2011 March
Mar 31
Photojournalism in Valencia
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On at the Sala Estudio General del Centre Cultural La Nau at the University of Valencia until 24th April is photography exhibition “Fragmentos de un año” (“Fragments of a year“), organised by the Valencia Union of Journalists and the University of Valencia. The show pays tribute to the reporters who shot the best photojournalism in 2010.

photojournalismThere are 29 photojournalists, and 106 pictures included in total, who in their search for the most cutting edge news stories have contributed to Valencia’s history. The photographs are categorised into economy, society, culture, politics, sports, and are accompanied by small texts, explaining the context of the news story.

The maxim that an image is worth more than a hundred words is proved in this exhibition, whose photos demonstrate the highest impact of the social and the economic – nuclear waste, sporting triumphs, the economic recession. Each image illustrates the complexity of socio-political relationships; for example that between the government and Spain’s autonomous regions.

Photojournalism has always been strongly linked to creative photography, for the way in which it seeks to capture reality. The first journalistic photograph appeared in the Daily Graphic in 1880, and the medium immediately became a vital element of news reportage. The accompaniment of pictures to news stories was possible thanks to advancements in printing around 1880 – and without this form of media, we would never have had such legendary images as those from the Nazi concentration concentration camps during the Second World War, or the Vietnam war. Today, we document our memory with images which capture the biggest triumphs and the worst moments.

Technological advances have helped improve the production and reproduction of photojournalism – up until quite recently, the graphic reporter was a highly skilled specialist who had to operate the camera and film to perfection; the smallest mistake with light or speed would have ruined the moment, and the job required patience and persistence. Nowadays, with automatic cameras and digital colour, capturing that one image for the news story is a lot easier.

Though photojournalism bases itself primarily in current affairs, where being informative comes before creative, there have been scores of photojournalists over the years whose work has elevated them to artist status, as great defenders of the freedom of expression.

For more information http://www.uv.es/cultura/c/docs/expfragmentsdunany11cast.htm

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“Fragmentos de un año” is a great exhibition, about the reflection of reality, the freedom of expression of photojournalism. So if you want to see the iconic photos of 2010, head down to Sala Estudio General del Centre Cultural La Nau – then head back for some well-deserved rest at your apartments in Valencia

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Mar 30

The Filmoteca of Valencia will be screening a cycle of feature length and short films by French director François Truffaut until the 3rd of June. There will be 23 films shown in total, dating from 1960 to 1983, in a homage to one of the most influential filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague movement, and overall icon of ‘autor‘ European cinema.

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François Truffaut, the adopted son of an architecture and secretary to newspaper L’Ilustration, was born in Paris, France in 1932. A solitary character from a young age, he dedicated most of his free time to reading – a fascination which would lead him to cinema. The poverty of the postwar years saw him working various unskilled jobs, as well as a brief spell in a reformatory for minor robbery. However, a budding passion for cinema helped him through the youthful traumas, and he formed a small cinema club, financed by the odd jobs. A highly creative, rebellious, and critical young man, Truffaut deserted the French army whilst in Germany, and was detained in military prison.

Under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin, Truffaut started to work for the magazine Travail et Culture when he was 18. Bazin taught him to edit, correct and discuss cinema, and three years later, in 1953, Truffaut wrote his first film reviews, for prestigious magazine Cahier du Cinéma. His writing was eloquent, and with a clear passion for cinema which was contagious. The next year, he made his first short film.

In early 1954, Truffaut wrote an article for  Cahier du Cinéma which would make him famous, entitled “A Particular trend in French cinema.” In the piece, Truffaut discussed the up and coming wave of French directors, and started to outline early theories on the Nouvelle Vague.

Truffaut’s criticism of the conservatism of ‘academic‘ cinema led to the discovery of new narrative forms which broke away from the conventions of French cinema of the 1950s, and a reputation as a subversive, innovative and ambitious filmmaker who didn’t shy away from the use of abstract, conceptual ideas in his films.

His first feature length film The Four Hundred Blows (1959), in which he tells a story of his own childhood, is now seen as the first Nouvelle Vague movie. Literature was a recurring theme in Truffaut’s work – he pays homage to Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, to Victor Hugo in The Secret Diary of Adele H, and adapted literary works in The Two English Girls and Finally, Sunday.

Truffaut’s fame crossed over the atlantic in 1977 when director Steven Spielberg got him on board for the film Encounters of the Third Kind. Truffaut passed away in 1984 from a brain tumour.

