We’ve licensed technology that we developed at considerable cost that absorbs light and has artistic applications.”īut Artists on social media had a debate going on that it why should Anish Kapoor be the only one to use it. The company that produced it says “ We haven’t licensed any color. It has a huge military utilization.Ĭelebrated Artist Anish Kapoor says “VantaBlack exists between materiality and illusion.” In 2016, he has got an exclusive license to use VantaBlack for artistic purposes which created a huge feud among artist community. This material is used on dial of the watch which makes the viewer feel as if the components of the watch are suspended in midair.Ī Swedish Company is using Vantablack for coating the interior of an optical telescope which when attached to a microsatellite will block away stray light from the sun and city lights of earth which will ensure that the light coming from telescope comes from atmosphere, so that they can have much clearer and better data to work on.Ĭlothes made of Vantablack can render its wearer invisible at night making him flat like a cardboard and completely dissolve in dark nights background. Swiss watchmaker MCT used this material to create a limited-edition watch. British architect Asif Khan used Vantablack VBx2 to coat a building with this super black material and studded it with thousands of tiny light bulbs which makes it look like a star-studded night sky as this material absorbs almost 90% of light thus creating the illusion. VantaBlack has been used by people of different fields to create different types of artifacts and effects. In fact way back in 1992, one of Artist Anish Kapoor’s installations titled Descent Into Limbo at the Serralves Museum in Portugal mirrored the present day effect of VantaBlack, the installation resembles a flat 2D black hole painted on a flat surface, but it is in reality a 2.5 meters deep hole into the ground which doesn’t reflect any light. This tricked an innocent visitor and he fell into it. Imagine if there is a room painted with VantaBlack, it would feel like floating in a void. There is complete absence of light, color and depth. If an object is coated with VantaBlack material (gosh! it is not a color) makes 3D objects look completely flat, like a 2D. It creates an illusion of nothingness our eyes can’t comprehend what they are looking at. This is amazing. It is rightly described as the darkest man-made substance in the world, closest thing to a black hole (except that it won’t suck you in}. It is said that VantaBlack absorbs almost 100% of visible light. So, what is this Blackest Black?Īs per Surrey Nanosystems, the company who produced VantaBlack, “It is a super-black coating that holds the world record as the darkest man-made substance. “Vantablack is available in two versions, either directly applied to surfaces using vacuum-deposition technology or, in the case of Vantablack S-VIS, by spraying and then post-processing. Now here we have a blackest black, but Black is already the darkest color in any palette. As artists, we must be very careful about the use the of color black. Ever since one of my celebrated teachers at an art class talked about VantaBlack and its extraordinary blackness, I wondered how much black can a black be? We all have a kind of love hate relationship with color black.
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