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From Bas-relief to Poetry | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni

  • Writer: michelafabeni
    michelafabeni
  • Mar 2
  • 3 min read
Immersed in her art, Michela Fabeni stands at the heart of her giant canvases, a head emerging from a sea of women. Breath, energy, and transformation in motion.
Immersed in her art, Michela Fabeni stands at the heart of her giant canvases, a head emerging from a sea of women. Breath, energy, and transformation in motion.

Dear readers,


As International Women’s Day approaches, I want to open this moment with a thought dedicated to all women.


To those who fight every day, who love, who create, who suffer but find the strength to rise, and to those who protect their voice even in silence.


Our experiences, our emotions, our strength are what make us unique.


Poetry and art are tools through which these energies can emerge and become shared.







From Bas-relief to Poetry | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni
From Bas-relief to Poetry | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni

I present Fragments. It is not just a poetic texts collection.


It is a living memory. It comes from my diaries, from thoughts and emotions written in the most intimate moments of my life.


Some texts preceded the birth of my bas-reliefs, while others arrived afterward, as reflections and awareness of the creative process.


Within these pages, universal emotions unfold: love, loss, hope, disappointment, rebirth.





There is also the greatest joy of my life: the birth of my daughter, to whom I dedicated one of the deepest pieces. She is a living fragment of my soul.



From Bas-relief to Poetry | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni
From Bas-relief to Poetry | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni

Some of these texts have been transformed into music, creating a sensory album that accompanies words and works in an immersive journey of sound, matter, and vision.


For me, writing, music, and bas-relief are not separate languages: they walk together.


My art is born as an act of rebirth.


It emerged during a complex period of my life, while I was seeking my identity.







Contemporary Bas-relief | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni
Contemporary Bas-relief | Breath, Energy and Transformation in the Art of Michela Fabeni

Through spontaneous gestures and matter, my lived experience transformed into light.


I work with organic materials that I create myself, applied with my bare hands.


The works are born fluid, fragile, go through layers, breathe with light and air.


At first, they may crumble; then they strengthen, consolidate, and only then is detachment possible: a true birth.


On their surfaces remain cracks, thickness, vibrations. For me, they are luminous scars. Traces of transformation. In my creations, I explore symbolic paths that are difficult to label.


I work at the boundaries between figure and writing, matter and spirit, body and emotion, visible and invisible.


I try to represent what is unseen but lives inside us. That inner sky made of intuitions, fears, desires, sparks.


The figures that emerge, sometimes with hybrid or animal, plant, human features, are not literal representations: they are symbols of a deep connection with nature and the universe.


My artistic journey tells the story of my evolution as a woman, a mother, and a human being.


I do not assign myself a precise label. I consider myself an artist of our time because I believe creativity is a spark present in all of us.


For me, art is love. It is weaving life with the best we carry inside.

My works celebrate women in their strength and sensitivity.


They are a hymn to life, introspection, and growth. Alongside the poetic and visual path, an editorial project has also developed: The Encyclopedia of Light and Matter.


In recent years, the intense production of works generated a chronological catalogue raisonné organized into four volumes:The Origin of Matter, Dialogues with Light, The Alchemy of Works

and the fourth, currently in progress, Vibrations of Form.


In this last volume, the theme of breath emerges. Here, a bridge is created between the breath and energy. My works express energy in motion within matter. They are also breath. A breath of the soul and also that of the natural elements that take part.


Writing has always freed my mind. Art, on the other hand, liberates my deepest dimension.


Michela as a child, dreaming and writing in her little notebook. A spark of imagination and sensitivity that would later take shape in art and poetry. Every mark, every gesture, begins here — in the quiet wonder of a young soul exploring the world.
Michela as a child, dreaming and writing in her little notebook. A spark of imagination and sensitivity that would later take shape in art and poetry. Every mark, every gesture, begins here — in the quiet wonder of a young soul exploring the world.

Since childhood, I recorded dreams and thoughts in my notebooks.


I wrote for years, then let go of many of those pages, keeping only a few fragments. I continued writing in digital form, embracing the languages of our time.



And it was precisely during a difficult phase of my life that bas-relief art was born. Not only as creative expression but as transformation.


Because nothing is destroyed. Everything transforms. And this energy continues to vibrate in the matter I share with you.


Thank you.


Discover my website www.michelafabeniart.com 

For information or collaboration: michelafabeni@libero.it



Michela Fabeni

Artist of the Third Millennium


Follow my creative journey on all social @michelafabeniart and on blog.



 
 
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