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Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to paint in blackest black.

Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to the revolutionary Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black ever created.

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Kapoor is currently the only person in the world who can paint using this colour. Developed by British company NanoSystems, Vantablack is composed of a series of microscopic vertical tubes. When light strikes Vantablack, it becomes trapped instead of bouncing off and is continually deflected between the tubes.

The pigment is currently the blackest substance known – so dark that it absorbs 99.96 per cent of light.
Although originally developed for military purposes and astronomy equipment, NanoSystems has confirmed that Kapoor alone can paint using Vantablack. Read more over on Dezeen

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