Love and Creativeness make the world go round
ROGGI
Sculptor
Works 1977 - 2014
Credits
Text Editorial : Gilberto Madioni, Alice Comunelli, David Gollins
Translations: Natalina Compiacente
Photo : Archive Parco della Creatività, Chiara Vagnuzzi, Luca Squarcialupi,
Giacomo Roggi
Special thanks to:
my parents Isaia and Rita for their know-how of autentic life,
my wife Carla and my sons Elia and Giacomo,
Gilberto Madioni for all his support and his introduction,
my assistent Alessandra and Emanuele for successful work.
Also thanks:
all the children who love my works,
and adult forever child.
Design and Printed: Creativity Studio
Italy
August 2014
A Limited Edition of
/ 100
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Summay
Summary
Introdution: Two essential way ........................................................................
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Andrea Roggi biography ...................................................................................
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Instant of paradise .............................................................................................
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Tree of life “golden living shining” ....................................................................
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Knowledge “mind thowgh knowledge soar” ....................................................
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The game of life “life play with strength” .........................................................
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Flying outside .....................................................................................................
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Time after time ................................................................................................... 95
Public work “memory in urban space” ............................................................. 117
Drawings .............................................................................................................. 165
The studio ............................................................................................................ 181
Parco della creatività .......................................................................................... 197
Strada della creatività ........................................................................................ 205
The Circle of Life Art Gallery ........................................................................... 213
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Two essensial ways by Gilberto Madioni
T
here are two essential ways to approach the art of sculpting: there is the
usual approach of art historians, and there is a different approach of writers,
poets, philosophers, scientists, psychoanalysts. Books have always been important to me; however one should not forget that there is also another way to
correctly read a sculptor’s work and more specifically the work of the master
Andrea Roggi of Arezzo.
A sculpture, whether it is made of bronze, marble, travertine, stone, wood or
iron, has a tight relationship with the material which is used to create it. Some
art critics have rarely taken this kind of necessary interpretation into account.
It is not possible to talk or write about sculpture in the same way as it is done
about painting, music, dance or other forms of art. In the past stars were stars,
now they are only systems. Flight no longer has any value, calculation does.
But there is something more: intuition. In other words, the need to use art to
express the deepest anthropological essence of man, whose integrity is threatened by the circumstances of history.
In his artistic path Andrea Roggi shows an intimate and deep bond with classical sculpture, its emotions and the eternal myths that represent mankind’s
constant wondering about the meaning of life and its digging into the collective
unconscious. Today’s world, on the contrary, is totally expressionist. It is an
agitated world whose restlessness spreads out like waves originating from an
upset epicentre. And that is the world we live in. We are born as children and
we live of a kind of infantile poetry that, in the course of our life, evolves with
all its tragedies and anxieties. Through the eternal symbols the modern man
no longer invokes Apollo, but rather Saint Francis or Saint Catherine, and the
concept of being is replaced by the idea of becoming, that is the doubt which
relativizes every truth.
Andrea Roggi’s works are characterized by irony, drama, tragedy as well as by
the artist’s own poetry, which conveys his strong and confident personality.
Born in a country that witnessed the passage of the Etruscans and the Romans,
Roggi is inseparably tied to his land where men turn into olive trees. Moving
towards Cortona and Umbria, he then traces the steps of Saint Francis of Assisi,
Saint Margaret of Cortona and Saint Catherine of Siena. According to Roggi,
today’s man belongs to the world; being means participating, living with others
and for others. The work of art has always represented an image, a sign, a
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memory, an icon of the part of the divine which is handed down to posterity:
the evidence of the passage of man.
Roggi accomplishes this with the poetry of a child who does not live like a
parasite but adheres like a creeping plant to the surface of an image and takes
its form. In this way, with his works Andrea Roggi achieves universality.
Prof. Gilberto Madioni
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Andrea Roggi
Andrea Roggi studio’s
Biography
A
ndrea Roggi was born on July 2nd 1962 in Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany
While still in his teenage years, the artist began to cultivate some of his many
interests, including painting and poetry, until he gradually focused on
sculpture.
