Jean Cocteau
artist
Writer, poet, painter, playwright and film director
The collaboration
Cocteau meets Egidio in 1954, and gives the movement Egidio has founded the name of Fucina degli Angeli.
Together they take up two themes. The first brings art into the ordinary and the everyday: from it comes a drinking glass. The second is myth, which Cocteau had worked out first in his dreams and then in his images: the faun-plant, later titled the Billy Goat, a creature about one metre eighty tall, a plant crowned by a faun’s head; and also the Trident Totem and the Three Eyes.