Ukraine’s miniature sculptures showcased in Hanoi
Print An exhibition of 32 gold miniature sculptures from Ukraine is now open at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Art in Hanoi.
The exhibition is being held by the Vietnamese and Ukrainian culture ministries to celebrate Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych’s official visit to Vietnam.
Through microscopes, spectators can enjoy 20 miniature sculptures made by hand by Nicolai Syadristy, an artist known for combining technology and art to capture great ideas in tiny spaces.
12 other gold jewelry works made by engineers at the Ukrainian Academy of Science are also in display to give locals a glimpse of Ukraine’s high tech.
The Swallows: A composition of birds and nests on half of a poppy seed
Santa Maria: The 2.85mm – long Santa Maria ship with 256 details
The Camelcade: A composition of a camel caravan crossing the sand toward a pyramid and a palm tree all within the eye of a needle
The sea: A picture of a woman waiting for her beloved on a rice seed. The woman is 30,000 times smaller than the rice seed
The Fox and the Grapes invokes the allegorical story of ancient Greece in a grape seed
The Chess men: a tiny chessboard on a pinhead. The chess arrangement is taken from a game between Alexander Aliokhin (black) and Raul Capablanca (white) at the 1927 world championship
A spectator uses a microscope to see “ The Chess men”
Nostalgia: a beautiful tiny flower with its pistil and veins sculptured meticulously
Parallel world: A 6.5mm-long mosquito with a woman and an umbrella on his trunk
Life: A 5-micron-big man walking on a minuscule wire spiral
The windmill: A 1.8-mm-high windmill on half of a poppy seed