To expand his knowledge of sculptural techniques, he attended for a short
period of time the studio of Enzo Scatragli, a fellow artist and himself a native
son of Castiglion Fiorentino. But the event that marked a true artistic turning
point in his life came when he visited the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in
Florence, where he was literally spellbound by the strong plastic effect of The
Trinity, a fresco by Renaissance painter and countryman Masaccio.
In 1991 he set up the art workshop “La Scultura di Andrea Roggi”, where he
crafts his sculptures from start to finish and, with the help of his assistants, he
manages to create large-sized yet finely detailed pieces.
Bronze is his material of choice, which he puts through the long casting process
to finally transform the clay models into metal sculptures.
He has produced a number of public artworks in Italy, located mainly in
Tuscany and Umbria.
In the late 90s he became the initiator of the “Art for Young” movement,
aimed at awakening an appreciation of art and all art forms in young people.
The movement has culminated in the inauguration of the Creativity Park (Parco della Creatività), its crowning achievement.
Since the year 2000, Roggi has been pursuing a fruitful collaboration with the
University of Georgia, based in Castiglion Fiorentino, and the University of
Texas, based in Cortona, where he holds workshops and courses on sculptural
techniques. In the early 2000s, he
became fascinated with one of Arezzo's most prominent intellectual figures,
Pier Francesco Greci, and with his theories about the art of Piero della
Francesca.
Roggi's works are featured in many art collections around the world and he
has participated in various national and international exhibitions held at major
venues such as the Olympia Grand Hall in London, the Ahoy in Rotterdam; the
Grand Palais in Paris, the Fukuoka Oishi Gallery and Fukuoka City Museum
in Japan. Some of his pieces are on permanent display at the Creativity Park
(Parco della Creatività, in Manciano, Castiglion Fiorentino) and at The Circle
of Life Art Gallery in Cortona.
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Silence
2000
bronze
cm 30 x 30
Instants of paradise
A
ndrea Roggi is an all-round artist because he has always loved art in its
widest sense, in all its forms and variations, especially poetry, painting and
sculpture, which has been for many years now the emotional climax of his
extremely fertile and untiring creativity.
He feels especially captivated by nature, by its perpetual cycle of creation and
regeneration, by the mysterious flow of life in its most awesome and enchanting
manifestations.
He takes also a keen interest in the unpredictable and complex
entanglements of human life, which he constantly investigates, venturing into
its deepest and most secret recesses. His strong focus on the “human mystery”
is clearly visible in his sculptural artworks: by painstakingly digging in and
mining out the smallest details he adds to the overall quality of relief of the
human figure, explored in its inscrutable uniqueness.
Most of all, Roggi seems receptive to the dreamy and wonderful world of
childhood, because he loves the games, the dreams and the irrepressible,
indomitable creativity that kids so brilliantly display in every situation of daily
life. That is why, when approaching the realm of children, he feels somewhat
like a child again, and is able to draw abundantly on a limitless source of pure
imagination, amusement and playful joy… playing is living.
On the whole, all of Roggi's works reveal a relentless quest to gain an insight
into the fascinating mystery of life, whether it's the life running through the
many different creatures of Nature or the life that is ineffably expressed by the
multifaceted, extraordinarily rich and intriguing world of human beings.
The playful side, apparent in all his works, is a hallmark of Roggi's art: every
piece seems to reveal an existential meditation, bearing witness to a life lived to
the fullest.
In short, they convey a satisfied and satisfying vision of nature and human
existence, disclosed in their most varied and meaningful vitality.
