Paolo Fedeli - Dentro Venezia

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Siena Art Institute, earning a diploma as a 'Master of Art.' He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome, and many others. His work is featured in several permanent collections. His artworks are part of many public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in national and international magazines and newspapers. He has participated in major national group art exhibitions, receiving important citations and critical awards. Since 1979, he has won a total of one hundred seventy-six first prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane singer of nature.

They say about him

Paolo Fedeli is an artist of absolute elegance. A storyteller of improbable and unknowable events, of questions without answers.
His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary West, where all architectural landscapes resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, can also seem surprising to us. As is the changing of his language. Yet, we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets shiny with moisture, the smoky atmospheres of smog: there are never any living beings, as if the people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep have eluded the artist's imagination, who wanted to exclude from his poetry any reference to the social or, more precisely, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would agree with him, with the necessary distance between words and colors.
It is also necessary that you do not choose.
Your words without any errors.
Nothing is more precious than the gray song.
where uncertainty joins with precision.
Goes as far as possible from cunning assassin.
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter
What makes the blue eyes cry!
Take the eloquence and twist its neck!
Here is the key to understanding for Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced with the vagueness of uncertainty. The rhetoric of the everyday and the noise of dissonant voices have been replaced with the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi