Paolo Fedeli - Nocturno

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 exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many more. He is represented in several Permanent Exhibitions. His works are in many public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in magazines and national and international newspapers. He has participated in the major national collective art exhibitions, earning important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane cantor of nature.

DICONO DI LUI:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance. A narrator of improbable and unknowable happenings, of questions without answers.
His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary Western world, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also seem surprising to us. As, indeed, does 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 cloudy atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, more precisely, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, after making the necessary distinctions between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain is joined to the precise.
Go as far as possible from murderous wit
from cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the azure cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Here is therefore the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the quotidian and the clamor of dissonant voices, he has replaced with the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi