Paolo Fedeli - Parigi di notte

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute in Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has staged numerous solo shows in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is present in various 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 group art shows, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than 176 First Prizes in painting contests. Paolo Fedeli is the arcane singer of nature.

THEY SPEAK 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, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets slick with damp, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, vigil, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, more precisely, to verismo (verismo realism). Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, while keeping due distance 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 joins with the precise.
Go as far as possible from murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and the impure laugh;
which make the eyes of the azure cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!

Thus the key to reading Paolo Fedeli emerges: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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