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Sculptures
Tree of life
Golden living shining
M
ost certainly among the symbols of greatest interest in Western iconography, the Tree of Life appears in virtually all the most ancient religions, including Babylonian, Indian and Jewish traditions
(i.e. the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Old Testament). This motif
is so widespread among European and Asian cultures that it is almost
impossible to find a single civilization where it is not known and portrayed
in at least some artistic works. Apparently, the earliest artistic portrayals are
those found in ancient Mesopotamia (e.g. the magnificent Assyrian bas-reliefs),
where the Tree of Life was part of the main ritual performed by the Babylonian
king. It is believed that these representations have subsequently originated, by
contiguous dissemination, all other trees of life found in cultures and arts of
neighboring areas, throughout Mediterranean, Asian, and Nordic regions. In
essence, it is a metaphysical motif, a traditional and primordial symbol
inherited by all men, whose meaning derives mainly from those pagan
populations that, from the East, spread out across the Eurasian and North
African continents, giving rise to the different civilizations that have developed,
thrived and followed one another over the course of history. The leitmotif of
Andrea Roggi's works, metaphorically represented by the Tree of Life, both in
its iconographic meaning and as a symbol of plant life, is depicted by taking
inspiration from the natural surroundings of his atelier in Castiglion
Fiorentino, made of century-old olive and cypress trees. As human figures
integrate with the plant forms, they fuse into a seamless whole imbued with
a sort of "magic realism", where the diverse elements blend together creating
artworks dazzling with intricate detailing and charm. Through the iconography
of the Tree of Life, Andrea Roggi communicates a sense of belonging to the
native land.
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Tree of Life by David Gollins
O
nce upon a summers time
Man lived and spoke with trees
In natures garden girt by myrtle leaves;
And in that garden grew the tree of life,
With deep roots to stand the changing winds of time;
With branches spread to catch our fortunes clime;
With leaves to draw the energy of light
Transmuting the suns burning rays
To green shades
Of golden living sight.
T
he tree of life has a sap,
First blood of earths creation;
Changing our barren spinning world
Into a growing living mould
Of organic life.
We are all this growing tree,
This liquid sap of life’s creation;
From one chopped stump a young growth unfurls,
A new beginning from earths root stock;
From old and deep to young and green
Ever living and ever seen.
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Now, on the tree, first fruits were born,
The natural seeds of loves sweet dawn.
T
he mothers hug, the lovers kiss,
The genesis of freedoms intoxicating bliss;
But with that freedom came the fruits of sin
First fruits of mans inventive whim;
And round those sweet fruits their grew the thorn
And man with Gods relation torn.
Once upon a summers time
M
an lived and spoke with trees,
In natures garden girt by myrtle leaves,
And in that garden once their grew the tree of life
But now no more.
S
o let all mankind take note;
Our choice is but a tossing boat;
We are all but parts of one stupendous sea;
This is the timeless message of the tree.
David Gollins
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life
2005
bronze
height cm 40
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life Tuscany
2008
bronze
height cm 100
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life embrace
2010
bronze
height cm 90
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life kiss
2010
bronze
height cm 300
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Tree of Life
Our world inside and outside Us
2012
bronze
height cm 80
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life in the world
2013
bronze
height cm 80
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life part of the world
2013
bronze
height cm 120
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Tree of Life
Tree of Peace
2013
bronze
height cm 200
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life Tuscany
2014
bronze
height cm 80
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Tree of Life
Tree of Life Ferility
2014
bronze
height cm 45
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Tree of Life
Il ricordo di un’ Istante
2014
bronze
height cm 200
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Knowledge
Mind through knowledge soar
I
n the realm of the arts there are parallel realities and contiguous unrealities;
worlds and ways, basically, that converge but never touch, although they both
belong to one and the same expressive universe. Similarly, inner thoughts and
visions filtered by the creative self, sometimes, come close together, united
through the common denominators of fantasy and poetry, combining
wishes, aspirations, the spirit of freedom and conquest, and finally fuelling
"abstraction" possibilities, as can be seen in the artworks about Knowledge,
where these thoughts turn into hard bronze.
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Knowledge
Knowledge in the sky
2006
bronze
height cm 150
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Knowledge
Knowledge flight
2008
bronze
height cm 300
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Knowledge
Knowledge freedom
2008
bronze
height cm 230
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Knowledge
Knowledge dance
2012
bronze
height cm 210
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Knowledge
In Flight
2014
bronze
cm 300
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Knowledge
Birth of an idea
2014
bronze
cm 300
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Knowledge
Family flight
2014
bronze
height cm 330
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The Game of Life
Life plays with strength
A
ccording to common interpretation, play activities are marginal to human
existence, contrasting starkly with work and more “serious” pursuits. In adult
life, playtime is often dedicated to repetitive pastimes, which usually betray the
fact that they arise from boredom. For a child, instead, playing is a “healthy
way of living”. When playing children develop an “openness to the world”.
