Giorgio Piccaia

Giorgio Piccaia is an Italian-Swiss artist (Geneva, 1955). He was born into an artistic family; his father, Matteo, is a master of twentieth-century art. From a young age, Giorgio frequented the artistic circles of Geneva and Milan. His artistic career has been marked by significant encounters with figures such as John Cage and Jerzy Grotowski, who influenced his approach to art, characterized by the stripping away of the non-essential and by attentive listening to oneself and to the surrounding environment. In the 1980s, he studied with Corrado Levi at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan, moving from performance art to the visual arts. In 2018, he rediscovered the Fibonacci sequence, which has since become central to his artistic work. Numbers, used as symbols, are continuously rewritten. “Repetition is a mantra to reach a higher state of knowledge toward the construction of the Great Work," in harmony and peace (Giorgio Piccaia). In 2022, he created an important citywide exhibition in Pisa to mark the 850th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci (Palazzo Gambacorti, the State Archives, the ArtIngenio Museum, and on 21 façades of historic buildings). Since 2024, Villa Porto Rapallo has housed the Piccaia Museum. OLG Fine Art in Chiasso exhibits, in addition to large canvases dedicated to numbers, four small monotype works on paper connected to the world of the sea. Piccaia currently lives and works in Agrate Conturbia, in the province of Novara, Italy.