Paolo Fedeli - Il bosco di betulle

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Siena Art Institute, obtaining the diploma of Master of Art. He has held 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 exhibitions, earning important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting contests. 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 questions without answers.
His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary occident where all architectural panoramas resemble one another in the absurdity of globalization may also strike us as surprising. As does the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between farmhouses, hills, clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the streets slick with humidity, 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 the social or, more precisely, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, keeping due distance between words and colors:
È necessario poi che tu non scelga
le tue parole senza qualche errore:
nulla è più caro della canzone grigia
in cui l'incerto si unisce al preciso.
Va più lontano possibile dall'assassina arguzia
dal crudele spirito e dall'impuro riso;
che fanno piangere gli occhi dell'azzurro!
Prendi l'eloquenza e torcile il collo!
Hence the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the quotidian 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