Jean Cocteau
testimony
1958
When decadence drags a craftsmen’s aristocracy downwards and agrees to meet the demands of vulgarisation, is it not worthy of admiration to see artists refuse this pact with the devil and glory, whatever the cost, in serving the angels? This is the style of the Fucina degli Angeli, where Murano tries to escape bad habits by taking new roads. Egidio Costantini thinks with his heart, and it is with the breath of the forge of the heart that he carries on the bold and graceful transparencies of Venice.
1963
Costantini blows into the glass of Venice with a Pan pipe. If by chance he strikes a false note, he is forgiven, since it is in order to come to play for the eye a beautiful and solid melody.