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
Painting and visual arts
Solo exhibition: “KATA LOGON – the poetics of (past) time” – Photos and video
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
Painting and visual arts
“Mi guardo intorno”: Solo exhibition by Silvia Rosa – Photos
“…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
Painting and visual arts
“In Situ”, when the orientation turns into art – Photos and video
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
Painting and visual arts
Solo exhibition: “KATA LOGON – the poetics of (past) time”
As the final result of the thesis discussion that will take place in the February 2020 session, “KATA LOGON – the poetics of (past) time”, tries to become a work in itself. The intent, is to make clear a different vision of time, not chronological, but cairological. It is fundamental the care of the moment,… Find out more
Painting and visual arts
“Mi guardo intorno”: Solo exhibition by Silvia Rosa
“Mi guardo intorno”, I immerse myself in colors, shapes, lines, more or less defined geometries, places. The inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Carlotta De Martino, will take place on Wednesday 12th February 2020, at 6 pm, at RUFA Space – Pastificio Cerere in via degli Ausoni, 7a/b. The canvases by Silvia Rosa, an expert… Find out more
Painting and visual arts
Masterclass with Fabio Mauri Studio
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
Painting and visual arts
“People”: Solo exhibition by Esposito and De Martino – Photos
The “People” exhibition allowed visitors to undertake a journey in many directions. A double path that reveals meeting points and trespasses on the same theme of two artists: Celeste Esposito and Carlotta De Martino. This happened at the opening of the “Solo exhibition”, on January 22nd at RUFA Space. The two artists showed that the… Find out more
Fine Arts
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
Painting and visual arts
“In Situ”, when the orientation turns into art
Student to student. From those who seek their own future, gathering information and opportunities, to those who have decided to follow the path of creativity, between innovation and art. This is the scenario, in the context of RUFA Space, in Via degli Ausoni 7 in the heart of the San Lorenzo district in Rome, which… Find out more
Painting and visual arts
A fluid vision of the “People”: Solo exhibition by Esposito and De Martino
“People” is an encounter of hidden faces, of fluid individuals, of inconsistencies, of crowds that exist in their dispersion and that come into contact with their fears. On January 22nd at RUFA Space the “Solo exhibition” by Celeste Esposito and Carlotta De Martino will be inaugurated at 6 pm. It is perhaps a journey in… Find out more
Fine Arts
“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
Graphic design
RUFA and Cheese factory of Sorano, together for a “call for artist” with a sylvan tone
RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts students are called on to create two artistic works to be included in the Comune di Sorano (Gr) and in particular in the spaces belonging to the Caseificio di Sorano. The origin of Sorano dates back to the Etruscans, but already in the fifteenth century the social role… Find out more
Didactics
Regina José Galindo will meet RUFA students
On the occasion of the presence in Rome of the artist Regina José Galindo, RUFA has organized a meeting between the students, the artist and the curator Federica La Paglia to be held on December 11 from 3 to 5 pm, at RUFA – Pastificio Cerere. Starting from the narration of the latest projects, a… Find out more
Painting and visual arts
Convergenze. Notargiacomo and the Spoleto GAM collection
Gianfranco Notargiacomo is an artist in many ways a precursor of uncodified languages, able to move from form to image, from structure to painting with the same skill and intelligence. Precisely for this reason he represented the solution to the knots opposed to each other, contrasting, intertwined: divergent and convergent at the same time. La… Find out more
Painting and visual arts
In RUFA you can experience “dialogical teaching” – Photos
It happens to everyone, at least once in their life, to be disappointed in a work of art that is illustrated and explained by an expert, but without dwelling on that detail, that detail in the image that, instead, had aroused interest and curiosity. It is in this scenario that the experience of “dialogical teaching”… Find out more
Fine Arts
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
Fine Arts
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
Painting and visual arts
RUFA joins World Day against Violence on Women
RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts has joined as a roman partner the World Day against Violence on Women. The voice calling for a stop to the social emergency of feminicides is getting louder. Many appointments have been renewed in various Italian cities connected to the Wall of Dolls, the artistic installation created by… Find out more