Egidio Cuniberti was born in Mondovì, Cuneo, in 1928. At a very young age, he began working as a foundry worker in Turin. At 24 he was hospitalized with a brain injury, perhaps the result of a fall on a bicycle. He underwent an emergency operation for cerebral hemorrhage that left a history of migraine, epilepsy and insomnia. We must wait until 1971 to see the dawn of his extraordinary and original artistic adventure. In those years he began to pick up ice cream sticks and other waste material in the street: he assembled them to make sculptures, furnitures and paintings. In thirty years using the wood of ice creams sticks and fruit crates, and colored plastic spoons, he built about 130 pieces of furnitures (some of which exceed two meters) decorated with mythological scenes and bucolic images; silhouettes of young women with bouquets of flowers; paintings depicting views of his native town, Mondovì. In 2002 his health got worse and his sister took care of him until his death in 2006.