Paolo Fedeli - Castel Sant'Angelo (Roma)

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro '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 part of numerous 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, 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 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 horizons resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As, indeed, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets slick with humidity, the overripe 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 poetry any reference to the social, or more precisely to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, with due distance between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is more dear than the gray song
in which the uncertain unites with the precise.
Go as far as possible from the assassin-like wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laugh;
that make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Here then is Paolo Fedeli’s key to 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