He waits here with departing travellers – not to greet them, but to see them off on their journey, with the dignity of a man who himself spent his life on the road.
A note for anyone wanting to find him: the figure stands in the SkyCourt, upper level, in the security area between the terminals – accessible only with a valid boarding pass, not from the public terminal area.
On the suitcase also lies a small bronze paper aeroplane, folded from a sheet of music – the staff lines and notes are embossed right into the metal. Around the SkyCourt, the airport has installed several similar paper-aeroplane sculptures made from sheet music: a recurring motif that playfully bridges the centuries between Liszt's concert tours and modern air travel.
Important context: on the bronze suitcase itself there are even QR codes leading to a specially curated Spotify playlist of Liszt's best-known works – but this addition doesn't come from Kolodko; it was added afterwards by the airport itself, to brighten travellers' wait in the SkyCourt with the music of its namesake.
