this november and december,  berlin-based artist robin rhode will be collaborating
with the norwegian concert pianist leif ove andsnes on mussorgsky's 'pictures at an exhibition'.
leif ove will be performing the piano recital, while robin's artworks are projected on
screens around the piano.

the original collaboration was commissioned by the lincoln centre in new york.

there will be performances worldwide, including new york, washington, houston,
brussels, hamburg, munich, cologne, berlin, london, moscow, naples, paris, dubai
and shanghai.

the piece of music itself is a friend of the composer - victor hartmann. the piece
of music describes mussorgsky's emotions and feelings while walking through
the exhibition of his friend's works that was put up in memory of him, and describes
also the works as he walks past them. the music has been used and treated many
times since, by musicians as far apart as emerson, lake and palmer, method man,
michael jackson and more.

some stills from the making of one of the film sequences, show a piano which
was 'drowned' in a copenhagen shipyard last march (for which the artist, robin had
to jump into the icy water to do the filming).