Federico Solmi

Italian | 1973

Federico Solmi is an Italian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1973. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Block Museum have featured Federico Solmi's work in the past.Federico Solmi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 377 USD to 20,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 20,000 USD for Douche Bag City, sold at Phillips New York in 2012. Federico Solmi has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Chicago Gallery News in November 2024.

Featured for Sale

King Kong ,2005

By Federico Solmi

Cambi Auction House, Milan

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Notable Lots

Untitled ,2006

By Federico Solmi

Douche Bag City ,2009

By Federico Solmi

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The Evil Empire ,2007

By Federico Solmi

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King Kong ,2005

By Federico Solmi

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Recent Auction Results

Dick Richman ,2014

By Federico Solmi

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Dick Richman burn in hell - Federico Solmi

Dick Richman burn in hell ,2011

By Federico Solmi

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The Last US Presidente 1000 $ Bill - Federico Solmi

The Last US Presidente 1000 $ Bill ,1000

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Past Exhibitions

End Game

WhiteBox

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Nov 05,2024 - Dec 04,2024

Federico Solmi: The Great Farce

The Block Museum

Evanston | Chicago | Illinois | USA

Sep 19,2024 - Dec 01,2024

TerraTextl

WhiteBox

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Oct 04,2024 - Nov 01,2024

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Articles

Chicago Gallery News 26/11/2024

Past and present, history and amusement, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in聽Federico Solmi鈥檚 monumental media work, The Great Farce (2017).

Berlin Art Link Magazine 16/06/2023

Federico Solmi鈥檚 works are rich in social and political satire.

The Brooklyn Rail 01/11/2022

In a series of framed screens, Douche Bag City (2010), where greedy villains are imprisoned for their atrocities, justice is ultimately apportioned.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Known for his hand-drawn, color-saturated, satirical videos, Solmi seeks to portray a dystopian vision of a present-day society that inexorably continues to regenerate and to renew itself, even as it falls... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Federico Solmi鈥檚 acclaimed animated videos aim to lampoon and condemn a male dominated, hierarchal world鈥撯€搃n particular, corrupt, arrogant and hypocritical dictators, politicians, business and religious... 鈥�
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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

鈥� .. Solmi鈥檚 elaborate process frequently combines drawing and painting with digital and gaming technologies... 鈥�
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鈥� .. Solmi reinvents the visual world of animation by creating and sequencing images using behindthe scenes technology that he borrowed and adapted from film and gaming... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Solmi himself enacts all the main characters in his films and provides the voiceovers, becoming, in effect, a one-man film studio... 鈥�
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