On the 5th of July from 5pm to 9pm, Caffarella Park will host the 2nd edition of the Ambientale Art Festival, a celebration of art and culture. The festival promotes ecological awareness by encouraging environmental artistic practices alongside self-reflective narratives. This program features a series of site-specific art installations, conceived in direct dialogue with the park and its landscape. The project is the result of a collaborative effort between teachers, students, and alumni from the departments of Fine Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Art Curating & Management, and Design Management at RUFA.

Patronised by Comune di Roma Municipio VII, sponsored by R5 and in partnership with Nativa, the festival offers a bridge between nature, art and our inner experience. Set in the historic setting of Caffarella Park, it offers the perfect chance for an evening full of creativity, celebrating art’s ability to shift perspectives and reimagine our relationship with the environment.

This edition of Ambientale Art Festival is shaped by the concept “Unearth What Can Be Found”:  an invitation to look beyond the surface in order to rediscover what has been forgotten, overlooked, or discarded. Whether focused on the natural world or personal experience, many of the works incorporate found and repurposed materials. Each object carries its own story as they’re transformed by the artists’ perspectives into something new. In dialogue with nature and its cycles of decay and renewal, the festival opens up space for reflection on new ways of relating to ourselves and the world around us.

The featured artists explore how they navigate their individuality within both natural and societal landscapes. This journey of rediscovery brings them face to face with hidden or neglected parts of self. By engaging with nature’s rhythms, they reflect on personal narratives of introspection and transformation. Here, the environment becomes both a mirror and a guide in the ongoing process of becoming.

With special thanks to

Spazio Y, Laboratorio KH

ARTISTS

José Zendejas is a Mexican artist born in San Luis Potosí in 1987. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from UVM Campus SLP in 2012 and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Painting at the Rome University of Fine Arts. His practice began at 16 and is rooted in lyrical, intuitive abstraction that explores how external stimuli are internalized and transformed into personal realities. Through painting, he aims to give form to the intangible emotions, memories, and inner landscapes. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Rome as well as throughout Mexico

Matteo Baccino is an Italian artist born and raised in Rome. He explores the presence of objects that make up our everyday lives, and through them and the way we interact with them, tries to reconstruct our contemporary social reality. Working often with plastic, he attempts to create an analysis of the social fabric through the material one. Baccino received his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts – Painting from Rome University of Fine Arts in 2023 and is now studying in the same department for his master’s degree. His work has been exhibited in various group shows throughout Rome and Latina.

Michelle Ronaly Kuruwitaarachchi is a multidisciplinary artist from Colombo, Sri Lanka who is currently working in Rome. By using various mediums such as printmaking, painting, ceramic, and sound, she takes an experimental and intuitive approach to exploring themes of safe spaces, memory, and the subconscious. Through personal rituals and physical processes, Ronaly aims to give form to emotional landscapes and internal states. She received her bachelor’s degree in Design and Visual Communications from Northumbria University in 2022 and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Rome University of Fine Arts. Her work has previously been shown in Rome and she has held has held art directing roles in Sri Lanka

Pedro Simplicío is a Brazilian artist from Teresina currently living and working in Rome. His practice spans painting, drawing, and collage, using self-portraiture and written language to reflect on identity, memory, and modes of communication in contemporary society. With a background in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (2021), he integrates structural thinking and spatial awareness into his visual work. In 2024, he began pursuing a second-level academic diploma in Fine Arts at Rome University of Fine Arts, deepening his exploration of personal and collective narratives through material experimentation. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions throughout Rome, Brazil and Georgia.

Amedeo Longo is a visual artist living and studying in Rome, whose artistic research is based on free associations of ideas expressed through recognizable objects and materials. His practice favors the languages of sculpture, installation and performance. By combining decontextualized elements, Longo creates surreal realities that pose questions to himself and the viewer. He studied sculpture at Rome University of Fine Arts, during which he participated and won numerous initiatives. He has additionally been a part of art fairs, group shows and solo exhibitions in Rome.

Davide Miceli

 Davide Miceli is a Roman artist based in Isola Sacra, Fiumicino and works primarily in Rome.

His practice moves between theoretical speculation and material experimentation centered on the idea of artistic objects as a system of artificial connections. By assembling unplanned elements, he creates a kind of logic that requires analysis to find relationships as if connecting points on a map. Alongside his independent artistic practice, he also works as a specialized technician, educator, and exhibition installer. He graduated from Rome University of Fine Arts in 2022 with a Bachelor’s in Sculpture, later obtaining a Master’s Degree in Graphic Arts in 2024 from the same institution. Miceli has participated in numerous notable exhibitions and residencies around Italy and Rome.

Giulia Bergantino

Visual artist, Giulia Bergantino, lives and works in Rome. Her practice engages earnestly with subjects and topics that are often overlooked or dismissed. In this context the seriousness of her approach is not rigid, but urgent. She identifies in her research the importance of returning our attention back to the things we used to understand naturally, but have forgotten how to see over time. Her work is a way of restoring playfulness, curiosity and sincerity as powerful tools for thinking and feeling. By remembering what’s been lost, Bergantino seeks to see the world through fresh eyes. She graduated in Painting from Rome University of Fine Arts in 2023 where she is currently completing an MA of Fine Arts – Sculpture.

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