsuit is all about."
Miller continued, saying a simple Google search – which, we really advise you to do – could have sufficed for Garau to know the invisible sculpture has been done before. “If you Google ‘Tom Miller Nothing’ you can easily see I had this whole paradigm sorted out before Salvatore Garau ever even thought of doing a sculpture of nothing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at highsnobiety.com ...
Le Petomane couild sue everyone of us who ripped a musical note in public.
If I were the judge I’d find for the plaintiff. And make the other guy pay him off... with invisible money.
“...in Gainesville’s Bo Diddley Community Plaza”
He should have called it “Squat”.
This is something I wrote many years ago. I hope you find it entertaining:
INTERVIEW WITH THE “NOTHING” ARTIST
Interviewer: You’re an artist who creates nothing?
Artist: Yes.
Interviewer: How do you create a nothing work of art?
Artist: Well, you start with something, for example a painting, and then you strip it of its paint and then strip it of its canvas and frame and there you have it – nothing.
Interviewer: Do you create nothing from nothing as well?
Artist: Yes. As they say, nothing comes from nothing.
Interviewer: What does your art have to say in general?
Artist: Nothing.
Interviewer: If all your art says nothing then isn’t that redundant?
Artist: No more redundant than the many art pieces that talk about love or depict natural landscapes. There’s a lot of repetition in the art world.
Interviewer: How can you tell one art piece from another?
Artist: It’s hard…
Interviewer: Tell me about the process of creating. How do you get to your final phase and have a finished work of art?
Artist: Well, the process is not nothing. It’s something, but I have to imagine the final end of nothing… and then I start to work towards that end. I don’t feel this is my personal nothing because then it would be a something – a personal nothing. I’m trying to create, to deliver the purest, rarefied nothing. I have to work hard to create a nothing worthy of attention. Most of the time is spent convincing myself that I can produce… nothing.
Interviewer: What do your artist friends say about that?
Artist: They envy me for producing nothing because they think it’s easy. They slave over their own work and see me drinking and debauching and producing nothing. They think I’m not worthy to be called an artist for producing nothing. They are small-minded conventional artists. They envy me for being paid millions by galleries to display nothing. They can only wish to be as brilliant as me.
Interviewer: Let’s get back to the process. You said you work hard to create a nothing worthy of attention. How can nothing get our attention? Doesn’t only something get our attention?
Artist: No. In art there is a concept called negative space that gets out attention. You might say I’m a master of negative space.
Interviewer: Do people think you’re mad when you talk about your art? Or do they think you’re just joking... pulling their leg?
Artist: Oh yes, people think it’s a farce, especially my artist friends who regale me with endless derision. They think they’re the butt of an elaborate joke I’m playing on them. Some think I’m a talentless artist and I’m doing this to wreak revenge on art. Others think I just like the trappings of being an artist – the glamour, the attention, the adulation, the wild sex, the drugs, the loud music, the late nights – without actually doing any art. There are many people who do art for these trappings, but not me.
Interviewer: So why do you do it?
Artist: I do it because I have a talent for making and doing nothing… it’s a gift I realized a long time ago.
Interviewer: What do you want people to take away from your art?
Artist: Nothing… That’s it in a nutshell. If they can see that then they are well on their way. I’m not trying to challenge them or make them second guess their interpretations. I’m just presenting nothing.
Interviewer: There you have it… an interview with the “nothing” artist.
Lol... Hilarious...
Much Ado About Nothing.
ZZ Top for those of you in Rio Linda.
Baaah, looking through my sketch books I had the idea
for an invisible sculpture in the 1980s.
Mine was titled, “Bed plate for invisible machine”
and included mechanisms in the base to make it vibrate
and generate sound.
This post is no good without pictures
I’ve been to the Bo Diddley Plaza, and have seen the sculpture.
Pay the man his due.
From Pollock to Psychotic.
I’ll take Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Botticelli, Rembrandt, or Remington etc., over this invisible mental disorder crap.
IMO, the art world started to fall apart and lose their collective minds with the praise of “artists” like Jackson Pollock. Liberals and Leftists’ verbally describing deeply imagined meanings to awful art, in an attempt to show their fellow nutcases just how hip they are.
Well, no it’s invisible.
Funny
I can’t see him winning this one.
LOL
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