One of the most distinguished representatives of the international avant-garde, a leading exponent of the arte-povera movement (making art using "poor" / found material), he was born in Piraeus and moved to Italy in 1956. There he found the visual stimuli he needed to develop his personal and unique language and notion of space, incorporating the humanistic elements that his heritage has given him.
Since his first exhibition in Rome in 1960, he has exhibited his installations, which create an almost theatrical space, across the world.