Anish Kapoor's art using Vantablack will go on display to the public for the first time at next year's Venice Biennale.
British artist Kapoor has exclusive rights to make art with Vantablack, a material that absorbs 99.96 per cent of light.
Speaking to the Art Newspaper, Kapoor said he wasn't allowed to know exactly how the scientists at Surrey NanoSystems ? the British scientific research company that invented Vantablack ? will apply the material because it has military and defence applications.
The super-dark material could be used  as "a cloaking material for hiding satellites" he said.
Kapoor has exclusive rights to make art with Vantablack. Photo by Bengt Oberger
Coating an item in Vantablack requires the use of a specialised reactor. "[It] does not come out of a tube," said Kapoor. "The particles stand up like velvet when they are put to a reactor."
"To give you a sense of scale if the particle were one-metre wide it would be 300-metres-tall," he added. "When the particles stand up next to each other light gets trapped in between each particle."
Transporting Kapoor's Vantablack artworks to Venice for the 2021 Biennale will be tricky, reported the Art Newspaper, because they cannot be touched by human hands. Currently they are protected in transparent plastic boxes.
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 has been postponed until August due to coronavirus.
Vantablack was invented by Surrey NanoSystems
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