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Frida Fjellman  Make an illusion a reality. For a long time I had in my mind the possibility of making the illusion of visiting the Corning Museum of Glass, in the US state of New York, a reality. Visiting the most important museum in the world dedicated to artistic glass was for me a dream that is about to be confirmed with the trip we will make at the end of this month of May. About 50,000 objects representing more than 3,500 years of history are displayed in its galleries. The articles that are exhibited range from the portrait of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh to contemporary sculpture. The most recent addition to the Museum, which opened in March 2015, is a 9,000square-meter Contemporary Design + Design Wing that includes a 2,400-square-meter gallery.
The icing that has overflowed the glass of illusion and makes it Nuestra sede: become a reality has been Castillo Grande de the opening of the S.J. de Valderas exhibition New Glass Now Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 2019 at the Corning 28925 ALCORCĂ“N. Museum. (MADRID) info@amigosmava.org
As reported on page 5 of this Bulletin, New Glass Now will present objects, installations, videos and performances made in the
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last three years by 100 artists from 32 different nationalities and working in more than 25 countries.
and will be open until January 5, 2020.
Labino, who successfully devised a small economic furnace in which glass could be melted and worked, making it possible for artists to blow glass in independent studios for the first time without having than to use the furnaces of the big factories.
The Finger Lakes area is the largest wine producing region in New York with more than 100 wineries and vineyards.
We will visit this exhibition from May 29, since I imagine This is the last exhibition of a that we will not have enough series of three that began in with a single day to enjoy the 1959. The first two content of the exhibition, the exhibitions in the series were permanent collection of the Glass 1959 and New Glass: museum and the exhibitions A Worldwide Survey, in that take place in the 1979. museum itself. artists who temporarily reside there and From the first it can be said who demonstrate their skills that the New Glass with the realization of a piece Movement was initiated, by means of some of the being the catalyst for the different techniques used in development of study glass the handling of glass. in the United States the artist Harvey K. Littleton, a teacher We will take advantage of potter from the University of our stay in Corning to visit Wisconsin in Madison, who Lake Ontario and Niagara was inspired in the Falls from the Canadian river pioneering work in pottery of bank and take advantage of California potter Peter the Niagara Falls State Park Voulkos. and several New York State parks, such as the Allegheny Littleton, influenced by his National Forest, Watkins own experience in the Glen State Park, the Green material, began Lakes, the Finger Lakes, experimenting with hot glass Chittenango Falls or in his studio in 1958. Taughannock Falls State Park with a 65-meter-high He worked with glass research scientist Dominick waterfall.
He finally realized that his desire to develop the glass blowing under study in the United States could become a reality after encountering the small historical workshops of Italy and have limited success. New Glass Now will be inaugurated next May 12
The city of Syracuse will be another of our objectives. Of small size (about 150,000 inhabitants), it is a city on the rise, with an architectural heritage that reveals its importance in past times. There we will stop at the Erie Canal Museum, a historical museum on the Erie Canal whose building was used to weigh the boats that passed through the canal.
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S P E C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
New Glass Now 2019
British Glass Biennale
Magán in Havana
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does
Directive 2010/75 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of November 24, 2010, on industrial emissions.
CONTENT:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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New Glass Now 2019
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British Glass Biennale
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Magán in Havana
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Chihuly at Kew Gardens
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The glass at school
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Stained glass in Durham
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Directive 85/337 / EEC or a safety report, prepared in compliance with Directive 96/82 / EC, or any other information provided in response to other standards, when it j) the measures meets any of the planned to control requirements provided emissions to the in section 1, may be environment; included in the permit k) a brief summary of application or be the main alternatives to attached to it. technology, techniques Article 13 BAT and proposed measures, studied by reference documents and information the applicant. exchange The permit applications 1. In order to develop, must also contain a review and, where summary understandable to the necessary, update the layman in the matter of BAT reference documents, the all the indications Commission will specified in the first organize an exchange paragraph. of information between 2. Information the Member States, the submitted in industries concerned, accordance with the non-governmental
organizations promoting environmental protection and the Commission. 2. The exchange of information shall refer in particular to the following: a) the operation of the facilities and techniques in terms of emissions expressed as short- and long-term averages, as appropriate, and the associated reference conditions, consumption and type of raw materials, water consumption, energy use and residuous generation; b) the techniques used, associated controls, effects between different media, technical and economic feasibility and registered evolution;
Medal to Muñoz de Pablos 15 Pablo Pizarro at La Granja 15
Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2019
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Memorial stained glass
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Boycott threatens factory
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2019 program
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The glass of Shreveport
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Other trends
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Art of vitrofusión
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Glass and color in Burgos
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Glass in Singapore
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President of Ecovidrio
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Extension of the Museum
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How do
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Valdemorillo Museum
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New shop window in Ibiza
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Chihuly in New Orleans
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I remember Leopoldo Flores 33
New Verallia oven
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Chinese capital in S. Gobain
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Lookout of Lindaraja
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The Ribeira Sacra
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Investments in BA Glass
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Board Of Directors
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The fire of Notre Dame.
