A black blacker than black, so deep that he “lost all points of reference.” According to the Daily Mail , Anish Kapoor, a British sculptor, has obtained the exclusive rights in the arts of the “purest black paint”. In fact, the artist bought the artistic exploitation rights vantablack, a manufacturing process consisting of carbon nanotubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair and so dense that light can not think about it and is trapped. Developed by Surrey Nanosystems, “Vanta” stands for Vertically aligned nanotube arrays , or “vertically aligned nanotubes series.” It absorbs 99.96% of visible light.
Anish Kapoor, the vantablack is “so deeply black as your eyes can hardly see.” In 2015, the artist explained that the vantablack, being “the blackest of the universe, after the black holes” was almost “lost its materiality.” He added: “It’s a physical thing you can not see, giving it a transcendental dimension, I find it captivating. “
The vantablack not unanimous
But this appropriation of vantablack is not to everyone’s taste. The British painter Christian Furr told the Daily Mail it is “unfair that color belongs to one man” and that other artists should “be able to use it also.” On the other hand, Frederik de Wilde, a Belgian artist who wants to create the “perfect black body”, that is to say, achieving a black “that covers the entire light spectrum, not just visible light,” said him: “it is only then we can talk about the black blackest of all time and we are still very far away. “
Finally, beyond the artistic debate it generates, uses the vantablack can be multiple and helpful. In a statement, Surrey NanoSystems says he is “super-hydrophobic” and therefore can not be wet. It can be used in the field of “defense and space” or to build telescopes “It reduces stray light, improving their ability to see the most low light, those of the most distant stars. “
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