Karin Weber Gallery is proud to feature a third solo exhibition of paintings by one of Myanmar's founders of avant-garde art, Aung Myint: A New Era, 1995 - 2021. Aung Myint (b. 1946), one of the most influential and pioneering Myanmar modern artists since the 1970s, is celebrated for his unique contributions to the transition of modern art in postcolonial Burma to a more contemporary trajectory. He rejected Western-based artistic practices of realism or impressionism to embrace concepts, form, colour and line, while incorporating elements from Burmese script and Bagan temple paintings alongside his personal history, to produce one of the most unique collections of modern painting from Southeast Asia. This exhibition is another milestone in the gallery's twenty-plus year history of showcasing art from Myanmar.

Primarily self-taught, like many experimental artists of his generation, Aung Myint discovered modern art, including abstraction, impressionism, and cubism, through books, movies, and magazines that pierced then-Socialist Burma's (1962-1988) isolationist borders. In 1989, following the brutal crackdown on the 8 August 1988 student uprising for democratic and economic reforms, Aung Myint, alongside San Minn and other artists, opened Inya Art Gallery at his home to create a gallery space dedicated to modern art, beyond the reach of state censors who remained wary about modern art masking criticism of the state. There, he created and exhibited his paintings, installations, and sculptures, while nurturing the next generation of modern artists.

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