What happens when you walk into a gallery and there’s nothing to see?
AI is flooding the internet with images. Beautiful, yes. But disposable. When anyone can generate anything, I started wondering: What actually holds value?
That’s what led me to curate An Exhibition of the Unseen. A real gallery show of invisible artworks by artists like Salvatore Garau and John Cage. Nothing to see. Just context, space, and people thinking.
By removing the visuals, I wanted to bring the idea back to the front. To explore whether curation, not creation, is where meaning and value lives now.
Concept, curation, and design by Pablo Tesio.
MANIFESTO
The world has never had more art.
And yet, we've never valued it less.
We have trained machines to create in seconds what once took lifetimes. The brushstroke has been automated. The algorithm has become the artist. Art is everywhere, yet meaning is scarce.
But what if art was never about the object? What if its true power was in the act of selection? This exhibition is a gallery of absence. A collection of invisible masterpieces, each existing only because someone believes they should.
Perhaps, in the end, art was never about the object at all. Perhaps, in an age of infinite images, the real power lies not in creation, but in discernment. A beautiful artwork without an idea is disposable, drowned in an endless stream of machine-made beauty. But a powerful idea? That’s still rare.
People could buy an exclusive tote bag with the unseen printed art from the exhibition for 50$ in the museum gift shop.
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