Federico Solmi
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New York New York USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy in April 1973. He moved to New York City in September 1999, where he currently lives and works. His video-animation has been featured in some of the most prestigious events dedicated to contemporary art. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums exhibitions around the World (emerging filmmaker screening at the Drawing Center, New York, Victoria Memorial Museum of Calcutta, India, Contemporary Art Museum of Naples, Italy, Contemporary Art Center of Rouboix, France. His drawing-animated videos have been screened in several Film and Video festivals, as well as in established contemporary Art Fairs, including Pulse Miami/New York, Art Brussels, Maco Mexico, Preview Berlin, Scope Basel/New York, Artissima, Diva Fair, New York. The works of Federico Solmi were reviewed by Flash Art magazine, Tema Celeste, Art Actuelle, Art Net.com, Contemporary, Marie Claire, Exibart on Paper, Animal Magazine, Duellanti, and many newspapepers such the Dailey News, Il Mattino, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Roma, and Duellanti. A selected drawing from the King Kong video was featured on the cover of the January 2006 issue of Italian based contemporary art magazine Exibart on Paper. Federico Solmi is represented by LMAK Projects Gallery, New York, Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, Paris, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Curators Without Borders, Berlin, Gallery S.E., Norway, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia. Federico Solmi lives and works in New York. UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION 2007-2008 THE EVIL EMPIRE LMAK projects, 526 West 26th Street, # 310, New York, United States, March April, 2008. THE EVIL EMPIRE Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, 21, rue des Filles du Calvaire, 21, Paris, France. February 16 March 23, 2008. THE EVIL EMPIRE Adn Gallery, Enric Granados, 49, Barcelona, Spain. Date to be schedule. THE EVIL EMPIRE Gallery S.E, Sandbrogaten 3, 5003 Bergen , Norway, December 2007 January, 2008. THE EVIL EMPIRE Fabio Paris Art Gallery, via Alessandro Monti 13, Brescia, Italy. November 17 December 17, 2007 THE EVIL EMPIRE NOT Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, P.zza Trieste e Trento Naples, Italy, November 17 December 17, 2007. SOLO EXHIBITION 206-2005 KING KONG AND THE END OF THE WORLD ADN Gallery, Enric Granados 49, Barcelona, Spain, May June, 2006. THE GIANT NOT Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, P.zza Trieste e Trento Naples, Italy, May 12 - July 12 2005. ROCCO NEVER DIES Gallery Boreas,133-A Roebling Street, Brooklyn, New York, February 25 - March 27, 2005. ROCCO NEVER DIES Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Via Alessandro Monti 13, Brescia. Italy, February 24 - March 24, 2005. UPCOMING GROUP EXHIBITION AND ART FAIRS 2007 SLICK 07 Contemporary Art Fair, Paris presented by Adn Gallery, Barcelona and Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, Paris. 4 rue Chιrubini, 75002 Paris, October 19 22, 2007. NUIT BLANCHE 2007 - espace des Blancs Mateaux, Association Les Puces de lArt19, Rue Jules Romain, 75019 Paris, France. October 2007. POETIC AND TERRORISM FEM 2007 - Festival Edicion Madrid curated by Elga Wimmer,Madrid, Spain September 28 30, 2007. PREVIEW BERLIN Contemporary Art Fair, Berlin presented by Adn Gallery Berlin Tempelhof Airport from September 28 to October 1, 2007. MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS ON THE EDGE OF VISION the exhibition will travel to Victoria Memorial Museum of Calcutta, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India - curate by Lorenzo Canova, February September 2007, India. CARTOONS , COMICS IN CONTEMPORART ART Museum of Castel SantElmo, with Assum Vivid Astro Focus, Takashi Murakami, Raymond Pettibon, Nathalie Djurberg. Largo S. Martino, 1 Naples, Italy. Openig April 27, 2007. SAISON VIDEO 2007 Espace Croisι, Contemporary Art Centre, Rouboix, Grand Place, 59100 Roubaix, March 13 31, 2006. EMERGING ANIMATORS SCREENING - Drawing Center New York, 35 Wooster Street, New York, March 15, 2006. NAPOLI PRESENTE Naples Contemporary Art Museum curated by Lorand Hegyi, November 25, 2005 Februuary 26, 2006. FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL ’ VIEDEOMEDEJA 06 - 10th Internationa Video Festival, the Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, December 15- 17, 2006 CINEAMBIENTE International Environmental Film Festival, Corso Regina Margherita 73,Turin, Italy, October 27 31, 2006. EMERGING FILMAKERS Moving Image Centre, 17 Galatos St, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, opening - October 5, 2006. MIAF Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne Australia, June 20 25, 2006. OUTVIDEO 2006 Russia International Video Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Russia, June 5 July 5, 2006. INDIELISBOA Lisbon International Independent Film Festival 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, April 20 -30, 2006. OFF LOOP FESTIVAL Barcelona International Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain, May 10 - 21, 2006. INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE FILM FESTIVAL The Axiom Theatre, Houston, TX, March 11, 2006. 