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Attraverso il suo lavoro, ci fa riflettere su come la nostra conoscenza del passato sia distorta, incompleta e incoerente, e ci sfida a mettere in discussione le nostre convinzioni sulla storia. In definitiva egli sostiene che, attraverso lo spirito patriottico e le divisioni religiose, si corra il rischio di perpetrare il mito, inteso come inganno.
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An exhibition of animated video-paintings by Federico Solmi. 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 apart in front of our eyes. In this new video portrait series Solmi parodies the iconography of Historical Portraiture with his own absurd portraits of the leaders, members of The Brotherhood, an organization whose goal is to keep global chaos alive and well and to promote the degeneration of human race. Through his portraits and short narrative videos Solmi exposes history as propaganda— fabricated, manipulated, and carefully crafted by leaders and governments in order to suit their ideals. He underscores how skewed, incomplete, and irresolute is our knowledge of the past, and he challenges us to question our beliefs on history. Ultimately he claims that through our own patriotic or religious partisanship, we may be perpetuating the myth. Federico Solmi (born in Italy, 1973) currently lives and works in New York. Upcoming museum exhibitions include the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (solo), Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile (solo), MIT Boston, Artium Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, CA2M Centro De Arte Dos De Mayo, Madrid, Spain. Solmi's works have been exhibited in several international biennials, such as Frankfurt B3 Biennial of Moving image (forthcoming), First Shenzhen Animation Biennial, China (2013), the 54th Venice Biennial (2011), and Site Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico (2010). In 2009 Solmi was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the category of Video & Audio by the Guggenheim Foundation. Federico Solmi will teach an experimental filmmaking class at Yale University, New Haven in 2016.
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