Paolo Fedeli - Prime luci nella Metropoli

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, obtaining 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 appear 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 quotes 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. a narrator of improbable and unknowable events, of unanswered questions.
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 seem surprising. As, indeed, the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets slick with moisture, 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 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, once the proper distance is taken between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you not choose
your words without some mistake:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain unites 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 the blue cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus 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 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