« We are too quick, nowadays, in this particular art form, to equip ourselves with the engineer’s compasses and slide rule. »
Pol Bury
Pol Bury
Bury’s work as a sculptor was heavily based on cinétisation, or kinetic art. He initially adopted the use of panels, cutting them into different shapes and using lighting disks or balls in order to create differences in how his work would look, dependent on the angle from which a viewer was looking - a technique used in his first exhibition, Plans Mobiles. For a time, Bury also used photographs as a way of manipulating his final output - he would cut up pictures of New York skyscrapers and then reassemble them to create an image of a buckling skyline. He eventually returned to sculpting and chose metal as his primary material, with his works focusing on the idea of attraction and repulsion. Movement was key in Pol Bury's work, but a lot of this movement was so minute and so slow that it was hardly even visible. Bury noted, however, that "speed limits space; slowness creates it". (Artist website) Read Less
