art
Composers
When, torward the end of 1995, Marco Delogu proposed a series of portraits of composers invited to IRCAM, I was immediately struck by the idea of attempting to draw out a physiognomy of the composers of our time. I imagined that the portrait could be representative of general charateristics, that it might be a gaze projected onto the space occupied by each subject. In short, I imagined that the portrait could somehow offer an archetype that would render each individual both the intrpreter and the representative of the group to which he belongs.
But this first idea seems to me today somewhat anectodal, or at least no longer the feature of principal interest. As I discovered his earlier work, I become more sensitive to the intimate and fragile dimension of his portraits. What srikes me most now is his desire to reveal a secret truth in each individual.
Laurent Bayle
Iannis Xenakis, composer, Paris 1996
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