Paolo Fedeli - Magica Venezia

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute in 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 are included in many public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in national and international magazines and newspapers. He has participated in major national group art shows, obtaining important citations and critical accolades. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting contests. Paolo Fedeli is the 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 Western world, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As, moreover, the changing of 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 humid atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the imagination of the artist, who has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, better said, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, once you set appropriate distances 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 unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassinating wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laugh;
that make the eyes of the blue cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Here then is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the daily 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