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Silia Ka Tung- 'Garden of Heavenly Delights',

Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporania, Milan

September, 2023

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Michele Turriani - 'Endangered'

Three Highgate Gallery, London N6 5JR

June-September, 2023

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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'Sense of Place'

Watou Arts Festival, Belgium

July-September, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Wallace Chan - 'Totem'

Fondaco Marcello, Venice

April-October, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Rosa Mundi - 'Metamorphic Posthuman'

Palazzo Dona dalle Rose, Venice

April-November, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Roberto Dolzanelli- 'Agnus Dei'

Palazzo Dona dalle Rose, Venice

April-November, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Johan Deckmann- 'Good Things & Bad Things'

Colombo Gallery, Venice - A Gervasuti Foundation Project

April-November, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Wallace Chan- 'Titans-A Dialogue between Materials, Space & Time'  

Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB

February- April, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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The Sinistry- 'The Game of Life'

Canal Place, London E8 4QS

June, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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'Shamanism'- Group exhibition 12 artists 

Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan

May-July, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Wallace Chan- 'Titans-A Dialogue between Materials, Space & Time'  

Fondaco Marcello, Venice

May-November, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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'Inspiration- Contemporary Art & Classics' Group exhibition 40 artists 

Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki

June 18-September 20, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                  

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'Inspiration –Iconic Works' – Group exhibition with 40 artists 

National Museum, Stockholm

February 20-May 17, 2020

 

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'Kosmosis' - Gong Performance' - Katherine Prado, Aidan Mcintyre, Dylan Isaiah to coincide with 58th Venice Biennale at Fondamente Nove, St. Mark's Square, Venice

May 7-May 9, 2019                                                                                                                                                                                      

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'Transformer' - Rob & Nick Carter, Claude Lalanne, Vik Muniz,

Gavin Turk, to coincide with 58th Venice Biennale

Hotel Londra Palace, Venice

May 10- November 24, 2019                                                                                              

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'Voodoo Child' - Moses Quiquine

Africa Centre, London

March 21- April 17, 2019                                                                                              

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'Through The Looking Glass' - Miniature Works of Art by Modern &

Contemporary Artists - Cob Gallery, London

                                                                                                        December 6, 2018 - January 19,2019                                                                                              

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'Black Book' - Gideon Rubin

Freud Museum, London

 

February 7- April 15, 2018                                                                                              

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'History of Art'- Gavin Turk

Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan

November 24, 2017 - February 15, 2018

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'Vision of the Owl'-Koen Vanmechelen

Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels

September 8 - November 4, 2017

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'Collection', Nancy Fouts, Joseph Kosuth, Gavin Turk

Metropoloe Hotel, Venice, to coincide with the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

 

May 10 - July 2, 2017

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'Speaking in Tongues', Paul Benney, Church of San Gallo, Venice, to coincide with the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

 

May 1-November 28, 2017

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'The Art of Useful Things', David Usborne Collection, Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, London, N1, 2017

 

March 29 - April 28, 2017

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'Force of Nature' Group exhibition

Artists inspired by Nature

The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London, E3

2017

 

March 5- April 9, 2017

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'Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick', Group exhibition Somerset House, London, 2016

 

July 6 - August 24, 2016

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'Ara Lucidus',Iyvone Khoo, London, 2016

House of St.Barnabas, London W1

June 18 - 30, 2016

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'Force of Nature', Group exhibition, Brussels, 2016

Valérie Bach Gallery

March 12 -May 21, 2016

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'Wittgenstein'Gavin Turk, London, 2015/16

Freud Museum, London

November 26, 2015-February 17, 2016

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'Transcendental', Gonkar Gyatso, Milan, 2015

Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery

September 17 -December 14, 2015

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'The Rock and Roll Public Library',Venice, 2015

Site-Specific installation exhibition for 56th Venice Biennale

Curated by Mick Jones,James Putnam & Lauren Jones

May 6 -November 22, 2015

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'Conversion', Recycle Group, Venice, 2015

Site-Specific installation Collateral project for 56th Venice Biennale

Church of Sant'Antonin Campo Sant'Antonin) Castello

May 9 -November 22, 2015

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'The Mechanical Turk', Gavin Turk, Venice, 2015

Site-Specific installation exhibition for 56th Venice Biennale

Hotel Metropole,Riva degli Schiavoni,30122 Venice

May 1-November 22, 2015

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'Sex With Karl Marx', Martin Sexton, Venice, 2015

Site-Specific installation exhibition for 56th Venice Biennale

Gervasuti Foundation, Calle Lunga S.Caterina, Canaregio 4998

May 9 -Novemmber 22, 2015

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'We Are Stardust', Bridgitte Stepputis', Venice, 2015

Site-Specific installation exhibition for 56th Venice Biennale

Gervasuti Foundation, Calle Lunga S.Caterina, Canaregio 4998

May 9 -Novemmber 22, 2015

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'Darwin's Dream', Koen Vanmechelen, London, 2014

