He was born in Naples, but began his career in Nice, opening a record shop which soon became a meeting point for numerous artists of the so-called Nice school, César, Arman, Raysse. His painting is based, among other things, on a painted writing that intends to evoke a "shocking" analogical shift, in which the signifier and the signified enter into a creative combination. Read the full biography
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He was born in Naples, but began his career in Nice, opening a record shop which soon became a meeting point for numerous artists of the so-called Nice school, César, Arman, Raysse. His painting is based, among other things, on a painted writing that intends to evoke a "shocking" analogical shift, in which the signifier and the signified enter into a creative combination. He joined the Fluxus group and became an important member of it. In 1980 he founded the group "figuration libre".