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LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES is pleased to announce the opening of our 2012 fall season with the premiere of "Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth", a new epic animated film by 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and social provocateur FEDERICO SOLMI. The film has been two years in the making and was commissioned and partially funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation of New York. The gallery–wide exhibition, which will include related paintings, will run from September 8 through October 20, 2012. An artist’s reception will be held on Saturday, September 8th, from 6 to 9 p.m., and will coincide with the opening of Culver City art galleries.

Federico Solmi’s acclaimed animated videos aim to lampoon and condemn a male dominated, hierarchal world––in particular, corrupt, arrogant and hypocritical dictators, politicians, business and religious leaders, and other egomaniacal mad men who are portrayed as the main perpetrators and cause behind the decline of the human race. Solmi’s recent videos have featured a selfish and greedy Wall Street executive, "Douche Bag City" (2010), presented in The Dissolve—2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, and a fictional online porn–addicted Pope, "The Evil Empire" (2007), which has been at the center of several high–profile censorship cases in Europe, the most recent in 2011. Other animated videos by Solmi include "Rocco Never Dies", "The Giant", and "King Kong and the End of the World".