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.

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Gravityloss 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I saw a few of these black Anish Kapoor sculptures. The experience was worth the cost. The brain has a hard time processing it.

	▲	kazinator 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, you've not actually seen the sculptures per se, only a missing area of the visual background, shaped like outline of the sculptures.

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iamacyborg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which is all a dumb marketing stunt because it was never a pigment artists could paint with anyway.

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ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

People have made art with the stuff.

	▲	iamacyborg 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not saying otherwise, but look at how it has to be applied to an artwork.

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jacknews 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Semple'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.

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beardyw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"The paint is sold through Semple’s brand, Culture Hustle, and remains explicitly unavailable to Anish Kapoor or his affiliates"