{"id":12365,"date":"2017-07-22T23:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2017-07-22T23:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T06:03:56","slug":"feuding-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/feuding-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Feuding Artists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anish Kapoor<\/strong> <\/a>is a celebrated British sculptor whose grand scale works I find thrilling, not that I know anything about art. Last year, he pissed everyone off by gaining exclusive rights to a new color, the blackest black pigment ever created. It was developed by a company called NanoSystem, who believe it is “the blackest material in the universe, after a black hole.”<\/p>\n

It’s pretty fucking black. Who wouldn’t be excited about that?<\/p>\n

When Kapoor won the rights to use the color, Vantablack,<\/em><\/a> he was ready to defend himself.<\/p>\n

Why exclusive? Because it\u2019s a collaboration, because I am wanting to push them to a certain use for it. I\u2019ve collaborated with people who make things out of stainless steel for years and that\u2019s exclusive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, but come on, steel isn’t a color. Why can’t you share? What’s your deal? He addressed the issue obliquely:<\/p>\n

The problem is that colour is so emotive \u2013 especially black … I don\u2019t think the same response would occur if it was white. Perhaps the darkest black is the black we carry within ourselves. It\u2019s not the night where you switch the lights off \u2013 it\u2019s the night where you close your eyes. There\u2019s a psycho side to blackness that we don\u2019t associate with other colours readily. I suspect red does the same. I\u2019ve worked with red a great deal, for not dissimilar reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, obviously there is no reasonable defense for not sharing the pigment.\u00a0 So another British artist<\/a> decided to object by creating the “pinkest pink” and selling it online to anyone who promised not to share it with Anish Kapoor.<\/p>\n

Hahahaha, Stuart Semple<\/strong><\/a>, you are a prankster after my own heart and I salute you. Here is Semple’s argument:<\/p>\n