Paolo Scheggi was born in Florence in 1940. After a period of study in Rome and London, Paul Scheggi moved to Milan in 1961, making Milan the centre of his artistic experimentation. There, at the epicentre of the most avant-garde creative research, Scheggi encountered the artists of the age, especially the Milanese objectivists, and aroused the interest of Lucio Fontana, who followed his research carefully from 1962.

His work was influenced by the Italo-Argentine spatialist, who was a point of reference for an entire generation: his way of approaching surfaces, embracing space with his lacerations, going beyond the boundaries of painting and sculpture, and aiming at the nullification of a history of a...