BURY, Pol. The Gravity of Images. - Lot 53

BURY, Pol. The Gravity of Images. Paris, Jannink, “L’Art en écrit” series, 1996. Narrow 8vo, green cover with flaps, publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Unpaginated (48 pages). First edition featuring 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, served as Regent of Cinématoglyphe at the College of 'Pataphysics, was a member of the Surrealist group Rupture, contributed to the journal Cobra, and then turned to geometric abstraction before abandoning easel painting in favor of sculpture with his *Plans mobiles* and *Multiplans*, created at the dawn of kinetic art. He is also famous for his fountains installed in public spaces beginning in the late 1960s (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, among others). Beginning in the early 2000s, 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 characterized 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 insert for the collection.