The works of Michela Fabeni have been analyzed by several internationally renowned critics. The observations signed by Alfio Borghese, Prince, writer, journalist, and international art critic, highlight the Smussato technique, the living material, and the interplay between light, shadow, and form, confirming the value and recognizability of the artist’s poetics. Borghese also holds the historical prestige of being the first to interview Pablo Picasso in Paris in 1966.

 

Art Critique by Alfio Borghese

Technique and Material
The works of Michela Fabeni reveal an absolute mastery of material and manual gesture. The Smussato technique executed with a palette knife and bare hands, the living surface, and the bas-relief on canvas create surfaces that seem to breathe.

Poetics and Symbolism
Each work is a fragment of experience, a bridge between the intimate and the universal. The ability to evoke emotion and memory transforms the material into a narrative.

Historical Value and Recognition
The several signed criticism confirm Michela Fabeni’s position in the contemporary art scene. The works, documented and commented on, demonstrate the coherence and strength of her research, consolidating the path toward historicization.

Consultation

Favorable opinions from art critics have generally been expressed on the artworks by our Artist of the Third Millennium,  Michela Fabeni as mentioned in the following (2023/ 2025): 

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''The subjects represented by the artist are soft and sensual, the curved line chases each other and together with the color makes his research refined.

 

A particular technique, certainly original and very personal, quick and decisive which serves to enhance the compositions, resulting pleasant and interesting.

 

The light that dominates the sculpted material images plays with the chiaroscuro of the bodies. The precious material of gold makes the figures represented even more valuable.

 

Few traits to describe feminine sensuality and charm. The golden or silver surfaces in their moving descriptions trap the light, reflecting it in other and numerous flashes.''

 

- Prince Alfio Borghese

Journalist, Writer and Art Critic

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​Art Critique by Antonio Fugazzotto 

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Antonio Fugazzotto is an art critic and cultural promoter, a keen observer of contemporary art and its evolving expressive languages. His analytical approach combines aesthetic sensitivity with symbolic depth, offering an interpretation capable of capturing the artist’s identity, technique, and vision.

On the occasion of the solo exhibition held on February 23, he dedicated a critical essay to the artistic path of Michela Fabeni, recognizing in the Smussato a unique, distinctive, and personal technique.

 

He highlighted the archetypal centrality of the female figure within her poetics and emphasized the artist’s ability to generate plasticity through the dialogue between light and matter, recalling a classical sensibility.

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Solo Exhibition, February 23, 2026

Circolo delle Vittorie, Rome 

Cultural Circle connected to the RAI network

"Roman artist Michela Fabeni stands out for her originality, sensitivity, and powerful expressive depth. The solo exhibition, conceived as a celebration of womanhood, featured eleven works, each dedicated to a different expression of the feminine universe.

Among them, particularly significant was the round bas-relief canvas Rebirth, created in pure white: a symbolic work in which the circular form evokes the cycle of life, continuity, and the return to light. The absolute, vibrant white becomes a space of regeneration and renewed awareness.

The distinctive hallmark of the artist is the Smussato, a unique, distinctive, and personal technique. Created with bare hands and a spatula, the Smussato arises from a direct, primordial gesture: the material is worked, smoothed, and guided toward a balance between tension and harmony. There is no imposition, but rather a dialogue with the material itself. The softened and shaped surfaces retain the memory of the original gesture and invite a perception that goes beyond sight, evoking touch as an additional form of communication.

At the center of the artist’s poetics stands the woman as an archetypal and universal figure. Her Women of Light embody tension and fragility, strength and conscious vulnerability. They are primordial models dwelling within the collective consciousness, portrayed in diverse situations and attitudes, yet always infused with an original and timeless energy.

The artist constructs compositional rhythm through a refined dialogue between light and shadow: light penetrates the material and generates plasticity, recalling an almost classical sensibility in which volume emerges from the encounter between chiaroscuro and form. The result is a pictorial sculpture capable of uniting gesture, matter, and meaning into a coherent and profound vision..

The exhibition took place on the occasion of the presentation of the book by Luca Palamara and Alessandro Sallusti on February 23, a date symbolically linked to the history of women, placing the event within a broader cultural context of dialogue, memory, and contemporary reflection".

 

-Antonio Fugazzotto

 

Explore the event details:

https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/an-outstanding-art-critique-by-antonio-fugazzotto-bas-reliefs-solo-exhibition-michela-fabeni-at

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​https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/great-success-at-circolo-delle-vittorie-art-and-culture-in-dialogue-with-michela-fabeni-s-contempor

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https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/solo-exhibition-by-michela-fabeni-at-circolo-delle-vittorie-art-and-culture-event-rome-february-23​​​​

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​​​​News from the Press, Art & Culture

Prominent articles in the cultural panorama have shared favorable opinions as highlighted in the following journalistic contributions.

 

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Article on in20righe.it

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On the portal in20righe.it (in the month of April 2023) our artist received genuine attention towards her art.

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We want to thank the journalist Alessandro Cavaglià for dedicating space and words to her artistic research. Cavaglià's words perfectly describe the value of her visual language:

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''The artist Michela Fabeni, starting from the work 'Rebirth', intends to represent the rebirth of an adult woman, in harmony with herself, free and independent.

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Alessandro Cavaglià continues by underlining how my visual language becomes a spokesperson for rebirth, strong and conscious femininity: the palette knife technique tells subtle emotions, creating a sensorial embrace between artworks and spectator.''

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- Alessandro Cavaglià, journalist and director of in20righe.it

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To read more, you can consult the complete article at the following link: www.in20righe.it

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Interview on Artcast​

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A special meeting with Artcast, a platform that promotes art in all its forms, gave rise to an open-hearted conversation on vision, matter, artistic path ( May 2025 ).

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This space for dialogue, born from a spontaneous invitation, was an unexpected and precious gift for our artist.

 

Sincere thanks to Roberto Recchimurzo and the entire Artcast team for welcoming her and giving voice to her work.

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Browse the full interview on the Artcast website and also let yourself be traversed by page 145 of the July-August 2025 Magazine: fragments of her journey between word, form and vision.​​

www.artcast.it 

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Articles on Solaria

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In issues 5 and 19 of the monthly culture magazines Solaria, Prince Alfio Borghese, writer, journalist and art critic, dedicated in-depth articles on her artistic journey.

 

A sensitive and careful analysis that runs through her expressive research, her personal technique  of Smussato on bas-reliefs on canvas and her Fragments  project, highlighting the dialogue between matter and vision, between gesture and inner listening.

 

A precious recognition that she cherishes with immense gratitude.

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Find out more: read the full articles, May 2024 page. 5,  July 2025 page 16 https://www.rivistasolaria.it/le-riviste  and let yourself be carried away by her creative journey. 

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