Paolo Fedeli - Londra di notte

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the State Art Institute in Siena, obtaining the diploma of Maestro 'Arte. He has organized 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 of art, earning 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 the arcane cantor of nature.

DICONO DI LUI:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance, a narrator of unlikely 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 seem surprising. As, likewise, the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nighttime lights, the streets slick with damp, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if the people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, vigil, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen 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 distances are taken between words and colors:
It is then 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 murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
that bring tears to the eyes of the blue!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
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 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