Aiko Groot

Truncated, 2014
Stainless steel and solar panels
3000 high x 900mm diameter, edition 1 of 2
Price on request

Aiko Groot’s kinetic sculpture appears to defy the laws of gravity. Solar powered, this kinetic sculpture slowly moves at intermittent intervals on three points of axis, creating the illusion it is bending in space. The power to move these forms is gathered from the sun as the solar panel at the base absorbs energy and moves the sculpture in response to the changing levels of light in an unpredictable dance.

A master in his practice, Aiko Groot is renowned for his technical expertise in the creation of kinetic sculpture. Stylistically his work has been likened to that of the great minimalists Donald Judd and Pol Bury but in conceptual terms he considers himself better described as a maximalist, in that he aims to imbue profoundly inorganic forms with multiple layers of organic complexities through movement.