June - Style Magazine

Paris in
Vernissage
& TBILISI
Annette Revyakina was born in
Moscow. Having completed her public
school and art college studies in the capital
of Russia, Annette moved to Vilnius,
Lithuania, where she studied at the architectural
faculty of Lithuanian Art Academy
in 1989-1995. Since 1992 Annette maintains
architectural practice, creating
unordinary and memorable, highly professional
and tasteful designs. In the previous
issues of our magazine we told
you about several projects designed by
Annette Revyakina: hotel Europa-Royal
in Druskininkai, interiors of Lithuanian
State Arms Foundation shops in Vilnius
and Klaipeda, interior of an apartment
in Vilnius. Hope we will have more opportunities
to make you familiar with the
foreign architect’s works.
This time we would like to show
you glimpses of the world as seen by
Annette through a camera lens. This
world is heterogeneous, but frank and
open in expressing the photographer’s
feelings and viewpoints.
In the end of May 2009, Vernissage
Gallery (managed by art critic Zaira
Berelidze) launched a personal exhibition
of Annette Revyakina’s photos.
The exposition consisted of Paris landscapes
– views of Notre Dame de Paris
and vistas opening from this temple.
The photos hung on the walls narrated
a wide variety of different stories,
all of which revealed considerable analytical
skills and lyricism of the author.
Due to her deep perception of reality,
Annette has a very sound understanding
of spiritual dialectics of the universe.
Her creative style is reserved but poetic;
each of her works radiates some special
charm, reflecting the author’s taste
and creative thinking and evoking totally
different feelings. Aesthetic integrity,
melody and rhythm of purposefully positioned
photos, gives birth to unique aesthetics,
opening the gates of eternity
before the ephemeral. The same can
be said about the photos of Tbilisi, taken
by Annette Revyakina – each of them
shows how beautiful the city in which
we live is.
NINO LAGHIDZE
stili #32. 2009
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