The Journey

Sossio attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples from 1968 to 1972, years of great ferment and transformation for the new Neapolitan School. He was a pupil of painters such as Domenico Spinosa, Armando De Stefano and Gianni Pisani.

Between 1976 and 1978 he held many solo exhibitions, all in Neapolitan galleries, because he felt a deep attachment to the city’s cultural and artistic climate.

In the 1980s he moved to Tuscany, where his true inner research began. His canvases from this period are defined by linguistic modules linked to colour and by the absence of figurative forms. The experiences of these years proved crucial to his stylistic path, in particular the inspiration he drew from illuminating readings, especially Keys of the Creative Universe, born from his encounter with Elio D’Anna, writer, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet and musician.

In 1998 he held a solo exhibition at the London gallery curated by the Italian Academy of Arts. The show was repeated in 2001 and 2006.

In 2007 Sossio began a collaboration with Aria Art Gallery, which has presented his work in four solo shows and various group exhibitions in London, Istanbul and Florence. He has also taken part in numerous art fairs and institutional projects.

Sossio’s pictorial style is free from constraints, techniques, projects or programmes. This is the condition for grasping and representing the “absence of time”.