Paolo Fedeli - Dentro Venezia

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning a diploma as Master of Art. He has staged numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many more. He is represented 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 as many as 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. Narrator of improbable and unknowable happenings, of questions without answers.
His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary West, where all architectural panoramas resemble one another in the absurdity of globalization, may also appear surprising to us. 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 damp, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, 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. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, after making due distinctions 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 is joined to the precise.
Go as far as possible from fatal wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the blue eyes cry!
Take 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 he has replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi