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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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Statement

Federico Solmi (Italy, 1973) currently lives and works in New York. His exhibitions, which often combine articulate installations composed of different media such as video, drawings, mechanical sculptures and paintings, use bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present day society. Irreverent, surrealistic, the videos and the works by Federico Solmi are as he is: extravagant, rowdy and ironic. They are satires about the evilness and the vices that affect contemporary society and mankind. The artist uses images culled from the video game industry, pop culture, and the Internet and collages them with a historical influence to produce original artworks about the seemingly disparate subject at hand. The universe that Solmi likes to represent is the exaltation of a present that is crumbling apart. His work is a criticism of a system that approves and trusts without questioning the fragile foundation on which our culture and post-modernist society is based.


Biography

1973 born in Italy

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2020
The Great Debauchery, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ / USA

2019
The Grand Masquerade, Tarble art Center, Charleston Illinois, curated by Michael Schuelz / USA
Mundus Novus, ADN Gallery Barcelona / ESP
The Armory Show, Ronald Feldman Gallery New York / USA

2018
The Good Samaritans, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester NY / USA
The Great Expedition, Mabini Projects, Manila / PHL

2017
Counterfeit Heroes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Zulia / VEN

2016

THE BROTHERHOOD – Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, June 4 - July 9
AMERICAN CIRCUS - Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, curated by Hadas Yossifon, December 15, 2015 - June 26. 2016

2015
The Great Dictator, Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Naples / IT
The Brotherhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York / USA
A Song of Celebrities, Politicians, and Dictators - Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago / CHL
Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Gleichapel Paris / FR

2014
Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Vernon Gallery, Prague / CZE

2013
A Song of Tyranny, Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid / ESP
Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Postmasters Gallery, New York / USA

2012
Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles / USA

2011
The Swine Philosophy, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz / AUT

2010
Douche Bag City, Conner Contemporary, Washington / USA
Douche Bag City, Czech Center, Prague / CZE A
Confederacy of Villains, Jerome Zodo Contemporary. Milan / IT
From Uterus to Grave with No Happy Ending, LMAK Projects, New York / USA

2009
Walking with the Devil Not, Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, P.zza Trieste e Trento, Naples, Italy

2008
The Evil Empire, LMAK Projects/Elga Wimmer PCC Gallery, New York / IT
The Evil Empire, ADN Gallery, Barcelona / ESP
The Evil Empire, Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, Paris / FR

2007
The Evil Empire, Gallery s.e, Bergen / NOR

2006
King Kong And the End of the World, ADN Gallery, Barcelona / ESP

2005
The Giant, Not Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, Naples / IT
Rocco Never Dies, Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn, New York / USA
Rocco Never Dies, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia / IT

Group exhibitions

2019
The Quest of Happiness. Italian Contemporary Art today, Serlachius, Museum, Mänttä,/ FNL

2018
White Anxienties, Whitebox, New York City / USA
Truth or Dare a Reality Show, UMKC Gallery Kansas City / USA
Open Space 2018: A Kansas City Arts Experience – Kansas City / USA
Reprise: Summer Show 2018, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York / USA
American Beauty, Gallery Comunale D’arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone / IT

2017
On Desire, Frankfurt B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Frankfurt / DE
Tension and Conflicts: Video Art Since 2008 - MATT Museum Lisbon / PRT
COMM/ALT/SHIFT - Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark / USA
Art on the Front Lines - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York / USA
Vitel Tonne, Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi, Venice / IT
A View from the Cloud, Streaming Museum New York, New York / USA
Citizens, Petach Tikva Museum of Art / ISR
Silver Lining - 25 Years of Art at the Elga Wimmer PCC, New York / USA

2016
Quadriennale di Roma - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma / IT
Punk. its Traces in Contemporary Art, Macba, Museum Of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Artium Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz / ESP
CA2M Centro De Arte Dos De Mayo, Madrid / ESP
Face to Face, A selection from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno / IT
PIGS, Artium Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz / ESP
 Make America Great Again, White Box, New York / USA
Ecycling Religion, White Box, New York / USA

2015
Expanded Senses, B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Frankfurt / DE
Ha Ha! Business - Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles / USA
Woman Crush Wednesday #Wcw, Postmasters Gallery, New York / ESP
Intimate Strangers, Politics As Celebrity, Celebrity As Politics, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago / CHE
Praestigium Contemporary Artists from Italy, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo di Torino / IT
Black Mirror, École Supérieure d'Art et Design, Toulon / FR

2014
Luminous Flux, Digital and Geometric Art from the Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe / USA
The Armory Show, presented by Postmasters Gallery, pier 94, New York / USA
Circle 1 Platform for Arts & Culture, Berlin / USA

2013
Other People's Problem Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Arts / ISR
Premio Cairo, Museo della Permanente Milan / IT
Expo Video, Expo Chicago / USA
The Garden of the Forking Paths: Exploring Independent Animation - Oct Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai / CN

