Mikhail Reva

Michael Reva (Mikhail Vladimirovich Reva) (March 13, 1960) - Ukrainian sculptor, artist, architect, founder of the Reva Foundation Group.

Mikhail was born on March 13, 1960 in the Kerch city (Crimea). In 1966, he moved with his parents to Odessa (Ukraine). After high school, Mikhail served army (1980-1982). On his return to Odessa, he worked in the sculpture art fund where he met his future wife Tatyana Kushniruk. At the age of 25, Mikhail entered the Academy of Decorative V.N. Mukhina (now St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named AL Stieglitz) and applied Art and Design. In the Academy his teachers was Lyudmila Pavlovna Kalugina, sculpture - Anatoly Gordeevich Dyoma, paint - Peter Izrailevich Puko and design - Igor Pavlovich Shmelev.

Michael Reva :"It was a happy time. The floodgate of information just started to open, and we were overwhelmed with a desire of creating our new "concord of the day",a new world.We were sitting till dawn talking about art,our souls were glowing in a sincere impulse.What a powerful aspiration it was - to work,to dream,to create...Today I remember that time as a time of hope, a time of discovery, of such an amazing thirst, that much as we revelled in art and in freedom, it was never enough. Five years of my student life passed like a flash.Trying to reminisce that time in details, I recall all my Institute works. And everything else is remembered as one huge continuous cognitive moment. A moment , in which the entire Universe fell upon me!"

He received the Gold Medal from Academy of Arts of the USSR for the best diploma in the field of architectural and decorative plastics in 1990. The Academy of Arts sent Mikhail to Rome (Italy) to Villa Abamelec. After the end of the internship he returned to Odessa. Mikhail was the creator of the "Angel of Mercy" for the children's rehabilitation center "Future", founder of this unique complex was the famous Odessa activist Boris Davidovich Litvak. "Do not refuse good deeds when your hand is able to do it" written on the bay window, under the gold angel.
The works of Michael is diverse and active to this day. Monuments created by Reva became a landmark of the city - a monument dedicated to I. Ilf and E. Petrov "The Twelfth Chair", "The Tree of Love", the Source fountain near the Vorontsov Palace, the park sculpture "Odessa Time" and many other art objects.

"12th Chair" st. Deribasovskaya, Odessa

Business center "Leonardo", Kiev, Ukraine

Monument "In memory of the victims of terrorism around the world" Kyiv, Ukraine

Park Sculpture "Odessa Time" City Garden, Odessa

Sculpture "The Grain of Life" , Moscow

Sculptural composition "Meteorite" , Moscow

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