Pol Bury - ETS/Aquatint - EA - This is a ball, (yes!)

POL BURY (1922-2005)
Composition, 1979

Aquatint on ARCHES paper
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist
Annotation: Ceci est une boule, (eh oui!)
Artist's Appraisal

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Both the work and the frame are in pristine condition.

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BIO
Pol Bury was born in 1922 in Haine-Saint-Pierre, Hainaut, and died in Paris in 2005. At sixteen, he began taking drawing and decoration classes at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Mons. From 1938 until after the Second World War, Pol Bury was primarily inspired by the surrealism of Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. After 1947, however, Bury's work became more abstract, leading him to leave the Walloon Surrealist group and join the Young Belgian Painters. He exhibited his work alongside that of the Cobra movement at that time, but left the movement shortly thereafter, finding it difficult to reconcile himself with their penchant for spontaneity. Pol Bury, however, became fascinated and inspired by the work of Alexander Calder and the way he achieved a shift in time and space in his artworks. From 1950 onwards, Bury concentrated on three-dimensional and moving work, making him one of the founders of spatial and especially kinetic art.
On a mostly monochrome black background, Bury applied reliefs composed of small wooden cylinders and iron or nylon threads. These reliefs are then driven by a small motor, which, as it were, sets the work in motion. However, the movement is so subtle that it passes almost unnoticed, giving the work a subdued and mysterious quality. Through the movement of the reliefs, the shifting of time is a key element of Bury's oeuvre. Incidentally, Bury not only used motors in his works, but also magnets.
In 1955, he exhibited his kinetic work in the group exhibition "Le Mouvement" at the Galerie Denise René in Paris. This exhibition was crucial for Bury's participation in the international ZERO network, which also included Walter Leblanc and Jef Verheyen.
Besides smaller-scale works, Pol Bury also created monumental works, which took the form of fountains. An example of a Bury fountain can be found in the courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris. His works can also be found in numerous museum collections, including that of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, as well as in the collection of the MoMA in New York.