2012
Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York / USA
The Persistence Oi Memories Selections from the Mosquera Collection, Broward College, Miami / USA
Under the Influence: the Art of Power and Persuasion, Kianga Ellis Projects, Brooklyn, New York / USA
First Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial, Shenzhen / CHN
7th Berlin Biennial: Artwiki -digital venue of the 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin / DE

2011
54th Venice Biennial, Venezia / IT
Site Santa Fe Biennial, The Eighth International Biennial exhibition, Santa Fe / USA
The Armory Show, New York / USA
Iconoclasts & Iconodules, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi / IND

2010
Inversion of the Ideal, Galerie Zimmerman Kratochwill, Graz / AUT
Impresa Pittura, Ciac, Centro Internazionale D'Arte Contemporanea Gennazzano, Roma / IT
Communicate, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan / IT

2009
The Best is Yet to Come, Gallery Glance, Turin / IT
The Practice of Joy before Death; It Just Would Not Be A Party Without you,
Scaramouche Gallery, New York / USA
I mostri - Galerie Van Der Stegen, curated by Yann Perol Paris / FR

2008
Impakt Highlights: Yourspace - National Center for Contemporary of Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod / RUS
Supermodern - Nothing is What it Seem, National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, curated by Lee Wells, Moscow / RUS
Xvi Quadriennale Di Roma, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome / IT
Opla’_Videoanimation from Italy, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris / FR
Art Brussels, Brussels / BEL Flicker Fusion, Houston / USA

2007
Extremes & In-Betweens, Long Island City, New York / USA
Drawing Out, Galleria Biagiotti, Curated by Lorenzo Giusti, Firenze / IT
Poetic terrorism, Festival Edicion Madrid, Madrid / ESP
SAISON VIDEO 2007, Espace Croisé, Contemporary Art Centre, Roubaix / FR
On the Edge of Vision, Victoria Memorial Museum of Kolkata; National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi; and National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai / IND
Sex and Convenienc, Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, Paris / FR

2006
Napoli Presente, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Naples / IT
Statick Dancing 2006, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles / USA
Escape from New York, Curators Without Borders, Berlin / DE
Celebrity - Gallery Sixtyseven, New York / USA

2005
Vidéo & Electro Mix Live, Galleria Parisud, Paris / FR

2004
Da lontano era un’isola, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan / IT

2003
25th Small Works, New York University East Gallery, New York / USA
Reaction, Exit Art Gallery, New York / USA

Screenings

2018
Shanghai Exhibition Hall, Shanghai Design Week / CHN
Sunset Boulevard Billboards, organized by curator Jessica rich in Partnership with City of west Hollywood / USA
Storytek, Linz / AUT

2017
Ars Electronica, Linz / AUT

2016
EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck / DE

2015
Moving Image, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris / FR

2014
Mostra Internazionale Del Nuovo Cinema Di Pesaro, Pesaro / IT

2013
Dallas Video Fest 26, Dallas / USA
Incubate Festival, Tilburg / NLD
OK Video Festival, National Nasional, Jakarta / IDN
Moving Image, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris / FR
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin / DE

2012
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais De Tokyo, Paris / FR
Aiva Festival, international video art Festival, Angelholm / SWE

2011
Play Start, Pecci Contemporary Museum of Art Milan / IT
Analog to Digital, Lacda, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. New York / USA

2010
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Reina Sofia Museum National, Madrid / ESP
Atopic Festival, international Festival of Machinima, Paris / FR

2009
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel / DE
Tina B. New Era, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague / CZE
Impakt Festival, Theater Kikker and filmtheather't Hoogt, Utrecht / NLD

2008
The Rencontres Internationales, Centro de Art Dos de Mayo, Madrid / ESP
Art Tech Media 2008, Cordoba / ESP
Video Art Festival #003, Harvestworks digital media arts center, New York / USA
MIAF, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne / AUT
Cortoons, Teatro Palladium. Rome / IT

2007
F.E.M 2007, Festival Edicion Madrid / ESP

2006
Videomedeja 06, 10th International Video Festival, the Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad / RUS
Emerging Filmakers, Moving Image Centre, Auckland / NZL
Outvideo 2006, Russia International Video Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar / RUS
Off Loop Festival, Barcelona International Video Festival, Barcelona / ESP
Indielisboa, Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon / PRT

2005
impakt film festival 2005, Theater Kikker, Utrecht / NLD
Diva New York, Digital and Video Art Fair. New York / USA

Awards & scholarships

2016 Visinting Professor, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT
2015 Awarded with the BEN Prize Frankfurt B3 Biennial of Moving Images
2009 Awarded with the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Video and Audio

Public collections

Buckhorn Sculpture Park, Sherry and Joel Mallin Collection – Pound Ridge, New York / USA
21 C Museum Hotel – Louisville, Kentucky / USA
OCAT, Oct Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, China
Thoma Foundation, Chicago/Santa Fe
Collezione Farnesina Experimenta Rome, Italy
Collezione Bologna Fiere Spa, Italy

