I will first recall Deligne's construction of the weight filtration on the cohomology of complex algebraic varieties. Extending the Formality Theorem of compact Kähler manifolds, I will show that every complex algebraic variety (possibly open and/or singular) is E1-formal: its rational homotopy type is entirely determined by the first term of the spectral sequence associated with the weight filtration.
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