In CH—the result of a collaboration between Mastrovito and director Marco Marcassoli—a gang of vandals, led by a mysterious figure wearing a multicolored chef’s hat, breaks into a museum and destroys nearly all of its works before coming across the beautiful photographer Vicky: the gang leader admiringly reviews her résumé and invites her to join the new artistic (and deadly) avant-garde, whose motto (“We make art—as long as someone dies”) is about to spread across the world via a pair of singing plastic birds.
The obvious absurdity of the situation draws its inspiration from Tim Burton’s "Batman": the first part of the video is shot to exactly mirror both the dialogue (the original lines from the Italian version are retained) and the camera angles and timing of the famous scene in which the Joker and his henchmen storm the Gotham City museum. The second part, however, features two plastic birds that gradually take on the likenesses of the protagonists of *CH*—namely Picasso (blue and pink), Warhol, and Leonardo’s Mona Lisa—while cheerfully singing a slapdash version of a famous song by Sonny and Cher. The link between the two parts lies in the presence, as the protagonist, of Stefano Arienti, one of Italy’s leading contemporary artists, and, as his henchmen, the two young artists Luca Francesconi and Andrea Mastrovito, directed by Marco Marcassoli: through the destruction of artworks and museums, they attempt to recreate the figure of the artist.