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Thursday, 27 August 2026

Homemade Vantablack on Curators Back, 2016

secret artist homemade vanta black paint, plaster, pins, glue

Dimensions Variable

Surrey NanoSystems developed Vantablack for controlling unwanted light in scientific, space & defence instruments. Its original applications included telescope components, optical sensors, calibration systems & electro-optical imaging and target-acquisition equipment. The company’s launch announcement, published 17 July 2014, already stated:

We are now scaling up production to meet the requirements of our first customers in the defence and space sectors.

To make the shadow as black as possible, Géricault used quantities of bitumen to give him the shimmering gloom he sought.

Le bitume utilisé pour assombrir les tons menace aujourd’hui de manger toutes les couleurs.