1959
He shows the Virtuais and Seccionados [Sectioned] series at the group show Prêmio Leirner de Arte Contemporânea, at Galeria de Arte das Folhas (SP).
Participates in the V Bienal de São Paulo (MAM-SP) and in international exhibitions: Ausstellung Brasilianischer Künstler, at Haus der Kunst, in Munich (Germany); Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon (Portugal); and the Exposição Arte Contemporânea Brasileira (MAM-RJ), which travels the following year to the cities of London, Paris, Hamburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Zürich, Basel, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna, Madrid and Barcelona.
He parts ways with Waldemar Cordeiro.
Until the following year, he keeps busy with the planning and implantation of the restructuring of the company Panan Publicidade S.A.
He starts to work in a studio adjoining the living room of Volpi’s house, until about 1966.