Concerto pour violon

The Violin Concerto is written in homage to the painting of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an ephemeral figure of contemporary painting (he died at the age of 28), and a prominent representative of a new style, close to graffiti and "Street art", in New York in the 1980s.

In many of his works we can discern a figure surmounted by a halo, but himself very deconstructed and as if "exploded". This is the case of the four paintings cited here: Fallen Angel, Saint, Acque Pericolose, Tar and Feathers . To make this presence of a "paradoxical sacred" perceptible we will find in most of the movements, variations on the theme of the Dies Irae.

Pascal Zavaro