Czech Philharmonic
Someone who is 120 years old demands our respect, but we also take him a little easy. Although the brief was not explicit about it, the task in the competition searching
for the visual style of the seasons of the Czech Philharmonic was to find the right position for classical music, which no longer wants to be so classical. The concept approved for a five-year term takes this process literally, starting from the foundations of the identity of the No. 1 Czech orchestra – the Rudolfinum edifice, the first programmes of the Philharmonic and the aesthetics of the time – gradually growing through digitization and coming nearer: physically enlarged and reaching the present. The visuals accentuate tradition and prestige of the institution, but the Neo-Renaissance templates are given a contemporary facelift and their exaggerated decorativeness is approached with a speck of irony. The layers of the Rudolfinum decoration get infiltrated by vector solitaires, gradually transforming into purely digital abstraction resembling modernist patterns, and climaxing the 2019/20 season 3D finale, where all the fantastic plastic colors signal the creative compulsion under the new Music Director and Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov.
2015–2019 Marek Pistora, Michal Nanoru,
Zdeněk Trinkewitz, Aleš Najbrt
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK