On October 23, 2024, The Block Museum of Art hosted a conversation between artist Federico Solmi and Ozge Samanci, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, moderated by exhibition curator Janet Dees. The evening highlighted Solmi’s immersive installation, “The Great Farce,” an intense, satirical exploration of power and historical narratives, on display at the museum. […]
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On the occasion of The Block’s presentation of The Great Farce, exhibition curator Janet Dees, sat down with artist Federico Solmi to discuss the creation and context of his work. What inspired you to make The Great Farce? I started working on this piece in 2016. When I came to America from Italy in 1999, […]
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Past and present, history and myth, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmi’s The Great Farce (2017), a monumental media work in the collection of Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, on view this fall. The museum will mount its first full presentation of Solmi’s installation with the exhibition Federico Solmi: The Great Farce […]
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