Federico Solmi featured in centennial show at Phillips Collection and China museum

Key facts

• Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1973.
• Solmi began his career in New York, where he has lived for many years.
• He is known for narrative video-paintings combining traditional painting with video game systems, motion capture, and 3D modeling.
• Solmi is featured in the centennial exhibition 'Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century' at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
• The Phillips Collection is the first museum of modern art in the United States, founded in 1921.
• The centennial exhibition includes 200 works spanning the museum's 100-year history.
• The museum was founded in memory of Duncan Phillips's father Duncan Clinch Phillips and brother James, who died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
• Solmi also participates in the inaugural exhibition 'Tides of the Century-2020' at the Ocean Flower Island Museum in Danzhou City, Hainan Province, China.
• The exhibition is curated by Wang Chuchen and occupies nine buildings on the artificial island complex Ocean Flower Island.
• Solmi's 2017 video installation 'The Great Farce' is adapted for a 1,600-square-meter circular multimedia room with 50 projectors and a 7.5-meter-high screen.
• The Phillips Collection exhibition runs until September 12, 2021.
• The Ocean Flower Island Museum exhibition runs until December 8, 2021.