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 ...
Fighting over nothing.
$18K?? Should have paid in invisible money.
LOL. That’s a keeper.
[rimshot]
Wait, some guy makes an invisible sculpture? How could it NOT be Florida Man??
Hunter sez he did the first one. These others need to pay up. And don’t forget the 10% for “the big guy”.
Mere pikers. I bet Hunter Biden could easily get several hundred thousand for the same thing. He’s just so talented! (At corruption anyway.)
The second guy just needs to claim that the first guys sculpture was stolen and that he was merely providing a replacement
He was ignored by all the trendy boys in London, yes and in Leeds
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
He couldn’t be
No, he couldn’t be
In the gallery
And then you get an artist says he doesn’t want to paint at all
Just takes an empty canvas, sticks it on a wall
Birds of a feather, all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers, they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who’s going to be
Who’s going to be
In the gallery
In the gallery
Writer: Mark Knopfler
If I could do it, it ain’t Art.
LOL
Hey, I had an invisible sculpture in my backyard preceding both these dudes.
Somebody swiped it before the Florida guy installed his invisible sculpture.
I wager this sculpture is originally my sculpture!
Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good.
Maybe they can make an NFT (non-fungible token) of this work of art.
A digital memory of a “null” sculpture.
This is so ... “meta.”
He should be suing for copyright infringement. LOL
And how will s/he know if it was ever stolen/missing?
Amazing, isn't it.
The answer has been sitting around in plain sight all along.
Wait until Hunter gets in on the scam selling his invisible paintings.
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