Federico Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse examines the work of
Federico Solmi, a leading practitioner in the genre of new media
art. As a narrative and figurative artist, Solmi utilises lurid
colours and satire to portray a dystopian vision of contemporary
society, highlighting the contradictions and fallibilities that
characterise our time. Employing video, painting, drawing,
sculpture, sound and digital game design, he creates a
carnivalesque virtual reality with historical and present-day world
leaders - animated by computer script and motion capture
performance - in a critique of Western society's obsession with
power. Inspired by real events and fabricated myths, Solmi
explores, re-interprets and concocts celebrated moments in history.
As reconfigured narratives, these social and political commentaries
disrupt the mythologies that underpin Western society, revealing
its ties to nationalism, colonialism, religion and consumerism. The
book documents Solmi's unique process of melding traditional art
practices and digital technologies in a case study of his most
ambitious video-painting to date, The Bathhouse (2020). Pioneering
new modes of cultural production and art experience afforded by the
metaverse, Solmi's absurd rewriting of past and present merge dark
humor and a sense of the grotesque in a virtual world that indicts
our own reality. Solmi was born in 1973 to a working-class family
in Bologna, Italy. He is self-trained and self-educated. In 1999,
he moved to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue his career. His
perspective reflects his outlook as a cultural voyeur, questioning
the nationalistic and revisionist American mythologies that are
often presented as fact. In 2003, Solmi began to experiment with
the tools of video game design, fascinated by the parallel universe
made possible by 3D graphics, which he saw as a structure to create
narrative video sequences using drawings and paintings. Every
visual texture is painted and scanned on the computer up to three
times to achieve the intentional flickering effect. The art of
Paolo Uccello, Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio di Chirico serve as
references for his visual compositions, while the writings of
Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and Oriana Fallaci serve as inspiration
for his social and political commentary.
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