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,Fondazione Manzoni "1960. Mostre in Italia e nel mondo", Milano, 2015 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 Open Box, "Esposizione Internazioanle del Niente", Milano, 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.Askanews, "Milano, Esposizione internazionale del Niente: arte come nel 1960A The Open Box una "prima" del progetto di Manzoni e Castellani", Milano, 2015 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, 2012L’arte invisibile in mostra a Londra. «Ma la creazione non è astensione dal giudizio», Tempi, 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 Damien Hirst (b.1965)
Relationships, London, ICA Editions, 1991, Christie's, contemporary art
 Alighiero Boetti, MOMA Alighiero Boetti, Italian, 1940–1994, MOMA, New York
 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)

 References 

 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

Category:Art movements