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BODY ELECTRIC CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY

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NEW YORK CITY — Cavin-Morris Gallery is introducing the drawings of Lubos Plny in his first solo exhibition, “Body Electric.” Working almost exclusively in ink, Plny meditatively charts the changes incurred in and on his body through life, surgeries and in some cases, self-inflicted, experimental wounds. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, though not hospitalized, his curiosity for the vessel we call body is boundless. His drawings will be on view at the gallery through April 7.

Working from the Czech Republic, Plny’s obsession with his body is localized to his self, wife and son. Though seemingly internal, his vision is far reaching. His drawings maintain a textbook-like exactitude to the human anatomy, and yet Plny skews the precision by placing organs in places determined only by the artist, and not by nature.

Mixed with fantastical interpretations of the human form, painstaking precision, patterning and hundreds of empirical notes jotted neatly on the paper, Plny’s drawings are a personal analysis of the physical aspects of love, marriage and childbirth and the recording of personal history.

This exhibition is one in a series featuring work from the Czech Republic begun several years ago. Plny’s work is in the “abcd” collection of Paris, and in private contemporary collections throughout the United States.

Cavin-Morris is at 210 Eleventh Avenue. For more information, 212-226-3768 or info@cavinmorris.com.