Andrea Roggi is still young, Tuscan, and was born in Castiglion Fiorentino near Arezzo in 1962. He started painting in 1977, the transition to sculpture was gradual, but from the beginning he preferred to give his paintings a spatial configuration.

He does not belong to any school, as any conscious artist is very familiar with contemporary currents, but he is fascinated by the figure, by man. From his works, along with a strong plasticity, emanates a rarefied atmosphere, as if they belonged to a world that is both known and mysterious. This seems to us to be true art, which is not a craft, even if it makes use of the refinement of technique.

Art and emotion that becomes a message and therefore somehow rationality. Not the cold one of the philosopher or the somewhat boring one of the moralist. The rationality of art consists in communicating a state of mind that grasps, in its own way, the complexity of reality and transmits it to the viewer of a work. An emotional rationality that is not only an inner vibration, but also an understanding of the mystery of life.

Andrea Roggi has entered this artistic short-circuit; he manages to infuse his works with an expressive force and a fascination of forms that are transmitted with immediacy to those who admire them. The long formal tradition that belongs to Tuscan art, from Cimabue to the present day, is also manifested in him. His are finished forms, communicative and of immediate perception. That they also contain a diffuse sense of mystery is the unmistakable sign of his genius.