Sónar + D is back, from 13 to 16 June in Barcelona, the most popular event in Barcelona for music and innovation fans. It is one of the most authoritative European meetings of the contemporary art scene, built on a set of activities united by a single common thread: the relationship between creativity and technology…. Find out more
Graphic design
Painting
Terminididentità. The winners of the contest
On Thursday, April 12th at the Mercato Centrale Roma, the winners of the Terminididentità contest were awarded: we illustrate the Termini station. More than 150 artists, young and already established, participated in the competition launched on January 24th by the creators of RomaID, the project that designs the new visual identity of Rome involving the… Find out more
Design
Let’s make a xilotheque – meeting with Gianni Cantarutti
In the last talk made in RUFA we explored the boundless world of wood. Our guest Gianni Cantarutti, founder of Slow Wood, who since childhood has been attracted by the scent, colors and grain of wood, began to collect the most varied species and exchange them with experts and collectors from all over the world,… Find out more
Painting
Meeting/conversation with art historian Barbara Rose
Monday, April 16, 2018 at 17:30 at Palazzo Carpegna, home of the National Academy of San Luca, will be held the meeting / conversation entitled A particular vision: Barbara Rose. This is a valuable opportunity for students who will have the opportunity to confront themselves with art experts of international standing. Gianni Dessì, President of… Find out more
Announcement
Didactics
2018 Future of Europe – International poster exhibition
Another exciting opportunity for RUFA students to test themselves in an international context. The Czech Council for Foreign Relations in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations in Prague and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung launched an international art competition on the theme “2018 – The Future of Europe”. The students of the academy are asked… Find out more
Painting
Balance and disorder – The RUFA students’ exhibition curated by Simone Cametti
In 1865 Rudolf Clausius with his inequality theorem introduced in physics the concept of “entropy” (change/transformation), with the main intent to define this physical quantity as a measure of the disorder present in a system. About entropy in art Rudolf Arnheim argued that: “a system is in equilibrium when the forces that constitute it are… Find out more
Didactics
Graphic design
RUFA and Anffas Macerata: a collaboration between art and solidarity
Not a simple calendar, but a wide-ranging artistic project that turns its attention to the concept of social inclusion. Thanks to a collaboration agreement between the Macerata section of Anffas (National Association of families of people with intellectual and/or relational disabilities) and the Rome University of Fine Arts, first year graphic design students will be… Find out more
Didactics
Photography and Audiovisual
RUFA, image and contemporaneity also in the fashion world
The development of made in Italy also passes through the Rome University of Fine Arts. The Academy of Fine Arts legally recognized by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, directed by the architect Fabio Mongelli, opens itself in a clear and decisive way to the world of fashion. A logical and somewhat expected consequence,… Find out more
Graphic Design - Comics and Illustration
Last two ARF! Masterclasses in RUFA. Not to be missed!
Registration for the last two ARF! Masterclasses in RUFA is now open. After the extraordinary meetings with GIPI and Giacomo Bevilacqua we give you an appointment in the Aula Paolo Rosa on April 21st with LRNZ- Lorenzo Ceccotti and on April 28th with Mauro Uzzeo and Fabio Guaglione. With LRNZ, internationally renowned cartoonist and illustrator,… Find out more
Painting
Art in Arts and Crafts. The new edition of the prestigious award
The Art in Arts and Crafts Award, promoted by the Suzzara Foundation, is back. Artists of all nationalities, regardless of their techniques and artistic orientations, will be able to participate, with a maximum of 3 works. In the last edition our students have been able to assert their qualities. The evaluation commission, in fact, has… Find out more
Didactics
RUFA and AIESEC, together to increase the international vocation of the Academy
A partnership that amplifies the international vocation of the Rome University of Fine Arts and which will allow the students of the Academy to carry out internships abroad, comparing themselves in an even more in-depth way with business methodologies and working approaches that are certainly different from those of Italy. This agreement assumes the agreement… Find out more
Graphic design
Graphic Design - Comics and Illustration
Giacomo Bevilacqua and everything you’ve always wanted to know about comics
It’s quick to say “comic book” and maybe even more to say “comic book”, but what does it really mean to live on comics? In three hours Giacomo Bevilacqua has unravelled the world of comics from idea to writing to drawing, to the relationship with publishers and the public. He spoke very concretely about how… Find out more
Didactics
Second session of workshops – photos and video
The second intense workshop session of this academic year ended. Once again, RUFA students had the opportunity to attend a week of creative workshops to tackle subjects that go beyond ordinary teaching. 7 routes chosen by the students. 7 professionals / artists / designers who were teachers. So many different ways in which art has… Find out more
Design
Talk RUFA with Enzo Catellani – Staticity does not create
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