The first solo institutional exhibition in the U.S. for Osaka-born artist Susumu Shingu, “Elated!” encompasses a diverse repertoire of kinetic sculptures. Shingu’s recently developed water-powered piece, aptly entitled Silent Water, greets guests upon arrival to the Japan Society. Beyond, his “superlight” suspended sculptures—all weighing less than 22 pounds—manipulate wire, cloth, and carbon fiber into artistic visualizations of air’s movement. All pieces—including a trio of large-scale spinning sculptures in the museum’s atrium—evoke biomimicry. Born in 1937, Shingu’s sculpting career commenced in the 1960s. Since, his site-specific pieces have found homes around the world, as well as in the Susumu Shingu Wind Museum, an open-air sculpture garden he developed for the community in Sanda, Hyogo prefecture—where he lives and works.