About Tobia Rava

Tobia Rava was born in Padua in 1959. He attended the international school of Graphic Arts of Venice and Urbino. He graduated in Semiology of the Arts at the University of Bologna.

He has been painting since 1971 and exhibiting in both individual and collective exhibitions since 1977 in Italy, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Japan and the U.S.A.

His works are present in the collections of public institutions and in private collections in Europe, North and South America, and also in the Far East. In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Bologna group AlcArte. Since 1988 he has concentrated on Jewish epigraphs in the Veneto, Friuli and Trentino Alto Adige Regions in Northern Italy. In 1993, together with Franco Cimitan, Roberto Fontanella, Guerrino Pain and Cesare Vignato, he was a promoter of the Triplani (three planes) group, which- starting from the semiology of two planes of Greimas and Calabrese – derives its name from the idea that there is a third symbolic level of reading, in addition to those of the signifier and the signified.

In 1988 he was a founding member of Concerto d’Arte contemporanea, the aim of which is to bring together artists with the historic buildings, villas, parks and squares of the cities of art. Since 1999 he started a series of lectures, invited by Universities and High Schools of Art, based upon his activity in the contexts of Jewish culture, of Mathematics Logic and Contemporary Art. He lives and works in Venice.

Tobia Rava and his wife visiting Yigal Pazak's home

The Artist, Mr. Tobia Rava

Tovia Rava and his wife are signing the Certificates of Authenticity

The Story of the Tobia Rava Sgulah Collection

The thirty-six paintings and eight posters that make up the Tobia Rava Sgulah Collection (offered on this website and at the Sgulah Gallery) represent the result of an exclusive licensing agreement between Mr. Tobia Rava, the artist, and Sgulah - School of Mystical Thought. According to this agreement, Mr. Tobia Rava delivered to Sgulah thirty-six digital reproductions of his original paintings. Sgulah requested the world famous digital outfit G2 Graphic Services of Hollywood to scan the photographs at the highest possible resolution. These scans have been transferred to a very reputable Los Angeles based art gallery called Art Territory that specializes in high quality digital printing of oil-on-canvas images utilizing the most advanced plotters in the industry. Every scan has been meticulously evaluated by professional graphic editors and sophisticated computerized equipment to insure they are identical to the original.

These images have been subsequently plotted by Art Territory experts on a special quality artistic canvas utilizing the latest digital technology that guarantees these amazing paintings to last at least 100 years without fading. Mr. Tobia Raba and his wife visited Sgulah in September 2005 and examined every painting and every poster. After such careful examination, Mr. Tobia Rava personally signed limited edition of thirty-two Certificates of Authenticity for each of the thrity-six paintings in the Sgulah Collection. This is an amazing rarity for any limited edition!

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