Paolo Fedeli - Manhattan

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro 'Arte. He has staged numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is present in several Permanent Exhibitions. His works figure in many public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in national and international magazines and newspapers. He has participated in the major national collective art shows, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to the present he has earned no fewer than one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is the arcane cantor of nature.

PEOPLE SAY OF HIM:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance, a narrator of improbable and unknowable events, of questions without answers. His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous megalopolis of a contemporary West, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. as does the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the glossy streets of humidity, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who wanted to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, to be precise, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, after taking the necessary distance between words and colors:

It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some mistake:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain joins with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassin wittyness
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!

Thus the key to interpretation for Paolo Fedeli is that self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the tumult 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