Paolo Fedeli - New York (Times Square)

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has mounted numerous solo shows in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is present in several Permanent Exhibitions. His works 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, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting contests. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane cantor of nature.

THEY SAY ABOUT 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 metropolis of a contemporary West, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As, indeed, the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the streets slick with humidity, the muddied atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who wished to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, better said, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, making due distances between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is more dear than the gray song
in which the uncertain unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the blue eyes cry!
Take the eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus the key to reading Paolo Fedeli is revealed: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the daily and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi