In 1997, he made eight etchings for the poetry volume "Mentira" by Dedy Luziani, Il Bisonte Editions. In 1998, the Gallery ‘Il Bisonte’ hosted an ontological exhibition of his work as painter and printmaker. In 1999, he participated in a collective exhibition of the artists linked with ‘Il Bisonte’ in Tokyo at the Edogawa-Ku Center and the Yamagata Cultural Center. In 2000, his work ‘Nuvole attraverso i rami’ won the second edition of the Prize Leonardo Sciascia amateur d’estampes. It was consequently entered in the Achille Bertarelli Civic Collection of Prints in the Palazzo Sforzesco in Milan.