Paolo Fedeli - Regata

PAOLO FEDeli was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute in Siena, earning the Diploma of Master in Art. He has staged numerous personal 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 collective 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 the arcane cantor of nature.

WHAT 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 West, where all architectural panoramas resemble one another in the absurdity of globalization, may also surprise us. As, indeed, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nocturnal lights, the streets glossy with humidity, the shaggy atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, vigil, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who has 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, given the necessary 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 unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassin’s wit
from the cruel spirit and the impure laughter;
that make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take rhetoric and twist its neck!
Here is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: the self-referential and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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