The painter and sculptor Giorgio Piccaia was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955, and he currently lives and works in Agrate Conturbia, Piedmont, Italy. His father was also an artist and, together with him, he was connected to artistic circles in Geneva and later in Milan.

Two encounters marked his art: the first one was the meeting with John Cage, during the iconic concert at Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1977, and the second one was with Jerzy Grotowski, with whom he worked at the Laboratory Theater in Wroslaw in 1978.

The stripping away of the non-essential, a technique inspired by these two masters, is still the prominent feature of Piccaia's art today. In the early 1980s he attended Corrado Levi's classes at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan, a seminal encounter that allowed him, after working on the body with performances and happenings, to establish himself in painting and visual arts.

In 2018, during his exchanges with Gregory Sinaite, a Greek Orthodox monk whom he met during a trip to St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt, he discussed about art and rediscovered the figure of Leonardo Pisano, also known as Fibonacci, a mathematician from the early Middle Ages.

Currently, his artistic project is connected to the numbers of the Fibonacci Sequence and to myosotis flowers, which Giorgio Piccaia describes as capable of "bringing me back to the simplicity of Nature and the rediscovery of Happiness."