Enrico Crispolti
testimony
The text
What Costantini’s “glass” offers us is not only sculpture in glass, but the translation, personally reinvented in the glassy medium, of a drawing by contemporary visual artists, not only sculptors but painters too.
Two fundamental elements therefore contribute to the outcome of his personal, fascinating creations: on the one hand, precisely, the drawing Costantini has asked of the artist, an idea for a work in glass; on the other, the interpretation and plastic realisation of that drawing, which a master such as Costantini imagines according to a design of his own.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Parco Ducale, Parma, 1984/85.