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Signs and symbols at the Ribolzi Gallery
2011-05-10 18:18
What:
Works by George K and Tobia Ravà
Where:
Adriano Ribolzi Gallery, 3 avenue de l’Hermitage
When: 14 June 2011
The
Ribolzi Gallery in Monaco is putting together an exhibition of two
artists for whom numbers and written characters are an essential part of
their art.
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George Kuruvilla (
George K) was born in Chennai and began his
professional life as a chartered accountant before making the transition
to photography, painting, and - most recently - sculpture. Now in huge
demand across the world, George K's work has been exhibited in London's
King's Road Gallery, and is now coming to the Ribolzi gallery in a show
entitled
'Appearance… beyond appearance'
K draws his inspiration from from the world around him. employing motifs
from popular culture, kitsch and graffiti. His canvases, often showing a
single isolated figure, are inscribed with relevant verses or a single
word repeated across the entire canvas like a mantra.
And in the artist's vividly lifesize fibreglass busts there is a strong
sense of the real world, too, covered as they are with a collage of
newspaper representing the skin of the world, each clothed in words
recording the present, past, and future.
George K will be present at the gallery in person on 14 June
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Italian painter
Tobia Ravà is already known to Monaco
audiences as the winner of last year's 'Gemluc’Art' prize. Born in
Padua, he was educated at Bologna University by, among others, the
novelist and semiologist Umberto Eco. He has been painting since 1971
and has exhibited since 1977 across the world. He is represented in both
private and public collections in Europe, the United States, South
America and in the Far East. He will be also exhibiting his work at the
Venice Biennale 2011 in the Italian Pavilion. In 1998 Ravà was among the
founding members of the Contemporary Art
Concert, whose aim is to remind us of the relationship between history
and art, by showing art in the interactive setting of parks, villas,
historic buildings and city squares.
His focus for the last twenty years has been on Hebrew culture and
iconography, a subject on which he has lectured since 1999, and which
forms the basis of his exhibition
'Algorithms and the Gematriot' (Gematriot is the name given to numerological codes and messages in the
Torah).
the work of both artists will be