Giuseppe Mazzariol

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. . . . . . and all this is plain, because it was he who found these great presences; a few names are enough, from Picasso to Chagall, from the very great Max Ernst to Cocteau and on to Le Corbusier.

Now, finding them meant bringing the most advanced culture in Europe into contact with the enchanted island of Murano and with this magic art of glass.

I remember something Le Corbusier said walking through Venice: it was a sort of enchantment he had felt in his contact with this extraordinary artist, Egidio Costantini, because he found himself drawn in and able at last to realise a dream: “to see a form in glass”.

A contribution from the documentary “Il Maestro dei Maestri”.