Paolo Fedeli - Prove di regata

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has mounted numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is represented 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 group art shows, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions Paolo Fedeli is an arcane cantor of nature.

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 landscapes resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also strike us as surprising. As does the change in his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the nighttime lights, the streets slick with moisture, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, which has chosen 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, keeping proper 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 murderous wit
from cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the eyes of azure cry!
Take the eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus, here is Paolo Fedeli’s reading key: self-referentiality and the surprising, he has replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the quotidian and the clamor of dissonant voices, he has replaced with the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi