![]() (Yves Klein infamously did it before him with his no-signal hue International Klein Blue, but the difference was that the artist developed the pigment himself. Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void. Surrey NanoSystems says Vantablack 2.0 is so black that the company’s visual spectrometers can’t even measure it. Speaking to Artforumin 2015, he compared it to Malevich’s black square (which was recently revealed to put the white supremacy in Suprematism), saying that “to make new art, you have to make new space.” Unfortunately, he’s the only one, having finagled exclusive rights to use Vantablack in artwork, a move that has enraged other artists. According to Surrey NanoSystems, the British manufacturer that created Vantablack, Kapoor’s studio still holds an exclusive license to the technology that limits the coating’s use in the. Surrey NanoSystems debuted an even darker 2.0 version of Vantablack in March 2016 a coating so dark it can eat lasers, as shown in the video below. Prior to obtaining the rights to be the only artists able to work with Vantablack, Kapoor had been experimenting with 3D works and ‘super black’ paints. It’s hard to keep a beast like this leashed to a single post, though: it was used in a Lynx marketing campaign for a body spray in 2015, while at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Canada might have had their red door, but designer Asif Khan took a whole pavilion and spray painted it black, to stunning effect.īritish sculptor and consummate void enthusiast Anish Kapoor may be the one to credit with really putting Vantablack on the map, though. Neha Singh, Sardar Patel Subharti Institute of Law INTRODUCTION In 2014, the Anglo-Indian British artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to use Vantablack, a newly developed material that is the blackest substance known to man. Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS via Getty Images. The newest version, Stuart Semple Black 4.0, comes as close to Vantablack’s potency as we. People walk outside a pavilion, designed by British architect Asif Khan and built by Hyundai, in Pyeonchang, the host location of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games the building is sprayed on the outside with Vantablack, the darkest chemical substance on Earth. While Vantablack has long been locked up by Anish Kapoor, who secured the exclusive license to use it for art, Stuart Semple has been busy making his own version of the ultra-pigmented, super-flat black paint as an alternative for other artists to use.
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