Paolo Fedeli - Luci nella notte a Times Square

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Siena Art Institute, earning the diploma of Master in ‘Art.’ He has held 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 group art exhibitions, obtaining important mentions 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.

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 seem surprising. As, indeed, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between farmhouses, hills, clear skies, nighttime lights, the glossy streets damp with humidity, the murky 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 society or, better said, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, with due distance between words and colors:

It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is more dear than the gray song
in which the uncertain unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from murderous wit
from cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take the eloquence and twist its neck!

Thus, Paolo Fedeli’s key to interpretation is: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with 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 The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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