Heraclitus said that the tension between opposites is the origin of movement, and that without conflict there can be no becoming. Starting from this premise, the exhibition takes difference as a productive force: two natures that meet, not to arrive at a synthesis, but to set their contrast into play. The visitor will not encounter a final resolution, but rather a constant exchange, an oscillation that generates energy.

In this context, Nicola Cucchiaro’s sculptures do not simply represent forms; they work with objects drawn from everyday life, extracted from their original function. Once displaced, they lose their practical use and become questions. What once was a toy, a keepsake, or a utensil now appears as an open sign, capable of challenging both collective memory and sculptural tradition.

Felix Campean’s paintings, on the other hand, do not attempt to erase the figure but to insist on it as a field of experience in itself. Through gesture and matter, the figurative image becomes a terrain of intensity, where the human is revealed not by detailed description but by the energy of form. His painting is less representation than process: a body that emerges, vibrates, and holds itself in color.

As in Bach’s counterpoint, where voices do not cancel each other out but reinforce one another, or in Pythagoras’ “harmony of the spheres,” where each difference contributes to a larger balance, here meaning arises not from unity but from friction. The coexistence of languages becomes the true engine of the exhibition.

It is not about unifying, about reducing the works to a common denominator, but about allowing them to coexist without losing their singularity. The gallery acts as the shared air that gives space to both worlds, without demanding fusion or concessions.

In this way, Cucchiaro’s sculptural fragments and Campean’s pictorial presences do not oppose or contradict each other. They sustain one another in a dynamic balance, showing that harmony is not the absence of difference, but the ability to live with it.