SNS does state that they gave Kapoor exclusive rights to explore the use of vantablack in art applications, and that it requires very specialised and specific tools and techniques to apply it. Perhaps you could include a link rather than vaguely sending people to their page. They say nothing about the exclusive artistic use of the material by Kapoor being false. They highlight the incorrect information stating that 1) vantablack is not a paint and 2) that it is definitely not used to paint stealth bombers. The only reference to incorrect information that I can find is on their “media” page here:

Sorry, how is this a hoax? I have been through the SNS page and on their FAQs page they openly state that Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights for the use of the pigment in the field of art (although who is to decide what is “art” is not mentioned by them). “We never imagined we would be involved in something like that, but his ideas are infectious, and my research scientists love that their work could be used this way.”Īny artists tempted to use the material anyway should be wary of the consequences: if news reaches Kapoor that someone is treading on his artistic territory, it would not be out of character for him to swiftly threaten to sue the offender. “He has an amazing ability to see things that other people don’t and he’s famous for his work in reflections and voids,” Jensen told the New York Times in 2014. Researchers over at Surrey NanoSystem are evidently big fans of Kapoor’s work the company’s founder and chief technology officer, Ben Jensen, described his art as “infectious.” It’s a physical thing that you cannot see, giving it a transcendent or even transcendental dimension, which I think is very compelling.” “It’s thinner than a coat of paint and rests on the liminal edge between an imagined thing and an actual one. “The nanostructure of Vantablack is so small that it virtually has no materiality,” he told Artforum. Kapoor often plays with how we perceive the materiality of objects and has noted that his affinity for the world’s darkest material stems from its ability to disorient viewers. It isn’t right that it belongs to one man.” “This black is like dynamite in the art world. He used his pigment to exemplify that art and art materials should be accessible to all artists selling it for about £3. “All the best artists have had a thing for pure black - Turner, Manet, Goya,” he said. When Kapoor decided to keep Vantablack for his own personal use, Semple, who has been making pigments for more than 20 years, decided to make the world’s pinkest pink as a response. “Using pure black in an artwork grounds it. “I’ve never heard of an artist monopolizing a material,” Furr told the Daily Mail.

Only licenced artist to use vantablack