Written Critique by Antonio Fugazzotto on the Artistic Journey of Michela Fabeni | Contemporary Bas-Reliefs
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Antonio Fugazzotto, an esteemed art critic, has dedicated a careful and insightful reading to the artistic journey of Michela Fabeni. In this written critique, Fugazzotto explores the artist's unique language, her dialogue with matter and light, and the way each creation becomes living entity capable of conveying stories, emotions, and symbols of the feminine world and humanity.
"A contemporary Roman Italian artist, also known as Artista del Terzo Millennio. This is what is known about her. It is also known that her atelier is an International Gallery born from a deep desire to share a language made of matter, light, and much more. I have also learned that Michela Fabeni has exhibited her works in Italian and international exhibition spaces: shows, fairs, and awards across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia.
It is also known that each bas-relief on canvas is a unique work, entirely handmade, created through Smussato, a personal technique that involves modeling with a spatula and forging with bare hands. All of this makes this artist a true protagonist, distinguished by an original, unmistakable style that renders every creation — or rather every creature — an unrepeatable living matter capable of dialoguing with light, shadow, and time.
But much more must be said. It must be said that she establishes a relationship with matter and light that can be defined as profoundly dialogical. Both matter and light are elements that can be captured and shaped. Yet only those who are truly sensitive to their essence can master the language that places them in emotional relationship and connection. She has understood — or rather, her soul has understood — the powerful emotional impact that can arise from waves of light and luminous beams in dialogue with matter.
Michela Fabeni succeeds in allowing the lights and shadows of her articulated and vibrant bas-reliefs to narrate the deep and unexpected stories of the feminine world that has always lived in depth.
A world firmly situated within the innate universal consciousness.
A world present in the collective unconscious of humanity, with the woman at its center — with her varied psychic forms that structure the experience of us all and manifest in myths, dreams, and symbols. Michela Fabeni’s poetic woman becomes the central pivot of a humanity searching for itself, a humanity that has wandered through history influenced by her behaviors but above all by her personality, for too long suppressed and diminished.
Not by chance is her research centered on a language that becomes an extraordinary key to decoding the value and scope of energies and impulses that for too long have been ignored, if not crushed.
Fabeni is an artist because she transforms her technical research into a privileged vehicle for constructing a powerful language of almost magical reach. A language that arrives through sensory, visual, and tactile experiences. She is an artist because she knows that time, light, and air are extraordinarily creative accomplices in forging and shaping her works and in delivering them to the present — which already safeguarded them jealously within its collective archetype."
Antonio Fugazzotto
Rome, 01/03/2026
Michela Fabeni wishes to publicly thank Antonio Fugazzotto for his thoughtful words and sensitive analysis of her work. Every critique represents meaningful recognition of her creative journey, treasured with respect and gratitude.
Michela Fabeni
Artist of the Third Millennium
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