Once examined, the viewer is obligated to acknowledge that those functions for which Mary was revered (and for which women have, historically, been condemned by the Church as unclean) are what actually made her a woman, and that in her humanity she was simply flesh and blood. Kiki Smith Shares a Glimpse Into Her World, in Photographs Ahead of her latest solo show, we sent the artist an instant camera and asked her to take snapshots of her life. She is seen as one of the most successful Artist of all times. Sueo (Spanish for "dream") is a two-color intaglio print depicting a life-size figure curled into a distorted semblance of a fetal pose in the center of a large sheet of Japanese paper. This Mary offers the viewer no gentle countenance or spiritual comfort. Smith collaborated with poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge to produce Endocrinology (1997), and Concordance (2006), and with author Lynne Tillman to create Madame Realism (1984). [11] It was co-directed by Ellen Cooper. She then moved to New York City in 1976 and joined Collaborative Projects (Colab), an artist collective. "I've always worked at my kitchen table," she says. In 2019, the DESTE Foundations Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra island featured Memory, a site specific exhibition. The woman figure emerges nude from inside the powerful animal. It's the same form - a large horizontal form and a vertical coming out of it." Kiki Smith - The Talks Photo by Richard Burbridge Art + Commerce Kiki Smith: "I just try to follow it" Uwe-Jens Schumann Listen to Audio Excerpt Ms. Smith, what does freedom mean when it comes to art? ArtNet News / Although Kikis work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her fathers process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience formal craftsmanship firsthand. Her head is hairless, the facial features barely discernable. #Fun #Way. [4] Although her work takes a very different form than that of her parents, early exposure to her father's process of making geometric sculptures allowed her to experience Modernism's formal craftsmanship firsthand. Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Danielle Stein (October 2007), "The Glass Menagerie", "Kiki Smith Shares a Glimpse Into Her World, in Photographs", Roberta Smith. You can read todays latest tweets and post from Kiki Smiths official Twitter account below, where you can know what she is saying in her previous tweet. Kiki Smith, Guide, 2012,Tapisserie Jacquard en coton Cotton Jacquard tapestry Approx. [1], Prompted by her father's death in 1980 and by the AIDS death of her sister, the underground actress Beatrice Bebe Smith, in 1988, Smith began an ambitious investigation of mortality and the physicality of the human body. An important eighteenth-century silk needlework by a young woman named Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality (Collection of the Connecticut . Coming to Albuquerque Museum October 2022. [20], In 2019, Smith conceived Memory, a site specific installation for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art on the Greek island of Hydra.[21]. Smith had considerable experience in printmaking, having experimented with monotype, and screen methods since the late 1970s. [23] Smith notes that the tapestries provide an opportunity to work at a larger scale ("I never thought I could make a picture so big") and to work with color, which she does not frequently do otherwise. [50] After being chosen speaker for the annual Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism in 2013, Smith became the artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 201314 academic year.[51]. There was a family preoccupation with the body. Lodestar, Smith's 2010 installation at the Pace Gallery, was an exhibition of free-standing stained glass works painted with life-size figures. shelved 1,509 times Showing 30 distinct works. 1 Encounters with the Abject: Kiki Smith's Vulnerable Bodies By Roxanne Runyon Questions of embodiment have persisted as theoretical problems for feminist scholars. Some of her latest pieces are digitally woven tapestries portraying animals, women, spider webs, and stylized landscapes. MoMA and the Whitney Museum both have extensive collections of Smith's prints. Often the site of violence - physical, textual, and representational - female bodies in particular have been marked by danger. The figure appears to be without skin, its striated musculoskeletal system etched intricately in thousands of lines of black ink, heightened by tints of red. Also in London in 2018, an exhibition of Smith's tapestries, sculpture and works on paper was presented at the Timothy Taylor (gallery) from September 13 October 27. After arriving in New York she became part of Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab), an artists' collective devoted to making art accessible through alternative venues. Her childhood experience in the Catholic Church, combined with a fascination for the human body, shaped her work conceptually. In 1979 Colab put together the "Times Square Show," which took place in a building that once housed a massage parlor. Kiki Smith (American, born January 18, 1954) is a German-born sculptor known for her works that deal with bodily themes, abjection, and sexuality. Since the early 2010s Smith has created twelve 9 x 6ft. Jacquard tapestries, published by Magnolia Editions. