Reji Arackal

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Reji Arackal
Portrait of ammini
Size: 36" x 48"
Medium: Oil on canvas

Given that the artist was born and raised in an agrarian society and culture in Kerala, Arackal frequently draws on Nature as the main subject in his works, denounces all the injustices that it has suffered at the hands of humans. His paintings tackle issues such as pollution, degradation of land, deforestation and the exploitation of the natural world by man. In order to express these concerns, Arackal uses distorted and surreal landscapes, often painted with unreal tones which aim to underline the distance and misunderstanding between man and Nature. Calling his paintings ‘devotional songs’, Arackal highlights the importance of Nature and tries to stimulate his audience to respect and protect it more. However, in his works he simultaneously uses bitter and ironic elements to emphasize the tough reality of the transience of life which is becoming even shorter due to our destructive tendencies.
In his paintings, Arackal mainly uses mixed media, charcoal, dry pastel and oils.
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Fred Tomaselli

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
FRED TOMASELLI
Airborne Event
Year: 2003
Medium: mixed media, acrylic paint, resin on wood, 
Size: 84 x 60 x 1 1/2 in

Tomaselli's new works are richly layered collage and painted surfaces incorporating plant life as well as images from anatomical illustrations, magazines and nature guides. The paintings draw on such varied influences as Tibetan Thangkas, Indian miniatures and the 16th century Italian artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo. Similar in spirit to Tomaselli's earlier work which referenced the relationship between the sub-culture of psychedelia and utopianism, these new paintings expand the dialogue into a fictive landscape where figures populate a frenzied, cosmic and other worldly universe. He is acclaimed for his collaged paintings, which incorporate unconventional materials and depict hallucinatory, surreal scenes. He immersed himself in the city’s artistic community. The artist cites the climate of 1980s New York as the inspiration for his works’ unusual materials, which include aspirin, nicotine patches, hemp leaves, hallucinogenic powders, and pills. While in the 1970s these drugs had been a source of connection to utopian visions, in the 1980s Tomaselli observed his friends using such drugs amidst a darker, Postmodern, AIDS-ridden landscape. He incorporates these materials into shimmering, glittering works that combine natural imagery with patterns and surreal backgrounds, blurring the lines between the natural and the artificial. Tomaselli’s work also touches on transcendentalism, linking the 19th century philosophy about the metaphysical found in nature to a renewed contemporary vision of this search for spiritual meaning.

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Antony Gormley

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Antony Gormley
Title: Apart IV
Medium: Mild steel Blocks
Size: 25 x 25 x 50 mm, 25 x 25 x 25 mm 80 x 49 x 68 cm

EARLY BLOCKWORKS, 2001 - 2003
This was the first time that I had thought about translating the orthogonal geometries of the original lead works into units and about the way that pixelisation of the two-dimensional image could be translated into three dimensions.

They are an attempt to make a body as building, out of welded 25 x 25 x 50 mm blocks of steel. The works are all hollow but made within a mould. The challenge was always to try to make a cogent and self-supporting offset bond of blocks, while at the same time following the organic contours of the form.

The works are started with the closest possible contact around the heart area, but the inherent geometry of this patterning breaks down towards the extremities of the head and the ankles. The ability of the blocks to lie close to one another also breaks down, making the bond of the blocks increasingly chaotic.

In the development of the BUILDING we ended up making a number of works that suggest an inherent tension, like DISTRESS the blocks explode from the containing skin or suspensions where the blocks are fused in a random jumble.

This was the first time that I had thought about translating the orthogonal geometries of the original lead works into units and about the way that pixelisation of the two-dimensional image could be translated into three dimensions.

They are an attempt to make a body as building, out of welded 25 x 25 x 50 mm blocks of steel. The works are all hollow but made within a mould. The challenge was always to try to make a cogent and self-supporting offset bond of blocks, while at the same time following the organic contours of the form.

The works are started with the closest possible contact around the heart area, but the inherent geometry of this patterning breaks down towards the extremities of the head and the ankles. The ability of the blocks to lie close to one another also breaks down, making the bond of the blocks increasingly chaotic.

In the development of the BUILDING we ended up making a number of works that suggest an inherent tension, like DISTRESS the blocks explode from the containing skin or suspensions where the blocks are fused in a random jumble.
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Veer Munshi

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Veer Munshi
Untitled
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 11 x 22 x 19.5 in

"I remember trying desperately to make pretty paintings to sell as I needed the money. But they just wouldn`t come. Then I made a painting `Terrorist on a Floating Land,` and began a two-year long series on Kashmir."

