A poster to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
“Whatever you do, don’t you dare inflict bloody Rachmaninoff on him! He’s not ready!” This line from the movie Shine about Australian pianist David Helfgot, has always stayed with me. Rachmaninoff’s music is famously hard to play, and in the movie, Helfgot is driven to madness by Rachmaninoff’s concerto No. 3. To celebrate the anniversary of the haunted immigrant, I chose an image of stylized broken fingers blending into the keys of the piano keyboard. They can belong to Rachmaninoff himself or anyone struggling to master his music. The colorful gradient that breaks up the black-and-white palette of piano keys symbolizes the magic of his music.
A Golden Bee Bienalle selection.
