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Rhode's road to Lincoln Center

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Published online 10 Nov 09

Rhode's videos meet Andsnes' music

In another instance of cross-disciplinary exchange, this week, Lincoln Center premieres a new collaboration between South African-born artist Robin Rhode and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes based on a piano suite by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Entitled “Pictures Reframed", the project features a new video project by Rhodes that will be projected onto a specially-designed set on which Andsnes will perform Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition”, which is meant to evoke the experience of a gallery visitor walking through an art show. Andsnes says some of the first work he saw by Rhode were his animations of children and “and the inventive playfulness impressed me”. But it’s more than just kid’s stuff—starting with two performances in New York on 13 and 14 November, the show is set to go on a world tour throughout the US and Europe.

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