International Exhibition of Nothing

**International Exhibition of Nothing** (Esposizione internazionale del Niente) was a modern art and conceptual movement which originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, based on nothing, on emptiness, on the invisible, the pieces are an _"empty space".

The Publishing manifestos of _International Exhibition of Nothing_ has been a feature of the invisible art movement led by Piero Manzoni.

**International Exhibition of Nothing** is an exhibition invented in 1960 by a group of artists including Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Carl Laszlo, Heinz Mack, in which an exhibition of invisible works was represented, the exhibition will then be exhibited again a year later in the Netherlands.
In 2015, the exhibition is once again held in Milan in collaboration with the Manzoni Foundation, also exhibited the original "Manifesto" of the time, which was published in Basel in 1960. In 2020, Salvatore Garau reinterprets the concepts of invisibility with the idea of the "Cycle of Absences" in a completely innovative way.

## Main Manifesti

- Alfred Jarry, _Patafisica_ (1896)
- Marcel Duchamp
- _Vanishing Point_, Jean Baudrillard
- _Souvenirs de James Joyce_, Philippe Soupault
- Pensiero di Bergson, premio Nobel (1927)
- _Esposizione internazionale del Niente_, Milano, 1960
- _International Exhibition of Nothing_, Amsterdam, 1961
- _Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012_, Londra, 2012
- _Esposizione internazionale del Niente_, Milano, 2015
- Pensiero di Garau, _Cycle of Absences (Garau)_, Piazza della Scala, Milano (2021)

## Main works: "When art is invisible"

- Uberto Boccioni, the space in futurism
- Alighiero Boetti, the space in futurism
- Gino Severini, the space in futurism
- Marcel Duchamp, _Airs de Paris_ (1919)
- Marcel Duchamp, _Fontana_ (1917), Ready-made
- Piero Manzoni, _Corpo d'aria_ ("Body of Air", 1959-1960)
- Piero Manzoni, _Fiato d'artista_
- John Cage,  music _4′33″_, four minutes, thirty-three seconds of silent piece (1952)
- Piero Manzoni, _Achrome_ (1957-1963), invisible colors
- Yves Klein, _Vacuum_ (1958)
- Lucio Fontana, _I tagli_ (1958)
- Gino De Dominicis, _Cubo invisibile_ (1967), represented by a square drawn on the ground
- Jeff Koons, _Vacuum Cleaner_ (1981), Ready-made, MOMA
- Salvatore Garau, _I Am_ (2020), a simple sheet of paper signed by the artist certifies the existence.
- Damien Hirst, _Ping Pong_
- Alighiero Boetti, MOMA
- Salvatore Garau, _In Front of you_ (2021), a signed A4 sheet of paper sold at auction has already made his signature a work of art.

## Related pages

- Salvatore Garau
- In front of you (Garau)
- I Am (Garau)

## Bibliography

- Aldo Quinti, "Duchamp invisibile", Officina edizioni, 1975
- Giorgio Di Genova, "Storia dell'arte italiana del '900: Generazione anni Trenta", 2000, ISBN 9788885345812
- Francesco Tedeschi, "Lo spazio ridefinito: Aricò, Castellani, Coletta, Dadamaino, Garutti, Nagasawa, Pinelli, Staccioli, Vago, Varisco," 1998, ISBN 9788820212766
- Il Vieri, 1971
- Agnetti 1970, V. Agnetti, _Gli Achromes di Piero Manzoni_, Milano 1970. ISBN 978-88-8301-013-1.
- Beckett [1952] 2002S. Beckett, _Aspettando Godot_ [En attendant Godot, Paris 1952], in _Teatro_, Torino 2002, pp. 3-97. ISBN 978-88-339-1247-7.
- Beckett [1955] 1971S. Beckett, _Testi per nulla_ [Nouvelles et textes pour rien, Paris 1955], in _Primo amore_, Torino 1971, pp. 105-162. ISBN 978-88-341-0078-9.
- Costantini 2007A. Costantini, _Da zero a niente. Piero Manzoni a confronto_, in _Piero Manzoni_, a cura di G. Celant, Milano 2007, pp. 54-77. ISBN 978-88-7292-186-6.
- Flaubert [1852] 1980G. Flaubert, _Lettera a Louise Colet (16 gennaio 1852)_, in _Correspondance_, a cura di J. Bruneau, Paris 1980. ISBN 978-2-07-032942-5.
- Manzoni [1960] 2020P. Manzoni, _Manifesto contro niente per l’esposizione Internazionale di niente (1960)_, in _Writings on Art'', Zurich 2020. ISBN 978-3-85881-936-2.

## Other websites

- New York, Aphrodite Crying, by Salvatore Garau, 2021
- Video "The invisible on display in Milan", 2015, Video
- "Da Zero a Niente. Piero Manzoni a confronto