Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy, and has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York, since 1999. Solmi’s work portrays a dystopian vision of our present-day society through recurring themes of irony and satire. He uses his art as a vehicle to stimulate a visceral conversation with his audience, highlighting the contradictions and fallibility that characterize our time. His exhibitions often feature installations composed of a variety of media, including video, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
Solmi examines unconscious human impulses and desires to critique Western society’s obsession with individual success and display contemporary relationships between nationalism, colonialism, religion, and consumerism. By re-configuring historical narratives across eras, he creates social and political commentary works which disrupt the mythologies that define American society.
Solmi’s videos confront the audience with his own absurd rewriting of past and present, merging dark humor and sense of the grotesque with new technologies. He creates a carnivalesque virtual reality where our leaders become puppets, animated by computer script and motion capture performance rather than string.
REELS
In REELS, the origins of film meet the Metaverse. Inspired by the traditional cinematic techniques used in silent film, Solmi’s works depict characters dressed in an eccentric range of historical costumes, immersed in a cyber atmosphere of the future. REELS is a series of flickering loops where tech tycoons and founding fathers coexist in a timeless space.
Warren Buffet with Poodle
Dressed as a 16th century English aristocrat, Warren Buffett holds a poodle in a pose that mimics Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
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Founding Father Dances with Sitting Bull
Historical rivals embrace in an intimate dance, immersed in a fantastical realm where time and space collapse and history is re-imagined.
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Napoleon Dances with Garibaldi
Military commanders dance and flirt endlessly, immersed in a surreal world.
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