Tobia rava biography of christopher

Tobia Ravà, born in Padua in 1959 but of Venetian origin, works in Venice and Mirano. He attended the International School of Graphics in Venice and Urbino and obtained a degree in Art Semiology at Bologna University, studying under Umberto Eco, Renato Barilli, Omar Calabrese and Flavio Caroli.
Since 1977 he has exhibited in both solo and collective exhibitions in Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Israel, Morocco, Russia, China and Japan.

Tobia Rava's work combines elements of mathematics, Jewish symbolism and typography.

Tobia Ravà: aesthetic conceptualism · Hebrew Letters and Numbers Painting (10).

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Giacomo Ravagli (Italian, ) · Attilio Ravaglia Christopher Rave (German, –) · Horst Rave (German, –).

Chris was born in Foshan, China, and was adopted at 18 months old.

His works can be found in both private and public collections in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Far East and Australia. He has been working with Jewish iconography since 1988. In 1993 he was promotor of the Triplani group which, starting from biplane semiology takes its name from the hypothesis of a third level of symbolic reading together with those of meaning and signifier.

In 1988 he was one of the founder members of Concerto d'Arte Contemporane