Site-Specific installation exhibition

The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London NW1 2BA

November 14 -December 14, 2014

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'Metaphysical', Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan, 2014

Rina Banerjee, Paul Benney,Adam Fuss,Gonkar Gyatsu, Michael Joo, Jason Martin,Chiharu Shiota, Kiki Smith

September 16-December 30, 2014

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'Out of Our Heads', Shoreditch Town Hall, London , 2014

Alice Anderson,Emi Avora,David Birkin,Paul Benney,Jessica Bugg, Jonas Burgert, Mat Chivers,Mat Collishaw,Shezad Dawood,Doug Foster,Paul Fryer,Susan Hiller,Hans Kotter,Adeline de Monseignat, Numen for usek,Tim Shaw,Jason Shulman,Agnes Treplin,Pink Twins,Ben Tyers,Jarno Vesala,Hugo Wilson,Hattie Worboys,Patrick Eakin Young

June 13-29, 2014

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'Presences' - Alex Bellan,Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014

June 4 - September 7, 2014

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'Design,Anonymous,Fundamental' - David Usborne, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014

A collection of anonymously designed utilitarianin objects chosen for their elegant shape and puzzling function - March 2014

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'Die Traumdeutung 72,32m AMSL' - Miroslaw Balka, The Freud Museum, London 2014

Sie-specific work by Miroslaw Balka in association wuth White Cube

March 19- May 25, 2014

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'Vanacular' - Gavin Turk, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Biennale, 2013

Site-specific installation- June-November, 2013

 

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'Hunting Song' - Whitney McVeigh, Gervasuti Foundation Venice Biennale, 2013

Site-specific installation- June-November, 2013

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'White Light/White Heat-Glasstress'- Collateral Project for the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013 66 participating international

at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti & Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art & Glass, Murano - June-November, 2013

Wallace Collection & Fashion Space Gallery,London-November 2013-

February 2014

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'The Uncanny' - Adeline de Monseignat & Berndnaut Smilde, 2013

Adeline de Monseignat & Berndnaut Smilde at Ronchini Gallery - ApFebruary 15th - March 16th, 2013

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'Diabolus in Vitro' - Antonio Riello, 2012

Antonio Riello at Salon Vert - September -October, 2012

 

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'Phantasmagoria' - Group exhibition with 4 artists, 2011

Sam Buxton, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Barry Reigate, Conrad Shawcross at FAMA Gallery, Verona - April15th - July 16th, 2011

 

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'The Knowledge' - The 54th Venice Biennale, 2011

Shih Chieh Huang, Tim Brennan, Mat Chivers, Nancy Fouts, Conrad Shawcross, Chiharu Shiota. The Gervasuti Foundation, Castello, Venice June 2- September 15th, 2011

 

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'Memory of Books' - Chiharu Shiota -Venice Biennale, 2011

Site-specific installation by Chiharu Shiota - The Gervasuti Foundation, Castello, Venice June 2- September 15th, 2011

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'Tim Noble & Sue Webster present Bo Ningen' - Venice Biennale, 2011

Tim Noble & Sue Webster specially created animation with live performance by experimental Japanese band Bo Ningen- Gervasuti Foundation- June 1, 2011

 

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'Fascination' - Mat Chivers, 2011

Solo exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Mat Chivers at Maddox Arts, London W1 - March, 2010

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'Identity Theft' -Alice Anderson,Sam Buxton,Jake & Dinos Chapman, Filippo Ciavoli, Tom Gallant,Sanam Khatabi,Stephan Graff, Gonkar Gyatso,Jochem Hendricks,Alastair Mackie,Whitney McVeigh, Ximena Garrido-Lecca,Sandra Setzkorn,Chiharu Shiota,Gavin Turk

Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan - 15/12/2010 - 28/2/2011

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'Luftskipet/Biblioteket', Woojung Chun, 2010

Site specific project by Woojung Chun for Luftskipet, Fjell, nr.Bergen May 23rd to June 26th, 2010

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'Wonderland' - New Art from London, 2010

Group show with 15 Contemporary artists at Assab One, Milan, 2010

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'Andy Hope 1930 at The Freud' - Andreas Hofer, 2010

Andreas Hofer at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardends, London NW3 February - May, 2010

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'Hysteria' - Mat Collishaw, 2009

Mat Collishaw at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardends, London NW3 October, 2009 - January, 2010

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'Library' - Woojung Chun, a project for the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009

Chun’s installation is an imagined library space with bookshelves, desks, cabinets and other familiar devices as symbols of organized knowledge.