The concept of play is characterized by total gratuitousness, freedom, and a
sense of joy for the tangible world, where the “pleasure of appearance” is
experienced. However, human play is perceived as an “oasis of happiness”
because, as obligations, work, concerns and responsibilities absorb all the
energies of growing children, it risks losing all of its original meaning and thus
cease to be a spontaneous action, a vital force. Andrea Roggi’s sculptures
perfectly reflect the ontological nature of play, with dreamlike scenes bursting
with minstrels, storytellers, children and flying women, all ready to have fun
and engage and entertain the onlookers.
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The Game of Life
Life Circle
1990
bronze
height cm 50
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The Game of Life
First Kiss
1991
bronze
diameter cm 50
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The Game of Life
Brotherhoood
1996
resina
diameter cm 50
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The Game of Life
Imagine
2008
bronze
diameter cm 120
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The Game of Life
Imagine
2011
bronze
diameter cm 90
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The Game of Life
Imagine
2012
bronze
diameter cm 150
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Flying outside
Flying outside
Storyteller
2008
bronze
diameter cm 350
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Flying outside
Love in flight
2008
bronze and stainless steel
height cm 50
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Flying outside
Solidarity
2009
bronze
diameter cm 80
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Flying outside
Family in flight
2014
bronze and stainless steel
diameter cm 60
90
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Flying outside
Family in flight
2014
bronze and stainless steel
diameter cm 80
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Time after time
Time after time
Dream
1985
bronze
height cm 90
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Time after time
Inside you
1987
bronze
height cm 100
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Time after time
Freedom
1987
bronze
height cm 90
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Time after time
Return from the dream
1988
bronze
height cm 70
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Time after time
Extasy
1989
bronze
height cm 80
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Time after time
Tuscans’s Trace
2002
bronze
height cm 50
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Time after time
Eve and Adam
2005
bronze
height cm 40
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Time after time
Adam and Eve
2005
bronze
height cm 60
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Time after time
Hope
2007
bronze
width cm 110
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Time after time
Family
2010
bronze
diameter cm 100
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Public Work
Memory in urban spaces
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onumental sculptures created by Andrea Roggi over the last twenty
years were specially designed as public artworks, through which the artist’s
personal reactions come into direct contact with the spectator. Andrea crafts
works of great artistic value by delving deep into his soul and recreating the
existing world through the lens of a newly found truth, so much so that each
and every one of his sculptures is a precise metaphor of life, but also a different
and divergent representation of life itself. Roggi’s monumental sculptures have
today been tasked with acting on the urban landscape, highlighting the value of
memories and eliminating the risk of anonymity.
