Paolo Fedeli - Atmosfera Veneziana

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute in Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro 'Arte. 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 numerous public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in national and international magazines and newspapers. He has participated in major national group exhibitions, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred 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 occurrences, of questions without answers. His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary Western world, where all architectural panoramas resemble one another in the absurdity of globalization, may also seem surprising. As does the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between farmhouses, the hills, clear skies, the night lights, streets slick with humidity, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who wanted 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, after drawing the necessary distinctions between words and colors:
It is necessary then 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 assassin-like wit,
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the azure weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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