Trees 5 Andrea Roggi

2. Siena

3. Siena - Maestro Roggi and his team are pleased to announce the artist’s solo exhibition in Siena (2020-2021)

4. Andrea Roggi has decided to intangibly gift the city, its inhabitants, and anyone who should visit, with an open-air exhibition scattered around Siena until mid-June 2021. It consists of nine monumental bronze pieces of artwork which have been strategically installed in highly transited places. Art has arisen from the artist's studio, from the foundry and from the galleries and finally becomes enjoyable for anyone - perhaps even involuntarily. This triggers a meaningful visual dialogue between art and space, urban landscapes and passers-by.

5. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven Siena L'amore salva il mondo

6. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven Siena Le nostre radici, il futuro

12. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven Siena

13. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER

14. Terra Mater/Earth and Heaven is the title of the exhibition and it deserves a prior semantic reflection. Terra, meaning Earth, is a feminine noun in both Latin and Italian. Roggi is addressing the whole world, the entire planet on which we live. The same world upon which a pandemic was thrust, that led to unprecedented forced closures. A world that seems to have sent a clear message: "enough of the destruction of nature, of the excessive exploitation of its resources, and the excessive pollution!”». Perhaps we still have time to switch the course of our actions, so as not to find ourselves plunging into the abyss. By terra, however, especially when followed by the Latin word mater, we also mean our mother-earth; a maternal and native nuance, basically, our homeland. Each and every one of us has one, the place in which we were raised, where we were formed to cherish certain fundamental values, our roots which dig into the ground and draw nourishment from it.

15. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven Siena Memoria di un istante

17. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven - Siena, Piazza del Campo Earth and Heaven - Siena, Piazza del Duomo

18. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER Earth and Heaven Siena COR MAGIS TIBI SENA PANDIT

19. Siena Opens Up Her Heart to You... For more than 400 years Northern travellers to Siena have passed through the Porta Camollia, a gate that is inscribed with the words, COR MAGIS TIBI SENA PANDIT (Siena opens up to you a heart that is greater [than the gate through which you are passing])

22. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER/ Earth and Heaven Cipress – Basilica San Domenico

23. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER - Fecunditas - Saint Christopher Church Siena

24. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) TERRA MATER - Fecunditas - Saint Christopher Church Siena

25. Andrea Roggi was born on July 2nd 1962 in Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany. In his teenage years the artist began to cultivate some of his many interests, including painting and poetry, until he gradually focused on sculpture. In 1991 he set up the art workshop La Scultura di Andrea Roggi, where he has been crafting 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 the material he chose, which he puts through the lost-wax casting process to finally transform the clay models into masterpieces. In 2017, fascinated by the imposing quarries that surround the town of Pietrasanta, the artist began to dedicate himself to the creation of artworks in marble

26. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Fertilitas Free forever, United forever

27. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962)

28. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Yin & Yang

29. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Yin & Yang– Infinitamente insieme

30. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Un Bacio per Sempre Un bacio puro

31. Radici di Vita Nuova nel Mondo Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962)

33. Albero della Conoscenza Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) L'albero della vita - Arezzo

37. 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

38. Io vivo in te Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Le nostre anime in volo

39. Andrea Roggi - Le Nostre Radici Contro le Avversità Le nostre anime sempre insieme

40. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Toscani 2019 Le Nostre Radici Saranno il Nuovo Mondo

41. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Le nostre radici, il nostro amore Le Radici del Mondo

42. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Le radici della vita nel mondo Le Radici dell’Amore

43. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Le radici di un amore infinito Le Radici di un Amore vero nel Mondo

44. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Le Radici di un Amore Vero Le radici del nostro cuore

45. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Nel Mondo le nostre Anime Per Sempre

46. Andrea Roggi (Italian, 1962) Profondo come le nostre radici

47. Text & pictures: Internet All copyrights belong to their respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda Sound: Alessandro Safina – Incanto; Gli amori 2021