For more information: http://ivac.gva.es/la-filmoteca/programacion/ciclos/ciclo_850/franois-truffaut-el-deseo-del-cine

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If you want to find out more about the French director, actor and writer François Truffaut, and happen to find yourself in Valencia, don’t miss out on this cinema cycle. After the cinematic delights, head back to your rented apartments in Valencia for some rest.

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Mar 29
Pang Xungin at IVAM
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IVAM is showing the work of Chinese artist Pang Xungin until the 17th of April with “China Decoration Figure,” sponsored by the Changshu Museum of Art.

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The exhibition places focus on the contribution of Pang Xungin to traditional Chinese art in the modern context – as an artist who was involved in the Art Nouveau movement whilst studying in Paris.

Pang Xungin, the son of an established painter, was born in Shanghai in 1906. Thanks to the privileged status of his family, he was able to go and study at the Julian Academy in Paris in 1925. Upon his return to China, Xungin formed the “Society of the Storm” and wrote a manifesto for the creation of a modern art form drawn from the roots of Chinese culture, advocating a new artistic vanguard and modernism for China. The “Society of the Storm” group launched five exhibitions, before the war with Japan arrived in 1937.

The union between the poetic imagination of traditional Oriental art and the Western cultures is a strong theme in Xungin’s work. In his search for new decorative styles, he reworked the imagery of ancient documents and artefacts. As he has said himself, “I don’t paint anything in particular, I just paint what is in my heart. Whatever object or scene I am painting, it is my own emotions which form the work.”

“Children of the Land,” an oil painting which depicts the children of rural poverty, is an ironic response to the emperor of China, who was called “Son of Heaven” When first exhibited, the work was censored for being an attack of the Chinese government. Later, during the cultural revolution of Mao Tse-tung, it would be destroyed, along with many others of his works.

In the 1940s, Xungin used ancient Chinese imagery, redesigning them in a modern style on carpets, vases, and fabrics. His explorations of design, and innovative use of decorative art has brought him huge success and respect as an artist, and in 1956 he founded the Academy of Decorative Arts and Design at the University of Qinghua, along with the support of prime minister Zhou Enlai.

His work is shown at the Changshu Museum, in the province of Jiangsu. In spite of the museum’s low budget, it is known worldwide for it’s collection of Pang Xungin work, whose value at auction has greatly helped supported the museum’s funds.

For more information: http://www.ivam.es/exposiciones/2875-china-decoration-figure-pang-xungin

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Mar 21

Until May 1 the work of the principal Latin American Surrealist painter Roberto Matta will be presented at the IVAM. Matta is one of the leading figures in twentieth century art. Exhibition commemorates the centenary of his birth and aims to show the most significant moments of his complex work.

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Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren was born in Santiago de Chile, in 1911. Son of a wealthy family of French Basque origin, he studied architecture at the Catholic University of Chile. He traveled to Paris in 1933 interested in theories about the architecture of Charles Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier. His start in the painting is self-taught, although he attended Gazmuri Hernán’s workshop.

His vision of the art as the representation of life in constant transformation, movement and discoveries will make his search aesthetics. Although his work is classified as surrealist and metaphysical, his painting would have a huge influence on abstract expressionism among the American artists of the 40s, where Matta migrates after the start of World War II. The monumental size of his work at influence the American avant-garde including William Baziotes, Germon Kramowski, Pollock, Motherwell and other members of what will be the School of New York.

His emotional and intellectual relationship with Spain was important, as in a trip to Madrid, he met Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca, who gives him a book with an introductory note to Dali, who lived in Paris. Thanks to García Lorca’s note, Dalí introduces him to André Breton, who gets excited about buying his paint two pictures and integrated him into the Surrealist group meetings in the café Aux Deux Magots.

In 1936 he wrote in Stockholm the screenplay La Terre est un Homme, in honor of the poet Federico García Lorca Falangists killed by dictator Franco’s troops. The following year, he participates in the design of the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale in Paris, at the request of Lluís Sert and Luis Lacasa. During this stage he visits Picasso who is finishing Guernica and meets Magritte, Miró, Eluard.

In 1948 he was expelled from the Surrealist Group and reinstated eleven years later. Matta was a universal surrealist and his work was influenced by the muralism, which required a huge area, and then resulted in the creation of collective murals in Chile during Salvador Allende’s government.

After the coup in his country, Matta made exhibitions denouncing the crimes of Pinochet and joined the worldwide protest against the dictatorships in Latin America, changing his nationality to French, Cuban and Spanish. His mockery of the critics praise took him to say that he felt that this was the expression of the “art bag”, referring to the relationship between criticism and the commercialization of art and creation.

