Groeisymbool
Groeisymbool was given a spot in the pond at Rabobank's then newly completed headquarters on Pleiaden Avenue in 1972. A year later, it donated.
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Commissioned by Rabobank, the artwork was donated to the municipality of Groningen. The sculpture consists of three tall pylons rising straight out of the water, surrounded by fourteen raft-shaped elements protruding from the water. A fountain sprays water upwards along the pylons, causing it to splash onto the rafts. Underwater lighting bathes the fountain sculpture in white light in the evening. At the time, artist Jacob van der Meij described the artwork as a symbol of the earth bursting open, with the three ‘polyps’ rising from the water and the brilliant white lighting at night expressing the primal force and energy of the earth.