RUBENS ASKENAR composer

bestiary or antifable manual

Encàrrec de Sampler Sèries, L´Auditori de Barcelona. Bestiary. Or Anti-fable Manual was commissioned by Sampler Series, L´Auditori of Barcelona for Crossinglines ensemble. The premier was given by Crossinglines ensemble conducted by Lorenzo Ferrandiz in L´Auditori the 10th of November 2016, and subsequently performed in Auditorio 400 of Madrid, the 12th of November 2016

The piece is articulated as a set of sequences with a ritual character in which different operations and techniques, around the underlying materiality in the fantastic period of the work of the Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksiński, are explored. Dense, tremendously tactile scenes in which man and his history are exposed as a sort of dialectical bestiary, loaded with references to both the oniric and the physical world, making use of apocalyptic scenarios.

In his paintings, there are recurring references to archaeological places, deserts, damn cities of antiquity, etc. He also shows great interest in biomechanical structures, bones, corpses and all kinds of material references that possibly derive from his training in architectural engineering and technical sciences. Beksińki has written, “I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams”.  In other words; using an instrument to technify the dreams.