Paolo Fedeli - Dentro Venezia

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has held 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 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 collective art exhibitions, receiving 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 enigmatic cantor of nature.

THEY SAY OF HIM:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance. a storyteller 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 surprise us. As does the ever-changing language he uses. Yet we perceive a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets slick with humidity, the muffled atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, everyday life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who 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, after making the necessary distinctions 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 murderous wit
from the cruel spirit and from the impure laughter;
which make the eyes of blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus, the key to interpretation for Paolo Fedeli is clear: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced by the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices has been replaced by the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced by the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi