Life
Konenko was born in the town of Orsk in the Orenburg region of Russia. His family later relocated to Kazakhstan. Konenko received a degree in technical architecture from The Omsk College of Civil Engineering. In 1982 he graduated from Omsk State Pedagogical University with a degree in graphic design. He has worked as a designer of eye-surgery instruments.[1]
Microminiatures
Grasshopper playing the violin.
Konenko began to create miniature works in 1981. Konenko's works often reference Russian fables and fairy tales; some of his most famous creations include "The Savvy Flea", "The Grasshopper Violinist" and "A Caravan of Camels in the Eye of the Needle".[2] Since 2007, his son has worked with him.
Konenko works in a variety of media, using human hair, poppy seeds, and rice as surfaces.[3] Some of his works include living animals. In 2011, he created a miniature aquarium to house a living tiny fish, complete with a net. It contained just two teaspoons of water, two fish, and some algae.[4] He can shoe a flea.[5]
Miniature books
Konenko has published more than 200 miniature books. His edition of Chekhov's Chameleon, issued in 1996 in Omsk, is printed on paper and includes 30 pages, 3 color illustrations, and a portrait of Chekhov, and measures 0,9 x 0,9 mm. It was published in an edition of 100 and is bound in gold, silver, and leather.[6] Anatoly Konenko has been listed in Guinness Book of Records for creating the book.[7] In 2010 Konenko issued a collection of miniature book volumes of Pushkin, Koltsov, Evtushenko.
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Supermicrobook. Size 0,8 x 0,8 mm.
External links
Media related to Anatoly Konenko at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Prague Museum of Miniatures, which houses some of Konenko's works.
