Conceived as a single curatorial project unfolding across two venues and two opening moments, Freedom and discipline: a necessary dialogue brings into conversation the works of Wolfgang Alexander Kossuth and Alessandro Kokocinski, weaving together their artistic visions in a dialogue that is both timely and profoundly resonant. The exhibition is conceived and curated by Matteo Pacini.

Presented with the patronage of the Municipalities of Città della Pieve and Tuscania, the two exhibitions form a geographical and conceptual diptych, built around an exchange of works between the artists’ respective studios, temporarily transformed into mirrored spaces of reflection and encounter.

The project was passionately envisioned and supported by Giovanna Velluti Kokocinski and Giuliana Alzati Kossuth, the life partners of the two artists, whose shared commitment made possible a dialogue that is at once artistic, personal, and commemorative.

“At a historical moment marked by fractures and conflict,” says curator Matteo Pacini, “the very notion of freedom appears increasingly fragile and ambiguous. This exhibition stems from the need to restore complexity to that concept by placing it in dialogue with discipline - understood not as limitation, but as a necessary condition for genuine freedom”.

The relationship between Kossuth and Kokocinski unfolds along both formal and existential lines. Though deeply distinct in language and artistic vision, the two artists converge around a central question: the tension between freedom and discipline as inseparable forces.

“There is no freedom without discipline,” Pacini continues, “and authentic discipline is not coercion, but respect - for others, for shared rules, and for the balance that allows freedom to exist without becoming destructive”.