Love and Creativeness make the world go round

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

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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

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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

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Biography

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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

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Instants of paradise

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Tree of Life embrace 2010 bronze height cm 90

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Tree of Life kiss 2010 bronze height cm 300

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Our world inside and outside Us 2012 bronze height cm 80

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Tree of Life in the world 2013 bronze height cm 80

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Tree of Life part of the world 2013 bronze height cm 120

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Tree of Peace

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Tree of Life Tuscany 2014 bronze height cm 80

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Tree of Life Ferility 2014 bronze height cm 45

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Knowledge

Mind through knowledge soar

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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 in the sky 2006 bronze height cm 150

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Knowledge flight 2008 bronze height cm 300

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Knowledge freedom 2008 bronze height cm 230

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Knowledge dance 2012 bronze height cm 210

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In Flight 2014 bronze cm 300

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Birth of an idea 2014 bronze cm 300

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Family flight

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The Game of Life

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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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Life Circle

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First Kiss

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Brotherhoood

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Imagine

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Imagine

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Imagine

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Flying outside

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Storyteller

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Love in flight

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Solidarity

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Family in flight

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Family in flight

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Time after time

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Dream

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Inside you

1987 bronze height cm 100

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Freedom

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Return from the dream

1988 bronze height cm 70

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Extasy

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Tuscans’s Trace 2002 bronze height cm 50

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Eve and Adam 2005 bronze height cm 40

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Adam and Eve 2005 bronze height cm 60

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Hope

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Family

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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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To War’s fallen

Tuoro sul Trasimeno 1994 bronze and travertine marble height cm 450

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To Peace

Montecchio Vesponi, Castiglion Fiorentino 1996 bronze and serena stone height cm 450

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To Roberto Benigni

Parco della Creatività, Manciano 1999 bronze and serena stone height cm 450

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Tribute to Saint Donato Arezzo 2005 bronze and serena stone height cm 300

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To Saint Margherita from Cortona Fratta, Arezzo 2006 bronze and travertine marble height cm 450

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To Saint Caterina from Siena Siena University, Pontignano 2006 bronze and travertine marble height cm 250

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Tribute to Dina Ferri

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Instant of Paradise

Cesa, Marciano della Chiana 2006 bronze and travertino marble height cm 450

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Brotherhood’s bell

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To Giuseppe Garibaldi

Rapolano Terme, Siena 2007 bronze and travertine marble height cm 200

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Creativeness’s bell

Parco della Creatività, Manciano 2007 bronze diameter cm 110

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Monument to victims of civil war

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The journey of Knowledge

Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo 2009 bronze and travertine marble height cm 500

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To Saint Agostino Borgo a Buggiano 2009 bronze height cm 150

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For a peace world

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People meeting’s bell

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Renaissance

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To Peace

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In Memory fo Aviators

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Imagine melting pot

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Drawings

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The Art 1982

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The Dream 1982

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The Love 1994

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The Knowledge 2004

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Tribute to Saint Caterina from Siena

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Paradise Instant 2007

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Tree of Life 2010

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The Studio

Andrea Roggi’s Cretivity Studio

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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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Work clay of monument “to Saint Francesco”

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Parco della Creatività

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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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Creativeness’s bell , detail Parco della Creatività

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Associazione Culturale Parco della Creatività

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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

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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

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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

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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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The Freedom

1982, pastel on paper