Pol Bury

Pol Bury was a painter, sculptor, and designer best known for his kinetic sculptures. Though he began his career as a surrealist-inspired painter in the circle of Magritte and Tanguy, Bury became enamored with the idea of capturing movement after encountering Alexander Calder's mobiles. Bury gave up painting in order to create his signature kinetic works, which are often motorized. In addition to his monumental sculptures made from dynamic stainless steel balls and cylinders, Bury created "cinétisations," stock photographs of instantaneously recognizable landmarks obscured behind cut-outs of circles. In 1971, the Guggenheim Museum exhibited a retrospective of his work.