The digital newspaper El Adelantado publishes an interview with Pablo and Alfonso Muñoz Ruiz, from Vetraria Muñoz de Pablos, in its edition of April 18.
are loaded with water and there is the danger of its sinking. Therefore, they should have left the wood burning or used foam for extinction. They are also in favor of all European specialists In this interview, focused on the intervening in the restoration of burning of the Parisian cathedral the cathedral and that it be done of Notre Dame, the Muñoz Ruiz with modern materials instead of brothers, among other issues, are with more wood. opposed to the use of water in the extinction of the fire because of The interview can be followed the danger that the stone vaults through this link.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Catherine Zoritchak.
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Catherine Montouchet Zoritchak was born in France. He studied art at the Higher Technical School of Applied Arts in Sèvres, France, for four years before attending the Academy of Decorative Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, to learn animation and cartoons. She worked glass with her exhusband Yan Zoritchak from 1979 to 1996 and moved to Claret in 1998, where she started her own business. In 2005 he left Claret to create his studio at his home in St Hippolyte du Fort.
existing techniques of working with glass. "Glass and glass are privileged materials that allow light to pass through, multiply it, divide it into a spectrum and, at the same time, trap it and keep it in. The reliefs that I record on the surfaces of the block form images through the which light passes and vibrates, the images that light multiplies to infinity, increase or decrease, or isolate, according to the angle of vision.
For example, the tree can It uses different techniques, remain a solitary tree in the from engraving to middle of a field, with a bark sandblasting, casting, with rough and soft laws, or it thermoforming, enamelling and can fold and become a forest fusion, and is a specialist in with entangled branches pâte de verre. Now he teaches where the light spectrum the latter during the workshops adheres, instantaneously ". in his own studio. "Since my first engraving work, His work is inspired by nature which involved volumes, but also in the so-called reflection and refraction, I have "primitive" cultures. made a complete investigation You can find more information on bowls, plates and vases in about this artist on her triplicate colored glass, later website: http:// engraved and sandblasted. www.catyzo.com/ These superimposed colors "For more than twenty years, I have been using glass as a means of expression through various techniques, from glass etching to sandblasting, melting, thermoforming, enamelling and pouring. This site presents my career, the jobs that mark it and also provides information about the
digging the surface of my forms, playing nets of lines, positive reliefs, deep hollows or in bright sizes from which the inner color is rediscovered by the eye. Translucent, living in the light ". "Now I use flat glass of different colors and mainly duplicated, which attack the colored surface with acid, sanding and engraving, creating a subtle relief in color, all shades. Then the thermoforming is done by molding my plates in a very simple principle, gravitation and heat, according to the specific properties of the glass ". "I create glass pasta dishes, beautiful everyday objects that have become more and more the medium of my expression as the painter's canvas. I return to the sensuality of transparent material, to live impression.
My inspiration often comes from nature and the so-called primitive cultures, but at the same time so subtle and give a very opaque first view of profound, whose initiatory the objects, where only the archaism refers me to my own colors of the cover appear. archaisms, to my own depths But it exists, because it is and helps me to anchor myself glass, a whole inner life with greater clarity and created by the play of the luminosity. the present". superposition of colors. The "Piece of the month" My research consists in revealing this inner life by
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Established artists. Frida Fjellman.
