Pol Bury

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Pol Bury

Pol Bury (born April 26, 1922 in Haine-Saint-Pierre , Belgium , † September 28, 2005 in Paris ) was a Belgian painter and sculptor .

Life

Pol Bury studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Mons in 1938/39 . In 1939 he was a founding member of the "Group Rapture". From 1949 to 1951 he was involved in the CoBrA initiative , which was founded in Paris in 1948 by the Danish painter Asger Jorn , the Belgian writer Christian Dotremont and the Dutch painter Karel Appel . After joining the artist group "Art Abstrait", he turned away from painting in 1953.

In 1957 he developed the first mobile kinetic sculpture with a motor. In 1964, Pol Bury, who had lived in Paris since 1960, represented Belgium at the Biennale di Venezia . Bury moved to New York from 1966 to 1968 . In 1970 he took on a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley , and in 1973 he taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design , which Pol Bury awarded with an honorary doctorate. Since 1983, Pol Bury was professor of sculpture at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA). He was a participant in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and also represented as an artist at the 4th documenta in 1968.

Pol Bury initially belonged to the surrealist and communist movement of abstraction , first as a painter and later as a sculptor. In his first work he was significantly influenced by his compatriots Magritte and Ubac . After retiring from painting in 1953, he made a name for himself as one of the most renowned kinetic artists. Pol Bury creates objects that perform extremely slow movements and thus put perception to the test. He first works out his works as reliefs that depict movement on serial elements such as discs or pens. The demand and contemporary public interest in kinetic energies and kinetic art gave birth to his first large objects of monumental sculptures in 1973. Since 1976 he has built numerous fountains, always in context and based on the basic shapes of spheres, cones, cylinders, cubes and cuboids. In his graphic works ("Cinétizations", since 1964) he presents the problem of movement.

Pol Bury also worked on film between 1968 and 1976, including a. with Clovis Prevost .

Important exhibitions

  • 1964 Biennale di Venezia
  • 1966 "Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition", Guggenheim Museum New York
  • 1966 "American Sculpture of the Sixties", Museum of Modern Art New York
  • 1970 retrospective, University of California Berkeley, California
  • 1971 retrospective, Kestnergesellschaft Hannover
  • 1972 retrospective, Neve Gallery Berlin
  • 1977 retrospective, Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico
  • 1982 retrospective, Museé d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris Paris, France
  • 1994 retrospective (1939-1994), Museum am Ostwall Dortmund
  • 2005 "L'Œil moteur- Art optique et cinétique 1950-1975", Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg

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personal data
SURNAME Bury, Pol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Haine-Saint-Pierre , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2005
Place of death Paris