The Ministry of Education, University and Research, as part of its artistic promotion activities, announces the fourteenth edition of the “National Arts Award”. The competition, aimed at students regularly enrolled in institutions and accredited courses of the AFAM system, in the academic year 2018/2019, is divided into the following sections and subsections: 1) FINE ARTS,… Find out more
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Lydia call, open to artists under 30
Live forever in the indelible sign of art. Based on this assumption, the Lydia call, proposed by the cultural association “Il Lazzaretto”. Established in 2014, the foundation proposes and develops a practice-based research method, triggering processes of collaboration and hybridization. Il Lazzaretto supports the research of emerging talents. And it is to this end that… Find out more
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RUFA Pastificio Cerere, in the project “Solo Exihibition” the exhibition “Humanity Not Found”.
Understand and follow the steps that arise from the impulse, that turns into an idea, that changes into matter, that becomes a work of art. To give it a sense that allows it to be enjoyed by the viewer, to place it. Make the choices of the professional, in contact with the real path to… Find out more
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F as Frontier with Fiamma Montezemolo
The photographic story of the meeting curated by Nicolas Marino with the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo during the #OfficineRufa exhibition. An encounter centered on the issue of the Frontier as a key element of poetics, and the keys to understanding contemporary geopolitics.
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“F come Frontiera” meeting with Fiamma Montezemolo
The program of #OfficineRufa starts again with Fiamma Montezemolo, visual artist and anthropologist. The talk with the artist will focus on the issue of the Frontier, a key element of her poetics, and one of the keys to understanding contemporary geopolitics. What are frontiers, how are they (re)produced and how do they work? We will… Find out more
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Visual arts students’ works on exhibition in Treviso
Nine RUFA students were present at the “Herstory is Ourstory”. The prestigious event organized by the Benetton Foundation, at the Bomben spaces in via Cornarotta 7, Treviso, will be inaugurated on November 25th, starting at 6 pm. Federica Baggio, Flaminia Bonciani, Elisabetta Gentilli, Cinzia Olanda, Gaia Flamigni, Laura Capriglia, Maria Cavinato, Tatiana Balchesini and Roberta… Find out more
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RUFA is partner of the project “HER She Loves San Lorenzo 2018 – Winter Edition”.
“HER She Loves San Lorenzo 2018 – Winter Edition” is the second edition of the Festival of art and data of the district of San Lorenzo. It is a project dedicated to art, but especially to data culture, promoted by the research center HER – Human Ecosystems Relazioni, curated by Arianna Forte, with the artistic… Find out more
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Francesca Cornacchini a Digitalive. The photoretold.
It was held from 4 to 7 October, in the beautiful setting of the Mattatoio of Testaccio, the exhibition “Digitalive” with the presence also of RUFA student Francesca Cornacchini with the work “THE CODE #1” already winner of the RUFA Contest 2018 and awarded in the pre-holiday live show by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat. During… Find out more
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From the RUFA Contest to Digitalive: the artistic career of Francesca Cornacchini
After triumphing at the RUFA Contest, convincing his project the multifaceted Shirin Neshat, a new test awaits the student Francesca Cornacchini. The work “THE CODE” that in the last month of June has convinced critics and public will be present at the “ Romaeuropa Festival “, scheduled from 4 to 7 October, as part of… Find out more
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Camilla Gurgone awarded with Arte in Arti e Mestieri Prize
The Arte in Arti e Mestieri Prize, now in its eighteenth edition, is an event aimed at the discovery and consecration of talents of contemporary art. The review, which started with about twenty works divided between artists in competition and students, today has more than a hundred artists and works that demonstrate the value of… Find out more
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RUFA CONTEST 2018 wins Francesca Cornacchini
Contemporaneity in its multiple expressions. Shirin Neshat, the undisputed protagonist of the 2018 edition of RUFA CONTEST, did nothing but communicate herself, conveying her understanding of art, going beyond forms and schemes. A clear message that the students of the Rome University of Fine Arts have personalized in their own image and likeness in the… Find out more
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Passaggi: photos and video of the exhibition
It ended on Friday May 17 at the exhibition Passaggi, which brought to the public the works of RUFA’s Visual Arts students, both three-year and two-year-old students. The students expressed themselves freely, on different themes and with different forms and materials, showing the best of their work. An exhibition that is a rite of passage,… Find out more
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At RUFA Space there was talk of the Museum
Second appointment with Officine RUFA, the program of meetings between students, the city, and the protagonists of cultural life. On Thursday, May 3rd, Giorgio de Finis told us about the museum, starting from his experience with MAAM – Museo dell’altro e dell’altrove – the first inhabited museum in the world, telling us about the deep… Find out more
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Terminididentità. The winners of the contest
On Thursday, April 12th at the Mercato Centrale Roma, the winners of the Terminididentità contest were awarded: we illustrate the Termini station. More than 150 artists, young and already established, participated in the competition launched on January 24th by the creators of RomaID, the project that designs the new visual identity of Rome involving the… Find out more
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Meeting/conversation with art historian Barbara Rose
Monday, April 16, 2018 at 17:30 at Palazzo Carpegna, home of the National Academy of San Luca, will be held the meeting / conversation entitled A particular vision: Barbara Rose. This is a valuable opportunity for students who will have the opportunity to confront themselves with art experts of international standing. Gianni Dessì, President of… Find out more
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Balance and disorder – The RUFA students’ exhibition curated by Simone Cametti
In 1865 Rudolf Clausius with his inequality theorem introduced in physics the concept of “entropy” (change/transformation), with the main intent to define this physical quantity as a measure of the disorder present in a system. About entropy in art Rudolf Arnheim argued that: “a system is in equilibrium when the forces that constitute it are… Find out more
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Art in Arts and Crafts. The new edition of the prestigious award
The Art in Arts and Crafts Award, promoted by the Suzzara Foundation, is back. Artists of all nationalities, regardless of their techniques and artistic orientations, will be able to participate, with a maximum of 3 works. In the last edition our students have been able to assert their qualities. The evaluation commission, in fact, has… Find out more
Announcement
Competition “Art & Sport” by AONI – A valuable opportunity for RUFA students
The “Art & Sport” Competition Notice is dedicated this year, on the occasion of the Winter Olympic Games in PeyeongChang, to the following theme: “Truce and Olympic Peacemaking”. The competition, promoted by the Accademia Olimpica Nazionale Italiana, (AONI) with the contribution of the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro Italia e Mediterraneo, the Fondazione Giulio Onesti and the… Find out more
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The exhibition “Xiloreportage, Rimini 2017” has been inaugurated at RUFA Space
Xiloreportage, an experience of contamination between photography and art graphics, brought to the exhibition thanks to the RUFA and Central Saint Martins students, and to the teachers Maria Pina Bentivenga and Umberto Giovannini. Here the story photo and video of the inaugural evening.
Announcement
Announcement for students in the three years of Visual Arts
Also this year the RUFA Visual Arts Department is organizing a collective exhibition of the best works of the three-year period in Painting and Sculpture of the academic year 2017/2018, in the exhibition space of RUFA Space. Students who want to put themselves to the test can consult the announcement here and fill in the… Find out more