An artist like Veer Munshi is one of the few painters in India today who is able to transform his experiences as an exiled refugee into the language of painting. Munshi was born and brought up in the Kashmir valley, but was forced to move to Delhi in 1990 when it was no longer safe for him to stay there.

For Munshi, viewing pleasure plays no role in his objective as an artist. His work is very personal and at most times disturbing. It is his reaction to a specific event - in this case, the ongoing political situation in his home, Kashmir - and he wants everyone who views his work to understand what is happening there. Rather than leaving viewers with a light hearted happy feeling, Munshi wants his works to cause reflection and spread awareness. He is a painter with a clearly defined course In Veer Munshi`s paintings we see a reflection of the anguish and fear he felt whilst living in his own home, a fear that plagued so many other Kashmiris as well. Munshi was forced to give up his home and heritage, and witness how men he once knew turned into vicious, killing animals - a theme often recurring in his large canvases.

In Munshi`s paintings we also see the artist`s bitterness upon seeing a once beautiful valley ravaged by men intent on nothing but their own gain in the name of patriotism. This farce is reflected in Munshi`s ability to telescope images of pain and hatred over those of the Kashmir that was. Beautiful houseboats lie overturned and neglected in the Dal Lake and the flowers in the Shalimar Garden are trampled and dying. The artist also manages to manipulate the colour he uses to suit the message of his paintings. Reds, oranges and greens, otherwise warm and inviting, are given harsh and dark roles. His purples are potent and the shades of brown always cloak and muddy everything.

His figures however seem to mirror a different emotion. One of giving up. Their eyes are often hollow or blank and they bend and bow subserviently to captors like vultures that prey over them. One figure that occurs quite often in his work is that of the puppet master. A person who pulls the strings and controls all the others, manipulating the future of the valley. He stands in demolished doorways and the remains of arches, observing the havoc he has played. Fascinatingly, the figure of the puppet master resembles that of Munshi himself.

Today, eleven years later, the immediacy has disappeared from Munshi`s work. The problem, rather than fading away, has intensified and the artist has moved from a loud activism to a quiet acceptance and deeper understanding of the fate of his homeland. He says, "Today I view Kashmir alternatively - as a nostalgic memory and as a problem."

This was reflected in the installation Munshi put up in 2001 - an upturned market boat, the symbol of Kashmiri living, was transformed into a coffin, and ten pictures of the artist on its sides were labeled secessionist, refugee, displaced, fundamentalist and other things Kashmiris were called.

Munshi`s canvases present images that are intriguing. They cross average notions of reality and pass into a surreal realm. He works in oils and sometimes sketches in charcoal. In 1999 he led the team of designers of the Jammu and Kashmir tableau that won the first prize in the annual republic day parade.
courtesy:saffronart

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Prasanta Sahu

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Prasanta Sahu
Year: 2007
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 72 x 36 in

The artist is intensely aware of the pictorial surface of the canvas. Monochromatic pictures are contrasted with vividly painted areas and abrasions on the canvas form interesting textural motifs. However, in his work Sahu moves away from the high-modernist obsession with the formal properties of the painted surface. The paintings operate as performative gestures connecting the realms of art and society.
For example, if Sahu draws attention to the materiality of the canvas through deliberately disfiguring its surfaces, the technique also highlights the symbolic importance of the image thus blemished. Violence is enacted on the pictorial surface, so that art is no longer the terrain of isolated intellectual pleasure, it becomes part and parcel of our social and political environment: both implicated in its aggression and a place for critique.
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Jogen chowdhury

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Jogen Chowdhury
Title: Flower Vase
Year: 2004
Medium: Pastel and marker on paper pasted on board
Size: 14.5 x 11 in

Jogen Chowdhury is known for his ability to successfully marry traditional imagery with the zeitgeist of contemporary painting, in a skillful blend of an urbane self-awareness and a highly localized Bengali influence. His early works show an attention to figuration that carries through in his current pieces. In an interview, Chowdhury commented that, in his early works, "the space projected a simple iconic presence. A spatial sequence was worked out but the space was not complex. The background seemed to vanish." Anshuman Dasgupta describes these works as more iconic and more dramatized; per contra, Chowdhury describes his later works as "now more personalized and subtle".

During his college days, Chowdhury took part in leftist literary circles, the members of which dismissed Rabindranath Tagore as a bourgeoisie and became interested in the works of Russian authors. But by and large, Chowdhury kept himself apart from cultural movements: though a friend of the members of the Hungry Generation, his imagery was drawn from his cultural background more than his intellectual milieu.

