Andrea Roggi Italy, b. 1962

Andrea Roggi was born on July 2, 1962, in Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, where he immediately manifested a strong artistic sensibility, cultivating painting and poetry before ultimately dedicating himself to sculpture. To refine his technical foundations, he studied under the guidance of master sculptor Enzo Scatragli, a fellow townsman. However, his true creative turning point occurred in Florence: while visiting the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, he was deeply fascinated by the plastic impact of Masaccio's fresco The Holy Trinity, a masterpiece that would forever leave a mark on his creative spirit. In 1991, he founded the workshop "La Scultura di Andrea Roggi", where he personally crafts his works and, with the collaboration of a team of assistants, brings to life highly detailed monumental sculptures. Bronze became his material of choice, shaped through the ancient technique of lost-wax casting to transform clay models into works of extraordinary power. Over the years, his material research expanded: in 2017, fascinated by the quarries of Pietrasanta, he began sculpting marble, and since 2020, he has introduced stainless steel, further evolving his artistic language. Highly active in social and educational initiatives, in the late 1990s he promoted the Art for Young movement to reawaken a love for art in younger generations, a project that led to the creation of the Parco della Creatività© (Creativity Park), a unique space dedicated to the dialogue between nature and sculpture. Since 2000, he has maintained an academic collaboration, holding courses and seminars for the University of Georgia’s Cortona campus and the University of Texas’s Castiglion Fiorentino campus. In the early 2000s, his meeting with intellectual Pier Francesco Greci and his theories on Piero della Francesca significantly influenced Roggi's aesthetic vision.

His sculptures enjoy widespread acclaim in public spaces and major private collections, particularly across Tuscany and Umbria, and have been exhibited in prestigious international settings such as the Grand Hall Olympia in London, the Ahoy in Rotterdam, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Oishi Gallery and the Fukuoka City Museum in Japan, the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, and the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in China. In 2018, his works were chosen by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation as the official awards presented to Prince Albert II of Monaco, Alessandro Benetton, and photographer Harry Benson, and one of his sculptures was auctioned by Christie’s for charity. In 2021, on the occasion of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, his artwork Le nostre Radici per un nuovo Futuro ("Our Roots for a New Future") accompanied the screening of Alessio Della Valle's film American Night, displayed at both the Campari Boat-In Cinema and the Arsenale; that same year, his bronze sculpture Albero della Pace ("Tree of Peace") was permanently installed at the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence, adjacent to the Uffizi Gallery, in the presence of the city's highest authorities. In 2023, he created exclusive awards for UEFA Football and presented a sculptural recognition to physicist and inventor Federico Faggin, confirming the international significance of his work.

Beginning in 2024, Andrea Roggi’s exhibition itinerary entered a phase of full artistic maturity, characterized by a global presence of monumental installations in prominent urban, historical, and natural contexts, addressing universal themes such as vital energy, love, knowledge, and peace. In the spring of 2024, the exhibition KI took shape in Forte dei Marmi, offering a reflection on vital energy understood as an invisible force capable of harmonizing body, spirit, and nature within the surrounding space. Between 2024 and 2025, the historic center of Martina Franca welcomed Radici di Umanità("Roots of Humanity"), a project that expands the theme of the tree into a collective dimension, where roots represent the link to the earth but also the drive to rise toward the future. In the summer of 2024, between the Castle and the Quai des États-Unis in Nice, Agapé | L'Amore che cambia il Mondo ("Agapé | The Love that Changes the World") was born, where the works dialogue with the sea and Mediterranean light, celebrating a universal and generative love; simultaneously, Levitas developed in Amalfi, exploring inner lightness and the verticality of forms, defying gravity without losing touch with one's origins. In January 2025, in Milan, within the context of the Salone dei Tessuti for Milan Fashion Week and the presentation of the Montblanc Autumn/Winter collection, the exhibition La Conoscenza è Libertà ("Knowledge is Freedom") investigated knowledge as a tool for empowerment and awareness. In the spring of 2025, the exhibition itinerary reached Paris with Élan Vital | Quand la Forme Révèle l’Invisible ("Élan Vital | When Form Reveals the Invisible"), a show promoted by the Comité du Faubourg Saint-Honoré alongside Galeries Bartoux, which crossed the 8th arrondissement from Place de la Madeleine to Place Maurice Barrès, a project focused on the primordial impulse of life that subsequently continued in Saint-Tropez. Also in the spring of 2025, the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, between its churchyard and cloisters, hosted Humanitas | La Forza dell’Amore ("Humanitas | The Power of Love"), placing the human being at the center of the relationship between matter and spirit, in dialogue with the humanist tradition. During the summer of 2025, between Porto Rotondo and Porto Cervo, Life! | L'arte che Respira ("Life! | Art that Breathes") came to life, where the sculptures integrate with the Sardinian marine landscape as open organisms. Finally, between December 2025 and the beginning of the 2026 winter season, the high-altitude exhibition L'Art au Sommet ("Art at the Summit") in Courchevel 1850 ideally closed this cycle: here, the verticality of the alpine landscape, the light, and the snow become a metaphor for a journey of inner elevation and a message of peace rooted in balance, capable of transcending all geographical and cultural boundaries.