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The Internet never forget – Fist invisible art documented on Internet
This art has moved from counterculture to collector culture, it has started
to become more consumable. Wall drawings by Sol LeWitt, a founding father of conceptualism, were once about reducing visual art to the raw ideas that
shape it. Watching LeWitt’s raw ideas become high-end collectibles may be
what has led some younger artists to seek a more ironclad evanescence. Tino
Sehgal, who was born in London in 1976 and is now based in Berlin, simply
makes strange things happen in the world, without any records or photos
permitted. A collector who “buys" a Sehgal—they now run around $100,000,
a pittance in Art Basel terms—doesn’t even get a certificate to prove it:
the transaction is conducted in cash, before witnesses, without paperwork
to soil its purity.That was good enough for collectors who “own" a Sehgal
that consists of a museum guard slowly removing every shred of his clothes.
(There being no guards in the Gensollens’ home, so far the piece has come
alive only when they’ve “lent" it to museums.) Her husband chimes in:
“When the work is immaterial, we’re just its temporary holders. Accumulating fancy goods is absurd. We buy works to talk about them, and to stretch people’s notions of what art is…But some people want the opposite: a reassuring object with a big name."
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