Biography
Born in Rome in 1936, he began his career in cinema as a screenwriter, poster designer and actor. Towards the end of the fifties he began to devote himself to painting and held his first exhibition in 1959 in Rome, at the Galleria Appia Antica. The following year he won one of the “Encouragement Awards” of the Gallery of Modern Art, and then exhibited at Plinio De Martiis’ La Tartaruga Gallery in 1965. Between 1966 and 1970 he made the Photographed Actions, some of which are exhibited at the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa. In 1970 he participated in Vitality of the negative (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva), exhibiting La defense (1970), red silhouettes of table football. In these years he approaches the theater forming the group “Trousse” with Carlo Montesi, Lillo Monachesi and Claudio Privitera, flanked by Patrizia Speciale. In 1977 Graziella Lonardi Buontempo invited him to create a site-specific work at Palazzo Taverna. In the eighties he came to a more traditional form of theater with Mario Prosperi. In the 1990s he held a solo show at Palazzo delle Esposizioni (1993) and created large installations, such as the one for the exhibition Fermata d’Abus in the Spazio Flaminio (Rome, 1995). In 1999 a major retrospective was dedicated to him by the National Institute for Graphics in Rome. In recent years he has held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including: in 2007 at the National Gallery of Modern Art and in 2012 at the Hamburger Bahnof in Berlin. He died in 2014 in Rome.