Paolo Fedeli - Dentro New York

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro 'Arte. 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 feature 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 collective art shows, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than 176 First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is the arcane cantor of nature.

THEY SAY OF HIM:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance. A narrator of unlikely 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 strike us as surprising. As, moreover, the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the streets slick with damp, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, wakefulness, sleep, had eluded the artist’s imagination, who chose to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, more accurately, to verismo. 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 is united with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the eyes of blue weep!
Take the eloquence and twist its neck!
Here then is the key to Paolo Fedeli’s reading: 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, 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