--- title: 2019_Solmi_City Paper_Sarappo date: 2019-10-12T12:39:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-solmi-city-paper-sarappo" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Federico Solmi](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) VisArts' Parallels and Peripheries: Migration and Mobility Meditates on Crossing Borders Washington City Paper Oct 09, 2019 When a grotesque version of **Donald Trump** struts onto the promenade in **Federico Solmi**’s video piece “The Machiavellian Ones,” his cartoonish depiction is no surprise. In fact, he’s one of the least distorted and exaggerated characters around in the frenzied, colorful, hyperpatriotic gathering of figures dressed in overembellished military uniforms and powdered Georgian wigs. Like Solmi’s Trump, they have ruddy cheeks and are colored with scribbles that slide and shift as the characters clip through 3D objects in the video game-like world, but their demented, pointy-toothed smiles are wider than his, and their pupils are blacker and more blank. The Mount Rushmore depicted in acrylics on the LCD screen’s plexiglass frame is also sinister and sniveling, depicted in feverish, frightening color. Perhaps that’s fitting: Solmi clearly sees the Founding Fathers and this country’s revered leaders as just as—if not more—brutal and farcical than our current president. (A gallery copy of his coloring book *Counterfeit Heroes* makes this point well.) **[Read more here.](https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/article/21091620/parallels-and-peripheries-migration-and-mobility-reviewed)** Related News & Press Oct 09, 2019 [ ![Wilke Force Of Nature Installation View 3](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Force-Of-Nature-Installation-View-3.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wilke-the-new-yorker-fateman) Oct 09, 2019 The New Yorker [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Goings on About Town: Hannah Wilke, Feldman](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-wilke-the-new-yorker-fateman) Oct 07, 2019 [ ![Van Aken Tree Of 40 Fruit](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken-Tree-of-40-Fruit_191008_210518.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-van-aken-ted-talk) Oct 07, 2019 Ted Talk [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-van-aken-ted-talk) Sep 24, 2019 [ ![Open Spaces Federico Solmi Kcweb](/assets/exhibition_images/OpenSpacesFedericoSolmiKCWEB.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-solmi-northwestern-now-kulke) Sep 24, 2019 Related News & Press [Federico Solmi](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [Federico Solmi’s surreal, satirical universe comes to The Block Museum collection](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-solmi-northwestern-now-kulke) Sep 24, 2019 [ Research findings are rarely black and white but this one is a genuine exception. ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-strebe-financial-times-ahuja) Sep 24, 2019 Financial Times [Diemut Strebe](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [Science sets out to conquer the contested art of darkness](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-strebe-financial-times-ahuja) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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