Ciocio was born on 23 January 1953 in Pavia, self-taught, he has always dedicated himself to painting.
His love for art and color was born from his mother, who graduated from the Brera Academy in the 1940s and from the teachings received from Professor and art critic Lodovico Magugliani, teacher at the Voghera classical high school from which Ciocio graduated. His paintings take inspiration from nature and are pervaded by a rhythmic sense that marks the space, as the art critic Donatella Volonté explains well «His flowers, the fish, the more abstract compositions – all acrylics on paper, rarely on canvas - reveal a rigorous construction: it is not a question of symmetry, rather of rhythmic succession, of non-apparent geometries, of a spatial and temporal dimension in the repetition of motifs, which speak of his scientific training, which does not admit the supremacy of chance.»
Again to quote the words of Donatella Volonté «Color is the true leitmotif and the hallmark of her painting is the intense, at times exuberant, chromaticism, dominated by the fundamental colours: yellows, blues and reds which rarely leave room for complementary ones and which impose themselves pure and bright»

Below is the full text by Donatella Volontè describing Ciocio and his painting

«I have always thought that artistic creation, in any manifestation, is a necessity for those who practice it: when it becomes a profession, we find ourselves faced with an artist; when, on the contrary, we witness the making of art by an individual who uses it occasionally, what appears to us is the expression of an intellectual and emotional need, an essential need for those who practice it, even if occasionally, to give shape and communicate a own vision.
Making art is a practice that does not end in the pleasure of doing it, except in cases where the products remain unknown to most people; when, however, there is a desire to show the results of one's creativity, the creator betrays the need to share his thoughts on things and the world.

And so we come to Ciocio, to his painting so coherent in the narration of his feelings that, over the years, we find the same images, the same motifs, the identical allusions to a world of nature always thought of and never truly realistic. His flowers, fish, more abstract compositions - all acrylics on paper, rarely on canvas - reveal a rigorous construction: it is not a question of symmetry, rather of rhythmic succession, of non-apparent geometries, of a spatial and temporal dimension in repetition of the reasons, which speak of his scientific training, which does not admit the supremacy of chance.

But, beyond the subjects, what constitutes the true leitmotif and signature of his painting is the intense, at times exuberant chromaticism, dominated by the fundamental colours: yellows, blues and reds which rarely leave room for complementary ones and which impose themselves as pure and bright. His compositions reveal an intense vitalism, an ideal aspiration for a harmonious existence; if one wanted to attempt an aesthetic reading, and a harmony with the great masters, in Ciocio's case one would have to resort to the joie de vivre of Matissi's memory: his humanity - always underlying - suffers neither history nor existence but, at the on the contrary, it betrays the euphoria of becoming and the manifestation of positive nature.

This, therefore, is the message, this is the necessity of his artistic work and his communication: an unlimited trust in nature - of which humans are a part - positive, benevolent, perhaps an echo of a supra-material reflection but still always creative and fruitful.»
Donatella Volontè