Posted on 05/18/2012 1:52:54 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, has promised it will "set our imaginations alight".
And so his gallery's latest exhibition will have to, considering the fact that every piece of art inside it will be invisible.
From a bare plinth to a canvas painted entirely with invisible ink, the imagination of the paying public will play a decisive role in the success or failure of the show, the first of its kind in Britain.
For £8 visitors will be able to marvel at – or search in vain for – 50 works of "invisible art" by leading names including Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Yoko Ono.
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012, which opens on June 12 and has been billed as "the best exhibition you'll never see", is designed to show how the goal of art is to stimulate people's imagination rather than merely present interesting things for them to look at.
Among the chief attractions is a bare pillar which Andy Warhol once briefly stepped on, which Mr Rugoff said would allow viewers to be in the presence of the artist's "celebrity aura".
There are two works by American conceptual artist Tom Friedman: 1000 Hours of Staring, a blank piece of paper which Mr Friedman made into art by looking at it repeatedly over a five-year period, and Untitled (A Curse), an empty space which has been cursed by a witch.
Works by Klein, the French artist who pioneered the concept of invisible art in the 1950s, are also included along with a series of typed instructions by Ono telling viewers to imagine they are looking at art.
Other exhibits include Jeppe Heine's Invisible Labyrinth, an invisible maze...and a movie by Jay Chung which he spent two years shooting with no film in his camera.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Will he be hired to run Barack Obama’s re-election ad campaign?
For £8 visitors will be able to marvel at – or search in vain for – 50 works of “invisible art” by leading names including Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Yoko Ono.
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Me: Here’s my £8. Let me in.
Them: I don’t see no £8. There’s nothing in your hands.
Me: It’s invisible fool. Just like your art. Now hand me my invisible ticket and shut up.
Just Daym, I’ve had designs for an invisible machine
for years, it’s all mounted with huge baseplates
on a large slab and when you stand on it, you can feel
the machine running.
Beam me up.
Can I buy some of the works with invisible money?
Well then all I have to do is sit in my kitchen and close my eyes and I'll have my own art exhibition. Anyone want to pay $8 to come to my house to see my invisible art exhibition?
Art, today,,,,, can be a booger with a hair in it!
Why am I not surprised to see Yoko Ono’s name listed . . . a faux artist if I’ve ever seen one.
I heard there was a sex exhibit in Canada FOR kids, including video of kids masturbating. Field trips from schools and the whole deal.
Canada might burn.
Paging Kyle's Mom
When my daughter was young I read her the story about the emperor having no clothes. Now we both laugh at liberals and these “artists,” a lot, especially when they do stuff like this.
Crap.
I do not know what is wrong with the people in Canada these days.
Reminds me of the Pet Rock craze.
If things get any sillier, there might even be, eventually at least, a presidential candidate that runs on a slogan of “Hope and Change”.
Let me in now or I’ll shoot your invisible ass with my invisible .44.
No? You racist mothaluvah!
What the h—l you mean, what do I mean, racist? I’m invisibly black, ain’t I?
The Invisible Emperor has no audience.
It would certainly be the first time that I would ever enjoy actually looking at modern art.
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