His art was well received and gained critical appreciation by a number of known French and Italian writers and literary figures such as Louis Althusser, Michel Butor, Italo Calvino, Régis Debray and Marc Le Bot.

The latter gave him a book and an entire lecture schedule in his course about the history of contemporary art at the University of Paris I. Cemonini exhibited the Venice Biennale in 1964.

The then Minister of Culture Jack Lang acknowledged his intention for the university to become more open to contemporary art.

The wild, so-called free art of the next generation, represented by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, he did not feel at all.

William Rubin, the former director of the MoMA, praised Cremonini by saying that his work embodies a spirit of timeless monumentality.