Alessandro Kokocinski — “The life and the Mask.”
“Alessandro Kokocinski ( 1948–2017) was an Italian-Argentine painter, sculptor and set designer, of Polish-Russian origin.
In September 2015 the Fondazione Roma Museo staged a one-man show on the artist at Palazzo Cipolla, called “Kokocinski. La vita e la Maschera: da Pulcinella al Clown” (“Kokocinski. The life and the Mask: from Pulcinella to Clown”). The exhibition reflects both “the history of a tormented man who has personally experienced exile, political persecution and the cruelty of the world” and the history “of the artist who transforms this into art with paintings, sculptures and installations in which the mask, the clown and Pulcinella become central subjects”. The works “present themselves as the spectacle of human fragility. Restless, suffering figures yet full of hope, always struggling to defend the true sense of existence”, commented the President of the Fondazione Roma Museo”