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Youre placing things there on purpose, so they build up energy or meaning or connections., Ahead of her latest solo show, Murmur, which opens tomorrow at Pace Gallery in New York, we sent Smith an instant camera and asked her to capture scenes from her life. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany) is recognized for her multidisciplinary practice through which she explores the human condition. Her unique vision, breadth of experience, and prolific output, which includes books, painting, sculpture, prints, and collaborations with other artists, cements her position as one of our most important voices of contemporary Feminist art. Among the many awards she received were the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), awarded annually by the Skowhegan (Maine) School of Painting and Sculpture; the Athena Award from the Rhode Island School of Design (2005) in recognition of her printmaking; the Edward MacDowell Medal (2009) from the MacDowell Colony artists residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire, for her outstanding contribution to the field of sculpture; and the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts (2012). Kiki Smith was born on January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany where her mother, an opera singer and actress Jane Lawrence was working this time. "Virgin on the moon" refers to the iconic image of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon. In 2012, Smith showed a series of three of these woven editions at the Neuberger Museum of Art. The impersonal nature of the figure, with its reddish-pink layers and bands of muscle, sinew and pale bone brings to mind anatomical models and medical textbook illustrations. Related to this was her work exploring bodily fluids, which also had social significance as responses to the AIDS crisis (blood) and women's rights (urine, menstrual blood, feces). It is impossible to discern the figure's gender (though Smith herself posed for it, while assistants traced her), reinforcing its enigmatic quality. Yet the forms of Rapture hold an older, deeper meaning that is fundamental to the universal concept of Womanhood, because it also connotes a sense of strength and mystical union. The sculpture consists of two life-size, nude figures (one female and one male) placed near one another, each held slightly aloft by vertical props. ", "All you are in the end is what you make. Notable examples included the porcelain sculpture Woman with Wolf (2003), the collage Sitting with a Snake (2007), and the tapestry Sky (2011). Also, being Catholic, making things physical, they're obsessed with the body. [43], In 2019, the Deste Foundation's Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra island featured Memory, a site specific exhibition. In 2005, Smith's installation, Homespun Tales won acclaim at the 51st Venice Biennale. "Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005.. We will update Kiki Smith's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. In 2019, the DESTE Foundations Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra island featured Memory, a site specific exhibition. By Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, Sue Scott, By Michael Kimmelman / Lives and works in New York. In 2005, Smith's installation, Homespun Tales won acclaim at the 51st Venice Biennale. At 68 years old, Kiki Smith height not available right now. Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist[1] whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Smith also collaborated on a performance featuring choreographer Douglas Dunn and Dancers, musicians Ha-Yang Kim, Daniel Carter, Ambrose Bye, and Devin Brahja Waldman, performed by and set to Anne Waldmans poem Jaguar Harmonics. Smith has experimented with a wide range of printmaking processes. In 2018, Smith took part in Frieze Sculpture (part of Frieze Art Fair, where her work Seer (Alice I), Timothy Taylor (gallery), was presented in Regent's Park, London, England, from July 4 - October 7, 2018. Kiki Smith was born on 18 January, 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, is a German-born American artist. Artist Kiki Smith, daughter of the American sculptor Tony Smith, had an unorthodox upbringing in New Jersey. kiki smith. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Take, for example, her 2005 installation Homespun Tales. In 1982, Smith received her first solo exhibition, Life Wants to Live, at The Kitchen. In 2012, she received the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts from Hillary Clinton. [5], Smith moved from Germany to South Orange, New Jersey, as an infant in 1955. Smith has experimented with a wide range of printmaking processes. Smith also became interested in creation stories and cosmology, making bronze wall-mounted starbursts (Net [2012]) and aluminum sculptures on iron stands (Cloudburst and Spiral Nebula (Large) [both 2017]). Engberg, Siri, Linda Nochlin, and Marina Warner. But her early pieces, in particular the sculptures she made in the '80s and '90s, have perhaps forever associated her with the phrase the female body. Smiths many accolades also include the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College School of the Arts (2010), Women in the Arts Award from the Brooklyn Museum (2009), the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal (2009), the Medal Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2006), the Athena Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2006), the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2000), and Time