Pol Bury - Lot 155

Pol Bury The gravity of images 48 pages, paperback, dust jacket Copy 77 from an edition of 291 Includes an original etching signed and numbered by the artist. "L'art en écrit", volume 26, 1996, éditions Janninck Format: 125 x 210 mm (French) Note: Pol Bury (b. 1922, Haine-Saint-Pierre, Belgium; d. 2005, Paris), painter, sculptor and writer, was Regent of Cinématoglyphe at the Collège de 'Pataphysique, belonged to the surrealist group Rupture, took part in the magazine Cobra, then embarked on the path of geometric abstraction before abandoning easel painting in favor of sculpture with his Plans mobiles and Multiplans, produced at the birth of kinetic art. He is also famous for his fountains installed in public spaces from the late 1960s onwards (at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Palais-Royal, Cour d'Orléans in Paris, Seoul for the 1988 Olympic Games, etc.). From the early 2000s onwards, Bury developed a series of digital manipulations of images of works by the great masters of art history, "virtual softenings" of symbolic nudes referring back to the slowness and randomness that characterized his mechanical sculptures in the 1960s, as well as to the omnipresent aquatic element in his later work. This previously unpublished text is accompanied by an original signed intaglio engraving.