Paolo Fedeli - Vaso con fiori

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the art institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Maestro d'Arte. He has mounted numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many more. He is featured 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 exhibitions, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won as many as one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting competitions. Paolo Fedeli is an arcane cantor of nature.

DICONO DI LUI:

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 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 nighttime lights, the glossy streets damp with humidity, the murky atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hate, competition, wakefulness, sleep have eluded the artist’s imagination, who has chosen to exclude from his poetics any reference to society or, to put it more precisely, to realism. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, given the appropriate distance between words and colors:
It is necessary then that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain merges 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 the blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus, therefore, is the key to reading Paolo Fedeli: 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