Federico Solmi

Thirty-two years after first opening its doors in New York City, Postmasters has announced it will expand to Rome, reports Alex Greenberger of Artnews.

To say that this year's Armory Week satellite fairs were all over the map would be true in both a geographical and metaphorical sense.

Artists respond to the new global order with works that range from amusing to acidic.

Una de las vigilantes de la exposición Punk, sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo, se levanta de la silla y se queda un rato mirando una de las videoinstalaciones. “Es la historia de un borrachito –cuenta Verónica, 47 años– que por tener su vicio se deja hacer de todo por unos hombres malos”. Con una estética de animación de serie B, al borrachito le meten en una mazmorra, le pasan un rallador de queso por los genitales, le descuartizan y venden su carne a una empresa de latas de atún en conserva.

Satirizing the farce that is an "objective" historical narrative, Federico Solmi’s delightfully garish mashups parade the likes of Marie Antoinette and Mussolini on the red carpet to the sounds of bombastic marching music and paparazzi cameras.

Imagine animating the surging throngs in James Ensor’s monumental 1888 masterpiece, “Christ’s Entry Into Brussels in 1889,” with its grotesque painted caricatures of mobs populating church and state and engulfed in an alarming aura of surging madness. You’ll have some idea of what Federico Solmi’s “The Brotherhood” is like.

FEDERICO SOLMI wins the 'BEN' Main Prize at the  2015 FRANKFURT B3 BIENNIAL

In keeping with the internet age, CONNERSMITH. has recently launched a new online exhibition series on its website. For its inaugural presentation, the gallery features three mixed media video works byFederico Solmi, who is known for using art as a platform for his satirical, at times scathing, commentary on contemporary society. In these recent pieces, he focuses on an event that lends itself all too well to criticism: the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

In an era when grim dystopian narratives abound in literature and film, it is no surprise they’ve infiltrated the realm of art -- for Federico Solmi, in an inventive blend of media

Several of COMPANY's selections for artists to watch in 2011 have increased in value while gaining cirtical notice from the art world establishment.

Someone in charge of scheduling at Mole Vanvitelliana — the main cultural center in the town of Ancona, Italy — is in big trouble.