Charlie

The artist Sabrina Bertolelli presents the work "Charlie" (2014). Made with mixed technique, the work includes sculpture and painting at the same time takes on the value of the installation. The work represents a skull painted black, from whose head start at a multitude of colored pencils, with the point facing upwards. The teeth of the skull are characterized by the use of colors different from one another: from green to pink, yellow to blue, from orange to blue. The work may be classified in the order of kinetic art, since it presents a rotating base, provided with electric motor, which makes it turn completely on itself.
the skull of "Charlie" takes on meanings that stand apart from the traditional ones; they are made comprehensible thanks to the title and to the interaction between the subject and the other elements of the composition.
The title "Charlie", in fact, refers to the recent terrorist attack (7 January 2015) against the Paris headquarters of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The attack, claimed by Al-Qaeda, has claimed the lives of twelve people, including employees of the newspaper and passersby. The incident was immediately perceived by the public as an attack on freedom of expression and thought, considered one of the inviolable rights of every human being. Affected by each other, Sabrina Bertolelli has used its technical capabilities and its means of communication to express his idea of ​​freedom of thought and action.