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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 …