Carlo Rambaldi (1925 2012), Testa di Alieno
Pencil drawing on paper, Alien's head for the film "close encounters of the third type" in wooden frame with glass, cm 39x48 signed and dated at bottom right Photo of the prototype with biography and description in metal and glass frame, cm 71,5x50,5, The first, unmistakable thing that comes to mind when looking at this drawing are those 5 simple notes, repeated and reproduced in dialogue with the alien mother spacecraft, in what becomes a symphony and a conversation, at first measured and then more and more excited, which leads to the happy ending full of hope, sweetness, peace of one of the greatest science fiction movies ever. The fears and fears that run through so many science fiction films that turn into wars between the worlds, here disappear in simple gestures of union, to find a common ground that unites and does not divide, to appreciate the other precisely because it is "other and different", but basically similar to us. The great message of hope of the film and the melody takes shape in the sweet expression of the alien born from the hands of Carlo Rambaldi, an animatronic that seems real and that greets with the gesture of the hand a human world no longer afraid, but ready to grow together, in peace and harmony. After 43 years, those hopes remain a fixed and current point, to always feel truly human.