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4th International Festival for Architecture in Video
NEW MEDIA, CINEMA AND INNOVATION:
FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO SUSTANABILITY

Florence, December 1999



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Antonio Rossin, Monica Russo, Alfredo Maiorana
Lo sposalizio della vergine
Visual Tech, Italia, 1999, 2'30''

This video explores the possibility of departing from an idea about five hundred years old, thought and realized through the bi-dimensionality with perspective intentions, in order to arrive to its completion modeled on the virtual space available from a screen, although always bi-dimensional. Raffaello has already provided us with the perspective sense, that only after five centuries modern information systems can make available. The scientific method of spatial representation, begun in the fifteenth century by Brunelleschi, permits us not only to measure and represent real space, but also to recreate it and to live it in its virtuality, and to bring ourselves closer to those sensations of airy and unitary space that until now were realized only in the works of our great Masters. Why does architecture paint? In Lo sposalizio della Vergine, the Temple is the place where two people during the Italian Renaissance signed a pact between themselves and the society. It is homologous to the interiors and exteriors of the assembled, it indicates the idea of the sublime in the rules of society, and it is there in order to affect, as Le Corbusier much later, and in order to remind us that the only moving reality is art and without it, the other reality, the true one, would be insupportable.

Visual Technician Alfredo Maiorana was born in Monza in 1964. An expert in graphics and post-production, he is the founder of Visual Tech, an association operating in the computer-graphics and multimedia sector. In addition to collaborations with designers and societies of international fame, he has participated in "Premio Immagine" organized by Mediartech. Monica Russo was born in Milan in 1969 and she completed her studies in Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan. Since 1997, she has worked with a design studio on three-dimensional modeling and she has participated in Visual Tech's video "Millennium." Antonio Rossin was born in Badia Polesine in 1940. An architect, Rossin also teaches for ISIA in Florence and DAMS in Bologna. He works in sectors of industrial building design as well as the graphics of communication and design installations for exhibitions. Rossin also collaborates with journals such as Ottogono and Domus.
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