Public Work
1981 ”To freedom” - realization rock painting - Trequanda (Si)
1982 ”To fantasy” - realization rock painting -. Bagno Vignoni (Si)
1990 ”Bronze bas-relief “to the main door of the Church of Manciano - Castiglion
Fiorentino (AR)
1993 ”Monument in memory of the bombing of Castiglion Fiorentino” - Square
XIX Dicembre1943, Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
1994 ”Monument in memory of seven martyrs” - Via 7 Martiri - Tuoro sul Trasimeno (Pg)
1994 ”Monument dedicated to the fallen of all wars” - Parco Vecchi - Tuoro sul
Trasimeno (Pg)
1996 ”Monument to peace” - Montecchio V. - Castiglion Fiorentino (Ar)
1997 ”Medal for Space Mission, STS 84” - Cape Canaveral USA
1997 “Monument in memory of Paolo Pierini” - Cortona Stadium (Ar)
1998 Installation sculpture “Life” - Art Park Bun Bun Ga - Montevarchi (Ar)
1998 “Cloud” - Torrita di Siena 1999 Sculptur
1998 “Harmony” - Civitella in Val di Chiana (Ar)
1999 “Monument to Creativity Roberto Benigni” - Castiglion Fiorentino (Ar)
1999 - 2000 Tribute to “Francis” - Group exhibition traveling (Strada in Casentino La Verna - Assisi- Roma)
2003 “Plaque in memory of Petri” - Castiglion Fiorentino railway station
2003 “Monument to Nazzareno Nucci” - Cesa - Marciano della Chiana (AR)
2004 “Monument to Giulio III” - Monte San Savino (AR)
2004 “Santa Caterina from Siena” - Rocca di Tentennano - Castiglion D’Orcia (SI)
2004 “Santa Margherita from Cortona” - San Marco - Cortona (AR
2004 “To Saint Lucia” - Chiesa dei Santi Lucia e Michele Arcangelo - Cesa - Marciano (AR)
2005 “To Saint Donato” - Ospedale di Arezzo - (AR)
2005 “Fontain Creativity” - Parco della Creatività - Manciano - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2006 “to Saint Caterina from Siena” - Siena University - Castelnuovo Berardenga Siena
2006 “Moments of paradise” - Cesa della Chiana (AR)
2006 “Saint Margherita from Cortona” - Valdichiana New Hospital - Cortona (AR)
2006 “Tribute to our history” - Arezzo
2006 “Taste of Paradise” - Parco della Creatività - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2006 “Brotherhood of the Bell” - Cesa della Chiana (AR)
2006 “Solidarity”, “Tuscan” e “In memory of Marco Polo in China” - Gordon Butt
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Colletion - Hong Kong
2006 “Tribute to Dina Ferri” - Radicondoli (SI)
2007 “Bell of Remembrance” - Civitella della Chiana (AR)
2007 “Roots” Civica Galleria di Arte Contemporanea - Civitella della Chiana
(AR)
2007 “Trees of life” - New York - USA
2007 “Suspended in the air” - Madrid - Spagna
2007 “Monument to Garibaldi” - Terme Antica Quercilaia - Rapolano Terme (SI)
2007 “Bell of Creativity” - Parco della Creatività - Manciano (AR)
2007 “To Mara” - Parco della Creatività - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2007 “Monument to victims of civil war” - Arezzo
2007 “bell of Friendship” - Ronda - Spagna
2008 “Bell alleluia (Lumen Christi)” - Cesa (AR)
2008 Bell’s tower ”Uno solo è il Padre” - campana della Fratellanza - Cesa (AR)
2008 “Et Resurrexit” - Omaggio a Don Mario Tedeschi - Cesa (AR)
2008 “Tribute to Gino Bartali - Bassorilievo - Stazione F.S. di Terontola (AR)
2008 “Bell Rotary Club Arezzo Est” Arezzo
2008 “Bell Ushirikiano Cesa-Ngomai” - Ngomai - Tanzania
2008 “Bell Madonna del Parto -Chiesa di Momentana - Monterchi (AR)
2008 “Tribute to Padre Arturo Buresti” - Manciano - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2009 “To Chiara” - sports hall di Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2009 “To Saint Agostino” In memory of Luciano Demagistris - Borgo a Buggiano
- (PT)
2009 “The journey of Knowledge” - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2009 “For a peace World” - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2010 “Monument to Emanuele Buracchi” Centro Polivalente di Manciano - Castiglion Fior. (AR)
2010 “San Michele” - Sala Consiliare - Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)
2011 “Fontain "Famiglie del mondo" Spello - Public gardens (PG)
2011 “Monument to Pace” (Lions Club)- roundabout Madonna Alta - Perugia
2011 "Angelo Vegni"- Accademia dei Georgofili - Firenze
2011 "Renaissance" - Terme Antica Quercioalaia - Rapolano terme (SI)
2011 ”Angelo Vegni” - Istituto Vegni - Capezzine - Cortona (AR)
2012 ”Monument in memory of Aviators” - Cortona (AR)
2012 “Monument to the fallen in job” - Arezzo
2014 “Imagine melting pot” - Linz, Austria
2014 (work in progress “San Francesco monument” Cortona)
2014 (work in progress “Tree of life” Ciggiano)
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Public Works
In Memory of bombing
Castiglion Fiorentino
1993
bronze and serena stone
height cm 450
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Public Works
To War’s fallen
Tuoro sul Trasimeno
1994
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 450
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Public Works
To Peace
Montecchio Vesponi, Castiglion Fiorentino
1996
bronze and serena stone
height cm 450
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Public Works
To Roberto Benigni
Parco della Creatività, Manciano
1999
bronze and serena stone
height cm 450
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Public Works
Tribute to Saint Donato
Arezzo
2005
bronze and serena stone
height cm 300
