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3. Pol Bury
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Notes of biography

Pol Bury, the sculpture, painter recently died in september 2005. He was born in Haine-Saint-Pierre, Belgium in 1922. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Mons (1938). His « surrealist forms » are presented in the revue « The Collective Invention » brought to life by Rene Magritte and Raoul Ubac in 1940. In 1945, he participated in the creation of the group « Haute Nuit » that will be an important editorial publication until 1958. Pol Bury illustrated the works of the poet Achille Chavee, as well as Havrenne. He met Dotremont in 1949, and rejoined the Cobra group. In 1954, with Andre Balthazar he created the Academy of Montbliart.
Pol Bury would participate in numerous collective exhibitions ; it’s worth noting that he figured in the famous exhibition in 1955 by the Denise Reme gallery « The Movement » with Calder, Duchamp, Jacobsen, Agam, Soto, Tinguely and Vasarely. Pol Bury left Belgium for France in 1961.
He gave up painting 1953, he exhibited his « mobile planes » for the first time in Brussels, geometric rectangular shapes fixed on an axis that the viewer pivots manually. In 1954, with the beginning cinetisme, he executes panels made of oblique vertical blades covered with geometric compositions of colors on dark backgrounds, of which the text can be changed according the angle of the view of the spectator. In 1957 he encorporates electric motors in his sculptures, engines which will animate his mobiles. The characterisic of the movement sought by the artist was extreme slowness, movement being almost unpercievable. These are his « Multiplanes ». These will take precedence in his new plastic language about 1958 ; he now encorporate sets of lights, balls, mercury spheres, and discs. In 1961, he creates the « Erectile Punctuation » series, works on nylon string, later the important series will encorporate open or closed volumes, using space to emphasize the relationship between movement and motionlessness.
Bury’s sculptures will still evolve in the years to follow. He will create monumental works and in particular fountains (Foundation Maeght, Guggenheim Museum, Palais Royal, etc). Pol Bury will demeasure time and dilate space.

« This inventive and positive spirit has anchored its expression in the rigor of a language, a redundant deaf writing. It has geometrised its approaches, confied eternal values, to the point of irony and humor as well. » - Roger Pierre Turine

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