Roberto Crippa

The text

And for Costantini art truly has a capital A: the great, substantial renewal of Venetian glass is bound above all to his collaboration with the masters of contemporary painting and sculpture, and so it takes shape on the level of pure art, no longer of skilled craftsmanship.

This is the break: glass becomes marble, oil, tempera, wood; it becomes a new medium in the hands, at the disposal, of artists.

It becomes a medium no longer for reproducing, as in the past, but for creating.

Thanks to Costantini it becomes a new way of searching for expression: in Venice one day I asked Lucio Fontana whether he was working in that city that November, and he answered: “Yes, I am working glass, I pierce it, and my awl is Costantini!”

Catalogue of the exhibition at the Galleria Forni, Bologna.