Anish Kapoor is drawing controversy this week, after the artist was granted exclusive artist rights to the Vantablack pigment, a paint that absorbs over 99% of light. “I’ve never heard of an artist monopolizing a material,” says another artist, Christian Furr. “We should be able to use it. It isn’t right that it belongs to one man.”
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March 2nd, 2016 at 6:52 am
Re Kaoopor exclusivity on black absorbing paint.
mr Furr is worng, Yves Klein w/ his famous IKB settled the first copyright case of a color as early as 1959 or 1960 by filling uo 2 patents that have been officially registred by the french copyright protection.
NEvertheless, in Y.Klein’s mind it was more due to his megaolomaniac concetualism/ marketting process ( probabaly the first artist to turn marketting into a art concept) than by claiming for the exclusive right of the paint.
Mr Kapoor could , since the begining of his career, be considered as a follower of Yves Klein (his first works includeed as primary color a similar blue to the IKB.