2005 IMPAKT FILM FESTIVAL 2005 Theater Kikker, Utrecht, Holland, December 7 11, 2005. DIVA BRUXELLES Digital and Video Art Fair, The Warehouse 2, Tour & Taxis, Avenue du Port / B, Bruselles, Belgium, April 15, 2005. DIVA NEW YORK Digital and Video art fair, Embassy Suites Hotel, New York, March 11-13, 2005. GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS SCOPE BASEL presented by Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15, Basel,Switzerland, June 12 17, 2007. V07 VENICE VIDEO ART FAIR presented by Fabio Paris Art Gallery Isola di San Servolo Venice, Italy, June 7-10, 2007. ART BRUSSELL presented by Adn Gallery, Brussels Expo - Halls 11 & 12, Place de Belgique, 1 BE-1020 Brussels, Belgium, 20 23 April, 2007. MACO MEXICO Mexico International Contemporary Art Fair presented by LMAK Projects, NY and Bonelli Gallery, Mantova Palmas Park, Av Palmas 515. Col. Lomas de Chapultec, Mexico April 25 29, 2007. 2006 SEX AND CONVENIENCE Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery, 21, rue des Filles du Calvaire, 75 003 Paris,France, January 13 February 3, 2007. VIDEO REVIEW French Cultural Institute of Turin, Italy, December 21, 2006 January 15, 2007. ARTISSIMA 13th International Fair on Contemporary Art, presented by: Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Lingotto Fiere, Via Nizza 294, Turin, Italy November 10 - 12, 2006. STATICK DANCING 2006 New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 7908 Santa Monica Blvd,.West Hollywood, CA, opening October 28, 2006. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Curators Without Borders Gallery, 5 Brunnestrasse, Berlin, Germany, opening September 30th, 2006. THE AFFAIR presented by Gallery Sixtyseven, Jupiter Hotel, 800 E burnside, Portland Oregon, September 29 October 1, 2006. CELEBRITY Gallery Sixtyseven, 547 W 27 Street, 3rd fl. New York, July August, 2006. INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART Emerging Artists - Guggenheim Museum, lecture organized bt Renee Vara, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, March 15th, 2006. PULSE NEW YORK - presented by Gallery Sixtyseven, the 69th Regiment Armory, New York, March 10 - 13, 2006. THE JAUNDICED EYE - Scope Art Fair, curated by David Hunt, 636 Eleventh Avenue, New York, March 10 13, 2006. PERPETUAL ART MACHINE Scope Art Fair, curated by Lee Wells,636 Eleventh Avenue, New York, March 10 13, 2006. REGENERATION ROOM LMAKprojects, curated by Franklin Evans, 60 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, New York, February 17 - March 26, 2006. ARTE FIERA presented by Fabio Paris art gallery and Not Gallery, Contemporary Art Factory, Bologna, Italy January 27- 30, 2006. 2005 PULSE MIAMI presented by Gallery Sixtyseven, December 1 - 4, 2005. HOW CLOSE ARE WE? Endless International Gallery, Shanghai, November 16 30 , 2005 curated by David Pierce. 6F No.713 DongDaMing Road. Shanghai, China. BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD Prodajna Galerija, Beograd, October 22 November 22 , 2005, - Kosancicev venac 19, 11000 Beograd, Serbia & Montenegro. VIDΙO & ELECTRO MIX LIVE Galleria Parisud, 14 bis Rue du Docteur Gosselin, Paris. May 14 June 25, 2005. FLASH ART FAIR Presented by Gallery Boreas, ATA Hotel Executive, Via don Luigi Sturzo 45 Milan, Italy, April 8 - 10 2005. 2004 SENZA FRENI Antonio Colombo Gallery, SENZA FRENI!, Curated by No Production , Via Solferino 44, Milan, Italy, Sept 21 - Oct 22, 2004. DA LONTANO ERA UNISOLA Fabbrica del Vapore, curated by Con-Cura, Via Procaccini 4, Milan, Italy, September 8 22, 2004. ITALIAN PAINTERS AND AMERICAN SCULPTORS IN CONTEMPORARY BROOKLYN organized by Gallery Boreas New York, Gateway Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA, August 9 September 4, 2004. SENSITIVE MATERIAL organized by Frere Independent, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York, , Curated by Jean Michel Arnoult, August 26, 2004. BENEFIT RAFFLE White Columns, New York, New York, April 28 May,2004. 2003 REACTION Exit Art Gallery www.exitart.org, New York, Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, January 12 March 30, 2002. 25TH SMALL WORKS New York University East Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Barbara Millstein, February 2 March 8, 2002. Filmography/Awards Info: The Evil Empire 2007 King Kong and the end of the World 2006 Rocco Never Dies 2005 The Giant 2005 This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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