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Harald Smykla is a German-born artist who has been London-based since 1988. He studied painting and printmaking at Karlsruhe in the 1980s, and pictorial concerns still inform the ephemeral, site-time, context-specific and frequently collaborative live art practice he has pursued since the late 1990s. He has exhibited and performed throughout Britain and Europe and presented work in Israel and Croatia during the MAP Live Performance Art Exchange programme. He performed as part of East Wing Collection VIII (2008-09) at the Courtauld Institute, London, and at the Quad film festival in Derby, where his Movie Protocol drawings were exhibited (2010-11); and at the launch of UnSpooling - Artist & Cinema at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2010).  He exhibited with England & Co at the Zoo Art Fair (2009), and had a solo exhibition at the gallery Harald Smykla: Movie Protocols & Other Activities in 2010. Smykla has participated in numerous the group exhibitions at the gallery, most recently in Trailer (with Alberto Duman); Wandering Lines i & ii (2011 & 2012) and Screen Practice (2012).

Harald Smykla has been awarded the 2022 Brewers Towner International Prize for his series of works Iconoclash Press Flowers and Ovid Press Rewilding.

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Desert Island Apple Discs 2010
25.5 x 36 inches
Pigment ink on dried apple slices, pencil and tape on paper
Ref: HS17

Movie Protocol: Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Performance event 2009

Lightfast ink on acrylic sheets
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1: Eat Your Words
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

22 Bytes 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS005

Movie Protocol: The Lucky Dog (Laurel & Hardy, dir Jess Robbins) 2009

Performance event at Zoo Art Fair

2: Launch of the Sushi Armada
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Untitled 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS008

Movie Protocol: Kagemusha (Kurosawa) 2009

Performance event at Zoo Art Fair

3: Fresh Scents for Chess Friends
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Horizontal Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS006

4: Clean Sweep/Gorf Castle
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Vertical Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
Ref: HS007

5: Ticker Countdown
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Song Book 2003
21.5 x 36 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on tracing paper
SOLD
Ref: HS001

6: Re-Cover
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

7: Face Value (pilot) – Cash for Sale
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

8: Drawing Disco at Gorf Castle Ball- and Drawing Room
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

9: Ain’t No Love for Sale (The Deptford VOracLE)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

10: Johannistag
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

11: Buffalo Bill Performance Spaziergang
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

12: Random Rundum Observation
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

13: Performative Guidance
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

14: Fruit/Veg Chess Deptford X
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

15: Endgame Ticker (My Heart Beats for the European Champion)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

16: Face Value Brixton
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

17: Royal Crunch
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

18: Zweite D-Markierung: Lokalwaehrung (Second D-Markation: Local Currency)12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch
Mixed media on paper

19: PAC Live Movie #3: Dog Whip; Reverse Ladder
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

20: Bow[o]man Cosmetics
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

21: T-Rent
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

22: The T-Hams Feast
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

23: Fruit/Veg Chess East
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

24: Song of Songs
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

25: Ticker (pilot)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

26: Face Value Portrait Services Ladywood Branch
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

27: Tick-Toer/Toe-Ticker
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

28: Melting Plot #1
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

29: PAC Live Movie #4: Anna O double juggling
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

30: C.R.E.H.A.
(Centre for Research into Emotional Hygiene through Art)
12 x 17.25 inches

The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

31: Put Your Hands Together for the Kelling Sea-Feed (Home visits) The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

32: The Rolling Garden of Redriff
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

33: Put Your Hands Together for the Kelling Sea-Feed (Conclusion)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

34: Origami Pool
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

35: Straight from the heart (Days of my life)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

36: Nothing Other, Brother/Nothing Sinister, Sister
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

37: Ticker EEC
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

38: Annual Return (Loss Account)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

39: C.R.E.H.A. on the canal boat Auriga
(for Harry Palmer’s The Sirens Project)
12 x 17.25 inches

The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

40: Zebra (set-up)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

41: Synchronised Swingers of Bermondsey
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

42: Calorific Face Value (Nutritional Portrait Gallery Peckham)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

43: PAC Live Movie #5: Anna O Falling/Rising
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

44: Melting Plot #4
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

45: Europe and the Bull
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

46: Greenwich Reprojection (Archijection/Blueprint)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

47: Day 16K, part 1
Ground Preparation (Audio-Fluidity/250 Chessboards)
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

48: Day 16K, part 2
(Transfer Ticker: Per Tenebras ad Lucem – 'Through Darkness to the Light')
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

49: Perfect Square Day, part 1
(4⁷ – On reaching Life's Last Perfect Square)
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

50: Perfect Square Day, part 2
(2¹⁴ – A North Southwark Chess Pilgrimage)
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

51: Perfect Square Day, part 3
(4⁷ Reprise: Transit)
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper

52: Melting Plot: Portals
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

53: In Dada still relevant for the 21st century?
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

54: Spawning
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

55: PAC Live Movie #7: Chess Footsie
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

56: PAC Live Movie #1: Anna O juggling her hysteria
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

57: Psychological Art Circus: The Tent Season
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

58: Zebra (revealed)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

59: Carmen Horti Whittensis
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

60: To Anna Blune
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

61: Ticker Self
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

62: Psychological Art Circus at St George’s Circus
The 7-Year Itch

12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

63: OHP Road Movies (Obus 2)
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

64: C.R.E.H.A.
(Centre for Research into Emotional Hygiene through Art)
12 x 17.25 inches
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media

65: Silkworm's Dream
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

66: PAC Live Movie #2: Cushion Throwing
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

67: PAC Live Movie #6: Snake Hand
The 7-Year Itch
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

68: PAC Live Movie #7: Beard of the Father
The 7-Year Itch 68
12 x 17.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Movie Protocol Triptych Lightfast ink on paper, in acrylic cases
2009

Left: Olympia 1, Fest der Schönheit (Leni Riefenstahl)
Centre: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Right: Olympia 2, Fest der Völker (Len
Ref: HS009