Anish Kapoor
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519 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And the particles, which are nanoparticles, stand up, rather like a piece of velvet.
And what happens is that the light...
as it hits the object, gets trapped between the standing particles, and most of it's absorbed.
Yes, you would have.
But John, that is not a Vantablack.
That hole is actually painted in Prussian blue.
What?
Yep.
So there are two black objects in the show, in cases.
Which are three-dimensional objects, which look from the front on, look like they just disappear.
Exactly.
Those are the two Vantablack objects.
There's a little sphere, was the first one I ever made, and the other one, which is a big zigzag form.
But the other works in the show are all either Prussian blue or black, a different black, not Vantablack.
But let me tell you a little further, if you like, fictional reality.
Because art is all about fiction too.
In the Renaissance, there were two great discoveries.
One we know about, of course, it's perspective.
And the other is the fold.
The fold, or early Renaissance painting, has this amazing fabric all over it.
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