Alessandro Kokocinski

Experimental/Documentary • Austria 2006 • 5 min

This film offers a rare, introspective journey into the inner life of Kokocinski’s sculptures — revealing the invisible pulse of memory, emotion, and vitality flowing through the forms, all accompanied by the mesmerising music of Francis Kuipers.

Synopsis

Kokocinski’s life was as layered and complex as his art. Born in 1948 in Porto Recanati, Italy, to a Russian mother and a Polish father, his early years were shaped by movement and cultural diversity. He spent his childhood in Brazil among the Guaraní people, then in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where in the 1960s he joined a traveling circus as a horse acrobat. These formative experiences, grounded in both physical discipline and poetic chaos, informed the expressive power of his later work.

Eventually, Kokocinski settled in the ancient town of Tuscania, in the Etruscan region of Northern Lazio, where he transformed a deconsecrated medieval church into his personal studio. There, surrounded by centuries of history, he continued to create — following a deeply personal, cosmopolitan path shaped by memory, movement, and artistic freedom.

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