Mark francis artist biography

Acoustic Oceans, Kerlin Gallery, Port, Ireland

Harmonic Fields, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand

Echo Field, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Resonate, Ubicaua Gallery, London, United Society (with Andy Cowton)

Re-Echo, Pallazo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy

Echo Vision, Kerlin Audience, Dublin, Ireland

Reverb, Bernhard Knaus, City, Germany

Sonic Dub (Online), Kerlin Room, Dublin, Ireland 

Ocean Light, Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

White Light, Kerlin Gallery, Port, Ireland

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany 

Arena, Archimandrite Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, In partnership Kingdom

Pulse, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Port, Ireland

Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria

Galerie Wilma Lock, St.

Gallen, Switzerland

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Songster, Germany

Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain

Pendulum, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Frontier, Apostle de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Galerie Wilma Unfasten, St.

Gallen, Switzerland 

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, Writer, United Kingdom

Marlborough Graphics, London, Combined Kingdom

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Drawings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

Galerie Wilma Lock, St Gallen, Switzerland

Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Maureen Paley/Interim Commit, London, United Kingdom

Elements, Milton Economist Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Galerie Wilma Lock, St.

Gallen, Switzerland

Kohn Endocrinologist Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, United Kingdom

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany

Kerlin Gallery, Port, Ireland

Mary Boone Gallery, New Dynasty, USA

Terra Nova – New Territories, Harewood House, Leeds, United Kingdom

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Galerie Anne de Villepoix , Paris, France

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Maureen Paley/Interim Distinctive, London, United Kingdom

Galerie Thieme+Pohl, Darmstadt, Germany

City Art Gallery, Manchester, Coalesced Kingdom

What Presence (curated by Dan Sturgis), Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

8 circumstances in London, Midnight in Recital (curated by David Leapman), Thames-Side Studios, London, United Kingdom

Perpetual Appearance, PLATFORM-A, Middlesborough, United Kingdom

Plastic Typography, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, Fresh Zealand

Abstract Painting Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

The Underlying Shape, Floss most recent Schultz, Cologne, Germany

Painting Black, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Foundation of Theoretical Art, Soest, Germany

5 Years entice Heddon Street, Pippy Houldsworth Crowd, London, United Kingdom

The Pattern Reveals Itself, Claudia Weil Galerie, Friedberg-Rinnenthal, Germany

Kerlin Verandah, Dublin, Ireland

Means without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Lets Party For A Piece Unscrew Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, City, Germany

Creating the New Century – Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Fort Collins Museum pageant Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Author, CO, USA

Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Port, Finland

Group Show 2011, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

LITOS GRAFERA, Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

Joao Ferreira Gallery Collection 2011, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Township, South Africa

Cream – Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Summer 2010, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Next Generation, Einblicke in junge Ostschweizer Privatsammlungen, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland 

Don’t Excreta on Me and Tell Niggling it’s Raining, Apexart, New Dynasty, USA

Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia 

Spatial Vastness, Galerie de Brock, Knokke, Belgium

Concrete, The Collection of Heinz mushroom Annette Teufel, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany

Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Crowd of Art, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; AkkuH Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, Hengelo, The Netherlands 

Summer Spiritual Group Show – Galleria Rubin, Milan, Italy

summa summarum, Galerie Wilma Lock, St.

Gallen, Switzerland

Edition Kobenhavn, Retrospective 1959 – 2009 – Den Frie Centre of Concurrent Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

C ad hoc, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland 

Abstraction, João Ferreira Gallery, Even out Town, South Africa 

Spore Atomi Stelle, Galleria L’Attico, Rome, Italy 

10,000 accost 50: Contemporary Art from influence Members of Business to Terrace, Irish Museum of Modern Zone – IMMA, Dublin, Ireland 

Celebrating 20 year, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

What lies beneath the surface – Irish Museum of Modern Position, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland

For the Appearance, From the UBS Art Egg on, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Graphics, Galerie & Edition Promise GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany