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experience of both its biological and emotional components, Fjellman processes and combines this information into immersive and fantastic paintings that are built with expert art through various types of media in combination, including glass, ceramics, wood and neon.
Representing hyperrealistic flora and fauna, as well as their own biomorphic and surrealist designs, their facilities are wonderful, vivid, effective and cohesive places that demand exploration.
Born in 1971 in the Swedish town of Mariestad, Fjellman started working with clay from an early age, attending local pottery classes with her father. A course at the Helliden Community College with the renowned Rörstrand designer Inger Persson solidified Fjellman's interest in the medium. The focus of Fjellman's studies was later expanded
The environments that Fjellman constructs are replete with flora and fauna to include courses on glass native to Sweden, however, at The Corning Studio in each element of the design New York in 2000 and in appears as a hyperversion neon at the Pilchuck of itself, refracted in the School of Glass in mind of the artist. Washington from 2003Fjellman's sculptures, in 2004. particular, are so intricately She is an artist and detailed to the palpable designer with multiple expressions of his talents who lives and works lemmings, dogs, beavers, in Stockholm, Sweden. bears and ghosts, that they Inspired by the can sometimes border on Scandinavian ecosystem the grotesque. and considering its
Emerging artists. Courtney Dodd.
Courtney Dodd was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Crafts from 2006 to 2008 and later worked for Devin Burgess, a former resident of Penland. Dodd has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University with an emphasis in glass and a BFA from Missouri State University with a double
emphasis in graphic design and illustration. In 2012, he completed an Artist -in-Residence in Photography at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts in Portland, Oregon. In the fall of 2015, it was the STARworks glass residence in Star, North
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Carolina. He has studied and worked at Penland School of Crafts, The Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, Denmark Design School in Bornholm and Pilchuck Glass School. Dodd was also nominated in 2015 and 2016 for the Irvin Borowsky Award in Glass Arts. She has shown at STARworks, Chrysler Museum of Glass, and the University of Louisville. She had the pleasure of helping Pablo Soto at Desoto Glass Design in Penland, North Carolina, from 2013 to 2015. In the fall of 2017, she was an emerging artist living in Pilchuck. Currently, Dodd works as a full time artist and lives in the mountains of Bakersville, North Carolina.
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New Glass Now 2019.
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New Glass Now will document the innovation and dexterity of artists, designers, and architects around the world working in the challenging material of glass.
A global survey designed to show the breadth and depth of contemporary glassmaking, the exhibition will feature objects, installations, videos, and performances made in the last three years by 100 artists of 32 nationalities working in more than 25 countries. The third exhibition in a series dating to 1959, New Glass Now employs a democratic curatorial methodology.
Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark; and American artist Beth Lipman. The panel received submissions from more than 1,400 artists and designers from 52 countries. The selected artworks demonstrate the diversity of their makers, ranging from timely political commentary and investigations of the materiality of glass to explorations at the intersection of hightechnology and the hand. The show includes artists at every point in their career, from recent graduates to established artists, representing nearly every glassworking technique.
laid the foundation for the blossoming of the Studio Glass movement. Twenty years later, New Glass: A Worldwide Survey revolutionized it, spurring individual and institutional collecting across the globe, garnering new scholarly attention, and promoting continued artistic innovation. New Glass Now stands to make a similar impact today. Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, the Museum will publish the 40th anniversary issue of New Glass Review.
The 2019 edition will include the 100 artworks and design objects chosen for the contemporary survey New They range in age from 23 to Glass Now as well as Just as in 1959, the show 84 years. important contextual essays was curated from an open and information. call for submissions by an The first two exhibitions in international panel. Headed the series, Glass The exhibition will be by Susie J. Silbert, curator of 1959 and New Glass: A inaugurated on May 12, 2019 Modern and Contemporary Worldwide Survey (1979) and may be visited until Glass at The Corning brought unprecedented January 5, 2020. Museum of Glass, the panel critical and popular attention Our Association of Friends of also includes guest curators to the material, its makers, the Museum of Art in Glass Aric Chen, curator-at-large, and designers. of Alcorcón will be present at M+ museum, Hong Kong; As the first exhibition to this event with the presence Susanne Jøker Johnsen, of our President and our artist and head of exhibitions showcase international contemporary glass, Glass Secretary. at the Royal Danish 1959 created the field and Academy of Fine Arts,
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British Glass Biennale 2019.
