An Outstanding Art Critique by Antonio Fugazzotto | Bas-Reliefs Solo Exhibition – Michela Fabeni at Circolo delle Vittorie in Rome
- michelafabeni
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On February 23, 2026, at the Circolo delle Vittorie, located in Circonvallazione Clodia 135B in Rome, my solo bas-reliefs exhibition took place — an event where art and thought met in a powerful cultural dialogue.
The exhibition accompanied the presentation of the book by Alessandro Sallusti and Luca Palamara, creating a bridge between intellectual reflection and visual language.
My works, dedicated to the female figure and its universal archetypes, inhabited the space of the Circolo delle Vittorie with silent strength and material presence.
The opening moment of the evening was the critical reading delivered by the President of the Circolo, Antonio Fugazzotto, who offered an analysis of rare sensitivity and depth. His critique was lucid and refined, capable of recognizing not only the formal structure of the works, but their inner soul.
He spoke about plasticity — how the material in my bas-reliefs is not surface, but living body. He highlighted the constant dialogue between light and shadow, fullness and void, emphasizing how light does not merely illuminate the artwork, but generates it.
He recognized in the archetypes of my women a primordial yet contemporary strength: figures that do not simply represent, but embody. Women who emerge from matter as universal presences.
Special attention was given to my creative gesture: direct contact with matter, working with bare hands, the use of the palette knife as an extension of the body. It was emphasized how my personal technique, called Smussato, is not only a stylistic signature but an identity language. To smooth means to remove excess, to refine urgency, to find balance between tension and harmony.
The critique captured precisely this: not an aesthetic effect, but a process. A crossing through matter that becomes revelation.
This solo exhibition at the Circolo delle Vittorie was not simply an exhibition, but a moment of recognition.
A dialogue between art, thought, and sensitivity.
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Matter speaks. Light carves. Bas-relief becomes presence. Follow my creative journey and the metamorphoses of my bas-reliefs on all social. @michelafabeniart
Michela Fabeni
Artist of the Third Millennium
Every smoothed gesture is a fragment of soul taking shape in the light.
