Together with other prominent artists, including Giuseppe Capogrossi and Emanuele Cavalli, he formed the group of the "New Roman School of Painting," better known as Scuola Romana.
Painters who studied under Carena include, among the others, Giuseppe Capogrossi.
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Giuseppe Tornatore | Giuseppe Sinopoli | Giuseppe De Santis | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Giuseppe Terragni | Giuseppe Mazzini | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Giuseppe Lignano | Giuseppe Tucci | Giuseppe Radaelli | Giuseppe Pizzardo | Giuseppe Morello | Giuseppe Marchese | Giuseppe Guarneri | Giuseppe Di Cristina | San Giuseppe Jato | Rima San Giuseppe | Giuseppe Valdengo | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Giuseppe Soleri | Giuseppe Sergi | Giuseppe Quaglio | Giuseppe Piazzi | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Giuseppe Parini | Giuseppe Mosca | Giuseppe Greco | Giuseppe Giusti | Giuseppe Farina |
1 km of mosaics executed in 1963 by artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi, Roberto Crippa, Agenore Fabbri, Lucio Fontana, Wifredo Lam, Aligi Sassu, Eliseo Salino and Asger Jorn.
In 1933 Cavalli, together with Capogrossi and Melli wrote the "Manifesto del Primordialismo plastico" (Manifesto of Plastic Primordialism) defining the Tonalist Creed, with special emphasis on the style's spiritual and abstract side.
Among them there were Lucio Fontana, Asger Jorn, Corneille, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Baj, Sergio Dangelo, Roberto Crippa, Gianni Dova, Agenore Fabbri, Aligi Sassu etc.