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Seventy-four artists were selected from among 200 applicants to present the most interesting, diverse and outstanding glass art made in the United Kingdom in the last two years.
The work will form a vanguard showcase of contemporary British glass talent with more than £ 12,000 in prizes.
was of a very high standard this year, which made the evaluation process extremely difficult, but that is how it should be. Through their collective wisdom, knowledge and experience, they made a fantastic selection for this year's Biennial.
We are delighted that the Glass Arts Society (GAS), based in Seattle, sponsors a The winners will be new prestigious International announced at the awards Artists Award, open to all our ceremony on August 22 at artists in this exciting the Glasshouse, exhibition. This is the first Stourbridge. time that the Glass Arts The winners of the prizes Society has sponsored an chosen by public vote will be international award and announced at the closing recognizes the importance of ceremony on September 28. the British Glass Biennale in the global glass community. Both established artists and " new emerging talents will be on display, including the Matt Durran, Curator 2019. work of 12 students and 21 Congratulations to all the new artists in the main selected artists. section. Alison Allum, Allison The selected artists have Malcolm, Emma Baker, been courageous and James Maskrey, George innovative, using a wide Bell, Kelsey Mayo, Laura range of traditional and Birdsall, Gayle Matthias, experimental styles and Heike Brachlow, Laura techniques. McKinley, Edmond Byrne, "The field of applications for Jonathan Michie, Nina the British Glass Biennial Casson McGarva, Marzena
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Ostromecka, Ian Chadwick, Lois Parker, Keeryong Choi, Kate Pasvol, Katherine Coleman, Lauren Puckett, Anuradha Cook, Georgia Redpath, Vanessa Cutler, David Reekie, Jerre Davidson, Bruno Romanelli, Calum Dawes, Opal Seabrook, Chris Day, Cathryn Shilling, James Devereux, Amanda Simmons, Neil Edwards, Caroline Small, Fiaz Elson, Katrin Spranger, Hanne Enemark, Helen Stokes, Hannah Facey, Paul Stopler, Carrie Fertig, Dawid Stroyny, Alec Galloway, Karlyn Sutherland, Emma Goring, Ayako Tani, Jianyong Guo, Louis Thompson & Sophie Thomas, Claire Hall , Kaja Upelj, Crispian Heath, Phil Vickery, Vicky Higginson, Frans Wesselman, Ji Huang, Sarah Wiberley, Max Jacquard, Emma Woffenden, Julie Johnson, Bethany Wood & Elliot Walker, Kate Jones & Stephen Gilles, Ben Woodeson, Monette Larson, Jinya Zhao, Lola Lazaro Hinks, Jeff Zimmer, Jessie Lee, Muna Zuberi, James Lethbridge, Maria Zulueta, Jon Lewis.
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David Magán in La Habana.
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A piece by the Spanish artist David Magán interacts with the Cuban public as part of the visual arts project Detrás del Muro, one of the main attractions of the XIII Biennial of Havana. "I'm presenting a large format outdoor work, in which I work with abstraction, geometry, balance, and chromatic superposition," the creator told Prensa Latina. The monumental piece, located on the Havanan seawall, belongs to a series of works that are articulated from a structure of stainless steel tubes, where 36 triangular planes of four elementary colors are
suspended: orange, yellow, light blue and dark blue . Although he specialized in iron and wood at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, Magán always showed interest in glass, and has developed a very personal technique exploring the possibilities of that material in its relationships with color, light and space. . Behind the Wall is one of the most awaited actions by the followers of the Biennial of Havana, which culminates this edition on May 12 next. However, the project will continue to exchange with the lovers of the visual arts until
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November, as part of the artistic initiatives chosen for the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the Villa de San Cristóbal de La Habana. Almost 70 artists from nine countries give life to the project, which shares with the public video art, performance, installations, paintings and sculptures, all located in part of Havana's boardwalk, the famous Paseo del Prado, and other areas of the oldest area of the city. David Magán is a member of our Association of Friends of the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities on the MAVA. “Fusion” in Zaragoza. make us reflect on our surroundings.
