The Fucina degli Angeli
The art movement for the Art of Glass founded by Egidio Costantini.
The movement
The Fucina degli Angeli is the art movement for the Art of Glass founded by Egidio Costantini in the first half of the 1950s. It springs from his first collaboration with a master of twentieth-century art, Oskar Kokoschka, in 1952; in 1955 Jean Cocteau gives it its name.
For Cocteau the forge is the place where the angels, the artists, meet to make the Art of Glass together. The Fucina is a physical place and an ideal one, where the artists’ ideas become forms, colours and volumes in glass; but it is not a furnace: the works are born, with few exceptions, in the furnaces of Murano.
From every artist Egidio obtains full freedom to make the work according to his own ideas, his own intuitions and his own feeling for glass.