Davos Snow: Concerto Grosso in C# Minor

“Allegro-Largo-Allegro—Fast and Slow tempos flow & melt like snow.”

Medium: Sumi ink on mounted rice paper
Dimensions: 120 × 180 cm
Created: 2011

This painting is based on the view from my hotel room in Davos-2011, on an early morning after fresh snowfall. I had woken up at 4 am, looked through the window and saw fresh snow had fallen, covering everything in powder. It was absolutely quiet, yet the experience was musical. Allegro-Largo-Allegro—Fast and Slow tempos flow seamlessly into a continuity of baroque beauty. This visual concerto grosso is in the rare key of C#. The brisk tempos of the globe bracket a Largo in the Alpine heights.

Davos Snow: Concerto Grosso in C# Minor — Allegro–Largo–Allegro (view from my hotel)

Davos Snow: Concerto Grosso in C# Minor — full painting

Davos Snow on exhibition in the Congress Center, Davos — Exhibition in the Congress Center, Davos.

Davos Snow on exhibition in the Congress Center, Davos — wide view — Exhibition in the Congress Center, Davos.

Davos Snow: Concerto Grosso in C# Minor by Drue Kataoka

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