Paolo Fedeli - Prove di regata

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute in Siena, obtaining the Diploma of Master in Art. He has mounted numerous solo shows in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome, and many others. He is represented in several Permanent Exhibitions. His works are featured 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 shows, 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 the arcane cantor of nature.

THEY SAY OF 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 appear surprising. As, indeed, the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the glossy streets of humidity, the smoky atmospheres of smog: there are never beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep, have eluded the artist’s imagination, who wanted to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, to put it differently, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, with due distance between words and colors:
You must then not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain joins the certain.
Go as far as possible from the murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the blue eyes cry!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Here is the key to interpretation for Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising has been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the daily life and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.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