Michela Fabeni Art Gallery| Sculptural Self-Portrait | Pure Matter, Raw White | Bas-relief on Canvas | Palette Knife | Smussato Technique

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This sculptural self-portrait emerges from matter before image. It is not a physiognomic representation, but an exploration of gesture and direct contact between hand, palette knife, and surface. The bas-relief takes shape through the palette knife, which carves and lifts the material, leaving clear, essential marks.

The raw white is not decorative, but a deliberate choice: light, silence, structure. Matter remains visible, alive, without mediation. I work on canvas as on a body to be shaped, where thickness becomes language. Each sculptural portrait is unique, built through a direct dialogue with both the material and the person portrayed. I do not seek imitation, but presence.

I create sculptural portraits on commission, transforming faces and identities into three-dimensional, essential, timeless surfaces. Each work is conceived as a unique piece, entirely handmade, using my personal Smussato technique, bas-relief on canvas and palette knife.

For information about commissioned sculptural portraits, available works, or collaborations, please contact me directly or visit my website. michelafabeni@libero.it

Artworks can be viewed by appointment at my exhibition space. www.michelafabeniart.com

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Read my posts about bas-reliefs.

https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/michela-fabeni-art-gallery-harmony-raw-bas-relief-between-centering-matter-and-inner-discipline

https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/michela-fabeni-art-gallery-the-portal-of-light-in-rome-textured-bas-reliefs-sparks-of-her-inne

https://www.michelafabeniart.com/post/living-art-of-the-third-millennium-contemporary-visions-and-tradition-creative-processes-of-miche

Michela Fabeni

Artist of the Third Millennium