On November 25, 2002 he died in Rome the man that had defined surrealism as the search for permanent poetry.

To know about Matta, the irreverent man, the universal artist citizen from three countries, who boasted with humour about being one of the survivors born on 11-11-11, you have to visit the exhibition at the IVAM and with poetry in permanent creation, rest in one of the apartments in Valencia.

For further info http:/www.ivam.es/exposiciones/2851-matta

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To know about Matta, the irreverent man, the universal artist citizen from three countries, who boasted with humour about being one of the survivors born on 11-11-11, you have to visit the exhibition at the IVAM and with poetry in permanent creation, rest in one of the apartments in Valencia

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Mar 17
Sculptures of Edgar Degas in the IVAM
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From March 3 to April 17 the sculptures of the French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas, whose innovative compositions, his fine analysis of movement and unparalleled stroke made him one of the masters of modern art in the late nineteenth century.

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The exhibition to be held in Gallery 4 of IVAM, preceded by the one in 2008 and 2009 in Madrid MAPFRE Foundation with works from the Museum d’Orsay in Paris and the Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo in Brazil, is composed of the series of sculptures that Degas made in hi last stage and highlight his masterful to capture the essence of the movement of the human figure.

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was born in Paris in 1834, in a wealthy banking family. The young Degas was shy, solitary, contemplative and with little affection to friends and social life was. Supported by his father he left his law studies to pursue what he loved most, painting. His teachers were the painters Barriasy and Louis Lamothe, a disciple of the neoclassical painter Dominique Ingres.

His first foray into painting was made in a series of self-portraits where you can see the influence of Ingres. In 1865, influenced by the Impressionist movement, he abandoned his neo-classical training to pursue reality. His special ability to observe detail and movement is captured in all his work. Degas captures the essence of the characters and the circumstances surrounding the scene giving life to his paintings of everyday life situations.

Striking is the oil on canvas entitled The Rape. Although the rape scene is not represented, the image of physical fragility of the semi nude turned around girl and the man in semi-darkness of the room is deeply explicit of sexual violence and the significance of power that Degas reproduces brilliantly.

His discovering of the fascinating world stage in the paint impregnates his work with a special seal. a complex web of details that will be essential for realistic rendering lies The faces, expressions, clothes, body poses, details of furniture and the light reflects the everyday life of nineteenth century Europe in his spontaneous framing.

Despite being described as an impressionist, he refused to paint outdoors and move into the use of natural light. However, he took part in seven of the eight Impressionist exhibitions held.

In 1880 begins to lose vision and began his career in sculpture and pastel. In his sculptures of dancers and female nudes he masterfully captures the movement, showing his ability of observation, the masterful and artistic dimension of his work.

For further info http://www.ivam.es/exposiciones/2852-las-esculturas-de-edgar-degas

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Mar 15

Nacho Vegas, born in the 1970s in Gijón, is one of Spain’s best indie singers – he’s got the look and he’s definitely got the lyrics. Vegas belongs to that lineage of artists who say exactly what they think, from the bottom of their heart – no matter how irreverent, or politically incorrect.

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So it’s not surprising then that he has been labeled the Will Oldham of Spain. Like an image from a movie, he is always surrounded by a dark cloud of obsession and overflowing emotion. Always direct and honest, his music is like therapy; a baring of the soul, for better or for worse. Vegas cites singers such as Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Tom Waits as his main influences.

His first foray into music was with the band Eliminator Jnr. at the beginning of the 90s, but by the end of the decade, Vegas had left the band in order to pursue his solo career. Since then, he has released five albums, his first being “Actos Inexplicbles” in 2001 – with his most recent, “La Zona Sucia,” being completed in February 2011.

In 2007, the king of Spanish indie teamed up with the talented, more mainstream singer Christina Rosenvinge, for mini album “Verano Fatal,” which brought him more widespread public attention. The collaboration also caught the eye of the tabloid press, after it was speculated that Vegas and Rosenvinge shared more than just a passion for music.

On the 31st March, he comes to Valencia to perform his new music, at Sala Mirror. More information here: http://www.songkick.com/concerts/7458241-nacho-vegas-at-sala-mirror

 

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Mar 10
Bernie Dechant in Valencia
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The photography exhibition by Bernie Dechant in the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, and curated by Andy Patrick will be open up to March 20. Exhibition explores the contrasts and aesthetic similarities of people, objects and architecture from DeChant trips to Brazil, Morocco, China, Japan and the United States.

