Paolo Fedeli - Veduta di Firenze

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, including Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome, and many others. He is represented 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 major national group art exhibitions, receiving important mentions and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane minstrel 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 Western world, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also seem surprising. As, indeed, the shift in his language. Yet we perceive a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the glossy streets damp with humidity, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if the people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, wakefulness, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to society or, more precisely, to verismo (verismo meaning realism). Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, keeping 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 unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassin irony,
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the eyes of blue cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!

Thus, the key to reading Paolo Fedeli is: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of daily life and the clamor of discordant voices, he has replaced with the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable he has replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi