Representative artist, Ryota Kuwakubo participates in the exhibition held at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.

About the exhibition
Antigravity is said to be the force that might be accelerating the expansion of today's universe - the power of repulsion, in opposition to gravity, that led to the sudden inflation of the universe soon after the big bang. In works of science fiction, the concept of antigravity is often found in hypothetical technologies that nullify or control the effect of gravity on matter, on objects; it serves as an underlying principle in visions of space travel, teleportation and floating cities. In this exhibition we are adopting the term to reflect today's society with its accelerated dematerialization, and to imply a sense of being freed from the limitations of the physical body and gravity that have always prescribed our lives.

In this exhibition, we will present works that elicit a buoyant spatiality seemingly free from the body, that grasp this world with a macroscopic viewpoint removed from on-the-ground sensibilities. When the foundations that have supported people's lives fall away, does hope spring forth, or does the path ahead only lead to despair? For focusing on the subject of antigravity may also lead to a questioning of today's utopianism.

Artists: Leandro Erlich, Normichi Hirakawa, Carsten Holler, On Kawara,
Zilvinas Kempinas, Ryota Kuwakubo, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Bushiro Mohri, Rei Naito,
Kodai Nakahara + Akihiko Inoue, Ryuji Nakamura, Fujiko Nakaya, Ernesto NEto,
Yuki Okumura, Katsuhisa Sato, Etsuko Yakushimaru

*image (left)
© 2010 Ryota Kuwakubo
Photo Courtesy: ICC