BOZAR presents a major retrospective on the diverse oeuvre of Belgian artist Pol Bury
(Artdaily.org)

Pol Bury (La Louvière, 1922 – Paris, 2005) is best known for the fountains and sculptures which he designed for public spaces. But he stood for so much more than that: he was a prolific painter, sculptor, jewellery designer, writer and graphic designer. Having experimented with painting in the early years he turned to moving sculpture in the 1950s. In that period he began to create motorised objects, which were completely innovative and bore no relation to known artistic traditions or, for that matter, reality. Hence his place in the art history books as one of the pioneers of kinetic art. Though Bury was one of the most prolific international Belgian artists of his generation - his fountains and moving sculptures were known from New York to Japan! - his work has been sidelined in recent years. His constant drive for innovation, his probing analysis of time and motion