Paolo Fedeli - Nocturno metropolitano

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Institute of Art in Siena, earning the diploma of Master 'Arte'. He has mounted numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is present 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 collective art exhibitions, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred and seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is a cantor of the arcane 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 one another in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As indeed the change of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the 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, better said, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, given the necessary distance 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 is joined to the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassin’s wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
that make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Hence, here is the key to Paolo Fedeli’s reading: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday 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