Paolo Fedeli - Manhattan

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Siena art institute, earning the Master in Art diploma. 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 art fairs, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred and 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 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 strike us as surprising. As does the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets slick with humidity, the dingy atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if 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 the social or, more precisely, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, once the necessary distance is kept between words and colors:
It is necessary then that you not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain is joined with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
that make the blue eyes weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!

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

Paolo Levi