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Bernie Dechant was born in Wisconsin, USA, in 1972. He studied fine arts and graphic design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and devoted to cinema and photography. He co-founded the renowned web pages design firm, Adjacency, artistic director of Adobe.com project and the first Apple online store.

He introduced in the photography world in 2000. His recurring themes are the cities with all the elements of their environment: beauty, loneliness and violence that reflect a lyric realism in printed in his works.

In Brazil and Beyond, Dechant takes us into comparable aesthetics of the cities where the architecture and the complex social aesthetics merge, creating images with pictorial sense forces that make us look more closely to connect to the site.

In the film composition of his photos, the bright light plays with shadows and contrast, capture the rhythms of cities and their architectural textures. His photography of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro is very interesting, whose color and visual texture take it close to avant-garde painting. The same effect is found in the photo taken at a building in Brasilia, whose texture and visual effect are reminiscent of the lines and grids of Piet Mondrian. The memory of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte emerges in almost surreal picture of a building in Brasilia that has a huge building that resembles a flying saucer reversed and a man posing beside her.

His compositions capture the grandeur of man and his unlimited ability to overcome adversity, dreaming and idealizing the future reflecting the grandeur of futuristic promise. Promise which he represented like Brazil in 1956, when architects Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer built a modern city in the jungle, in 1987 UNESCO declared Brasilia cultural heritage of humanity for being the only city in the world built in the 20th century.

The colorful, modern, cosmopolitan Tokyo must fight every year for the narrow geographical space to contain their population. Or ancient China, overcrowded and polluted, which shares the same culture of modernity. Or just the exotic Morocco, where the light invites the photographer to capture street and people.

The great artistic quality of his photos and the light technique he uses to dramatize the contents and sequential construction of the building led him to exhibit at the Museum Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba, Brazil and Brussels.

For further information visit: http://www.ivam.es/exposiciones/2854-brasil-beyond-fotografas-de-bernie-dechant

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Mar 8

The Film Archive of Valencia and the Valencia Institute of Visual Arts present within the frame their interesting cycles “Masters of Polar” throughout February until March 2. A cycle that includes eight French police films and that includes from the precursors of the 30s and 40s, like Jean Grémillon, to more recent work as a film by Xavier Beauvois, “Le Petit lieutenant”, 2005.

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Of course, in this tour the undisputed masters of this genre such as H. G. Clouzot, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville and recently deceased Alain Corneau can not miss.

The film library will showcase two works in honor of Corneau, who died last August in Paris. The first “Black Series” (Série Noire) performed in 1979 and “Police Python 357″, a film inspired by the familiar Dirty Harry and starring his friend Yves Montan, co-produced by Germany, Italy and France in 1975.

The youngest of directors convened for this cycle, Xavier Beauvois, who also has been devoted to acting and scriptwriting. In 1995, Beauvois received the Jury Prize at Cannes for his film “Do not forget that you will die”. In this cycle we will see his expertise with “Young Lieutenant” made 10 years later.

The filmmaker Jacques Becker, another one of the great and who shot and worked with Renoir and Pierre Prévert, will be present his film dated 1953, “Touchez pas au Grisbi” based on the novel by Albert Simonin. This film quickly became a French prototype of the black film and helped to relaunch the career of actor Jean Gabin.

We will also be able to enjoy the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, another black movie magicians with the film “Quaider Orfèvres” dated 1947 and his 1943 masterpiece “Raven”, accused of being a collaborationist film for being funded by money from a Nazi producer, like many of that time in France, was banned and Clouzot was disqualified from making movies for a long time.

Jean-Pierre Melville, considered one of the forerunners of the Nouvelle Vague and of course, one of the leading exponents of the polar film. His films are mostly based on stories of gangsters and people that have lived through the Second World War or during the France occupation by the Nazis, as a kind of self portrait. In this cycle “Red Circle”  will release in 1970.

Finally, there is the work of Jean Grémillon “L’étrange Monsieur Victor” in 1938. After conducting a series of documentaries during the 20s, he had substantial success with his first dramatic film “Maldone” , 1928, he directed twenty more feature films, of which he is best known five of them made between 1937 and 1944: L’Étrange M. Victor, Gueule d’amour (1937), Remorques (1941), Lumière d’été (1943), and Le Ciel est à vous (1944), black cinema films.

