He was born in 1940 in Paris, from his Turkish father and his Spanish mother. After the war he moves with his familiy to Colomby, where the painter Antonio Ascona teaches him design. Returned in France in 1957, he attends the Fine Arts Academy in Nice, where he meets Martial Raysse, César, Arman and Pierre Restany. In the 60's he starts his first personal expositions, with works in chromium-plated metal and plastic rests. In 1968 he starts the built of his atelier in Tourrettes-sur-Loup and he becomes the assistant of César, with whom he travels all around Europe to realise his expansions. He lives for some years in Rome, where he can better study the plastic in a plexiglas industry; so he settles in New York in 1981, but often returns to France. In these years he starts his personal exhibitions in important places, such as the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Beaubourg Gallery in Paris, the Congress Palace in Nice, where he exposes the big columns, the stelae, and the circles in plexiglas. In 1990 he inaugurates Dissémination in the Arena district of Nice: the biggest plexiglas sculpture ever made (34 m of height, 18,75 m of widht, 21 tons of weight). In the same years he starts a series of new sculptures in lacquered metal and , from 1991, he tends more and more to the use of unrefined metal to made sculptures of big dimensions, for the open space, that now are most by big american collectioners.