Painting the absence of time.
The Journey
From the new Neapolitan School to the inner research of the Tuscan years: a painting that gives up the figure to let colour speak.
Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples from 1968 to 1972, a pupil of Domenico Spinosa, Armando De Stefano and Gianni Pisani, Sossio moved to Tuscany in the 1980s, where his painting left the figure behind and became an inner search through colour. Since 2007 he has exhibited with Aria Art Gallery in London, Istanbul and Florence.
Read the full journeySelf-Transformism
Paintings by Sossio, quotes by Elio D’Anna
“Self Transformism” is an “Individual Revolution”, a movement that places the individual as the only creator of their own reality. Inspired by the thought of Elio D’Anna, philosopher, musician and President of the European School of Economics, Sossio’s paintings represent a dynamic transformation of the inner world, a journey into a dream in which the artist, in the absence of fear, hunts for his own shadows.
Aria Art Gallery, Florence, 2022. Curated by Antonio Budetta.
Read the exhibition’s full textYou’ve seen these compositions before because they’re inside you, part of you.
Visitors at the exhibition, Aria Art Gallery, Florence, 2022.
Engagements
Florence,
Cross-Cultural Synergies for an Inner Education: Sossio’s Engagement in Cultural Diplomacy with the Forces for Inner Education
On 7 February 2026, ESE President Elio D’Anna, Her Excellency Sheikha Hala bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, the artist Sossio and Mohamed Ogbi met at the European School of Economics in Florence around one question: where does real change begin?
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