Andrea Roggi

Andrea Roggi was born on July 2, 1962, in Castiglion Fiorentino (AR), Tuscany. From adolescence, he began to cultivate some of his many interests, including painting and poetry, gradually turning to sculpture. He deepened his sculptural technique by briefly attending the studio of artist Enzo Scatragli, also from Castiglion Fiorentino. The event that marked Andrea Roggi’s true artistic breakthrough was a visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, where he was literally enchanted by the sculptural effect of the fresco The Trinity by the Renaissance painter and fellow countryman Masaccio. In 1991, he founded the art workshop La Scultura di Andrea Roggi, where he creates his own works entirely and, with the help of his assistants, creates large-scale, richly detailed sculptures.

Bronze is the artist’s favorite material: through the ritual of lost-wax casting, he masterfully transforms clay models into authentic masterpieces. In 2017, fascinated by the impressive quarries surrounding the city of Pietrasanta, he began creating marble works. Since 2020, he has also been creating stainless steel sculptures. Since the late 1990s, he has been a promoter of the Art for Young movement, aiming to reawaken a passion for art in all its forms in young people. This movement subsequently led to the creation of the Parco della Creatività© project, where he finds his greatest expression. In 2000, he began a fruitful collaboration with the University of Georgia in Cortona and the University of Texas in Castiglion Fiorentino, where he holds seminars and courses on various sculptural techniques. In the early 2000s, he was fascinated by the intellectual Pier Francesco Greci (a leading figure in the Tuscan cultural scene) and his theories on the art of Piero della Francesca.

His works are numerous and widely publicized in Italy—mainly in Tuscany and Umbria—and abroad. His work is collected in many countries around the world, and he has participated in national and international exhibitions, including: Grand Hall Olympia, London; Ahoy, Rotterdam; Grand Palais, Paris; Oishi Gallery and Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka; Forum Grimaldi, Monaco; and Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center, Shanghai. In 2018, his works were chosen by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation to be presented as 50th anniversary awards to Prince Albert II of Monaco, Alessandro Benetton, and Harry Benson; one of his sculptures was also donated to a charity auction conducted by Christie’s.

On September 9, 2021, at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Alessio Della Valle’s debut feature, American Night, will have its world premiere, with a special screening on the Campari Boat-In Cinema at the Venice Arsenale. The film features the work Our Roots for a New Future, created by Maestro Roggi, which was also exhibited during the art exhibition held at the Arsenale. In September 2021, the bronze work Tree of Peace was installed at the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence, next to the Uffizi Galleries, in memory of the victims of the 1993 massacre. It was inaugurated in the presence of the Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, and city officials.

In 2023, Roggi created unique, exclusively designed works as prestigious prizes for the UEFA FootbALL 2023 event; furthermore, one of his creations was awarded to physicist and inventor Federico Faggin. Starting in 2024, Andrea Roggi’s exhibition journey will enter a phase of full maturity, in which the themes developed in previous years will find a public and widespread expression. During the spring of 2024, KI will take shape in Forte dei Marmi, a reflection on vital energy, understood as the original principle that permeates every form of existence. The Japanese term refers to an invisible yet concrete force, capable of animating matter and directing its movement. The sculptures are inserted into the urban and natural context, establishing a measured dialogue with the space, in which form becomes a balance between body, spirit, and nature.

A few months later, between 2024 and 2025, the historic center of Martina Franca will host Radici di Umanità. In this phase, the theme of trees and roots opens up to a collective dimension: the works are placed in the urban fabric as silent presences that connect memory, identity, and the future. Roots take on the value of foundation, that which simultaneously holds and enables growth and evolution.

In the summer of 2024, in Nice, between the Castle and the Quai des États-Unis, Roggi developed Agapé | Love that Changes the World. Love is approached as a generative force capable of influencing the destiny of humanity and the community. Agapé is not an individual sentiment, but a universal principle. The works engage with the sea and the horizon, suggesting a concept of love that unites and guides change. During the same period, in Amalfi, Levitas took shape, an exploration of lightness understood as the result of a process, not the subtraction of weight. The sculptures fit between architecture and landscape, evoking the human desire to overcome limitations without losing ties to one’s roots. The verticality of the forms engages with the sea and the history of the place.

In early 2025, in Milan, during the Salone dei Tessuti and coinciding with the presentation of the Montblanc Fall/Winter 2025 collection, the exhibition Knowledge is Freedom explores the relationship between knowledge, responsibility, and freedom. Knowledge is understood as a tool for emancipation, capable of generating individual and collective awareness, emphasizing the continuity between creative gesture and thought. In the spring of 2025, Paris becomes the setting for Élan Vital | Quand la Forme Révèle l’Invisible. Promoted by the Comité du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in collaboration with Galeries Bartoux, the exhibition travels through the 8th arrondissement, from Place de la Madeleine to Place Maurice Barrès. The concept of élan vital emerges as the original impulse of life: the sculptural form becomes a revelation of what is not immediately visible but sustains all existence, accompanying the urban journey with a time of observation and listening.

Shortly thereafter, between the spring and summer of 2025, Florence will host Humanitas | The Power of Love in the spaces of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, between the churchyard and the cloisters. In dialogue with one of the symbolic places of Renaissance spirituality, the works reflect on the human being as the center of the relationship between matter and spirit, questioning love as a unifying principle and force of cohesion. Between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, in Courchevel 1850, Humanitas | The Power of Love will be on display. The sculptures engage with the verticality of the Alpine landscape, transforming physical ascent into a metaphor for a journey of awareness and vision. Finally, starting in November 2025, the Peace for All project will find a permanent home between Gimje and Seoul, South Korea. Here, peace is understood as a process founded on the balance between the individual and the community. The permanence of the works testifies to a desire for lasting dialogue, capable of crossing cultures and geographical boundaries.