Cinétication 1965

Pol Bury made "Cinétication" using a black and white printmaking process, and you know, the name itself suggests movement, right? It's like he's trying to make a still image dance. The textures are fascinating – you've got the soft, almost smudged quality of the original image fighting with these hard-edged, graphic circles. Look at the way these circular forms break up the image, creating this sense of visual vibration, as though it's out of focus, in motion, or dissolving right before your eyes. I love how Bury takes something so iconic, so fixed in our minds, and makes it unstable. It reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s blurred paintings, actually, both playing with this idea of representation versus abstraction. Ultimately, this piece isn’t about answers; it’s about questions, the push and pull of perception, and the ongoing conversation that art has with itself.