Nicola Sani, Mario Sasso FOOTPRINT

1990, 3 34 The electronic movie Footprint represents an ideal voyage through images from the earth, as seen from the satellite and the signs of contemporary art. Images and music are interlinked to form one entity. The First Space Museum is born out of the metropolitan landscapes seen from high above, from the deserts of Northern Africa, that undergo a metamorphosisthrough the combination of computer graphics and computer animationinto the statements of contemporary painting. To give some examples: the complicated networks and grids of urban streets give shape to the figures of Capogrossi, animate the geometry of Mondrian and the drippings of Pollock, and give rise to Jasper Johns Pop Art numbers. The deserts of northern Africa develop into the works of Burri and the figures of Licini, while the seatightly stretched like a canvasis submitted to Fontana s lacerations. The essential quality of contemporary painting is reversed into the simplicity of electronic images. The music is made ideal to melt