Vincenzo Agnetti graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He made his debut in the late 1950s in the field of informal painting and poetry. He collaborated with Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni in the activities of the Galleria Azimut, opened in Milan between 1959 and 1960, and of the magazine of the same name, with the publication of Non commettere atti impuri in the first of the two printed issues (In these articles and reflections he supports the most radical tendencies of the time).
Since 1960 he has rejected the practice of painting to identify art with absence, operating in an extremely radical, “cold”, sometimes cryptic conceptual context.
In 1962 he moved to Argentina to work in the field of electronic automation. In that period, called by the artist liquidationism or art no (refusal to paint) his "pre-artistic" productions disappeared. In 1967 he held his first solo exhibition (Principia) at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Alongside his artistic activity he also worked intensely as an essayist, writer and theorist. Vincenzo Agnetti died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1981.