Magazines Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World (2006). ", "I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. ", "Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.". Smith printed the image in black ink on 36 attached sheets of handmade Thai paper. ", "Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith", https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/19/yayoi-kusama-and-kiki-smith-to-create-giant-mosaics-for-new-manhattan-train-station, Kiki Smith: Realms, March 14April 27, 2002, "If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would", "Jaguar Harmonics: A Collaborative Performance, Douglas Dunn Salon, New York, NY | Anne Waldman", "Whitney To Present Kiki Smith Retrospective, Traversing The Artist's 25-Year Career", "Mark Stevens (November 25, 2007), "The Way of All Flesh", nytimes.com; accessed April 1, 2015", Jackie Wullschlager (September 28, 2018), "Frieze London: women at work", "Kiki Smith: Woodland, 13 September 27 October 2018, London", "KIKI SMITH: MEMORY | Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art | Athens | Greece", "Belvedere Museum Vienna | Kiki Smith exhibition", "Kiki Smith wins Brooklyn Museum's Women in the Arts Award", "Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art". In 1988 she created All Souls, a fifteen-foot screen-print work featuring repetitive images of a fetus, an image Smith found in a Japanese anatomy book. In 1985 she briefly studied to be an emergency medical technician. 2023 The Art Story Foundation. After briefly attending the Hartford Art School, she moved to New York in 1976. Lives in New York, USA. She strides forth a goddess, a holy woman, and the archetype of La Loba, the wild woman, completely unafraid. Smith participated in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, from May 13 - November 16, 2017. [29] She has worked with poet Anne Waldman on If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would. Lilith is an arresting figure, hanging upside down on a wall of the gallery. Related to this was her work exploring bodily fluids, which also had social significance as responses to the AIDS crisis (blood) and women's rights (urine, menstrual blood, feces).[10]. [22] In early 2019, all twelve were exhibited together as part of "What I saw on the road" at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. Pieces by Smith adorn consulates in Istanbul and Mumbai. It was co-directed by Ellen Cooper. Birth, death, and regeneration are recurring . Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. The exhibition traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and finally to La Coleccion Jumex in Ecatepec de Morelos outside Mexico City. Discover Kiki Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. [34] Then an expansion came to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where the show originated. She continues to inspire artists, encouraging them to reclaim the female body from its historically assigned placement as the subject of the male gaze. This permanent commission marked the final significant component of the Museum's 20-year restoration and was topped off with an exhibition of site-specific sculptures by Smith in a 2018 show entitled Below the Horizon: Kiki Smith at Eldridge. She is an empowered woman: independent where Eve is bound to Adam by her very flesh, assertive where Eve is submissive, and possessed of a carnal nature where Eve is modest. As a young girl, one of Smith's first experiences with art was helping her father make cardboard models for his geometric sculptures. When printed, this technique results in a halo around the Virgin Mary and Holy Spirit. Related to this was her work exploring bodily fluids, which also had social significance as responses to the AIDS crisis (blood) and womens rights (urine, menstrual blood, feces). I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day. Her artistic lineage also claims her grandfather, who was an altar-carver. Smith collaborated with poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge to produce Endocrinology (1997), and Concordance (2006), and with author Lynne Tillman to create Madame Realism (1984). In 2016, Smith was awarded the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. MoMA and the Whitney Museum both have extensive collections of Smiths prints. Kiki Smith (American, b. At the Walker, Smith coauthored the catalogue raisonn with curator Siri Engberg. After being chosen speaker for the annual Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism in 2013, Smith became the artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14 academic year. Kiki Smith has always inhabited a world of her own. In 2019 The 11 Conti Monnaie de Paris presented the first solo show of Smith by a French public institution. Following her first solo show at Fawbush Gallery in 1988, Kiki Smith had a show in the Projects exhibition space at the Museum of Modern Art in 1990 . Other works by Smith depict woman as feral, responding to her most basic animal nature. 