He studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at the Ecoles des métiers d’art. After May ’68 he joined the Front des Artists Plasticiens, a radical militant artist collective, and then the Jeune Peinture, of which he was secretary general from 1975 to 1977. After the assassination of his close friend, Ezzedine Kalak, who was the PLO representative in France, in August of 1978, he decided to focus on painting.