Massio was born in Volterra, Tuscany in 1925. Widely known throughout the gallery circuit in Italy, he worked as the editor of several cultural publications, including the magazine "Marcatrè" in the 1960s, plus he has created several animated cartoons and published several personal books uniting his own creative writings with an archaeology of images in a sweet melancholic mixture. From the beginning of the 1960's, Magdalo Mussio has been one of the main protagonists of the artistic searches between word and image that have anticipated and accompanied in Italy the developments of the conceptual art. After obtaining a bachelor in architecture and long stays abroad Mussio it has been, from 1963, editor and publishing curatore of the publishing house Lerici of Milan, publishing in those years the fundamental review of culture of vanguard "Marcatre." The graphical and written sign of Mussio emerges on the surface of its tables and of its papers, through infinites layers of overlapping, like in order catching up the spectator from the depths of an archaic past or from those, equally unfathomable pictorial matters, of the psyche and the memory it characterizes them. Mussio wrote: "On the margin of the paper I began to write driven in words and illegibility, I abraded or folded papers in order of then new covering hiding them. Over them I wrote secret messages. The reminiscences, the exile, the suffering of the limit beyond that obstacle made to feel that only point me to continue in me one extreme absence." He died August 12, 2006 after a lengthly illness. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.