Franco Solmi
testimony
The text
The Fucina degli Angeli of papa Costantini is an institution of such prestige and such history that it can be considered the highest modern expression of the art of glass, understood as an autonomous discipline that goes far beyond the limits of the Venetian craft tradition, however lively, to which it nonetheless remains bound by the obvious ties of “craft”.
What sets this true school apart is not the fixing of a single creative pattern, but precisely the opposite: openness, that is, to all the possible and impossible languages of today’s art, and also to the subtlest “literary” suggestions, in the involvement of the most diverse figures, from Cocteau to Picasso, from Max Ernst to the artists of the younger generations set on recovering and revisiting not only poetics but also expressive techniques.
Catalogue of the exhibition at Artefiera ’86, Bologna.