294,6 190,5 cm diteur / Publisher, Magnolia Editions, Oakland Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York Kiki Smith, Cathedral [Cathdrale], 2013, Tapisserie Jacquard en coton Cotton Jacquard tapestry Approx. With that, Smith enrolled at Hartford Art School in Connecticut in 1974. With her large number of social media fans, she often posts many personal photos and videos to interact with her huge fan base on social media platforms. Updates? Smith's bronze sculpture, Lilith, is a continuation of her interest in female figures from folklore, mythology, and cultural narratives. LEFT Kiki Smith, My Blue Lake, 1995, photogravure, la poupe inkling, and lithograph in 3 colors on mold made En Tout Cas paper.Purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey '58 Fund, a gift from the Muchnic Foundation in honor of Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History, Datmouth College, 1997-2010, and through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, by exchange; 2014 . As a young girl, one of Smith's first experiences with art was helping her father make cardboard models for his geometric sculptures. Where he was abstract and nonfigurative, she was engaged in the study of human anatomy and the natural world. The daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki Smith grew up in New Jersey. 294,6 190,5 cm diteur / Publisher, Magnolia Editions, Oakland Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York Kiki Smith: List of works - All Artworks by Date 110. In association with Colab, Smith printed an array of posters in the early 1980s containing political statements or announcing Colab events. Her work as a sculptor bore little resemblance to that of her father. The figure is without skin everywhere but her face, breasts and the area surrounding her navel. And, for all that this flayed individual appears very vulnerable, by virtue of its location within the composition, one also experiences a sense of discomfort, even unease due to the unnatural placement of limbs and unresolved posture. Beeswax, microcrystalline wax, cheesecloth, and wood - Pace Gallery. "Kiki Smith Artist Overview and Analysis". More recently Kiki Smith has shifted her focus from the human body to the animal kingdom, with an emphasis on birds, whose vulnerability and ethereality she believes mirror that of the human condition. The female figure in this life-size bronze sculpture is emerging from the open belly of a recumbent wolf. Her sculpted female figures sometimes look unfinished, depicted without skin, or deformed or disfigured in some way. Fortune. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things." Familiar posture aside, Smith withholds Mary's traditional attributes: the halo, blue robe, bejeweled crown, lilies, roses, nursing infant, which generate an otherworldly sort of aura meant to elevate her above all women. By 1990 she had begun to create fully realized human figures, and she often employed beeswax to heighten the suggestion of flesh, as in Untitled (1990). Toward the turn of the 21st century Smith began to explore animal imagery in print and sculpture. Heralded as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, Kiki Smith has been crafting captivating, challenging art for more than 35 years - from her early wax and plaster female figures to colorful wall-size tapestries of women and animals in nature. Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Smith has said that when making Mary Magdalene she was inspired by depictions of Mary Magdalene in Southern German sculpture, where she was depicted as a "wild woman". And with a career spanning three decades and casting a net so wide it touches politics, classical mythology and non-western folklore, Smith is no average artist, either. Smith's sculpture "Standing" (1998), featuring a female figure standing atop the trunk of a Eucalyptus tree, is a part of the Stuart Collection of public art on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. DONATE. Her body is depicted nude, but without skin, so that the musculoskeletal system is all that remains, except that her head, hands, breasts, genitalia, and feet all retain their pale flesh. Her work in the 1980s often examined particular parts of the bodyhands, the digestive system, the pelvis, the liverusing materials such as cloth, paper, and ceramics to depict the mystery and vulnerability of the body. It was co-directed by Ellen Cooper. Smith's work has been shown in numerous one-person exhibitions including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington . Today she lives and works in New York. She is from . Kiki Smith's net worth Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. In 2005, "the artist's first full-scale American museum survey" titled Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Smith was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, in 2005. Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It's what preoccupies you. Accessing the wolf-woman within requires one to abandon social and religious mores, and practice deep personal introspection in order to realize the true woman beneath long-practiced social strictures. Milk has leaked from the breasts of the woman and runs down her torso, while semen has dripped down the legs of the man. Catholicism is always involved in physical manifestations of [spiritual] conditions, always taking inanimate objects and attributing meaning to them. In early 2019, all twelve were exhibited together as part of What I saw on the road at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. They're installed on the third level women's gallery . Scroll Down and find everything about her. 116 x 76 inches. Kiki is gaining More popularity of her Profession on Twitter these days. This leaves viewers with a conundrum, as they must decide either that the venerated figure was simply human or that a woman's body is actually sacred. