About 20 meters long by 14 meters wide, 80 artists involved and over 4 thousand hours of work. These are the numbers of “B-JESUS – THE NATIVITY SCENE OF THE FUTURE”, which can be visited at the “Nicola Calipari” gardens in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome from January 14 to February 6. The work… Find out more
Research, experimentation, innovation. The formative and artistic path of Camilla Gurgone, RUFA graduate in Visual Arts, has always been marked by the declination of these elements, to be combined and unraveled at will in order to return works and performances that are never trivial. In this scenario, Gurgone herself has always been able to… Find out more
The first exhibition of RUFA dedicated entirely to graphics arts, the result of the work of the students during the lockdown and accessible both physically and online. Reason of pride and opportunity, for the emerging RUFA artists who exhibited, was the “contact” with the public of Roma Art Week. Printmaking has the fascinating prerogative of… Find out more
The autumn session of RUFA workshops has just ended. From October 19 to 24, 2020, the students of the Academy met with experts in design, creativity and technology. The workshops, which the Academy offers to the students every year, generate an exchange of ideas, technique and experience that are handed down from professionals to the designers… Find out more
The inauguration of the 2020 edition of La Quadriennale di Roma has a twofold significance: on the one hand, it demonstrates the support of the institutions and the State for one of the events that, over the years, has strengthened the role of research and experimentation in the artistic field, and on the other hand,… Find out more
RUFA teacher, Fabrizio Dell’Arno, will be present at the ninth edition of the “Colloquium on communication and innovation. Art, intervention and communication of public interest”. This is, specifically, an initiative promoted by the Universidade Municipal de Sao Caetano do Sul which is based in the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The important cultural event… Find out more
Promote young artists and curators who are trained in the Academies. It is in this context that the “Recommended” project has taken shape. Conceived by Francesca Longo and Raffaele Gavarro, the initiative is addressed to RUFA and ABA graduates who will be able to exhibit their works in an exhibition, with a refined setting, followed… Find out more
Printmaking is the “non-place” of art. That space of thought and doing that has the license to operate in the freedom of non belonging. For some years now, work within the strict technical dictates, which are the fascinating prerogative of printmaking, has appropriated the languages of other artistic disciplines, from sculpture to installation and performance…. Find out more
Saturday, October 17, at the Botanical Garden of Rome, in largo Cristina di Svezia 23A-24, will be held the first edition of “Foedus Lab”: a workshop, but also an unmissable opportunity to meet, exchange, training and enrichment. The event, totally free of charge, which will be held in full compliance with all anti-covid19 regulations, will… Find out more
In continuity with some recent experiences that characterize the artistic path of these last months, RUFA teacher of Visual Arts Simone Cametti exhibits at Ncontemporay gallery in Milan with the exhibition entitled “Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me!”. The project is in line with the light factor of 4500 kelvin degrees and provides for… Find out more
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
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
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
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
A second home. For the artist Alfio Mongelli, China is this and perhaps even more. There were many works on display, also made on commission, but one of them is particularly relevant, for two different reasons: the first is connected to the site, considering that it is the city of Wuhan, never before in the… 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
Getting to know the artists of In Situ was very inspiring for the RUFA students who took part in the talk at the RUFA Space headquarters on 6th February, starting at 3.30 pm. Many questions were asked to Christophe Constantin, Marco De Rosa, Francesca Cornacchini and Federica Di Pietrantonio and the answers they gave to… Find out more
Studio Mauri is the heritage of a great Italian artist. On February 13th the visual arts students of RUFA will have the opportunity to enjoy it, guided by the historical assistants of Fabio Mauri, Dora Aceto, Ivan Barlafante, Marcella Campitelli, Claudio Cantelmi, Sara Codutti and Sandro Mele, who have created and set up many of… Find out more