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Federico
Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse
examines the work of Federico Solmi, a leading practitioner in the genre
of new media art. As a narrative and figurative artist, Solmi utilises lurid colours
and satire to portray a dystopian vision of contemporary society, highlighting the
contradictions and fallibilities that characterise our time. Employing video, painting,
drawing, sculpture, sound and digital game design, he creates a carnivalesque virtual
reality with historical and present-day world leaders - animated by computer script
and motion capture performance - in a critique of Western society's obsession with
power. Inspired by real events and fabricated myths, Solmi explores, re-interprets
and concocts celebrated moments in history. As reconfigured narratives, these social
and political commentaries disrupt the mythologies that underpin Western society,
revealing its ties to nationalism, colonialism, religion and consumerism.

The book documents
Solmi's unique process of melding traditional art practices and digital technologies
in a case study of his most ambitious video-painting to date, The Bathhouse
(2020). Pioneering new modes of cultural production and art experience afforded
by the metaverse, Solmi's absurd rewriting of past and present merge dark humor
and a sense of the grotesque in a virtual world that indicts our own reality.

Solmi was born in 1973 to a working-class family in Bologna, Italy. He is self-trained and self-educated. In 1999, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue his career. His perspective reflects his outlook as a cultural voyeur, questioning the nationalistic and revisionist American mythologies that are often presented as fact. In 2003, Solmi began to experiment with the tools of video game design, fascinated by the parallel universe made possible by 3D graphics, which he saw as a structure to create narrative video sequences using drawings and paintings. Every visual texture is painted and scanned on the computer up to three times to achieve the intentional flickering effect. The art of Paolo Uccello, Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio di Chirico serve as references for his visual compositions, while the writings of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and Oriana Fallaci serve as inspiration for his social and political commentary.


About the Author:

Federico Solmi is a new media artist, best known for his sardonic video-paintings and video installations, with a multimedia practice that incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, digital design and game design. Born in 1973 in Bologna, Italy, Solmi moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1999, where he lives and works today.

Solmi's work has been featured in numerous solo
and group exhibitions in the US: Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; Luis de
Jesus Los Angeles; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC; Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey; Times Square Arts, New
York; Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois; Rochester Contemporary Art Center,
Rochester, New York; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois;
and Postmasters Gallery, New York. And internationally: Ocean Flower Island Museum,
Hainan Province, Danzhou, China; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin; ADN Galeria, Barcelona;
1335MABINI, Manila; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del ZulIa, Maracaibo, Venezuela;
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy; Centro
Cultural Mantucana 100, Santiago, Chile; Gleichapel, Paris; Galerie Vernon, Prague,
Czech Republic; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, Spain; Galerie Zimmermann
Kratochwill, Fraz, Austria; and Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway; as well as international
art biennials and festivals.

His work is in the permanent collections of: The
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois; Tarble Art Center, Charleston, Illinois; Buckhorn Sculpture
Park, Sherry and Joel Mallin Collection, Pound Ridge, New York; 21C Museum Hotels,
Louisville, Kentucky; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai; Thoma Foundation,
Chicago and Santa Fe; Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, Rome, Italy; and Collezione
BolognaFiere, Bologna, Italy.

From 2016-19, Solmi was Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut, and he is Guest Critic for 2022. His awards include a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship for Video and Audio in the Unites States and Canada from the John H Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781912165476
  • Publisher: Black Dog Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Black Dog Press
  • Height: 310 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 290 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1912165473
  • Publisher Date: 18 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1268 gr


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