Three Lily Pads translates movement into sculpture. Asta Gröting presents three variations of the same leaf, representing different possibilities, different perspectives. A symbol of purity, abundance, and enlightenment the lily pad’s bloom also holds a venerated position in Eastern spiritual traditions. Yet despite this iconographic legacy, Gröting’s interest lies more in the inherent variability and multiplicity that the lily pad, and by extension its blossom, possess. As philosopher Michael Marder notes, “transgressing traditional boundaries, it is a flower that fuses the vegetal, the human, and the divine […] Its aquatic environment is distinct from the purported stability of soil, in which most other plants are rooted. Like air, liquid cannot be arrested in the molds of identity […] It is prone to transformation.”
Asta Gröting (b. 1961, Herford) lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, Kleinplastik Triennale, Fellbach; KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria; ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologien, Karlsruhe; n.b.k., Berlin; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; and MARTa Herford. She has participated in numerous large-scale international exhibitions, including Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, James-Simon-Galerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 22nd São Paulo Biennial, the 8th and 14th Biennale of Sydney, and the 44th Venice Biennale. Gröting is a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.
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