Villa Porto Rapallo meet Giorgio Piccaia, artist in residence
Giorgio Piccaia you are a son of an artist, how did your father Matteo, master of the twentieth century, influence your art? I was born in Geneva, where my father was a member of the SPSAS (now Visarte) Swiss Painters, Sculptors, Architects delegation. And in the Swiss city the evenings with his fellow artists were very frequent, I was always present and pampered by everyone. They talked about art and philosophy. When our family moved to Italy, the teacher often took me to Milan, then the center of art was in the Brera district. Even there the attendance was in the world of galleries and artists. This was my childhood. And now? In 2018, with my friend Gregory Sinaite, a Greek Orthodox monk from the monastery of Santa Caterina in Sinai, I rediscovered Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci, a mathematician from the Early Middle Ages with his numerical sequence that takes me back to the simplicity of Nature, to the golden rule. My artistic project was born from