"My background is relevant," he once remarked in an interview, explaining that his life in Calcutta was "quite disturbed with political movements. This has a definite influence on my work like the Ganesha period. The Bengali business class worshipping the icon, and their corruption, how they degenerate just like the flesh." The famine, the Partition, and the food movement all cast a pall over his formative years, and a quality of darkness may be seen to inhere in Chowdhury's work. Yet as well as an indicator of sadness, this darkness can be understood to evoke an aura of mystery. It is an effect enhanced in Chowdhury's more recent works, which, increasingly, crop the central image. Chowdhury explains that "The purpose is to hide some parts. The moment I show the entire figure, the interest in the details would be lost. Earlier on, the figures were observed in their natural bearings which came through expressionistic stylization and the weight of reality was greater. There is an effect of distancing today."
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Gieve Patel

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Gieve Patel
Title: Ektara
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 67 x 75 in

Gieve Patel inhabits many garbs including those of a physician, poet, playwright and artist. His artworks draw their energy from various human situations and everyday life. A sense of keen observation is evident in his writing and his art alike. A closer look at the elements that define his visuality - human figures, posture and gestures, landscape and cityscapes - all of which manifest a sincere rendition of everyday life, reveals a sense of depth which invites a contemplative gaze.
Although rendering idyllic scenes from everyday life, Patel's works have much more to reveal than what immediately meets the eye. A closer look unveils a thoughtful and laborious artistic process. A contemporary of Patel and an artist himself, Sudhir Patwardhan has written about Patel's works. He notes, "Patel is an artist who spends a lot of time looking. Looking at nature, looking at people, and also looking at his own work in progress. The need to look for long, and again, comes from a commitment to try and see everything in its wholeness. To take note of and accommodate all aspects into the complete picture. The need to look comes also from a genuine delight in the activity of the senses. The artist enjoys just looking. Be it a tree trunk, the sea, or the body of a labourer, close observation opens up for the artist the many nuanced shades of the character of his subject. At the same time, the artist's close attention to his own act of looking exposes the complex and at times contrary impulses that attract him to his subject. Patel's experience of looking in this intricate web of fact, desire, delight, disgust, empathy… Patel values this complex experience, its uncertainties and doubts. Though he never tires of thinking about and analyzing experience, he is not inclined to fix its meaning too easily.
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Shibu Natesan

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Shibu Natesan
Title: Approach
Medium: Oil on linen
Year: 2005
Size: 42 x 40 in

Shibu Natesan belongs to a generation of artists from Kerala who studied at the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum during the early eighties, a time of continuing change and rebellion against a bureaucratic and stultified art establishment. The films of John Abraham and G. Aravindan were one aspect of the cultural climate of the time, and formative, along with translations of Latin American and African literature, of the minds and attitudes of young artists. His first significant body of work, a series of paintings entitled "The Futility of Device" derives from a feudal history excavated in painstaking detail, the relics displayed in the grim chambers of memory, symbols of aggression which repeat themselves with oppressive regularity. The atmospheric quality of these works, some of them based on photographs of archaeological remains such as the caves at Ajanta, is heightened by the use of metallic paint on canvas.

Shibu spent two years, between 1996 - '97 at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and his recent "Missing" series of paintings is representative of the change that occurred duing the time. The use of photography here is even more literal, though still adhering to a stubborn involvement with the processes of painting, their capacity to shift and re-focus the gaze to glean hitherto unperceived information.

There is a simulation which resembles the original to a startling degree, but which in fact prompts a set of readings which are contrary to what was intended, thus displacing the meaning without significantly altering it's appearance. Things are not what they seem to be; the actuality and sanity which these images once claimed is suddenly suspect.
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Bharti Kher

Artville Contemporary Artits Of The Day
Bharti Kher
Titile: Ghost Room

Bharti Kher
Bharti Kher’s is an art of dislocation and transience, reflecting her own, largely itinerant life. Born and raised in England, the artist moved to New Delhi in the early 1990s after her formal training in the field, and today, like most of her contemporaries, frequently travels the world attending to exhibitions of her art. Consequently, the concept of home as the location of identity and culture is constantly challenged in her body of work. In addition to an autobiographical examination of identity, Kher’s unique perspective also facilitates an outsider’s ethnographic observation of contemporary life, class and consumerism in urban India.

