Grönlund-Nisunen Antigravity Model, 2005
Aluminium tubes, stainless steel joints, stainless steel axles, bearings, wire
3,3 x 3,5 x 5,4 m
Antigravity Model is a gyroscopic structure suspended halfway between the floor and ceiling from two pillars. Four concentric rings move slowly, orbiting each other. When the outermost ring is given a push, gravity causes the other rings to move in an apparently random manner, depending on the position they occupy in relation to each other. Paradoxically, the slow, unpredictable movement of the spheres makes the artwork, which works on gravity, appear to be weightless.