Enzo Catellani’s creative path is well known and his lights are the demonstration of his past abilities and his ever-evolving creativity. Instead, he spoke little of his backstage and of what led him to develop these skills. Creativity is innate? On the one hand, and on the other, it is stimulated by the situations that… Find out more
Announcement
Painting
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
Photography and Audiovisual
Ceci n’est pas un selfie – in exhibition the photographic portrait
A disruptive exhibition that shakes and hurts. The photos of the RUFA students taken during a workshop with world-renowned photographer Mustafa Sabbagh invaded an unpublished space at Pastificio Cerere. Ceci n’est pas un selfie this is the name of the project carried out by the students together with Sabbagh: a journey into the self, a… Find out more
Didactics
School/Work alternation in RUFA
It has just ended an intense week of meetings within the Alternanza school/work project, which involved some Roman high schools and RUFA. RUFA hosted for a week, some classes to carry out the new school reform, which introduced a teaching and learning method based on the comparison between students and professionals. The students had the… Find out more
Graphic Design - Comics and Illustration
The ARF MASTERCLASS! IN RUFA. Next is with Giacomo Bevilacqua
The second lesson of the ARF! Masterclass cycle in RUFA will star Giacomo Bevilacqua, internationally renowned cartoonist whose last work “The sound of the world by heart” has been included by Forbes magazine among the 10 best Graphic Novels released in the United States in 2017. It’s easy to say “Comics” , this is the… Find out more
Photography and Audiovisual
Painting
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.
Cinema
MATTADOR Prize, a challenge for young screenwriters
To all screenwriters, we remind you that the deadline is approaching for the presentation of the works for the 9th International Screenplay Award MATTADOR dedicated to Matteo Caenazzo, promoted by the Cultural Association Mattador of Trieste. We would also like to point out the DOLLY section “Illustrating the cinema” which is addressed to Italian and… Find out more
Graphic Design - Comics and Illustration
The Masterclass with GIPI “Comics, lethal obsession”
On Saturday 17th February we started the ARF Masterclass cycle! in RUFA, four events dedicated to the masters of Italian comics. GIPI has pitted his professional and private life in three hours, giving an audience of 50 aspiring cartoonists and writers, food for thought, valuable advice and above all making available all his experience. Here… Find out more
Announcement
Didactics
Painting
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
Cinema
Our Susanna Nicchiarelli candidate for the David di Donatello
The film Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli, RUFA of Cinema, received eight nominations for the David di Donatello, including the best film and best original screenplay. We are really proud of having in our teaching staff an excellence like Susanna, to whom we make a big good luck!
Painting
Czaschka: the immortality of art
The beauty of things and the aesthetic sense of the world have been values at the basis of the life and thought of Jürgen Czaschka, master of graphic art. The artist Jürgen Czaschka (Vienna 1944) is the man who combines intellectual rigor with a warm and ironic humanitas, and his burins on copper – of… Find out more
Design
Graphic design
Talk with Arjowiggins. The photo and video storytelling.
Yesterday we took a trip into the world of paper and its packaging applications thanks to the experience of Silvia Nicolais from Arjowiggins Creative Papers and Barbara Rocchi from Tiburtini Carattere Tipografico.
Graphic design
Irma Boom and the most beautiful books in the world
Irma Boom, one of the most authoritative graphic designers in the world, who has profoundly renewed the art of conceiving and produce books and publishing graphics, will meet Aiap members, professionals and students of visual communication design. For the occasion, he will present a sample of his most recent publishing production. A great opportunity for… Find out more
Didactics
Visual and Innovation Design
Here are the winners of the Tracks of Freedom announcement. Ready to go?
Here are the names of the 11 students who will have the opportunity to spend 10 days in New York for the Tracks of Freedom project. The delegation of students accompanied by Professors Mario Rullo, Emanuele Cappelli and Director Fabio Mongelli, will live a highly formative experience in collaboration with SVA – School of Visual… Find out more
Didactics
Workshop. The second session of the ay 2017/2018 starts
Registrations are open for the second session of RUFA workshops for the academic year 2017/2018, which will take place from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 March. Another learning opportunity for students, who will have the opportunity to deepen the theory and practice of their creative environment, working alongside great experts and accredited professionals. Due to… Find out more
Announcement
Didactics
Erasmus Announcement 2018/2019
The Erasmus announcement is back. From today you can apply for an exciting study abroad experience for the academic year 2018/19, in one of the universities included in the program. There are all the most interesting European cities in terms of research in the field of Fine Arts, Design and Media Arts. You are spoilt… Find out more
Graphic design
Visual and Innovation Design
Apollo 30. A crew of 30 students explores the universe of contemporary visual culture.
Apollo 30 is a temporary section of Italianism, developed in collaboration with RUFA. The thirty students enrolled in the lessons of “Visual and Media Culture” held by Renato Fontana (2nd level academic course) scour the web over the week to understand and experiment as “see better” in the vast universe of images and themes available… Find out more
Graphic design
TERMINIDIDENTITÀ.Starts the contest supported by RomaID, Mercato Centrale Roma and RUFA
Today starts the contest for artists, designers, illustrators and students supported by RomaID, Mercato Centrale Roma and Rufa. TERMINIDIDENTITÀ: LA STAZIONE TERMINI ILLUSTRATA COME UN’OPERA D’ARTE For 155 years, Termini Station has been welcoming the citizens of the world to the Eternal City. Millions of people, each with its own history, identity, dreams, the desire… Find out more
Painting
Talk RUFA con Riccardo Mannelli. Il racconto foto e video
We hosted Riccardo Mannelli for the third talk of this academic year. He is a historical pencil of drawing, portraiture and satire in Italy. The richness of his intervention left the audience enchanted and intrigued. Here the story with photos and videos.
Didactics
Graphic Design - Comics and Illustration
MASTERCLASS by ARF! IN RUFA. In class with the super stars of comics
Four milestones waiting ARF! Festival RUFA is proud to present the Masterclass cycle in collaboration with ARF! the Comics Festival of Rome. A cycle of 4 meetings/lessons with some of the most important comic strip artists and authors of the Italian scene. Four unmissable appointments, dedicated to those who want to discover the secrets of… Find out more