Paolo Fedeli - Times Square

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro in Art. He has staged numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among them: Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is represented 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 the major national group art exhibitions, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won as many as one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane singer of nature.

THEY SAY ABOUT 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 does the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the streets gleaming with damp, the dull atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if the people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, vigil, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen to exclude from his poetry 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:
It is also necessary that you not choose your words without some error: nothing is dearer than the gray song in which the uncertain joins with the precise. Go as far as possible from murderous wit, from the cruel spirit and from impure laughter; which make the eyes of the blue weep! Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Hence the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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