Gervasuti Foundation,Venice, June/November,2009

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'Distortion' - a project for the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009,

Janet Cadiff & George Bures Miller, Oliver Clegg,Mat Collishaw,John Isaacs, Alastair Mackie, Noble and Webster,Jamie Shovlin, Gavin Turk

Gervasuti Foundation,Venice, June/November,2009

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‘Mythologies ' - 46 artists at Haunch of Venison, 2009

Group show with 46 international artists at Haunch of Venison,

6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET, March/April, 2009

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‘Imagine The Possibilities ' - Anila Rubiku, 2009

Anila Rubiku at Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Via C. Salutati, 4/R Florence March/May, 2009

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‘Nights Move ' - Oliver Clegg, 2008

Oliver Clegg at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardends, London NW3
October/November, 2008

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‘Viva Lolita' - 18 contemporary artists, 2008

Group show with 18 international contemporary artists at Maddox Arts, London
March/May 2008

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‘Opera Per L’Ara Pacis - Brian Eno & Mimmo Paladino, 2008

Brian Eno & Mimmo Paladino at Ara Pacis, Rome
March/May 2008

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‘Tempest’ – Mat Collishaw & Paul Fryer, 2007

Mat Collishaw & Paul Fryer at 52nd Biennale, Venice
June/November 2007

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'Body and Mind ' – Antony Gormley & Oliviero Rainaldi , 2007

Gormley & Rainaldi drawings at Temple University Gallery, Rome

February/March 2007.


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'The Myth of Reality ' – Maddalena Ambrosio, 2007

Maddalena Ambrosio at T1+2 Gallery, London

January/February 2007.


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'Emblematic Psychosis' – Wolfe Lenkiewicz, 2007

Wolfe Lenkiewicz at Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Naples

January/February 2007.


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'Polymorphous Perverse' – Tim Noble and Sue Webster, 2006-7

Tim Noble and Sue Webster at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3.

8 November 2006 – 7 January 2007. 


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'Naturalia' – Mat Collishaw, Ellen Gallagher, Jamie Shovlin, 2006-7

1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome

3 November, 2006 - 18 January, 2007


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'Panoptiscope' – Sarah Beddington, 2005

Sarah Beddington at University College, London (South Cloisters), Gower Street, London WC1 6BT, 5 October – 19 November, 2005

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‘Icthyosaurus’ - Ellen Gallagher, 2005

Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3.

28 July – 11 Sept 2005.  


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'Art All' Arte 9 - The Shape of the Clouds', 2004

Site-specific projects in 6 Tuscan towns by Per Barclay, Massimo Bartolini, Antony Gormley, Joseph Kosuth, Lucy Orta, Moataz Nasr, Luisa Rabbia, Tadashi Kawamata...



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'The Butterfly Pinned' - Sebastian Horsley, 2003
The Lead White Gallery, Dublin, January/February 2003

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'Beyond the pleasure principle' - Sarah Lucas, 2000
Sarah Lucas at The Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3. 9 March - 12 April 2000.

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A Kind of Magic - Talismans, charms and amulets from The British Museum
- Gallery 4, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2 April - 29 June 2003

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Unidentified Museum Objects - Curiosities from the British Museum, 2002.
Gallery 4, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Stephen Feeke and James Putnam. 12 December 2001 - 28 February 2002.

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Time Machine - Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art
An exhibition at The British Museum
1 December 1994 - 26 February 1995 (extended one month) with Stephen Cox, Andy Goldsworthy, David Hiscock, Liliane Karnouk, Rita Keegan, Jiri Kolar, Igor Mitoraj, Alexander Mihaylovich, Marc Quinn, Peter Randall- Page, Martin Riches, Kate Whiteford.

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Richard Wentworth - 'Questions of Taste', 1997.
Installation at the British Museum curated by James Putnam as part of a multi-site exhibition 'Collected', conceived and curated by Neil Cummings for The Photographers Gallery, London.

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Paladino/Eno - 'I dormienti', 1999.
Paladino/Eno at the Roundhouse Undercroft, London.
9 September- 6 October, 1999.

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A Sense of Form - Henry Moore at the British Museum, 1998.
A centenary tribute - 30 May -27 September 1998.

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The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) -'Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid - God's Cubit', 2001.
The Petrie Museum, University College London. 26 May - 18 August, 2001.

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Changing Face - Masks from the British Museum
Gallery 4, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Stephen Feeke and James Putnam. 16 September - 1 December 2002

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Terry Smith - Capital, 1995.
Site-specific installation at the British Museum co-curated with Calum Storrie.

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Fred Wilson - 'In Course of Arrangement', 1997.
Installation at the British Museum curated by James Putnam as part of a multi-site exhibition 'Collected', conceived and curated by artist Neil Cummings for The Photographers Gallery.

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Time Machine - Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art
An exhibition at the Museo Egizio, Turin.
14 December 1995 - 31 March 1996 with Francesco Clemente, Stephen Cox, Brian Eno, Andy Goldsworthy, David Hiscox, Jiri Kolar, Igor Mitoraj, Mimmo Paladino, Giuseppe Penone, Marc Quinn, Peter Randall-Page, Martin Riches, Kiki Smith, Kan Yasuda.

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The Sculpted Word- Inscriptions from the British Museum, 2001.
Gallery 4, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Stephen Feeke and James Putnam, 11 June - 16 September 2001.

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'Appointment'- Sophie Calle, 1999.
Sophie Calle at The Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3. 12 February - 28 March 1999.

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