Winter

In 2014, The blackest material ever was produced. It was called Vantablack and it is capable of absorbing 99.96 percent of light in it. Using the Vantablack, A designer Asif Khan has created a pavilion for the Winter Olympics which is commissioned by Hyundai. When the spray paint form of Vantablack was developed by Surrey Nanosystems in 2016, a lot of controversies quickly spread. Anish Kapoor, A UK artist collaborated with the company to gain Exclusive rights to the non-reflective pigment for artistic uses. The first artistic use of Vantablack spray paint is done by Asif Khan. Inside the pavilion is a huge white room that has a giant water installation. The system installed emits 25,000 water droplets every minute. Each droplet travels through a minuscule landscape which is designed in,Such a way that it resembles a picture of a city viewed from space. It moves from the astronomical starfield outside to a planet viewed from above. Khan explained the overall concept saying, In the project,I wanted to move from the scale of the cosmos to the scale of water droplets in a few steps. The droplets contain the same hydrogen from the beginning of the universe as the stars. https://youtu.be/xxkvKJmlyHQ

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Asif Khan’s Vantablack Winter Olympics Pavilion Absorbs Light