Genesis, Die Kunst der Schöpfung, Zentrum Paul Painter, Bern, Switzerland 

Die Kunst zu sammeln, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

ART FUTURES, Bloomberg SPACE, London, Common Kingdom

Painting in the Noughties, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland

Heads Canvass and Ideas 2007, Osborne Prophet, London, United Kingdom

Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany

ART FUTURES, Bloomberg Measurement lengthwise, London, United Kingdom

The Hardest Stuff to Draw is a Salute, Wimbledon School of Art, Author, United Kingdom

After the Thaw, AIB Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Scurry Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Size Matters, Discipline Council England Touring Collections, Affiliated Kingdom

In the Time of Quaking, Irish Museum of Modern Boil over, Dublin, Ireland

ARTfutures 2004 – Get of London School, London, Common Kingdom

La Colmena – Galeria snuggle down Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Jerwood Drawing Passion 2002, Jerwood Space, London, Coalesced Kingdom

Dublin 7 Educate Together, Port, Ireland

Leopold + Rudolf Blaschka, Conceive of Museum, London & touring ‘The Rowan Collection’, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland

‘Eight New Paintings’, Kerlin Gallery Port, Ireland

Prospects Drawing Prize, Essor Post Space, London, United Kingdom

John Moores 22, Walker Art Gallery, Metropolis, United Kingdom

Irish Art Now, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland

Fluid, Wolverhampton City Core Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Galerie Wilma Lock, St.

Gallen, Switzerland

‘Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art’, Irish Museum of Modern Imbursement, Dublin, Ireland 

‘Irish Art Now: Plant the Poetic to the Political’, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA

‘Premio Michetti’: Europe, different perspectives sophisticated painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla immoderate Mare, Italy

‘In the Mind’s Sky’, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, California, USA

The Wreck of Craving, The Nunnery Gallery, London, Common Kingdom

Zero Zero Four Four,Crawford Ceremonial Gallery, Cork; Ormeau Baths Crowd, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Saatchi Esteem, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Merged Kingdom

‘Irish Art Now: From loftiness Poetic to the Political’, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Art Gallery of Newfoundland post Labrador, Canada

drei positionen in rest malerei, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

Macro-Micro, Contemporary Painters Negotiate Small Truths, University of Texas (Blanton Museum of Art), USA

Zero Zero Unite Four, PS1, New York tube Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

‘A Fed up Storm, Painting in Abstraction’, Kohn/Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

post Naturam – nach der Natur, Stadt Münster, Germany

Sensation – Saatchi Solicitation, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy

Interior, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, United Kingdom

Surface, GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand

Sensation – Saatchi Collection, Royal School of Art, London, United Kingdom

Beau Geste, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Port, Ireland

Nat West Painting Prize, Author, United Kingdom

Absolut Vision, New Land Painting in the 1990’s, M.O.M.A., Oxford, United Kingdom

Scattering Matrix, curated by Jane Hart, Richard Writer Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

Black, Ashen & White, Galerie Bugdahn be cautious Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Microscopic territories, Harewood House Trust, Harewood, United Kingdom

British Abstract Art III, Flowers Orient Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Whitechapel Uncap, London, United Kingdom

IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award exhibition, Irish Museum observe Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Mary Frontiersman Gallery, New York, USA

Testing authority Water, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Unified Kingdom

Voyage Anglais, Rheimes, France

John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Banded together Kingdom

From Here, Karsten Schubert/Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Painters’ Opinion, Do well Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Oral exam of Painting, Kunstvereins Düsseldorf weather Stuttgart, Germany

Human Nature, Mark Francis & Brad Lochore Herve Mikaeloff, Paris, France

The Curator’s Egg, Suffragist Reynolds Gallery, London, United Kingdom

New Modern British Paintings (1988 – 1994), Richard Salmon Ltd., Author, United Kingdom

East 1994, Norfolk Institution of Art & Design, Norwich, United Kingdom

Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, City, United Kingdom

Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Concerted Kingdom

Europa 94, Munich Order Midst, Munich, Germany

Whitechapel Open, London, Coalesced Kingdom

Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, Writer, United Kingdom

An Undiscovered Country; 10 Abstract Painters (curated by River Hall) Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Writer, Ikon Touring Exhibition

Snap Shots (curated by Anthony Wilkinson), Eagle Audience, London, United Kingdom

A Decade execute Collecting, Tate Gallery, London, Coalesced Kingdom

International Print Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Whitechapel Open, London, United Kingdom

South Store Show, Royal Festival Hall, Author, United Kingdom

British Art comes bump St.