Federico Solmi
1973 born in Italy Solo exhibitions (selection) 2020 The Great Debauchery, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ / USA 2019 The Grand Masquerade, Tarble art Center, Charleston Illinois, curated by Michael Schuelz / USA Mundus Novus, ADN Gallery Barcelona / ESP The Armory Show, Ronald Feldman Gallery New York / USA 2018 The Good Samaritans, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester NY / USA The Great Expedition, Mabini Projects, Manila / PHL 2017 Counterfeit Heroes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Zulia / VEN2016 THE BROTHERHOOD – Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, June 4 - July 9 AMERICAN CIRCUS - Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, curated by Hadas Yossifon, December 15, 2015 - June 26. 2016 2015The Great Dictator, Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Naples / IT The Brotherhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York / USA A Song of Celebrities, Politicians, and Dictators - Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago / CHL Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Gleichapel Paris / FR 2014Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Vernon Gallery, Prague / CZE 2013A Song of Tyranny, Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid / ESP Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Postmasters Gallery, New York / USA 2012Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles / USA 2011The Swine Philosophy, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz / AUT 2010Douche Bag City, Conner Contemporary, Washington / USA Douche Bag City, Czech Center, Prague / CZE A Confederacy of Villains, Jerome Zodo Contemporary. Milan / IT From Uterus to Grave with No Happy Ending, LMAK Projects, New York / USA 2009 Walking with the Devil Not, Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, P.zza Trieste e Trento, Naples, Italy 2008The Evil Empire, LMAK Projects/Elga Wimmer PCC Gallery, New York / IT The Evil Empire, ADN Gallery, Barcelona / ESP The Evil Empire, Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, Paris / FR 2007The Evil Empire, Gallery s.e, Bergen / NOR2006King Kong And the End of the World, ADN Gallery, Barcelona / ESP2005The Giant, Not Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, Naples / IT Rocco Never Dies, Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn, New York / USA Rocco Never Dies, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia / IT Group exhibitions 2019 The Quest of Happiness. Italian Contemporary Art today, Serlachius, Museum, Mänttä,/ FNL 2018 White Anxienties, Whitebox, New York City / USA Truth or Dare a Reality Show, UMKC Gallery Kansas City / USA Open Space 2018: A Kansas City Arts Experience – Kansas City / USA Reprise: Summer Show 2018, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York / USA American Beauty, Gallery Comunale D’arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone / IT 2017 On Desire, Frankfurt B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Frankfurt / DE Tension and Conflicts: Video Art Since 2008 - MATT Museum Lisbon / PRT COMM/ALT/SHIFT - Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark / USA Art on the Front Lines - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York / USA Vitel Tonne, Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi, Venice / IT A View from the Cloud, Streaming Museum New York, New York / USA Citizens, Petach Tikva Museum of Art / ISR Silver Lining - 25 Years of Art at the Elga Wimmer PCC, New York / USA2016Quadriennale di Roma - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma / IT Punk. its Traces in Contemporary Art, Macba, Museum Of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Artium Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz / ESP CA2M Centro De Arte Dos De Mayo, Madrid / ESP Face to Face, A selection from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno / IT PIGS, Artium Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz / ESP Make America Great Again, White Box, New York / USA Ecycling Religion, White Box, New York / USA 2015Expanded Senses, B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Frankfurt / DE Ha Ha! 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Federico Solmi
The Ballroom

Artist Federico Solmi
Year 2016
Duration 5:41 min
Technical info Painted Video Animations
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About the video

With his typical sardonic and irreverent approach, Federico Solmi has orchestrated a masquerade between history’s most feared and beloved leaders in his latest work, “The Ballroom”. In the installation, videos display surreal vignettes of a lavish ballroom party that converge multiple narratives of gluttony, gossip, and over the top exuberance. The follies of each overly ambitious leader result in a chaotic festival of drinking, smoking, dancing, and feasting. A vain display of ridiculous costumes, shining with medals and jewelry, promote a visual disorder that coalesces with the indulgent antics of these powerful figures. Rather than reimagining history, the leaders enter into our conceited present-day celebrity culture. They call to fault our own complacency and perpetuation of skewed historical myths and perspectives.

Federico Solmi - The Ballroom
With his typical sardonic and irreverent approach, Federico Solmi has orchestrated a masquerade between history’s most feared and beloved leaders in his latest work, “The Ballroom”. In the installation, videos display surreal vignettes of a lavish ballroom party that converge multiple narratives of gluttony, gossip, and over the top exuberance. The follies of each overly ambitious leader result in a chaotic festival of drinking, smoking, dancing, and feasting. A vain display of ridiculous costumes, shining with medals and jewelry, promote a visual disorder that coalesces with the indulgent antics of these powerful figures. Rather than reimagining history, the leaders enter into our conceited present-day celebrity culture. They call to fault our own complacency and perpetuation of skewed historical myths and perspectives.

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