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    This Ukrainian was famed for playful sculptures. Now his art melds war debris and rage

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2023 5 minutes
    The gallery space for Mikhail Reva, a Ukrainian sculptor, in Odesa, Ukraine on June 27, 2023.

    ODESA, Ukraine — Ukraine's best-known sculptor, Mikhail Reva, was once famous for his whimsical works — playful, outsized creations found in parks and plazas across the country, and scattered throughout his southern hometown of Odesa.

    Russia's war on Ukraine changed all that.

    His genial features obscured behind a welder's mask, the 63-year-old sculptor gestures toward an industrial workbench bearing the day's dark materials: jagged missile fragments, dented shell casings, twisted hunks of shrapnel, ready to be assembled into towering, talismanic works that reflect a world upended.

    "For me, it's like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle, a puzzle made up of horror and chaos," he said. "That is the life of this war — what our lives have become."

    In his cavernous workshop near the shores of the Black Sea, and in an immaculate studio and display space in downtown , the fight is never far from view: here, a

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