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THREE GRACES GALLERIES

WHERE ITALIAN ART MEETS WORLD PHILOSOPHY

Even as love crowns you...Even as he is for your growth so is he for you pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches...so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Khalil Gibran

Lebanese poet and philosopher

ANDREA ROGGI

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A life without art is an empty, wasted, senseless life.

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When I start a new work I try to isolate myself as much as possible from the rest of the world.

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Art has the function of making people feel good.

I try to communicate my inner view of the world.

I only concern myself with following my instinct, striving to remain as faithful as possible to what my true nature.

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I think that all that art is, is a conductor of emotions, both negative and positive.

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I dream of departing...

The idea is to listen within. The chaos of the moden world rains down on us torentially, we need to cultivate the capacity to drown it all out and tune in to ourselves.

Sometimes the first idea can be irrational, a flash, a sensation...

Like every tree has its place in the wood and role in the eco-system, each of us have a place and purpose in the local and world community.

I don’t yet know what the real or fundamental question is, but that answer might be in the act itself, to question.

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I don’t yet know what the real or fundamental question is, but that answer might be in the act itself, to question.

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Sometimes I am astonished that one of my joyful pieces is seen as being sad or vice versa, but it fills me with amazement.

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What we can come to realise is that we are subject to a fundamental connection which energetically binds our body to everything that surrounds us. I think this realisation often happens for an artist when he or she deals with the perception of light

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The last passage I made delved further in to a kind of dissolving of the big parts that compose our being: into the perception that everything is made of very small particles and these particles are actually some kind of substance that we swim in. This substance is related to what we see and what we physically feel — because it is actually what we are made of — but it doesn’t necessarily need to be understood in a strictly physical way.

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My last exhibition was based around figurative subjects, it was called ‘Prima Luce’ [First Light] and really it recounted the story of a birth. I felt very strongly about the exhibition. For me it was about calling not upon the moment of my birth because I’m not sure how it unfolded, but the feelings I have that surround it.

In the same way that people have reported feeling a deep sense of personal peace and connection with the infinite in the presence (even looking at them from meters away) of world renowned spiritual teachers like the Dalai Lama, people have reported feeling that looking a works of art.

What I’m trying to experiment with now is if domestically speaking, the simple things can be experienced on another level: as you stir the sauce, or hoover the floor! Not to take away the ‘highness’ but to bring the infinite into the everyday...it is important to do it but at the same time you don’t need to make a big fuss about it. I would like to treat art in this way.

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