FIAC
2021
booth E17
For its first physical participation at the Foire internationale d’art contemporain, the gallery will present the anatomical drawings of one of the major figures of contemporary art brut, Luboš Plný. Exhibited in the Central pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2017, he was also one of the first brut artists acquired by the Centre Pompidou.
As an expert in the mysteries of the anatomy, he indulges - when he is not drawing - in all sorts of performative experiences reminiscent of the Viennese Actionism. By testing the limits of the physical existence, he conjures death, sublimating life in its most organic form.
Luboš Plný’s international recognition was firmly established in 2017, when he was selected for the 57th Venice Biennale. The first Art Brut artist to be acquired by the Musée National d’Art Moderne (MNAM) in 2013, he has since been the subject of exhibitions at the contemporary art museums of Kobe and Hiroshima, the Kunsthalle Dresden, and in his native Prague, where the Rudolfinum, notably, brought his work into dialogue with artists such as Louise Bourgeois and William Kentridge in 2022. In September 2023, we dedicated a solo exhibition to him across both our spaces, published a monograph, and presented a performance at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