For further details see: http://ivac.gva.es/la-filmoteca/programacion/ciclos/ciclo_865/maestros-del-polar

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Mar 3
Valencia’s Fallas
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If a party is known around the world, this event is Las Fallas. Also called Festes de Sant Josep (in honor of St. Joseph, saint patron of carpenters), starting on the 15th and ending on March 19 with the bonfires. Besides being mainly held in the city of Valencia, it is also held in numerous locations in the provinces of Valencia and Castellon.

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Its origins date back to the custom of burning waste from carpentry. But the people of Valencia have been enriching it with all the custom features of their culture and history. Today, this celebration of International Tourist Interest revolves around artistic constructions of combustible materials that, taken together, represent figures called ninots (dolls) and other compositions. Although they have evolved, once the materials were paper, cardboard and wood, and the bulkier figures are now made from polystyrene. Each artist has their techniques, tricks, design and assembly systems of their monuments.

There is a clear allusion to the imminent arrival of spring, as its celebration coincides with the equinox. In addition, the tradition says that by burning what we do not like, we end up with it. Gathering the fire, music, fireworks and street… We will better understand the festival of Las Fallas, which is not only an artistic representation, but a fun and interactive social criticism with the public. And on that basis, we can find along with the ninots, small letters making sarcastic reference to the facts and curiosities that have to do with the characters they portray.

There are many Fallas commissions, which are groups of people planting a falla in their neighborhood precinct. Throughout the year, each committee seeks funding sources for their monument and activities. The Casal Faller is where each committee meets for lunches, dinners, festivals and all kinds of festive activities. These “Casals” are devices ownership of the Falleros (people who make the Fallas), but in general, they are characterized by sharing their party by involving the many people who visit them. Each Falla and committee has a Fallera Mayor (festival queen), a Child Fallera Mayor (junior festival queen) and a president.

In addition, the Fallas festival includes fireworks like La Despertà, La Mascletà and fireworks castles that go off every night. The most important and impressive is the Fire Night, where meet more than one million people have gathered to admire the 15-25 minutes of burning of about 3000 kg of gunpowder exploding with all kinds of great shapes, colors and sounds.

Multiple events are held throughout the city, the official Fallas official board. Those held before the festival are: La Cridà, the Ninot Exhibition, the Ninot Parade and the Kingdom Parade. And, of course, also during the Fallas week: La Plantà, the awards, The Offering, the Fire night and of course, The Burning Night, in which the monuments are burned and the party ends

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Mar 2
Labyrinths in Valencia
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The four rooms of the exhibition explore the unicursal labyrinths, those of unique route, where the entrance matches the exit, through the work of architects Ben Nicholson and Luis Longhi, and contemporary artists Robert Morris, Richard Long and Terry Fox also explores the multicursal maze, or roads that branch out and some have not exit, as that created by the architect Giovanni Fontana in the fifteenth century.

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The labyrinth as a construction and symbol is present in almost all cultures and eras of mankind. It consists of complex and intentional intersections to confuse those who are inside, being a game and a challenge to the psyche that has aroused fascination to the human beings, because it is easy to enter and a challenge to go out.

Cinema, literature and art have experimented with the anguish that means being inside a labyrinth, an open space which subjects individuals to explore the possibility of being trapped in space and time, separated from the rest of humanity by only some walls. Almost a metaphor for life that becomes terror within the walls that symbolize the convolutions of the brain.

The labyrinth owes its name to the construction designed by Daedalus at the request of King Minos of Crete to keep his son the Minotaur, half man half bull who fed on human flesh. Every nine years, in order to appease him, Athens imposed as tribute seven women and seven young men to feed him. Minotaur had been sent by Poseidon to punish an offense. Against this cruelty imposed by Minos, Theseus offered himself as a sacrifice to save Athens from the monster. Ariadne, daughter of Minos and in love with Theseus, offered a golden ball given to her by Daedalus for him to tie it at the entrance and manages to go out after killing the monster.

This legend expresses in symbolic form the many truths about human behavior and human nature, where the symbolism of the labyrinth is the jail, which not only contains the monster, but all the terrorized society by their own ghosts and where the exit passes through memory, where all roads are round, death and birth.

Jorge Luis Borges in his book The Aleph uses the labyrinth as a hermetic metaphor and symbolic consciousness. The labyrinth is a representation of the mind and to get rid of it, it’s necessary to die, as the only way out of the maze to find freedom.

For further details see: http://www.masdearte.com/index.php?option=com_elements&view=guia&id=5&Itemid=28&layout=guia

 

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