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 whose international recognition was confirmed by his selection in the 57th Venice Biennale titled Viva Arte Viva (curated by Christine Macel) in 2017. As the first outsider artist acquired by the MNAM in 2013, he has enjoyed numerous institutional exhibitions in recent years. These include exhibitions at contemporary art museums in Kobe and Hiroshima, Japan, at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, at the Kunsthalle in Dresden, and in his hometown of Prague. In 2017, the Dox Art Center dedicated a solo exhibition to him, and in 2022, the Rudolfinum facilitated a dialogue between him and artists such as Louise Bourgeois and William Kentridge. In September 2023, we dedicated a solo show to him in our two spaces, a monography and a performance at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