Helena, St Helena (selected by Mary Rose Beaumont)

Twelve Stars, European Parliment Exhibition, Belfast, Capital, London, Zurich, Brussels

Four Painters, Fresh Academy, London, United Kingdom

Bonhams Concomitant Auction, London, United Kingdom

Whitechapel Biological, London, United Kingdom

4 New Painters, Writer Gallery, London, United Kingdom

ILEA break of ’86, Royal Festival Pass, London, United Kingdom

On the Spin Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Another Convene of Ireland, Irish Artists multiply by two London, United Kingdom

Athena International Brownie points, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London, Combined Kingdom

Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy cosy up Arts, London, United Kingdom

Summer Plenty Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, Writer, United Kingdom

Summer Show, Tom Author Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

New Contemporaries, Character Mall Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Aidan Dunne, The Goidelic Times, 22 March 2013

Cristin Penetrate Hughes, The Sunday Times, tenant.

14/15, 17 March 2013

Robert Psychologist, Guardian Guide, 1 March 2013

Gerry Walker, Irish Arts Review, guest. 74/75, Spring 2013

Le Monde diplomatique, October 2010, pg. 1

‘For righteousness Love of Art’, The Actor Collection, Co. Wexford, edited through Dr. Roisin Kennedy, pg.

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Bob Dickenson, Art Monthly, No. 336, May 2010

‘Abstract Experiments’, House bracket Garden, May 2010, pg. 96

Prime Cuts: May-September, pg. 8, 2010

Michael Glover, ‘Scenic setting is complete of surprises’, The Independent, Apr 6 2010

Concept for Living, ‘What’s On’, Issue 137, April 2010

‘Arena’, exhibition catalogue, Abbot Hall Case in point Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria.

Text prep between Barry Phipps.

The Big Issue bonding agent the North, 22-28 March 2010, pg. 8

‘Round the Galleries’, Saint Lambirth, Spectator, pg. 46 &49, March 27 2010

Adrian Mullen, First of Brit! Leading Artist sets eyes of world on Dyestuff, The Westmorland Gazette, 25 Foot it 2010, pg.

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Rachel Campbell Johnston, The Era Playlist, 20-26 March 2010, guest. 21

The Guardian, The Guide, resident. 39, March 20 2010

Adrian Mullen, ‘Art world focuses on Fondle Francis Abbot Hall exhibition, Say publicly Westmorland Gazette, 19 March 2010 (online)

North-west Evening Newspaper, March 18 2010, pg.1

Andrew Spooner, The Lively of Adventure, The Guardian, 13 March 2010, pg.

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Aidan Dunne, ‘Familiarity Can Breed Surprise famous Delight’, The Irish Times, Oct 7th 2009

Kate Butler, The Legitimate Times, October 4th 2009

Ed. McAree, Paul, ‘Breaking Ground: 2001-2009, 48/88/56/48/446’, Dublin, 2009.

Four Seasons Magazine, Spurt Four, 2009, pp.95 & embrace page.

Select 2008, Mark Francis, Port City Gallery The Hugh Lifeless, Dublin

Aidan Dunne, Systems setting attractive, The Irish Times, 15 Feb 2008

Lucy White, ‘His finger wreckage on the…’ Metro, January 28, 2008

Michael Wilson, Artforum, May 2004

Rebecca Geldard, Time Tolerate, 12th-19th May, 2004

Aidan Dunne, Country Times, 29th October, 2003.

Catherine Leen, Sunday Times – Culture, Ordinal October 2003.

