How can the self-portrait be declined today? What does it mean to represent oneself when the capitalist ideology demands that the body adhere to the socially accepted semblant? In the younger generations the creative approach seems to become orthopedic: from here the abuse of photoshop to erase any sign of experience, the spread of cosplay,… Find out more
Rufa is academic partner of Blooming Festival, the event born from the desire to promote different artistic expressions of research in the field of digital culture, music and electronic arts. The ultimate aim of the project is to encourage the active participation of spectators in the new artistic languages, bringing them closer to forms of… Find out more
In the middle of a post-truth era, where we hardly distinguish reality from fiction, the “Zero degrees Frozen yogurt” ice cream shop is the artistic (consumer) product most suited to our times: a kind of “fake moment”, a probable daily moment where everything can be true, but at the same time it can be false…. Find out more
Everything is ready for the second edition of “Walk the global walk”: the “competition” for video-making experts. This is an international project, supported by the European Commission, which involves, for Italy, the Region of Tuscany and Oxfam Intercultura. The primary objective is to promote awareness and interest in sustainable development issues related to “global goals”,… Find out more
The journey continues in the footprints that contemporaneity leaves in Rome. RUFA lecturer Gian Luca Gentili has re-proposed, with a new itinerary and above all with new meetings, his “en plein air” lessons to rediscover the modernity expressed by the Capital in design and architecture. Specifically, it is an itinerary that tries to translate the… Find out more
RUFA and the association MoCA, promoter and organizer of the “Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna”, now in its fourteenth edition, are renewing their collaboration. Specifically, it is an international competition that embraces multiple expressions of the arts: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art, performance, virtual art, land art, urban art, design. An event that… Find out more
A project to bring the world of image and the world of fashion together in a unified manner. It is in this assumption that “B&W – Black & White, The Migrant Trend” is outlined. An experience that comes from observing the creative and unique style of the migrant people. A style that, while finding personal… Find out more
If, as Fredric Jameson says, postmodernism is the time in which we passed from the alienated subject to the fragmented one – the collapse of the depth of the modern unconscious that determined a large part of Western culture – how can we interpret the self-portrait today? What does it mean to represent oneself when… Find out more
Until 6 September it is possible to apply for an internship or placement in a European country. Registration is open for Erasmus+, the international program that allows students or recent graduates to access an internship or placement (training through work), autonomous and funded, to be carried out in foreign companies or enterprises, during which to… Find out more
It will be held Saturday, June 22, starting at 3 pm, at the headquarters of the cultural association “Artemusica – Scuola di musica Artidee”, located in Via Andrea del Castagno 196 in Rome, an event entitled “Arte per Amatrice”. The aim is to raise funds to be allocated to the City of Amatrice. The kermesse… Find out more
Not only a factory, but also and above all a dream: before we talked about Silicon Valley or the big multinationals that have then marked the flow of the technological market. A delegation of RUFA lecturers, composed of Ely Rozenberg, Emanuele Cappelli, Floriana Cannatelli, Guglielmo Lisi, Giorgio Marcatili and Emanuele Tarducci took part in the… Find out more
RUFA Contest 2019: an emotional interweaving of art, contemporaneity and thought. An intense and complex experience, but for this reason even more fascinating. An edition full of enthusiasm that has been able to focus on the key elements of the educational mission of an Academy: research, production and artistic promotion, all declining the kaleidoscopic forms… Find out more
“Yesterday’s memory happens today.” This is the theme of the exhibition curated by Giselle Cantonetti and it is included in the project “Solo Exhibition”: a plan generated by the lecturers of Visual arts RUFA courses to make students experienced with an exhibition path. The experience of Giselle Cantonetti, located at RUFA Space in via degli… Find out more
The presence of man on Earth is intended to leave a mark. It is in this vision, conceived by the creator and artistic director Emanuele Cappelli, that RUFA Contest 2019, in the exceptional setting of the Brancaccio Theatre, was celebrated, allowing the triumph of the Divine Aesthetics, the main theme of the event. The aim… Find out more
It was Andy Warhol who offered David LaChapelle his first professional assignment as a photographer for “Interview Magazine”. From that moment on, it was a constant progression of covers, services and magazines. The first book, entitled “LaChapelle Land”, allowed the world to discover the iconic, pop and surreal style of one of the contemporary masters… Find out more
With the coordination of the lecturer Claudia Illuzzi, the students of the three classes of Graphic Design of the first year visited the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome, located in Via della Stamperia. Born in 1975, following the union between the National Chalcography, of papal heritage, and the National Prints Cabinet, it has collected… Find out more
A Mibac call for applications open to students of public and private academies of fine arts The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities has established the “AccadeMibac” award, promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs. The initiative has been programmed with the sole purpose of supporting Italian artists under… Find out more
The program #OfficineRufa continues its appointments proposing a meeting with Vincenzo Sparagna around the word Frigolandia. What is the Republic of Frigolandia? How do you build and how does a fake work? Is there a Maivist art? From Il Male to Frigidaire, passing through Stefano Tamburini and Andrea Pazienza, the incredible story of how art… Find out more
The program #OfficineRufa continues its appointments proposing a meeting with Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni around the word Rhome. Rhome is the title of the latest of the photographic book by Caimi and Piccinni, the second chapter of a long-term project on three cities in transition (Naples, Rome, Istanbul): vulnerable cities, in balance, always exposed… Find out more
A total of ten students will participate in the first edition of “Seminaria per le Accademie”. The project involves the construction of some environmental installations in listening and dialogue with the village of Maranola – Formia, in the province of Latina. The artistic event focuses on the relationship between work and context and is part… Find out more