| Federico Solmi: A Confederacy of Villains |
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| Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:01 |
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From September 23 to December 11, 2010, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan. Jerome Zodo Contemporary Gallery is pleased to host A Confederacy of Villains, the new solo Frederick Solmi, which opens Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 18 and will be open until 11 December 2010. The title of the exhibition, A Confederacy of Villains - literally a confederation of criminals - inspired by the novel by John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (A Band of Idiots), published for the first time in the United States in 1980, eleven years after suicide death of the author. The main character Ignatius Reilly seems to remember the artist: both keen observers of idiocy of some popular culture, what O'Toole describes as "devoid of theology and geometry". But if the chorus of idiots is consumed in the island of New Orleans, the band of Frederick Solmi, continuing to commit errors and ancient barbarism, deals with the vicissitudes of his life "criminal" the creaking boards of a stage apocalyptic. If living with stupidity has turned into tragedy for Toole, for Solmi instead becomes a source of inspiration and nourishment for its visceral art. National premiere, is presented Douche Bag City, the latest video installation artist - the protagonist, simultaneously, the eighth edition of the Biennale of Santa Fe, New Mexico - and a selection of his most animated video installation, exhibited in major international museums and art events, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Drawing Center in New York, for which he received last year, the prestigious award for video art awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation in New York. Federico Solmi, Douche Bag City, Still, 2010 |
