Fabio Melone is a Swiss-Italian artist based in Zurich. Working across painting, collage, drawing, textiles and installation, his practice explores the intersections of body, materiality and memory. Through layering, reduction and material experimentation, his works shift between image, object and space.

Often beginning with intimate Italian poems and handwritten notes, his works evolve through an open process of making. Emotional fragments are translated into physical forms that invite new relationships between body, gesture and material.
Inside the Studio
A glimpse into the space where poetry, paint, and threads converge. A behind-the-scenes look of Fabio Melone’s creative process and the environment where his fragmented figures and woven stories come to life.

About Fabio Melone
Inside the Studio
A glimpse into the space where poetry, paint, and threads converge. A behind-the-scenes look of Fabio Melone’s creative process and the environment where his fragmented figures and woven stories come to life.

About Fabio Melone
Inside the Studio
A glimpse into the space where poetry, paint, and threads converge. A behind-the-scenes look of Fabio Melone’s creative process and the environment where his fragmented figures and woven stories come to life.

About Fabio Melone
Inside the Studio
A glimpse into the space where poetry, paint, and threads converge. A behind-the-scenes look of Fabio Melone’s creative process and the environment where his fragmented figures and woven stories come to life.

About Fabio Melone

Photo credit: Ladina Bischof

Gestural paintings exploring the body, vulnerability and the gaze, where colour, gesture and surface negotiate intimacy, presence and emotional resonance.
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Textile works exploring material, movement and tactile memory through drawing in space, where thread becomes a medium connecting body, gesture and architecture.
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Fragments of photography, painting and thread exploring identity, memory and transformation through layering, materiality and the reconfiguration of found imagery.
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Lines tracing bodies, gestures and fragments of memory, exploring drawing as an intuitive process between observation, movement and imagination.
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Exhibitions
Resonanz
Kunstmuseum Thurgau, CH
2.11.2025 - 8.3.2026
What happens when art and audience begin to resonate with one another? When colour, form, sound, and space start to respond — and something within us is stirred?

The group exhibition Resonance brings together artists whose practices engage in diverse and individual ways with the idea of resonance. Together, they explore how art can move, connect, and reverberate beyond the moment of encounter.
Tra cielo e pelle
Kunsthalle Wil, CH
16.08. - 5.10.2025
Fabio Melone's work spans the realms of painting, sculpture, collage, and textile art. He merges physical, gestural, and figurative forms, connecting the visible with the invisible. Tra cielo e pelle poetically frames this process—the connection between the earthly and the transcendental.

By using fragments from glossy fashion magazines, his collages explore the construction and deconstruction of the body. Within every brushstroke or thread, Melone weaves subtle nuances and stark contrasts that raise questions about human appearance, transience, migration, and roots. His works explore the complexity of human existence and our sense of self in the external world.
SURREALIST SALON - Fever Dream
Zurich Art Weekend, The Dolder Grand Zurich, CH
13. - 15.06.2025
Born from the wreckage of war and the collapse of certainty, Surrealism emerged in the early XX century as a movement shaped by crisis - by the psychic scars of world war, by the anarchic energy of Dada, and by Freud's revelations of the unconscious mind. A century later, the world finds itself in another fever dream. Once again, we are faced with a crisis of perception. And once again, Surrealism offers a refuge.

FEVER DREAM is a contemporary Surrealist Salon curated by Olena Iegorova and FOMO Art Space — a space where artists, designers, and thinkers reclaim the irrational, the subconscious, and the dreamlike as acts of resistance.
Shop / Editions
A curated series of limited edition works, developed from selected artworks.

Photo credit: Pamela Castillo