He was born in Rosario de Santa Fé in 1899 and studied in Milan, where in 1928 he will enroll at the Brera Academy, graduating in 1930. In the same year he participates in the Venice Biennale and inaugurates his first solo exhibition at the Galleria del Milione, approaching the group of Italian abstractionists. In 1946 he drafted the White Manifesto without signing it.