This is a list of invisible artworks; that is, works of art that cannot be seen and, in many cases, touched.
Invisible artworks
| Artist | Title | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yves Klein | "Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle" (Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) | 1959 | Consists of the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space; the piece could be completed in a ritual in which the buyer would burn said documentation. |
| Marinus Boezem | "Show V: Immateriële ruimte" (Immaterial space) | 1965 | Consists of three "air doors" made from currents of cold and warm air blown into the room.[1] |
| Michael Asher | "Vertical Column of Accelerated Air" | 1966 | Drafts of pressurized air.[2] |
| Art & Language (group) | "Air-Conditioning Show" or "Air Show" | 1967 | An empty room with two air conditioning units; the artwork is "what is felt and said about it", and not anything tangible.[3] |
| James Lee Byars | "The Ghost of James Lee Byars" | 1969 | The artwork itself is the emptiness and darkness of a pitch-black room.[4][5] |
| Robert Barry | "Telepathic Piece" | 1969 | An artwork "the nature of which is a series of thoughts that are not applicable to language or image", which Barry would communicate telepathically to visitors during the exhibit.[6] |
| Andy Warhol | "Invisible Sculpture" | 1985 | Consists of an invisible, intangible sculpture atop a white pedestal.[3] |
| Tom Friedman | "Untitled (A Curse)" | 1992 | Similar do Warhol's sculpture, but a witch was reportedly hired to curse the space immediately above the pedestal.[3] |
| Teresa Margolles | "Aire" (Air) | 2003 | Similar to Air Show, the artwork consists of a room with air humidified with water used to wash corpses before autopsy.[7] |
| Jeppe Hein | "Invisible Labyrinth" | 2005 | A maze with invisible and intangible walls; visitors are given headphones that vibrate when they "touch" a wall.[2] |
| Roman Ondak | "More Silent Than Ever" | 2006 | The artwork consists of a covert listening device supposedly hidden somewhere in the (empty) exhibition room: visitors are told they are being eavesdropped. The device itself cannot be seen, and no evidence is given that it really exists.[8] |
| Salvatore Garau | "Buddha in Contemplazione" (Buddha in Contemplation) | 2021 | An invisible, intangible sculpture.[9] |
| Salvatore Garau | "Io Sono" (I am) | 2021 | Another invisible, intangible sculpture, that occupies a square area with side of 5 ft (1.5 m).[9] |
See also
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