The Spoleto Festival is one of those events that needs no introduction. Every year the magnificent Umbrian city opens to the world, showing its monumental beauty, intact as its historical vocation to art. The majestic scenery of the Albornoziana Fortress and the magnificent sequence of arches of the Ponte delle Torri prelude to the Roman… Find out more
Fabio Mauri (Rome, 1926-2009) is one of the masters of the Italian avant-garde after World War II. His first monochromes and Screens date back to 1957, but it was in the 1970s that he became an absolute protagonist of the national and international art scene, proposing works such as “Ebrea” (1971) and “Che cosa è… Find out more
From Matisse and Cezanne to Picasso, from Arman to Niki de Saint Phalle, many generations of artists, even very distant from each other, in terms of culture, historical period, experiences, dialectics and language. But there is one thing that brings them all closer, for 300 years now: colour. And in particular the colors of what… Find out more
Seven seconds to describe a world. The RUFA students of the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema, Chiara Guglia and Elena Viggiano, made an independent short film that was selected at the 7SIFF – 7 Second International Film Festival in Buenos Aires. The project, the only Italian short film that passed the selection, aims to create… Find out more
RUFA’s here! And there are also the two elements that accompanied the Academy’s development: research and talent. The RUFA Contest is the maximum declination of these two aspects, to be combined and mixed to create a project that eludes the banal, capable of supporting the kaleidoscopic forms of the intellect. A mission that the health… Find out more
For the last phase of the Rometti Prize, the stage and the production of the design idea, we will unfortunately have to wait for better times. The continuing emergency from Covid-19 and the restrictions currently in force, do not allow the prestigious Umbrian manufacture to host the students in the company in complete safety. However,… Find out more
The Ministry of University and Research has announced the fifteenth edition of the “National Arts Award”. The competition, addressed to students regularly enrolled in institutions and accredited courses of the Afam system, in the academic year 2019/2020, is divided into the following sections and subsections: 1) FIGURATIVE, DIGITAL AND SCENOGRAPHICAL ART: Painting, Sculpture, Restoration, Graphic… Find out more
And now back to school! RUFA and Skuola.net have given rise to a synergy aimed at making the diary created by the students’ friendly website even more attractive and functional, which over the years has become a “must” to keep on the desk. Specifically, a part of the diary has been enriched by the comic… Find out more
The appointments “powered by RUFA” continue within the Rai 5 program “Save the date”. In these weeks there have been many artistic contributions that Academy graduates and former graduates have generated in support of the network, opening a debate on what can be defined as the new course of some disciplines, especially cinema, more aligned,… Find out more
RUFA envisages the next thousand days of art after the apocalypse. The O2 Manifesto is born
The health emergency has not only conditioned the flow of our daily life, but has imposed new rules, dictated by regulatory constraints and fears, but accompanied by expectations and, above all, the desire for rebirth. Sometimes the rooms have felt like closed cells, sometimes open spaces in which to wander looking for ourselves and others,… Find out more
The application may be submitted until 17th July 2020. Enrolments are open to Erasmus+, the international programme that allows students or recent graduates to have access to an internship or placement, autonomous and funded, to be carried out in foreign companies or firms, during which they can carry out an individual work project approved by… Find out more
Saturday 9th May RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts presented itself virtually to high school students, undergraduates, graduates who intend to continue their education, parents and teachers. In addition to giving them the opportunity to learn more about the topics of the degree and master’s degree courses, to meet the teachers, tutors, RUFA students… Find out more
Creativity doesn’t stop. RUFA, since the beginning of the pandemic that still affects the art world, has launched a clear message in the sign of continuity. It has done so in new ways and has further strengthened the sense of community that envelops the Academy. In this scenario the most substantial contribution has been generated… Find out more
The artistic direction of the “Roma Creative Contest” presented the project “Quarta Parete” (Fourth Wall) which concerns the realization of a collective film to keep the creative stimulus of filmmakers during the quarantine due to Covid-19. The challenge for the participants is to make, from their own home and with the tools they have at… Find out more
It took about five months. It all began last October with the visit to RUFA of the Italian Ambassador to Mexico City Luigi De Chiara and his wife Idoia Uribarri. The project? Simple and exciting in the same way: transforming the Embassy’s representative office into a museum of contemporary art and rewarding the educational path… Find out more
The deadline for submitting texts, set for 15 May 2020, has been extended to 30 May 2021. The call for the 2020 edition of the “Lino Miccichè” award will end on May 30th. The award is dedicated to film critics. The National Union of Italian Film Critics – Emilia Romagna Marche Group and the… Find out more
Never before now, for RUFA, is a period of great growth and creative fervor thanks to the birth of multidisciplinary collectives such as the collettivoFareCose, composed by students of the School of Cinema and Photography: Sonia Bouslama, Cristina Cannistraci, Daniele Cimaglia, Niccolò Consolo, Cristina De Rosa, Claudia Frisardi, Ida Indaco, Davide Magdalone, Noemi Montaleone, Asia… Find out more
With the exhibition “KATA LOGON – the poetics of (past) time” exhibited the 24th to the 28th of February, RUFA announced the birth of the collective called “Spazio Temporale” and is composed of six young artists: Aurora Augenti, Silvia Bottero, Giselle Cantonetti, Laura Capriglia, Amedeo Longo, Leopoldo Morresi. Young people who, in their artistic and… Find out more
First appointment of the year with “La Musica Attuale”, a renewed format, which evolves from last year’s experience, and which allows, even more, to bring art and music closer together, generating interest and contamination. RUFA and iCompany have given new form and substance to the project, focusing on the theme “emerging artists and experts in… Find out more
“…and one after the other those extraordinary human beings that are called colours came out one after the other exultantly joyful, reflective, fantastic and immersed in each other, living in themselves and for themselves, individually endowed with all the qualities necessary to lead an autonomous life and ready at all times to bend spontaneously to… Find out more