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Born in 1922 in Haine-Saint-Pierre, France. Died in 2005 in Paris, France. 

Pol Bury, a native of Haine-Saint-Pierre, trained briefly at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Mons. His meeting with the Louviers poet Achille Chavée had a decisive influence on him, and led to his joining the surrealist group Rupture in 1939. The artist took part in the International Surrealist Exhibition in Brussels in 1945. In 1947, he became a member of the Jeune Peinture Belge group and, in 1948, of the Cobra movement.

As such, he took part in the development of the Cobra magazine as editor and illustrator. Impressed by Calder's work, he stopped painting in 1953, turning to sculpture and kineticism. At the same time, together with the poet André Balthazar, he founded the Académie de Montbliart and the Daily-Bul magazine, which became a publishing house in La Louvière in 1959. This artist, world-famous for his monumental sculptures and kinetic fountains, is also the author of numerous literary works and writings on art. 

His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions around the world including; Fountain for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1980), Retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1982), Two fountains for the Jardins du Palais Royal in Paris (1985), Commission for three monumental Skycatchers mirrors for the Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey (1987), Fountain for the Seoul Olympic Games, Korea (1988), Fountain for the Tohoku University of Art & Design in Yamagata, Japan. (1994), Travelling retrospective exhibition (Dortmund - 1994, Turin - 1995, Ostend - 1996), Volumes figés et Papiers Collés (1997), Ramollissements virtuels (2001), Exhibition of fountains at the Château de Seneffe estate, Belgium (2004).