Paolo Fedeli - Venezia sognata 2

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. 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 are 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 exhibitions, obtaining important mentions and critical recognitions. From 1979 to present he has won no fewer than one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting contests. Paolo Fedeli is the arcane cantor of nature.

THEY 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 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, does the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets shiny with damp, 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 has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to society or, more precisely, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, after allowing due distance between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain joins the precise.
Go as far as possible from killing wit,
from cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the blue suffer!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Here then is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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