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Public Works
To Saint Margherita from Cortona
Fratta, Arezzo
2006
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 450
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Public Works
To Saint Caterina from Siena
Siena University, Pontignano
2006
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 250
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Public Works
Tribute to Dina Ferri
Radicondoli, Siena
2006
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 400
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Public Works
Instant of Paradise
Cesa, Marciano della Chiana
2006
bronze and travertino marble
height cm 450
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Public Works
Brotherhood’s bell
Cesa, Marciano della Chiana
2006
bronze
diameter cm 110
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Public Works
To Giuseppe Garibaldi
Rapolano Terme, Siena
2007
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 200
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Public Works
Creativeness’s bell
Parco della Creatività, Manciano
2007
bronze
diameter cm 110
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Public Works
Monument to victims of civil war
Arezzo
2007
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 500
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Public Works
The journey of Knowledge
Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo
2009
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 500
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Public Works
To Saint Agostino
Borgo a Buggiano
2009
bronze
height cm 150
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Public Works
For a peace world
Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo
2009
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 250
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Public Works
People meeting’s bell
Parco della Creatività, Manciano
2010
bronze
diameter cm 110
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Public Works
Renaissance
Rapolano Terme, Terme Antica Querciolaia
2011
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 500
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Public Works
To Peace
Perugia
2011
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 600
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Public Works
In Memory fo Aviators
Cortona
2012
bronze and travertine marble
height cm 200
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Public Works
Imagine melting pot
Linz, Austria
2014
Corten steel and galvanized iron
height cm 400
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Drawings
Drawings
The Art
1982
pastel on paper
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Drawings
The Dream
1982
pastel on paper
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Drawings
The Love
1994
pastel on paper
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Drawings
The Knowledge
2004
pastel on paper
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Drawings
Tribute to Saint Caterina from Siena
2004
pastel on paper
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Drawings
Paradise Instant
2007
pastel on paper
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Drawings
Tree of Life
2010
pencil on paper
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The Studio
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The Studio
Andrea Roggi’s Cretivity Studio
T
his ‘Creativity Workshop’ serves as a meeting place for artists in which they
can express themselves through bronze, stone and precious metals.
The Park is located in the heart of the Valdichiana, Tuscany between Arezzo
and Cortona and is therefore the perfect geographical location for an
appreciation of art.
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The Studio
The studio
Work clay of monument “To victims of civil war”
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The Studio
Studies
clay
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The Studio
Work clay of monument “To Saint Margherita”
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The Studio
Studies
clay
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The Studio
Lost wax process, bronze pouring
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The Studio
Work clay of monument “to Saint Francesco”
Welding of monument “To Peace”
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Parco della Creatività
Parco della Creatività
The Parco della Creatività
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Parco della Creatività
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T
he “Park of the Creativeness” it is the place that welcomes the Monument
devoted to Roberto Benigni, country native of the great artist, is situated in
Manciano near Castiglion Fiorentino among Cortona and Arezzo, in the heart
of the Val di Chiana. Born from the idea of Andrew Roggi and sustained by the
community of Manciano was inaugurated in 1999. Since then was been
protagonist of numerous artistic events what collective and personal shows of
young people and affirmed artists, making to not only appreciate the sculpture
as artistic and creative event for few employees, but above all as a strong
moment of aggregation and cultural growth for a lot of simple people.
