Zbigniew Rybczynski, The Orchestra (fragment), Ave Maria, 1990.


Bodies fluctuate in the nocturnal space of a cathedral, in a choreography in which life merges with death, like in that giant format music video that is "The Orchestra" composed of six phantasmagoric “musical frames.” The rules of the game are always the same: the multiplication of the characters, their uninterrupted passing of the baton, disappearing and reappearing, crossing the boundaries between one spatial context and another, in the fluidity of the action that finishes only with the end of the musical piece and with the change of scene.

The Otchestra is an interminable procession: it begins with the notes of Chopin’s funeral march, with dozens of electronic ghosts that take turns at the keys of a piano, and finishes with the rising rhythm of Ravel’s Bolero, on a flight of stairs that represents the long march of communism, until its inevitable and definitive collapse.

- Excerpt from: From the Ideal City to the Virtual Reality - An introduction to “Zbig’s vision” by Bruno Di Marino, September 2003.

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