Jean-Pierre Maury 1948-
Born in Belgium in 1948, Jean-Pierre Maury is a Franco-Belgian artist living and working in Brussels, after having worked for many years in northern France and later in Toulouse. Since 1968, his work has been part of the development of the Constructed Art movement. Between 1968 and 1978, he produced six major series of programmed works devoted to language, before focusing exclusively, from 1978 onward, on a single minimal visual element: the crossing of two lines. To the demands of the theoretical and practical work of regulated composition that he pursues, Maury associates the search for a purely intuitive sensitivity to materials and colors, thereby integrating into the constant rigor of his approach the desire to incorporate new components within the exercise of a constructed practice, in order to ensure both its continuity and its renewal.His work seeks to stage the fullness of human experience—the capacity to think combined with the capacity to experiment. Far from a closed formalism, his oeuvre introduces an additional layer of realism, sometimes tinged with humor, which transcends both the banal and the tragic, rendering them more bearable. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, he co-founded and co-directed the journal MESURES art international (with Marcel-Louis Baugniet, Jean-Jacques Bauweraerts, Jo Delahaut, Jean-Pierre Husquinet, Victor Noel, and Léon Wuidar), carried out architectural integrations, organized events, delivered lectures, and published numerous theoretical texts in Belgium and abroad.