Presently, Kher uses the ‘bindi’, a dot indicative of the third eye worn by the Indian women on their foreheads, as the central motif and most basic building block in her work. Bharti Kher often refers to her mixed media works with bindis, the mass-produced, yet traditional ornaments, as ‘action paintings’. Painstakingly placed on the surface one-by-one to form a design, the multi-coloured bindis represent custom, often inflexible, as well as the dynamic ways in which it is produced and consumed today. The artist is also known for her collection of wild and unusual resin-cast sculptures, embellished with bindis, and her digital photography.
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T.M.Azis

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
T M Azis
Untitled
Year: 2007
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 30 x 22 in

T.M. Azis is known to create human figures interacting with the other elements in a painting. Figures or objects performing as symbols spinning around allegories as conceived by the artist. He creates paintings, which record what might be ordinary, everyday occurrences, contemplated by him. A certain insight into behavioral thought, we realise that there is a world different from what see – the world that exists in our minds.

It is interesting to note that there are no decisive tactics, no fixed strategies in his work. Azis allows himself to be influenced by places around him and situations that he encounters. Simple objects and people in their vicinities rejoice in their existence by being involved in what is around.

The paintings do not project a grand décor, and even with its simplicity there is a certain magic and lightness about it. The different conversations performed by figures with the ‘designs’ lines or concentric circles in the paintings pleasantly create subtle movements on the surface reciting a visual rhythm to the viewer.

The paintings are constructed using bright colors sometimes and sometimes not so contrasting colors, which plainly have strong individual personas expressing a subtle theater of visual form.

In today’s contemporary art scenario, artists are fast adapting to new trends. T.M. Azis, primarily a painter, has also a prolific collection of photographs taken during the collaborative projects with other artists.
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Tallur.L.N

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Tallur L.N.
Untitled
Year: 2007
Medium: Inflatable bed, silicon, latex rubber, medical cot and forceps
Size: 275 x 280 x 160 cm

Bangalore born Tallur is an Indian artist who has rarely ventured outside India and grew up in the rural community. His works speak of the grinding poverty in the cultivated countryside. Employing Indian signs and symbols, Tallur conceives works that are characteristic of the underbelly of India, while still successfully managing to translate the anxiety of his subject matter to a larger audience. Untitled contains a hospital bed, with battered and torn inflatable mattresses piled high. The bed with the added sound of breathing, inflates and deflates like lungs. Tallur’s work delivers an incredibly depressing sight and sign of the objects of social utilitarianism. His sculptural works are riddled with the agony of laboured situations. For the artist, there is a pleasurable absurdity in the dishevelled traditions of the farmlands and the villages when compared to the new American-styled hyper-real cities that function as cash accumulators.
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Subodh Gupta

Artville Contemporary Artist of The Day
Subodh Gupta
Title: Spill
Year: 2007
Medium: Stainless steel and stainless steel utensils
Size: 170 x 145h x 95 cm

Subodh Gupta employs many of the original techniques of French conceptualist Marcel Duchamp by elevating the ready-made into an art object. Gupta chooses signature objects of the Indian sub-continent and relocates them as art objects in monumental installations of stainless steel and tiffin-tins. Spill is an overbearing work of great scale that has at its centre a larger than life stainless steel water vessel, with many smaller steel utensils spilling over the edge like water pouring out.
courtesy:saatchi

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K.P.Reji

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
K.P. Reji 
Dinner (with a pinch of salt) 
Oil on Canvas 

Reji's paintings exude a matter of fact quality. His use of bold, slightly rounded figuration constructs a naïve style reminiscent of Gauguin. Despite - or perhaps because of - their apparent simplicity, his paintings are enigmatic and the motifs he engenders are difficult to decipher. His work is multifaceted and complex in its analysis of the individual's relationship to his external environment. Often political in inflection, his canvases explore the connection between psychological states of mind and socio-political behavior.
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Vasundhara Tewari

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Vasundhara Tewari Broota
Untitled
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 8" x 8"
Year: 2012

Vasundhara Tiwari is one among the young generation painters who have indulged into exploring the potential of figurative paintings. Here it is worth mentioning that her images surface out of the perception of a woman and the psycho-political existence of the female body.
Vasundhara first drew attention for her sensitive mixed media work in which an interpretation of the suppressed womanhood within the existing societal structure in contextualized by her female nude images. Her treatment and use of the female nude soon diffused she creates are abstraction and are often emblematic of the inner life or contemporary women. Her paintings are characterized by tensions arising out of the naturalistically modeled figures and the flat pictorial space which is enriched with small focuses of tonal recessions.

