Paolo Fedeli - Londra di notte

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Siena Art Institute, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has mounted numerous solo shows 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 major national group art exhibitions, obtaining important citations 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.

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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 one another in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As, indeed, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets gleaming with moisture, 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 wished to exclude from his poetics any reference to society or, more precisely, to verism. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, after allowing 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 joined to the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassinous wit, from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter; which make the eyes of the blue tear up!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
So here is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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