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pol. Bury , born with Hatred-Saint-Pierre close to Louvière in the Province of Hainaut the April 26th 1922 and deceased with Paris the September 28th 2005, painter and Belgian sculptor . Regent of Cinématoglyphe of the College of' Pataphysique.
He devoted himself to the drawing, painting, with the sculpture, but also with the writing, the creation of jewels and the construction of fountains. He is regarded as a major and internationally recognized contemporary artist.
In 1938, then 16 years old, it starts artistic studies (painting-drawing) with the Academy of the Art schools of Mons. At that time, it made a first important meeting in the person of Achille Chavée, an intellectual guide of surrealism in Wallonia. Thus pol. Bury will belong to the surrealist group “Rupture” rested by the Walloon poet Achille Chavée in 1934. First of all influenced by Yves Tanguy, it adheres, like many members of the group, with the ideology communist and painted its first surrealist paintings. It will meet then Magritte and will take part in the international exhibition of the Surréalisme in 1945.
In 1947, its painting takes a new orientation, that of the Abstraction. It meets then Christian Dotremont and Pierre Alechinsky, the founders of the group CoBrA. It took part in this movement of 1948 to 1951, on the one hand while contributing to the drafting and the illustration of the Cobra review and on the other hand, while taking part in the exposures of the group. In 1952, pol. Bury is one of the founders of the Abstract art group which corresponds better to these artistic aspirations of the moment. At that time, he admires and studies the work of Mondrian and some of these paintings approach the style of Miro.
In 1953, he discovers works of Calder, gives up little by little painting and carries out his mobile foregrounds. During this same year, it creates, with André Balthazar, the Academy of Montbliard, institution from which the Daily-Bull will leave later, a review which will become a publisher. Pol. Bury, is since then regarded as one of the fathers of the cinetism, it carries out works moving, the movement being a “symbol of precision and calm of a meditation in action”. Its materials of predilection are wood, cork, the stainless one and copper.
Its first personal exposure took place in 1961 in Paris, dates to which it settled there. Three years later, it left for the United States, it taught 6 months at the university of Berkeley and three months with the College off art and design of Mineapolis.
In 1964 pol. Bury represents the Belgium with the Biennale de Venise.
During the Seventies, two retrospectives of its work will circulate respectively through the United States and Europe.
In 1976, it created its first hydraulic fountain. Always fitting in the kinetic movement, its sculptures, formerly quiet, make noise now. Since then, pol. Bury did not cease designing new fountains, all more surprising the ones that the others, successively using the cylinders, the spheres, the cups and the triangles, the stainless steel whole. In these fountains, water is used to unbalance the unstable balance of volume of steel. Although these fountains constitute a big part of its work, it should not be forgotten that pol. Bury was also writer, critic art, editor, poet, creator of jewels and realizer of several experimental short films.
They are especially its kinetic reliefs and its sculptures which gave to the artist his place in the history of the art of the XXè century. He is Master of the slow movement; he controls time in his mobile achievements which surprise the visitor constantly. Its fountains take part in the same vein and disconcert in the same way. They release at the same time something of disturbing and a great serenity. They amuse and settle in any space where water can play: city or countryside, historical park or contemporary space… That they are with tubes or bubbles, out of steel, copper or another matter, the fountains of Bury call upon the creative genius of the artist and his technical and mathematical imagination.
Pol. Bury is deceased on September 27th, 2005 in Paris whereas an important exposure of these fountains was in hand with the Castle of Seneffe. It had itself chooses this place, estimating that “when a fountain is in nature, it reaches its final point, its apogee. It breathes and is oxygenated. ”
Sculptures
- Sculpture of spheres to the Palais Royal in Paris
Illustrated books
- the second part of Pathology of the social life of Honore de Balzac: Theory of the step , in 1990
Selective bibliography
See too
Internal bonds
External bonds
- pol. Bury in Artcyclopedia
- the personal testimony of pol. Bury
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