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There are also collaborations between artisans and artisans from different sectors. In short, a variety that also reflects the diversity of the people who created them and that is included in the bilingual English-Spanish catalog of the exhibition. The exhibition can be visited until May 8, from Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 5:00 to 8:00. It will also remain open during the European Craft Days, in which the Craft Center of Aragon organizes a series of activities that can be found at www.diasdelaartesania.es INNOVATION IN GLASS
promotion of crafts of EOI School of Industrial Organization, and the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón MAVA . It aims to offer a representative sample of this The exhibition comes to the artisan sub-sector and to bring Craft Center of Aragon after together the creations of artists passing through some Spanish who work on such a versatile towns and can be visited until material as glass, as well as to May 8. encourage collaborations between artisans from different Jesús Sánchez Farraces, fields. general director of Industry, SMEs, Trade and Crafts of the The exhibition houses 41 Government of Aragon; pieces or collections of 29 Susana Martín, president of artists from all over the country, the Association of Artisans of made mostly of glass, and Aragón; Laura Miguel, responding to a concept of responsible for Fundesarte; jewelry understood as those and Mª Luisa Martínez, MAVA unique pieces, with a sculptural director participated in the and artistic concept, that can opening ceremony. In parallel, be used as ornament for the the contemporary jewelery human body, regardless of show "After the flood" will also market trends. be opened. Fusion can be admired from Fusión brings together works sculptural pieces to more of young talents and conventional pieces, but they established artists who were stand out for their beauty and selected in the First Jewelery simplicity, passing through with Glass Contest, convened jewels with a message that will by Fundesarte, chair of Zaragoza shows the most innovative trends in contemporary jewelry in Fusión, Glass Jewelery Contest.
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Although it is a centuries-old technique, the glass subsector is one of the most innovative in the Spanish artisan sphere. This is evident both in the introduction of new products and production processes and in the design and packaging of products and in the use of new sales channels. This is reflected in the "Report on the situation of handicrafts in Spain. Competitiveness report and main economic variables ", edited by Fundesarte in 2015, which includes the latest data available to date from the Spanish artisan sector. According to the study, on this date there were 1,334 artisan glass companies (3.5% of the total number of craft companies), with more than 3,800 people employed. On the other hand, the companies included in the jewelery and jewelry subsector represented 11.4% of the total, employing almost 10,500 people.
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Chihuly in Kew Gardens.
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As if they were part of the vast vegetation of London's botanical garden, the colorful glass sculptures of master Dale Chihuly (USA 1941) emerge from the undergrowth of Kew Gardens in the exhibition "Reflections of Nature".
Far from the coldness of the showcase of a museum, where the one that has become a reference in the art of glass began to exhibit fifty years ago, the sculptures of the American "come alive" among the plants. This was stated to Efe by the communication director of the artists' studio, Danielle Zarella, who revealed the creator's fascination with gardens and greenhouses. "Dale has always loved architecture and, through it, also greenhouses," explained the board, which highlighted the evolution of the master glassmaker from his first exhibition in Kew Gardens until now.
the 132 hectares of the Kew Gardens, declared World Heritage by Unesco, Chihuly's 32 creations are completely integrated into the landscape.
highlighted the Temperate House, the largest and oldest example of a Victorian greenhouse.
He highlighted the integration of the work of the American in the usual landscape of the site, which makes it seem "that it had always been there".
For Botterell this type of shows, festivals and events helps to "give reasons" to visit the garden to an audience that, otherwise, would not approach the place.
