Please answer the following question: Facts: - caption: '' -rrb- a song of tyranny '' -lrb- video still - field: video art - works: '' '' video trilogy -lrb- 2011-2014 -rrb- , '' douche bag chinese city '' video installation -lrb- 2010 -rrb- , '' the democracy evil empire '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- , '' king kong and and the end of the world '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- the last day on earth - birth date: 1973 - name: federico solmi - nationality: american - birth place: bologna , italy Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of federico solmi .
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federico solmi -lrb- born april 1973 in bologna , italy -rrb- is a brooklyn-based , bologna-born visual artist living in new york .in 2009 solmi was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in the category '' video & audio '' .solmi utilizes images culled from the video game industry , internet and pop culture with a nod to history that results tongue-in-cheek collages that result in sometimes-grotesque caricatures of the modern political society .his unique process is characterized by a literal overlapping of painting and video which consists of several stages of hand-painted textures that are scanned into a 3-d video gaming program -lrb- cry engine -rrb- and then wrapped around 3-d models and backgrounds to create a parodic world influenced just as much by science fiction as it is modern tabloids and ancient history .most of his video works are housed in handpainted wood and plexiglass frames or embedded amidst a painting in which certain areas are cut away to more directly integrate the different media .such is why solmi describes the bulk of his work as '' video-paintings '' .