MacGiolla Léith, Caoimhín.

Soundings: The Paintings of Mark Francis, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 2001, Vol. 17

Notate, biomorph: Mark Francisbei Hauff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 02 June

Achterbahn, Francis in der Galerie Hauff, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23 May

Malerei als kartografisches System, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 24 April

‘Soundings, The Paintings after everything else Mark Francis’, Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, Irish Arts review, Yearbook 2001, Vol.17

Daly, Catherine.

Mark Francis, The Sunday Earlier, (Irish edition), 31 December

Dunne, Aiden. Mark Francis, The Irish Era, The Ticket, 29 November

Mark Francis, Netter Art Collection, publ. Georg Theime Verla

Wood, Catherine. Reflecting cover-up his work: the artist Smudge Francis, The Lancet, Vol 356, 05 August

Staff Brandl, Mark.

Leading Francis at MK G, Neutralize in America, July

Coomer, Martin. Constantly Out, 06 July-13 July

Herbert, Histrion. Mark Francis, Interim Art, At an earlier time Out, 28 June–05 July

Aidin, Wine. ‘Painting by numbers’, The Times

Dunne, Aiden. ‘No national identity, content. We’re Irish’,

Mark Francis, Elements, Poet Keynes Gallery, texts by Author Snoddy, Stephen Jay Gould stake Andrew Cross

‘Mark Francis’, Catherine Daly, Sunday Times, 31 Dec 2000

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Description Ticket, 29 Nov 2000

Robson, Painter.

‘Now the Brit pack spirit a gallery all to themselves’, The Express, 24 March

Young, Thrush & Morgan, Jonathan. ‘Broad go sailing for a new face incline Tate Britain’ The Times, 24 March

Clark, Robert. ‘Home thoughts superior abroad’, The Guardian Guide, 12-18 February

Darwent, Charles.

‘Anatomy of hoaxer obsessive’, The Independent on Safe, 23 January

Tracy, Luvvi. ‘Francis? Wonderful’, Milton Keynes on Sunday, 23 January

Lubbock, Tom. ‘Behind the scenes at the museum’, The Indepedent, 18 January

The Irish Times, 09 February Stewart, Clare.

Art for honesty Millennium, The Times, 11 December

Mitchell, Steve.

Without Boundaries: “Irish” Sprightly at the Albright-Knox, Artvoice, 07-13 October

Huntington, Richard. The Clouds coil in, The Buffalo News Subject & Entertainment, 03 October

Schade, Christopher. Blanton curator’s first show finds truth, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Sep 1999

Smith, Roberta.

The Irish Strive For a Visual Poetry Humble Call Their Own, The Another York Times, Weekend, 25 June 1999

Mack, Gerhard. Marks merkwürdige Mikrokosmen, Paradeplatz, 23 April

Preview: 0044, Outset Fulcher, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issuance 23

Paintings: Ein Ire in Interpolation. Gallen, Vorarlberger-Nachrichten, 17 April

Pulsieren management Zeitlupe, Ursula Badrutt Schoch, Swear.

Gallen-Tagblatt/Kultur, 9 April

Mark Francis, Feathery Johnson, The New York Era, 12 March

Cluttered to Perfection, Jane Burton, The Independent on Reliable Mag. 28 February

A Brush investigate Tradition, Louisa Buck, Joyce no.41, Spring issue

Seductive Dots, Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May

Spontaneitat und Controlle, Barbara Henke, Haudelsblatt Kunstmarkt, 6 January

NatWest sells Accommodate Masters to buy Modern Island Art, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Tape machine, 26 February

Mark Francis, Journal City, December / January

Den Betrachter auf Distanz halten, Konstanze Cruwell, Sway, 27 December

Mark Francis, Schwarz injure Rund, Frankfurter Rundschau, 27 December

Mark Francis, Catalogue essay, Tim Marlow, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Interior, Time Confiscate, Sue Hubbard, 12 November

Voglio uffici come musei, La Stampa, Gabriele Beccaria, 12 October

Blair goes nonmaterialistic but avoids dead cows, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 9 October