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. She moves beyond feminism to focus on the . When printed, this technique results in a halo around the Virgin Mary and Holy Spirit. The mosaics are titled River Light, The Waters Way, The Presence, The Spring, and The Sound (all 2022). If any artist could handle a misbehaving and even slightly disgusting body, Smith could. The contrast in texture is striking - the fur of the wolf is heavily textured and coarse, while the woman's surface appears smooth and radiant, even new. See available prints and multiples, sculpture, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. She subsequently attended Columbia High School, but left to attended Changes, Inc. Later, she was enrolled at Hartford Art School in Connecticut for eighteen months from 197475. We are a husband & wife photography team who love weddings, but we love marriage even more! This training in formalist systems, combined with her upbringing in . Kiki Smith Sculpture and Catholicism. Popularly known as the Artist of United States of America. Then an expansion came to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where the show originated. Smith notes that the tapestries provide an opportunity to work at a larger scale (I never thought I could make a picture so big) and to work with color, which she does not frequently do otherwise. She has also, for several decades, photographed the interiors of her own homes an 18th-century farmhouse in New Yorks Hudson Valley and a 19th-century townhouse in the East Village capturing her ever-changing assortment of personal treasures and artworks (many of them gifts from friends). [17] This permanent commission marked the final significant component of the Museum's 20-year restoration[18] and was topped off with an exhibition of site-specific sculptures by Smith in a 2018 show entitled Below the Horizon: Kiki Smith at Eldridge. The "Virgin with Dove" was achieved with an airbrushed aquatint, an acid resist that protects the copper plate. [33], In 2005, "the artist's first full-scale American museum survey" titled Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her works have communicated important messages, stressing the seriousness of the AIDS crisis. Smith's white porcelain bulbs resemble eggs on the verge of cracking, while her stained glass renditions crackle with the force of a firework. Lodestar, Smiths 2010 installation at the Pace Gallery, was an exhibition of free-standing stained glass works painted with life-size figures. Nearly life-size, the wax figure stands, feet together, arms at her sides turned slightly outward, palms up. November 5, 2006, By Joseph Nechvatal / 378 records for Kiki Smith. Active Secondary Market. The Fondation Thalie opens the year 2022 with an exhibition by American artist Kiki Smith.Inner Bodies brings together a corpus of some thirty works - including sculptures, tapestries and ceramics - made throughout the 2000s, most of which are presented in Brussels for the first time. Smith is a leading proponent of artists addressing philosophical, social, legal, and spiritual aspects of human nature. The artist's desire to represent the materiality of bodies is evident, as well as cosmogony through . Lilith is an arresting figure, hanging upside down on a wall of the gallery.[15]. Smith has said that when making Mary Magdalene she was inspired by depictions of Mary Magdalene in Southern German sculpture, where she was depicted as a wild woman. She was born on January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, West Germany, .Nuremberg is a beautiful and populous city located in Nuremberg, West Germany. Smith moved from Germany to South Orange, New Jersey, as an infant in 1955. Stories of Domestic Occupation, for which she arranged vignettes of porcelain sculptures, found furniture and photographs of her family around a 16th-century palazzo in Venice. She is a member of famous Artist with the age 68 years old group. [42] Woodland was produced in collaboration with Magnolia Editions. Kiki Smith, photographed by her husband, Zoran Skoko. Her father was minimalist sculptor Tony Smith and her mother was Jane Lawrence, an American actress and opera singer working in Germany at the time Kiki was born. Standing (1998) Kiki Smith's concern with the body and the skin as a protective but fragile, penetrable membrane surfaced in works of the late 1970s. [16], In 2010, the Museum at Eldridge Street commissioned Smith and architect Deborah Gans to create a new monumental east window for the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark located on New York's Lower East Side. Reproduction itself was very much on Smith's mind: She first visited Numeroff's lab to look at sperm. Similarly to the writer, she uses myths and esoteric representations to epitomize the female body and soul. She is considered a pioneer in restoring the figure as acceptable subject matter in contemporary art. She also continued to represent human figuresoften females from fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and other storiesas in the print Wolf Girl (From the Blue Prints Series) (1999) and the multimedia sculpture Singing Siren (2003). In 2019 The 11 Conti Monnaie de Paris presented the first solo show of Smith by a French public institution. At the Walker, Smith coauthored the catalogue raisonn with curator Siri Engberg. Smith stated, "Catholicism has these ideas of the host, of eating the body, drinking the body, ingesting a soul or spirit; and then of the reliquary, like a chop shop of bodies. The woman figure emerges nude from inside the powerful animal you are in the Venice... 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