Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky, Known As Sacha Sosno, 1937–2013, Marseille/nice, “oblitération,” Photo-based Work

Sacha Sosno spent his childhood in Latvia. In Nice, he met the painter Henri Matisse in 1948, then Yves Klein and Arman in 1956. He studied Oriental languages at Sciences Po in Paris in 1958. Upon returning to Nice in 1961, he founded the journal Sud Communication, in which he published the first theory of the École de Nice. In the 1960s, he completed his military service, pursued archaeology, worked in journalism and printing, and became a war correspondent in Northern Ireland, Bangladesh, and Biafra.

He returned to painting. The concept of obliteration (“hiding to better reveal”) was directly inspired by his work as a photographer. He also participated in sociological art in Paris alongside Fred Forest and Bernard Teyssèdre.

From 2000 to 2002, in collaboration with architects Yves Bayard and Francis Chapus, he created the Tête Carrée, the world’s first inhabitable sculpture^{[citation needed]}, which houses the offices of the Louis Nucéra Central Library in Nice^[3]. In the following years, he participated in international exhibitions in Russia, China, and Italy. He received various commissions for monumental and outdoor sculpture installations.