WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents “Douche Bag City”, a major exhibition of video-animation, painting, and sculpture by Federico Solmi. Solmi shocked Europe last year by exhibiting “The Evil Empire” (2008), the video portrait of a future Pope whose violent sex addiction leads to widespread ruin. Because of the work’s controversial content, the video was censored in France and Spain. Solmi, who lives in New York, was put on trial in his native Italy for obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion. Later that year, the Guggenheim Foundation honored Solmi by awarding him with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, in the category of video and audio, and commissioned work from him. This year, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco selected Solmi’s latest video, “Douche Bag City” (2010) for exhibition in the SITE Santa Fe Eighth International