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Leang Seckon’s First European Solo Exhibition Opens at Rossi & Rossi

Leang Seckon -  "The Smoke of Death", 2010 - Mixed media on canvas - 42 x 52 cm. - Courtesy of Rossi & Rossi

LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi present Leang
Seckon in
the artist’s first European solo exhibition. Among the foremost members
of the
emerging Cambodian contemporary art scene he was born at the onset of
the
American bombings of Indochina and grew up during the rise of the brutal
Khmer
Rouge regime.
As a result of these tumultuous years he was left
without
a birth certificate and unable to verify his exact age. On
exhibition 31
March through 29 April, 2010.