The current Covid-19 situation in the World, has led the direction of the FuoriFestival and the Festival dei 2 Mondi to have as a priority the protection of citizens’ health, thus avoiding events where social distancing is at risk, therefore the 2020 edition of the FuoriFestival has been cancelled. Despite the cancellation, the Ecosofia Gallery… Find out more
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From the Memmo Foundation an artist’s residence in London
In 1990 Roberto Memmo, who has always been interested in art in every form of expression, decided to set up a private Foundation and take on the role of its president. His passion for beauty led him to want to share, with a vast public, the creativity of the great masters through the contemplation of… Find out more
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RUFA in Spoleto during the Fuori Festival
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
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Looking for “Ebrea”
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
Announcement
Open call: Lefranc Bourgeois 300. Residence for under 40 artists
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
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Nation 2.0: art beyond museums and traditional exhibition venues.
Among the effects still to be understood and better defined of the Covid-19 pandemic, one cannot fail to mention an approach to artistic fruition that is decidedly different from the normal routine. There have been many activities that have been developed on the web and that have allowed to convey ideas and research around the… Find out more
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Raid Federica Baggio’s project that goes beyond the artist
A RUFA graduate, Federica Baggio, a project called Raid, the cultural hub of Dolomiti Contemporanee, the ex Eni village of Borca di Cadore and the usual desire to travel the new paths of art. Raid is a “site specific” project that aims to implement a process of “reconstitution”. An evolutionary path is thus shaped through… Find out more
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RUFA Contest, first selection completed
Despite the health emergency, which has strongly conditioned the creative industry, RUFA-Rome University of Fine Arts chooses to walk the path of continuity, proceeding with the organization of the 2020 edition of the RUFA Contest. All this is taking place while waiting to know the reference regulatory scenario that will allow to plan, with dates… Find out more
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La Musica Attuale: Massimo Bonelli and Matteo Cappella – Photos and video
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
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RUFA, talk e workshop on monotype – Photos and video
Paper sheets, inks, engraving, lithography and serigraphy. This is what Giuseppe Prezioso, marketing director of Cartiere di Fabriano, spoke about at the talk on paper processing procedures that took place on Tuesday 21st January in the art graphics classroom of the RUFA Pastificio Cerere headquarters. A double appointment in which Guido D’Angelo also presented Colart’s… Find out more
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In Rimini an exhibition dedicated to the artist’s book
With a title that pays homage to the master Wassily Kandinsky on 18 January at 4 p.m., the exhibition “PUNTO, LINEA, SUPERFICIE” was inaugurated at the Museum of the City of Rimini, in Via Tonini 1: an itinerary dedicated to artists’ books, with a selection of works curated by the National Association of Contemporary Engravers…. Find out more
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RUFA, talk e workshop on monotype
Double appointment on Tuesday 21 January, starting at 11.30 am, in the art graphics room of RUFA Pastificio Cerere, in Via degli Ausoni 7 in Rome, in the heart of the San Lorenzo district. Giuseppe Prezioso, marketing director of Cartiere di Fabriano, will hold a talk on paper processing procedures, while Professor Guido D’Angelo will… Find out more
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“Just in time for the cake” – A performance by Flaminia Bonciani
“Just in time for the cake” is a performance whose wish is to help people think about how the post-modern society pushes us towards contrasting directions. On one side, the contemporary man is constantly put under pressure to meet specific aesthetic standards, while on the other side, he’s the unaware victim of a command to… Find out more
Announcement
A call for artists for the Pionirsky dom Cultural Centre in Slovenia
The Pionirsky dom Cultural Centre, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has launched a call dedicated to artists between 25 and 30 years of age with the purpose of giving shape and substance to actions of urban regeneration in the wake of contemporary times. Founded in 1963, as a public institution, the Centre has acquired a growing… Find out more
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A day with Koichi Yamamoto – Photos and video
Getting to know an internationally renowned artist is a very unique experience. RUFA’s visual arts students had the honor of living a whole day with Koichi Yamamoto. He is an artist who blends traditional and contemporary techniques in order to develop unique and innovative approaches to the language of graphic arts. On 17 December the… Find out more
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Static-Dynamic of Koichi Yamamoto
RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts presents the exhibition Static-Dynamic by Koichi Yamamoto, hosted in the spaces of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Via degli Ausoni 7, from 17 December until 16 January. The opening of the exhibition, curated by Fabrizio Pizzuto, will be held on 17 December at 18.00 and will be preceded, at… Find out more
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China is close
China gest closer and closer to Italy, also from an artistic point of view. The relationship between the two countries is an ancient cultural relationship, marked by the famous journeys of Marco Polo and Matteo Ricci which is being strengthened further and further, as one can notice by the many Chinese students who decide to… Find out more
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Are you getting lost? The exhibition of Alberto Torzini
New appointment with “Solo Exhibition”: from 28 November to 2 December Alberto Torzini, RUFA student of Painting, will exhibit “Are you getting lost?” at the RUFA Space, in via degli Ausoni 7, in the heart of the San Lorenzo district in Rome. The artist’s work opens up to a dense reflection on the relationship between… Find out more
Didactics
RUFA students engaged at Maxxi in a cultural mediation project
What does it mean today to talk about spiritual? This question will be answered by a group of students of Visual arts and Photography who, in the next few days, will begin a training course in cultural mediation. The experience is the result of the synergy between RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts and… Find out more
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Ice-cream makers on stage: performance by Camilla Gurgone and Nicola Petruzzi
In the middle of a post-truth era, where we hardly distinguish reality from fiction, the “Zero degrees Frozen yogurt” ice cream shop is the artistic (consumer) product most suited to our times: a kind of “fake moment”, a probable daily moment where everything can be true, but at the same time it can be false…. Find out more