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53 - BURY, Pol. *La Gravité des images*.
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Estimate €200 - €300
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BURY, Pol. *La Gravité des images*. Paris, Jannink, ‘L’Art en écrit’ series, 1996. Narrow 8vo, green cover with flaps, publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Unpaginated (48 pages). First edition illustrated with an original signed intaglio engraving. Graphic design by Michèle Bury. Limited edition of 306 numbered copies (no. 24). “Pol Bury (1922–2005), a Belgian painter, sculptor and writer, was Regent of Cinématoglyphe at the College of ‘Pataphysics, was a member of the Surrealist group Rupture, contributed to the journal Cobra, and subsequently embarked on the path of geometric abstraction before abandoning easel painting in favour of sculpture with his ‘Plans mobiles’ and ‘Multiplans’, created at the dawn of kinetic art. He is also renowned for his fountains installed in public spaces from the late 1960s onwards (at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Palais-Royal, the Cour d’Orléans in Paris, and in 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 that evoke the slowness and randomness that characterised his mechanical sculptures in the 1960s, as well as the aquatic element ever-present in his later works. " (Publisher’s website) In perfect condition, complete with the publisher’s promotional leaflet for the collection.
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