A logical progression to the Duchampian notion and subsequent post-modern dictum that art is everything (i.e. what the
artist says it is) with its logical conclusion being that it therefore becomes nothing:
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.
Who knew that Marcel Duchamp and Hans Christian Anderson has so much in common.
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