Festival set designers: “A floral suggestion for the Festival scene.” A flower blossomed on the Ariston stage, amid games of mirrors and transparencies: this is the suggestion that – abandoning the purely horizontal/vertical dimension – accompanied Gaetano and Maria Chiara Castelli in designing the set design for the Sanremo Festival 2024, him for the… Find out more
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian. Dal 26 al 29 ottobre sarà in scena al Teatro Tordinona lo spettacolo “Viva l’Italia”, scritto e diretto dalla docente RUFA di Scrittura Creativa Franca De Angelis, con la partecipazione di Massimiliano Maggi come disegno luci e di Anna Cianca come interprete principale. 29-29 ottobre 2023 –… Find out more
Annarita Debellis and Raffaele Esposito, third-year students of Set design, were elected the undisputed winners of the Call promoted by the Polish production company WFDiF. All Cinema and Set Design students at the Academy were encouraged to submit a pair project that included a directing and set design idea and was inspired by the… Find out more
The set design of the highly anticipated 73rd Sanremo Festival is signed by father and daughter, Gaetano and Maria Chiara Castelli – RUFA lecturer of Set design – and the whole of Italy’s attention is focused on the Ariston stage topped by a giant luminous dome. “This year, for the Festival, we thought of building… Find out more
A new opportunity for Film and Scenography students: RUFA and the production company WFDiF join forces to enhance the film and performing arts disciplines. RUFA and the production company WFDiF – Wytwórnia Filmów dokumentalnych i Fabularnych of Warsaw, through the Polish Institute in Rome, have signed an agreement to foster cooperation between Italy and… Find out more
On stage until 22 May is ‘Gli amici degli amici’, the new show written by Franca De Angelis and directed by Christian Angeli. “Gli amici degli amici” is staged in the evocative setting of the Stanze Segrete Theatre, from 10 to 22 May, and is based on the short story of the same name by… Find out more
For the first time in Italy, from 28 to 30 April at the Cinema Farnese in Rome, the TEATROTEKA festival: a dialogue between cinema and theatre that brings together young playwrights and debutant directors RUFA and the TEATROTEKA project in Rome join forces to foster cooperation between Italy and Poland in the development of… Find out more
Sunday, March 20 marks the inauguration of the new project of lecturer Davide Dormino: “Quando il bambino era bambino”, with a text by Silvano Manganaro. The appointment is from 12 noon to 7 p.m. at Fondazione VOLUME! “…Quando il bambino era bambino, non sapeva di essere un bambino, per lui tutto aveva un’anima e… Find out more
Congratulations to Maria Pina Bentivenga for an important goal. Our RUFA teacher has just been nominated – the only Italian artist – with the “Torri” project for the Queen Sonja Print Award , the Norwegian royal house’s engraving award. The Queen Sonja Print Award has become the world’s premier graphic art award – a… Find out more
Congratulations to the students of Scenography Flaminia Giacobello and Antonio Vulpiani for winning the Skuola.net competition The aim of the competition was to renew the physical studio for video and Web TV production of Skuola.net, the reference edTech portal for the Italian student community with over 6 million monthly visitors. It is not the first… Find out more
Antonin Joseph Di Santantonio, architect and RUFA professor of Technology and materials for set design, has just published his latest book in collaboration with the architect Maria Beatrice Gallo: “Gaetano Castelli in the history of RAI scenography”. A project that reconstructs the career of the set designer from the beginning up to his latest RAI… Find out more
The deadline for submitting applications has been extended to February 25th! The annual selection of the best Italian design. Only products selected by ADI Design Index can participate in the Compasso D’Oro design competition. RUFA students are encouraged to participate in the ADI Design Index 2022 call. Each year ADI Association for Industrial Design identifies… Find out more
On 11 January at the Cometa Off Theater the show “Il Miracolo” will be staged, created by RUFA teachers of creative writing and documentary techniques Franca de Angelis (author) and Christian Angeli (direction). The project also involved professors Massimiliano Maggi for the lighting design and Anna Cianca as interpreter. Synopsis Ever since his partner –… Find out more
The replicas of The Metamorphosis by Ovidio, directed by the RUFA lecturer in History of the Performing Arts Francesco Polizzi, with Vincenzo Iantorno, Andrea Lami, Gioia Ricci and Irena Goloubeva. The Metamorphosis The performance is an uninterrupted sequence of myths: a continuous interweaving of narratives that mix history and mythology. A show in ten scenes,… Find out more
On Friday 19 November 2021 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the RUFA Space will host the event Human: first-post-contemporary the final exhibition of the Workshop “Bodies, textiles, images” by Caterina Di Rienzo. RUFA Space RUFA Space, the multi-purpose area dedicated to events and exhibitions by the students of the Academy, continues to generate culture,… Find out more
At the end of the enrolment phase, the following places are still available for the first years of the respective courses: BACHELOR OF ARTS MASTER OF ARTS The available places will be reassigned by scrolling through the order of the candidates considered admitted and suitable for their respective courses in previous admission sessions. The registration… Find out more
Now in its sixth edition, the International Prize ” Contemporary Generation”, promoted by the Luiss Creative Business Center, aims to promote contemporary Italian and foreign art, support artists under 35, and expand the permanent art collection of the Luiss Business School. International Award “Contemporary Generation” . The competition requires that candidate works develop a specific… Find out more
In order to ensure the widest possible participation of the “next generation” of artists in training, the deadline for participation in the National Arts Award has been extended to 15 June. The contest, launched by the Ministry of University and Research, is aimed at students regularly enrolled in institutions and accredited courses of the Afam… Find out more
The fourth edition of “Lydia”, the call for artists entitled to the memory of the sculptor Lydia Silvestri, organized by the Fondazione Il Lazzaretto, expires on 22nd February. Lydia” is open to artists under 35 years of age residing in Italy with proposals of ideas for an original work of art, without limits to techniques, formats… Find out more
The online meeting Painting: you again, but weren’t we supposed to see each other more? has been rescheduled on February 5, 2021 at 11:00 am, with visual arts students and Federica Di Pietrantonio, RUFA graduate recently identified by Artribune as the best young artist of the year. Painting seems to be weighed down by a… Find out more