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The Evil Empire Federico Solmi was born in Italy. He is a self-thought artist. Now Federico based in New York. He demostrates his independent vision showing his video-animation and drawings at the Elga Wimmer PCC and LMAKprojects at 526 West 26 Street in Chelsea. This exhibit received generous support of Italian Cultural Institute in New York and will travel to ADN Galeria in Barcelona, Spain and Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris, France.

Film made at exhibition' opening, March 25th, 2008.

Collaborazione con un affermato artista di arte ontemporanea: Federico Solmi, New York.

Il progetto nasce con lo scopo di progettare e realizzare strumenti "esclusivi ed unici" di promoziione per l'artista Tra i progetti in realizzazione un Ricchissimo Catalogo delle opere dell'artista.

Il catalogo sarà distribuito nelle principali gallerie d’arte di New York e nel resto del mondo, distribuite nelle oltre 40 gallerie ed eventi in cui partecipa continuamente e promuove i suoi lavori l’artista Federico Solmi (Australia, Cina, Italia, India, Spagna, Russia, Portogallo, San Francisco, Houston, Santa Monica, Olanda, Canada, Germania...).

Per maggiorni informazioni: www.federicosolmi.com

Sito Federico Solmi: www.federicosolmi.com

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Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy in April 1973 and currently lives and works in New York.
His exhibitions, which often combine articulate installations composed of different media such as video, drawings, mechanical sculptures and paintings, uses bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present day society.
Power is often the nemesis in his worlds, manifesting itself in the elliptical layers of the Guggenheim Museum (King Kong and the End of the World, video 2006), the shiny Prada shoes of the Pope (The Evil Empire, video 2007), and the personal obsession to be as famous as the giant letters that spell out “Hollywood”.

The artist collects images from the video game industry, pop culture, and the Internet and collages them with a historical influence to produce original artworks about the seemingly disparate subject at hand. In “The Evil Empire”, he looks to the disciplines of the old masters; in one frame of the animation one can pick out a recognizable scene from the video game Doom 3 superimposed on the magnificence that is the dome of the St Peter’s Basilica. The process of his art, similar to his inspirations, involves the cutting edge as well as the ancient. A 3D environment is built to provide a structure for the final drawings that compose his videos. What results from the combination of all these elements is art that is humorous, absurd, and scathingly critical of our contemporary society.

Federico’s work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums around the world including Drawing Center, New York; Victoria Memorial Museum of Calcutta, India; Contemporary Art Museum of Naples, Italy; and Contemporary Art Center of Rouboix, France. In addition, his animations have been screened in several film and video festivals, and in established contemporary art fairs such as Pulse Miami; Pulse New York; Art Brussels; Maco Mexico; Scope Art Fair, Basel; Scope Art Fair, New York; and Artissima. His work has been reviewed by publications such as Flash Art Magazine, Tema Celeste, Art Actuelle, Contemporary
Magazine, ArtNet.com, il Giornale, Marie Claire, Animal Magazine, El Mundo, Exibart on Paper, JamesWagner.
com, Daily News, El Pais, Il Mattino, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Roma, and Duellanti. Exibart on Paper, an Italian based contemporary art magazine, featured a drawing from the video “King Kong and the End of the World” on the cover of its’ January 2006 issue.