Sacha Sosno

Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky (18 March 1937 – 3 December 2013), better known by the name Sacha Sosno, was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter.

[1] Working most of the time in Nice, in his last decades Sosno achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures in Côte d'Azur, France.

In 1958 he studied in Paris (political science & oriental languages) following courses at the Law Faculty and at the Cinema Institute at the Sorbonne.

In the 1960s after a term of military service in Toulouse and stints as a war reporter in Ireland, Bangladesh and Biafra, Sosno returned to painting.

Sosnp's most recognizable work remains the "Tête Carrée" (square head building) library in Nice, France which he completed in 2002 in collaboration with architects Yves Bayard and Francis Chapus.

For example, in "Tete aux quatre vents femme", Sosno removed sections of the bronze work, leaving holes where the face, ears and back of the head ought to be.

When the work was completed in 2002 it became the first inhabited monumental sculpture in the world, the first construction entirely in aluminum and the first building shaped and raised thanks to naval techniques.