In the more recent works of Vasundhara, a sensibility towards the understanding of the internal and external psychological spaces of the artist alias the ‘woman’ is displayed lucidly. In these works the human figure does not occupy the space of the protagonist, but shares a equi-focal space with the background objects, where both are of equal significance. The identifiable artist psyche and experiences surrounding it stands as meaningful reality for Vasundhara. Her paintings are a celebration of a contemporary woman, unafraid to reveal her soul and at the same time, participate in the daily life-patterns unencumbered.
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Sudharshan Shetty

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Sudharshan Shetty
No Title
(from "this too shall pass")

Medium: wooden chair, paint on fiberglass, neon, stainless steel and glass vitrine
Size: 141cm x 92cm x 92cm
Year: 2010

Sudarshan Shetty is particularly well known for his large-scale sculptures and installations. His work takes its point of departure in a lyrical world full of playfulness and freedom, unfettered by political questions. Through everyday-like fragments he presents a fascinating combination of the representational and the abstract that reveals different facets of modern society. In addition to this, Shetty often employs simple, subtle distortions in his works, e.g. distortions of scale. In so doing, he breaks down conventions and creates new ideals in an attempt at counteracting existing systems. Shetty has always worked with the concept of boundaries within the realms of the personal, the psychological, the social, and the carnal. He uses specially selected materials to celebrate and define such boundaries and their inevitable demise.

Shetty’s early paintings, later installations, and most recent kinetic sculptural assemblages all evince a keen interest in the macabre, the playful, and the seductive. But just as his works consistently evoke emotional responses in his audiences, his works are also contemplative and insightful. In the monumental work Untitled from 2006 he shows a mechanical sculptural installation that animates the cow. In India the cow is regarded as sacred. It is a symbol of goodness, fertility, and the feminine; a kind of mother goddess for the Hindu. Some Indian states even have a ban against slaughtering cows and oxen. Shetty’s sculpture consists of two life-sized skeletal cows, their hooves placed on top of each other. The sculpture was created in connection with a series of works entitled Love, which investigates the phenomenon of love as something that is at turns comical, ironic, and perverse.

In Shetty’s works the cows are quite literally naked – cut to the bone. At the same time, they pretend to be making love even though they cannot possibly move. However, the act of physical love taking place between the cows strikes us as neither insistent nor provocative, precisely because the placing of the cows does not facilitate it. The work also turns love into something mechanical: If a spectator passes too closely by the sculpture, the movement sets off a hammer that strikes the udder of one of the cows. To Shetty the main issue does not concern seeing and experiencing the work of art as an aesthetic object; rather, it has to do with how machines and objects in the world have a fleeting, ephemeral quality. In the work he demonstrates an interest in the cow as a national and historical symbol, as something with a jester-like potential for the comically sublime. His inappropriate interventions against the familiar posit his works in a changeable interspace located somewhere between universally shared frames of reference and intimate, private experiences.
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Bose Krishnamachari

Artville Contemporary Artist of The Day 
Bose Krishnamachari 
Untitled
Size :36 x 36 In 
Medium :Acrylic on Canvas

Krishnamachari works in striking and dynamic abstracts, and with figures seen through saturated lenses. Even in his photography and multi-media installations, color is a dominant force. He says, I refine my color to brightness. I have learnt this usage from the alternately subdued and lavish color codes of Indian ceremonies and ritual performances; the costumes, the gestures of enactment. In addition to being an artist, Krishnamachari curates exhibitions and projects. He is driven by a desire to support the younger generation of Indian artists.
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Atul Dodiya

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Atul Dodiya
Title: Portrait Of Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918)
Year: 2005
Medium: Enamel paint on laminate board, cotton kurta and cotton pyjamas on iron hangers
Size:183 x 122 cm

In Portrait of Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918) Dodiya portrays the Georgian primitivist Niko Pirosmani, who was revered for having invented a new technique of painting during periods of solitude and poverty. The portrait of Pirosmani initially formed part of Dodiya’s large scale exhibition ’Shri Khakhar Prasanna’ which was dedicated to his friend, the late painter Bhupen Khakhar. Believing that Khakhar was influenced by Pirosmani, Dodiya wanted to include the Georgian painter in his show. The artist uses found objects such as the cotton Kurta and pyjamas which hang over this painting. Here they are dyed a different colour in tribute to Khakhar, who dyed his kurta pyjamas black so he could wear them as an apron in his studio.
courtesy:saatchi

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Sudhir Patwardhan

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Sudhir Patwardhan
Title: Memory - Double Page, Diptych.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 79" x 118"
Year: 1989

Patwardhan's canvases are densely populated reflecting the hub of city life often with emphasis on the ordinary, working man. His human forms are imbued with a sense of innate dignity as they go about performing their chores in busy city streets or in suburban construction sites. Apparently realistic, the work at times brings in an imaginary, remembered space or it can be viewed from several vantage points making it multi faceted. More recently the receding and emerging figures provide a rhythmic unity to his group compositions echoing the ancient mural art of Ajanta and Ellora.
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