Anish Kapoor Now Owns the Rights to the World's Darkest Material

Anish Kapoor, a British-Indian sculptor, now owns the exclusive rights within the field of art to Vantablack, currently the world’s darkest material. Developed by a team of scientists at Surrey NanoSystems in 2014, Vantablack absorbs all light and creates a crease free abyss which is often compared to a black hole. Other artists, such as Christian Furr, had intended to use Vantablack in a series of paintings, but no longer can due to Kapoor’s monopolization. “All the best artists have had a thing for pure black — Turner, Manet, Goya,” he told Daily Mail. “This black is like dynamite in the art world. We should be able to use it. It isn’t right that it belongs to one man.”

Fortunately, the same restrictions don't apply to architecture - what potential or possibilities do you think Vantablack could have for the field? Let us know in the comments below.

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Cite: Kaley Overstreet. "Anish Kapoor Now Owns the Rights to the World's Darkest Material" 06 Mar 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/783193/anish-kapoor-now-owns-the-rights-to-the-worlds-darkest-material> ISSN 0719-8884

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