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Anish Kapoor goes to the dark side
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
-Nigel Tufnel, This is Spinal Tap
British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor recently unveiled new pieces featuring Vantablack, a high tech industrial material said to be among the most intense blacks ever created.
Despite the rarity of the substance, I would suggest what Kapoor created are gimmicky curiosities, not art. That is the type of bait and switch typical of "Conceptual" artists beloved by the establishment art world.
"'This material is the blackest material in the universe. Blacker than a black hole. It absorbs 99.8 percent of all light,' Kapoor wrote in an email. (Artist Diemut Strebe actually created a blacker, 99.995 percent absorbent black with MIT scientists in 2019.)
"A highly-advanced scientific discovery featuring a super dense field of carbon nano tubes grown in a lab and heated to super-high temperatures in a reactor, Vantablack was invented by the U.K. firm Surrey NanoSystems with military purposes in mind. But Kapoor believed in its artistic potential right from the get-go. So much so, that he signed a contract securing the exclusive rights to the new material's use in painting and sculpture."
Read the full article here: ARTNET- Anish Kapoor's Controversial Vantablack Works Finally Make Their U.S. Debut. See Them Here
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