From 2 August, the bronze sculptures of artist Andrea Roggi will be displayed amidst the enchanting landscape and architectural backdrop of the L'Andana resort in Castiglion della Pescaia in a solo exhibition entitled
Res Sacrae - Human and Divine.

The subject is particularly dear to the artist: with his intensely spiritual, philosophical and sentimental sensibility in the highest sense of the term, Maestro Roggi makes the Intangible tangible by materially realising his creative ideas through a sophisticated material manipulation of his signature element, bronze, as also in line with Michelangelo's maieutics, marble.

The Maestro's evocative works decline the suffused mysticism of his poetics in archetypal forms linked to sacred themes par excellence: Mother Earth, Goddess of Nature and Spirituality, the Tree of Life, with its emblematic phytomorphic trunk and prominent roots, the circularity of Life, the cyclical nature of Time.

Mother Earth with her sphericity is an iconographic and symbolic motif that has always been a favourite of the Tuscan sculptor, since it encapsulates his aesthetics and his artistic-intellectual manifesto in its signifier and meaning; It also appears to be the title of a monumental bronze work in the form of a sphere-world, created with a special technique conceived and patented by Roggi himself, which gives a material and magmatic perception to the bronze material, seeming to be traversed by atavistic chthonic and telluric impulses.

Other monumental works, ascribable to the theme of the Tree of Life, a vital and luxuriant element of the Mother Earth, are dedicated to Salvific Love (Un Nuovo Mondo, Il Riflesso della tua Anima nei tuoi Occhi, Il Nostro Amore Salverà le Nostre Radici, Immagina un Nuovo Mondo). In a timeless dialogue with the uncontaminated surrounding nature, characterised by the Mediterranean maquis and olive trees, some works from the Maestro's latest production are also installed, Circle of Life and Time, which present a progressive stylistic rarefaction until reaching formal abstraction in a Heraclitean flow between figuration and trans-figuration.

The Tuscan artist chooses the sphere, the circle, the world as the symbol of Mother Earth together with the Tree (in the iconic Tuscan vegetal and landscape elements of the olive tree and the cypress), with its evident roots and branches, to convey his philosophy characterised by respect for Nature, memory and traditions rooted in our history as well as the hope for the moral and intellectual rebirth of humanity through the spiritual elevation achieved by aesthetic contemplation and intellectual reflection.

In this highly evocative exhibition, Andrea Roggi once again reveals himself to be an absolute virtuoso of bronze: his refined structures are already striking at first glance for the skill of his technique combined with subjects oscillating between quivering classicism and abstraction in continuous homage to the sacredness of Nature and spiritual and emotional Love.
Marina Azzurra Lulli

Counted among Tuscany's historic residences, the Tenuta La Badiola, within which the L'Andana resort is located, perfectly embodies the soul of its land, the Maremma, and reflects the splendour of its past history. 

Enclosed in a natural casket of unparalleled beauty, this location was chosen by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II of Lorraine to erect one of his villas - perfectly preserved in its recognisable Medici features - which was used as his residence.

In 1800, the Grand Duke began the reclamation of the marshy area of the Maremma - abandoned to itself since the late Roman era - and transformed it into a natural paradise in which to establish the working villages (the 'fattorie') and residences that would give development to Maremma agriculture. 

The heart of the La Badiola estate, with the Acquagiusta farm, was purchased in 2000 by the Moretti family: Vittorio Moretti, together with his daughter Carmen and son-in-law Martino de Rosa, reconstructed all the buildings of the ancient hamlet, converting the main villa, a historic residence, into the L'Andana resort, and the surrounding farms into the Casa Badiola Tuscan Inn, inaugurated in 2009.

In 2016, Carmen Moretti and Martino de Rosa started a new, exciting project with the young, multi-starred Chef Enrico Bartolini at their side, for an even more Italian, even more Tuscan Andana.