The place was inaugurated last The patch that covers his left eye year after four years closed by a restoration that cost 42 million has not made him lose the pounds (48.7 million euros). spatial vision that makes this virtuoso of glass create pieces It brings together plants from all that could have been the work of the places of temperate climate mother nature. of the planet -South America, Africa, Australia and New Blue, yellow, red, white, orange Zealand- that, until next October are added to the extensive 27, will coexist with some of the palette of colors with which Chihuly endows her creations to most spectacular pieces of Chihuly's set. camouflage them among plants from all over the world. Among them, a huge bouquet of blue and yellow flowers "His work is inspired by nature, especially created for the the reflections of nature, its diversity and beauty, that's why it occasion that hangs from the glass roof, from which the rays of acquires those shapes and colors," Kew Gardens marketing the spring London sun are director Sandra Botterell told Efe. filtered.
"I am honored to bring my work back to Kew, with its magnificent landscape and its extraordinary greenhouses, structures that have always captivated me," acknowledged Chihuly himself in "This exhibition is bigger, much the presentation to the media of more dramatic and spectacular, it Fourteen years later, Chihuly the exhibition. reflects the way his art has "has expanded his art, has Nature, light, color and forms increased the scale of his works evolved in the last fourteen come together in this exhibition years," he said. and uses more daring colors," that, in the next seven months, Zarella said. Among the most special will not leave the spectator enclaves where part of the Distributed in thirteen locations of indifferent. exhibition is located, Botterell It was in 2005 when the American first took his creations to the gardens located southwest of the British capital in a sample that had to be extended by the success he reaped.
At the same time, like Zarella, he underlined the evolution of American art since his previous foray into London botany almost five decades ago.
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The art of glass at school.
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For the first time, a school in the Community of Madrid and the national territory hosts a rolling glass-blowing workshop in its facilities where it is shown how the union between silica sand and fire are converted daily into a glass bottle, a glass wine and infinite works of art exhibited in museums of the stature of MoMA (in New York). Everything, by the hand of Diego Rodríguez, one of the few masters of glass left in Spain and who has been working for 25 years in the Real Fábrica de Crystals of La Granja (Segovia). The San José School Educational Foundation Santo Domingo (FESD) of Getafe was the first to be released. "In this digital world we live in, we found it interesting to convey to our students the importance of crafts, in honor of our employer, San José, who was an artisan," says Ana Gema Esteban Hernández, director of the School. "The works of always are part of what we are, of our past, and reflect our historical, economic and cultural development," adds the director. In barely 25 square meters, with an oven, blowing canes, 50 kilos of silica sand and, most importantly, the fire, Maestro Rodríguez (www.sopladodevidrio.es) sets up a workshop and begins his function. For children it is like a magic show. All part of molten sand at
1,100 degrees "that I pick up from the oven in a cane, I mold it with wet newspaper and I bring it to him a few centimeters from his hands". Almost by "magic" art, that "soft honey that moves becomes solid and rigid and that bright red color of the beginning becomes transparent. They are amazed », explains the teacher Rodríguez about his show.
the cane to create a bubble that could be the shape of a bottle ».
What is clear, emphasizes another one of the elementary educators, Iván Álvarez, is that "you learn by doing and by living. Not even through a video, because between video and reality there is always a barrier. Making and living helps to understand ». And also to open the mind, says Goizueta. «Think, In this process of changes reflect and discover the origin of suffered by glass, Diego products that are on the table Rodríguez uses his tools and, (canned food, bottles, glasses, with the skill of his hands, molds perfumes, windows ...). Knowing different figures, playing with the how they have been made gives imagination of the students, who them wisdom. " cry: «A manta ray, a whale, a Aware of the importance of snail ... A horse, a swan ». They introducing the values of traditional are even witnesses of how craftsmanship in the education of adding iron oxide, the glass the youngest in the school takes a green color, or blue if environment, the San José FESD what is added is cobalt oxide. School of Getafe has opted to They are perplexed when they bring the work of Diego Rodríguez put some corn seeds inside a to their facilities. fresh glass bowl, they start to «I believe that art brings many explode "rich popcorn", these glass, like they eat when they go benefits to our students. It transfers sensitivity, makes them to the movies. more creative from the simplicity, And the final surprise comes helps them to value the essential when they are invited to be without so much materialism, glassblowers for a few minutes. favors the relationship and Everyone raised their hands to communication with others, become master blowers for a something that nowadays is very second. "Everyone is excited valuable, since many of our and amazed, everyone wants to students have fun in solitude, experience it," says one of the isolated in digital technology. It teachers, Malen Goizueta. helps them to know the world and In the words of the glass master, to develop their imagination ", "they really want to learn. It is says the director of the center Ana impressive how with only a few Gema Esteban Hernández. words and seeing me, they are able to mold the glass and blow
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Durham Cathedral presents a stained glass window.
