Born in Buenos Aires in 1923, he studied at the National School of Fine Arts and opened his first studio in 1943. He is co-founder of the Movimiento de Arte Concreto-Invención (Concrete Invention Art Movement) and also signed the Manifiesto Invencionista (Inventionist Manifesto) together with Raúl Lozza, Enio Iommi, Lidy Prati, Manuel Espinosa, Claudio Girola and Tomás Maldonado.
He has held more than 30 solo exhibitions both at home and abroad and countless group exhibitions in countries such as Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, (where he lived from 1963 to 1973), the United States, Brazil and Switzerland. On more than one occasion, he represented Argentina at the Venice Biennial (1954) and in Sao Paulo (1954, 1961, 1975 and 1989).
In 1984 he entered the National Academy of Fine Arts, a year later he received the Di Tella Prize for Visual Arts and two years later the National Museum of Fine Arts held a comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work. In 2002 the Sala de Arte de la Fundación Telefónica in Madrid held a large exhibition of his selected works and the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires held one as well in 2003.
He died in Buenos Aires in 1993.