A golden sphere in the square, near the Major Fountain, plays 'The New World' by Andrea Roggian internationally renowned Tuscan sculptor who, with an exhibition that opened a few weeks ago, entertains an interesting dialogue with the city of Asolo on the relationship between the past and the future. In various corners of the centre, the exhibition evolves from a simple seed to a new world, tending its forms towards the future. 

Roggi's works touch upon the theme of the environment and our relationship with it, but the sculptures clearly represent vital phasescollecting them all turns a stroll through the city centre into a kind of self-searching, looking back on the various stages of our lives with nostalgia or relief. 

It starts from a sphere with a diameter of a few centimetres and arrives at trees with deep roots, faces and disjointed planets, whose fragments still partially bound represent love and altruism, family and freedom. A process of continuity that proposes a way of travelling that is free and peaceful and absolutely opposed to war.

On each work there is a qr-code, through which it is possible to trace the story of its meaning and realisation. blind peoplein order to make this initiative accessible also to this category, which often has no possibility to enjoy the shapes and colours, but can somehow imagine them.

Through this concept, Roggi, who was born in 1962, also recounted his own path in Asolo, which starting from adolescence has crossed not only figurative art, hence sculpture, but also poetry. "Asolo is a point of arrival not only for sculpture, but for any artist," he commented Rina Dal Cantoncurator of the open-air exhibition, which involved the administration. Another work, measuring almost 8 metres, is located at Villa Pisani in Stra, in the Province of Venice, and others have been exhibited at the Arsenale and on the Island of San Giorgio.

Thus, looking for these works in the daily life of the village (or, considering the Palio, in its mundanity), taking a stroll in Asolo can once again become something different, glimpsing a new introspective horizon among the ancient palazzi of the centre.

by Luca Vecellio

It is entitled Premonition of Love (in Japanese Koi No Yokan) and is a work with which Amalfi intends to pay homage to historical and heroic agriculture. But more specifically, the dual soul of the Coast to which the ancient maritime republic gives its name. That is, the peasant and maritime souls that merge into an inseparable pair. It bears the signature of master Andrea Roggi and has been set up at the entrance to the town on the occasion of the first National Assembly of Rural Landscapes of Historical Interest organised in collaboration with the Municipal Administration, led by the mayor Daniele Milano, and scheduled to take place in Amalfi from 17 to 19 November 2023 with the intention of raising awareness among institutions at various levels on the main challenges and threats that historical agriculture is facing at this historic moment in time to demand concrete actions aimed at maintaining, protecting and promoting these landscapes that boast Masaf recognition.

Amalfi, wide open to the sea like a natural amphitheatre of houses and terraces clinging to the rock, tells the international tourism that for ten months of the year it hosts in its maze of alleys and stepped streets, its dual vocation as a maritime and rural town.

A status that finds its synthesis in Maestro Roggi's sculpture Premonizione d'Amore (Premonition of Love), a work that is the result of a reflection on time. The roots correspond to the past since they draw nourishment from the earth, that is, from what exists before us, such as culture and tradition. The trunk corresponds to the present and takes on anthropomorphic traits since it is the only existential segment within which we can act. It is not enough simply to act, however, Master Roggi seems to tell us: we must act with love. This is why the trunk consists of two individuals immortalised in a passionate embrace. Finally, the branches, which sprout from the trunk as a relative and natural continuation, represent the future, i.e. the effect of the encounter between past and present. They are laden with fruit, since the values and education received in the past, combined with the actions dictated by love performed in the present, determine a virtuous, positive future.

The work, positioned at the entrance to the Lungomare dei Cavalieri, will remain in Amalfi until next spring when new sculptures by the master Andrea Roggi are scheduled to be installed. They will form part of a larger exhibition planned by the councillor in charge of culture, Enza Cobalto, in collaboration with the Ravagnan Gallery in Venice, which in Amalfi has curated the installation of Catalano's travellers, monumental works that, until last 5 November, were a great success, especially among the tens of thousands of tourists hosted in the town.

It is entitled Premonition of Love (in Japanese Koi No Yokan) and is a work with which Amalfi intends to pay homage to historical and heroic agriculture. But more specifically, the dual soul of the Coast to which the ancient maritime republic gives its name. That is, the peasant and maritime souls that merge into an inseparable pair. It bears the signature of master Andrea Roggi and has been set up at the entrance to the town on the occasion of the first National Assembly of Rural Landscapes of Historical Interest organised in collaboration with the Municipal Administration, led by the mayor Daniele Milano, and scheduled to take place in Amalfi from 17 to 19 November 2023 with the intention of raising awareness among institutions at various levels on the main challenges and threats that historical agriculture is facing at this historic moment in time to demand concrete actions aimed at maintaining, protecting and promoting these landscapes that boast Masaf recognition.

Amalfi, wide open to the sea like a natural amphitheatre of houses and terraces clinging to the rock, tells the international tourism that for ten months of the year it hosts in its maze of alleys and stepped streets, its dual vocation as a maritime and rural town.

A status that finds its synthesis in Maestro Roggi's sculpture Premonizione d'Amore (Premonition of Love), a work that is the result of a reflection on time. The roots correspond to the past since they draw nourishment from the earth, that is, from what exists before us, such as culture and tradition. The trunk corresponds to the present and takes on anthropomorphic traits since it is the only existential segment within which we can act. It is not enough simply to act, however, Master Roggi seems to tell us: we must act with love. This is why the trunk consists of two individuals immortalised in a passionate embrace. Finally, the branches, which sprout from the trunk as a relative and natural continuation, represent the future, i.e. the effect of the encounter between past and present. They are laden with fruit, since the values and education received in the past, combined with the actions dictated by love performed in the present, determine a virtuous, positive future.

The work, positioned at the entrance to the Lungomare dei Cavalieri, will remain in Amalfi until next spring when new sculptures by the master Andrea Roggi are scheduled to be installed. They will form part of a larger exhibition planned by the councillor in charge of culture, Enza Cobalto, in collaboration with the Ravagnan Gallery in Venice, which in Amalfi has curated the installation of Catalano's travellers, monumental works that, until last 5 November, were a great success, especially among the tens of thousands of tourists hosted in the town.