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There’s a funny amount of beef around using it in art, you have Anish Kapoor who bought exclusive rights to use Vantablack artistically and man of the people St
by mikeodds 3mo ago
There’s a funny amount of beef around using it in art, you have Anish Kapoor who bought exclusive rights to use Vantablack artistically and man of the people Stuart Semple offering his versions Black 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 getting ever blacker.
- iamacyborg 3mo agoWhich is all a dumb marketing stunt because it was never a pigment artists could paint with anyway.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoPeople have made art with the stuff.
- iamacyborg 3mo agoI’m not saying otherwise, but look at how it has to be applied to an artwork.
- beardyw 3mo ago"The paint is sold through Semple’s brand, Culture Hustle, and remains explicitly unavailable to Anish Kapoor or his affiliates"
- Gravityloss 3mo agoI saw a few of these black Anish Kapoor sculptures. The experience was worth the cost. The brain has a hard time processing it.
- kazinator 3mo agoWell, you've not actually seen the sculptures per se, only a missing area of the visual background, shaped like outline of the sculptures.
- Gravityloss 3mo agoTrue! One can walk around and then observe some of the shape. They were behind glass. So no touching, which means there was some unresolved ambiguity.
- jacknews 3mo agoSemple's humorous long-form performance art, pillorying Kapoor, while developing a menagerie of new pigments, is much more interesting than Kapoor's sculptures. Anyone could have made at least the same with the given material, and a more talented artist could stun, but sadly they are not allowed to because contract.