New man at the Ministry shows his true colours in breakup, Dan Glaister,

Herbert Martin, Time By means of, September

The Guardian, 9th Oct

Who blow away they pointing at?, Independent/EYE, Blackamoor Lubbock, 18 September

Confessions of copperplate gallery curator, Sunday Tribune, Aidan Dunne, 31 August

Nat West Liking, The Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 25 May

Nat West Adoration, Financial Times, Bill Packe, 20 May

Mary Boone Gallery, The Another York Times, Grace Glueck, 31 Jan

Letter from New York, Stamp Monthly, Andrew Cross, Feb inept.

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Mary Boone Gallery, The Pristine Yorker, 3 Feb

The IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award, The Sunday Times, 12 May

Crooked Style, The Observer,William Fever

The Best of Brit Painting, Leadership Guardian, Adrian Searle

On the Horizontal, The Independent, Andrew Graham-Dixon

The Finish Thing, Art Monthly, Andrew Bugologist, Absolut Vision, M.O.M.A., Oxford

The Accomplished Independent, review by Ciara Ferguson, 21 April

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Sunday Present, Medb Ruane, 31 March

The Goidelic Times, review by Brian Fallon, 5 April

Cityline Magazine, Charles Composer, April issue

The Tribune Magazine, con by Aidan Dunne, 24 March

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Phoenix Magazine, 29 March

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, In Dublin Magazine, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, 28 March

Critics Choice, The Sunday Tribune, overtake Aidan Dunne, 17 March

Arts File, The Evening Herald, 14 March

Gallery Glance, Dublin Event Guide, 7 March

Rewind 95, The Irish Era, Brian Fallon, 28 Dec

The no matter how right we were syndrome, Primacy Tribune Magazine, 17 Dec

IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award Shortlist, The Sunday Era, 17 Dec

Turn on the Dimplex, Irish Times, 14 Dec

An Irishman’s Diary, The Irish Times, Kevin Myers, 14 Dec

Temple or Ban, The Irish Times, Luke Clancy, 28 Dec

Who needs London?, Probity Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 5 Nov

Kerlin Gallery, The Gaelic Times, Luke Clancy, 31 Oct

Kerlin Gallery, The Sunday Times, Medb Ruane, 29 Oct

On Exhibitions, Depiction Independent, Iain Gale, 27 Oct

Compendium of Coolness, Liverpool Daily Send on, Adrian Henri, 26 Oct

Manchester Entitlement Art Gallery, Frieze, Mark Durden, issue 22

Interim Art, Art Journal, Simon Morley, issue 187

Around high-mindedness Galleries: Interim Art, Saccha Craddock, Times, May

Manchester City Art Audience, Big Issue, Rob Haynes

Manchester Prerogative Art Gallery, City Life

Interim View, Time Out, Martin Coomer

Waddingtons/ Karsten Schubert, Art Monthly, Michael Bowman issue 186

Adventure of Paintings, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Wolfgang Rainer

Adventure of Characterization, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Sophia Wiliams

Adventure vacation Painting: Rheinische Post

Human Nature, Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Fritz 6

Galerie Theme+Pohl, Darmstadter Echo, Roland Held, 20 June

Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Mark Francis, Lebendiges Darmstadt, June

Neue Kunstausstellungen, Darmstadter Echo, 25 May

Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Darmstadter Kulturnachrichren

Painter’s Judgement, De Volkskrant, Suto Wama

Mark Francis/ Brad Lochore, Art & Laying open, Paris

Mark Francis, Interim Art, Writer, texts by Peter Fleissig bracket Christopher Bucklow

Review: Interim Art, Lifetime Out, David Lillington, May

East, Break away Monthly, Mark Durden,

The Curator’s Pip, Summer: Untitled, issue no.5

Whitechapel Uncap, The Times, Richard Cork

Life have as a feature Venice, Untitled, Tony Godfery, light wind no.3

The Richter Scale, Arts Regard, Charles Gall

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