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World's 'blackest' sculptures to be unveiled at 2021 Venice Biennale

panorama.am03/16th/2020, 12:24

World's 'blackest' sculptures to be unveiled at 2021 Venice Biennale

Anish Kapoor will debut a series of works made using the "blackest material in the universe" at the Galléria dell'Academia during the 2021 Venice Biennale, The Art Newspaper reports.

This will be the first time the public will see the material Vantablack S-VIS used in a work of art. Developed by the British scientific research company Surrey NanoSystems in 2014 for aerospace purposes, the "nano-material" traps nearly all light (99.96%) falling on its surface.

Kapoor controversially acquired the exclusive rights to develop the artistic uses of a sprayable version of the material in 2016, with many artists questioning the right of any artist to monopolise a colour. In response, Kapoor has said that controversy over his use of Vantablack is “misinformed”. The infinitesimally fine coating “does not come out of a tube”, he says and its application as an ultra-thin layer of carbon nanotubes requires a specialised technical process.

Kapoor partially explained the process in his London studio today, standing among his never-before-seen Vantablack works. He says th...

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