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Parco della Creatività
Creativeness’s bell , detail
Parco della Creatività
The Fountain of Creativeness, Parco della Creatività
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Associazione Culturale
Parco della Creatività
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Associazione Culturale
Parco della Creatività
T
he creativeness therefore as conductor that life animates around the park
spin and that the young people it involves in particular way. Such motivations
justify the demonstrations what the stages of sculpture with the students of the
academy of Belle Arti of Florence and the show devoted to Pinocchio in
which have participated 45 Italian and International artists.These demonstrations have as objective to sensitize the young people and to approach them to
the art making way that scholastic classes can visit the shows and to follow the
phases of realization of a work in bronze.
2003 has been a very intense year for the “Park”: with the end of the show
devoted to Pinocchio, the expositive center has welcomed the works of an
artist that has crossed '900 art big part, Jean Marie De Maigret reviewed by an
eclectic critic, Pier Francesco Greci that has known to gather all the tones that
the painter has transmitted in hiscanvans. Ended the show of De Maigret the
“Park” has entertained a very unusual event “the trebbo”, stings of meeting, a
magic evening in which the arts and the artists him sculptures meet.Near,
paintings and for the first time the floral works of Marilena Calbini; some reunited poets to "Trebbo" have declaimed their poetries banqueting and inviting
other bridegrooms poets to do it in the dream to return to the poetry, in the
quiet of the Val di Chiana, the lost voice.
In the occasion of the "1° Trebbo" of the Park of the Creativeness a very
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particular artistic contest has been organized, also the “Cipposetto d'oro” in
which of the young ones “artists” (with less than ten years) they are challenged
in painting and sculpture realizing some simpatic works.
From on July 1° in the expositive room has been introduced the show of
Andrew Roggi by the title “Trees and Tuscan Men” in which the artist intends
to realize a trip to the discovery of the “Tuscanyss”, representing not the tree
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Associazione Culturale
Parco della Creatività
as a plant but as the man that has lived in our earth, valorizing it and handing
down it to our days as a territory appreciated by the whole world; an imput to
valorize our territory devoted above all unusual evening to the youngle people.
Another show is taken place on August 23, a meeting with the music, the
concert of the students of the course of improvement piano held by the teacher
Luigi Tanganelli. Besides the jobs are initiated for the realization of a fountain
that is set in a new area of the park, wide 5 meters and tall 3 will be performed
in bronze and serene stone. They will intervene in the realization students of
the academy of Belle Arti of Florence and Perugia besides
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numerous artists; essentially devoted to the young people, using a synthetic
and clear language, easily interpretable from all. Other interesting inaugurated
event on April 22 and it will finish July 31 st 2004 it is a show from the title
“Optic Illusions the science to understand the art”, a trip to the discovery of the
reality through scientific images and works of sculpture, painting, graphics and
photo of numerous artists.These are only some opportunities that make the
“Park of the Creativeness” ideal for a visit.
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Strada della Creatività
(Way of Creativity)
Strada della Creatività
Network of Creativity : Strada della Creatività
C
ourse itinerary available to the public in the province of Arezzo
At the beginning of the 2000s, in collaboration with other local artists,
Andrea introduced the “Strada della Creatività” (Way of Creativity): a
route connecting the studios of several artists who are willing to welcome
school groups and individual art-loving visitors.
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ART GALLERY
ANDREA ROGGI
The Circle of Life
Art Gallery
Cortona
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The Circle of Life
Art Gallery
“The least you can ask of a sculpture is for it to
stand still”
Salvator Dalì
T
he Circle of Life is a contemporary art gallery which was first opened in
2012 as an expression of the strong passion for art of Italian sculptor Andrea
Roggi. The interior universe of the Cortona-based gallery – an area occupying
one hundred square meters and revolving around the concept of space as an
aseptic container, made of white surfaces alternating with concrete and glass
structures – is the perfect setting for the works of Andrea Roggi, the master
called upon to interact with the environment while interpreting it.
The Circle of Life works together with private and public institutions and takes
part in international art fairs. The gallery enriches every exhibition by
publishing books with introductory essays by curators and intellectuals.
A reason for great pride, and deserved recognition, for the gallery is that it not
only offers unique, internationally acclaimed works of art, but also a sound
investment for the future.
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Note
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The Freedom
1982, pastel on paper