He is an Italian painter and printmaker active in Rome and Paris. He has been described as a “detective of everyday life” and an “artisan of the enigma.”

After studying at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg (de) ( Salzburg ) under the direction of Oskar Kokoschka, he took drawing lessons at the Académie de France in Rome from 1956 to 1961.

In the 1950s and 1960s, his work aligned with cubism, with Giorgio De Chirico, and especially with German expressionism. He felt close to the masters of the New Objectivity with whom he corresponded intellectually, particularly Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, and Ludwig Meidner.

In the early 1960s, the influence of film noir and American comics shifted his painting toward a more narrative direction. The use of film noir codes makes reality more uncertain, and reading comics allowed him to fit a maximum of pictorial objects into a minimal space. From that time, his paintings have been regularly exhibited in Italian and French galleries and in many European museums.

His prints were published in limited editions for works of French and Italian poets such as Jacques Baron, Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Jean-Pierre Biondi, and Giorgio Vigolo. He also illustrated books and produced covers for the surrealist writer Philippe Soupault, who in 1980 introduced a catalog of the exhibition on his work entitled L'Insolite daily. The portrait of the writer executed by him was part of the exhibition Philippe Soupault, Surrealism and Some Friends at the Musée du Montparnasse in 2007.

His work reflects the paradoxes and anxieties of contemporary metropolises, offering a comprehensive depiction of heterogeneous elements: photo novels, Alfred Hitchcock films, media, genre literature, contemporary novels, art history, and flash news. His art reveals a metaphysical, sociological, and mysterious vision of everyday life.

In 2014, the Villa Torlonia museum dedicated a large retrospective exhibition, La Vita enigmistica, displaying more than eighty paintings from 1958 to 2014 in the Casino des Princes building in Rome. In 2018, the Rome Exhibition Center celebrated sixty years of artistic activity with an exhibition curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi.

He is cited in the Bénézit (French edition 1999, vol. III, p. 397; English 2006, vol. III, p. 648) as well as in the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, 1997 (vol.17, p. 446).