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