[1] In 1960, Recalcati moved to Milan and met the poet and critic Alain Jouffroy, who first noticed his work.

In 1963, he moved to Paris, where he met the painters Gilles Aillaud, Eduardo Arroyo, and Paul Rebeyrolle.

In 1965, alongside Aillaud and Arroyo, he published a collective work titled Vivre et laisser mourir ou la Fin tragique de Marcel Duchamp [fr].

During the 1970s, Recalcati's paintings tackled the themes of social commitment and repression in subject such as student struggles and the working class outskirts of large cities.

His portraits of imaginary New York City landscapes continued until the end of the 1980s with the series After Storm, presented at the Galleria Philippe Daverio in Milan in 1988.