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The cathedral of Durham has presented a new window, and sends a message of support to the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The stained glass window was installed in memory of a student at the University of Durham who died suddenly of a heart-related condition. The inauguration comes after a catastrophic fire ravaged the roof of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral last April and threw its needle to the ground before a horrified crowd. As the tragic event unfolded, Durham Cathedral sent prayers to those who fought the fire, to the community of Notre Dame and to the people of Paris, tweeting: "Our thoughts and our deepest sadness are with those of our companions of the cathedral and the world heritage site on this terrible night ". The highly revered Durham dean, Andrew Tremlett, said it was hard to see how the fire ravaged the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece. He said: "It was hard to look at those pictures the night before when the fire spread across the roof."
"I think, like everyone else, I was thinking 'no, this can not happen', but these things do happen to these buildings. We take an enormous amount of care and caution here, we have done all kinds of partitioning of the roof space to make sure that the fire can not spread. " "Of course, these are our heritage and we have to take care of it, here at the cathedral we do not charge the people who visit it, we invite them to donate and that is what allows us to take care of the building". Reverend Tremlett explained how a monument dedicated to Sara Pilkington was inaugurated in the cathedral. Sara, who died in 2012, was in her final year studying Combined Arts (BA Hons) at the University of Durham, where she was a member of Collingwood College. She has been the inspiration for the stained glass window, which will express and interpret the qualities she embodies: spirituality, beauty, color, learning and light. His parents, Jonathan and Jools Pilkington, who financed the piece, said: "Enlightenment means
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bringing light and our beautiful daughter, Sara, brought so much love and light into our lives." Her smile illuminated the world of those around her. it is a fitting monument for her. " The stained glass window was designed by the artist Mel Howse, with the flashing window glass that allows more than one color and shade within each piece. She said: "The stained glass window represents a young and vibrant person who was here one day and not here the next, and that is a very strong story that stayed in the forefront of my mind while I was working on the piece. History runs like a thread through my design. " "I worked with the color applied by hand, which freed me in a way that is not possible when working with a lead design." "I also believe that when you do a job with your own hands, that passion can only be passed on to materials." "I worked very hard to achieve a synergy between architecture and glass work, what I did not want to do was create a very contemporary work that did not sound and respond to this absolutely incredible building."
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Medal to Muñoz de Pablos.
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As planned, the City of Segovia, fully and unanimously, has agreed to award the Medal of Cultural Merit of the City to Carlos Muñoz de Pablos, glass artist, at the proposal of the Patronato del Alcázar and "for the relevant artistic merits and cultural that concur in this national and international reference in the field of artistic stained glass. The Councilor for Internal Government and Personnel, Marisa Delgado, was in
charge of detailing other merits of Muñoz de Pablos, such as the local, national and international awards she has received, including the Castilla y León Prize for Restoration and Conservation of Heritage 2005. He has been the promoter of the recovery of the Royal Factory of Crystals of La Granja and for 20 years director of the Board of the Foundation of the National Glass Center.
Exposition of Pablo Pizarro.
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In his work of conservation and restoration, he emphasizes, in the last 20 years with his sons Alfonso and Pablo, his work in cathedrals like that of Segovia. The councilor of the PP José Luis Huertas and the mayor, also highlighted his career and the latter announced that it will be the next corporation to leave the polls on May 26 who will deliver this medal.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XLVIII).
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purpose of the professional associations is the strength of the union and defend their interests before the political centralization of the Empire.
Since they were born in the Republican era, in Rome and in the provincial cities, we can verify the existence of artisan schools, and it will The associations of artisans be from the second century were supported by the AD. when they develop. provincial cities of the Empire, which benefited the The raison d'etre of the professional magistrates professional associations who required their services was due to the objectives that they pursued: to protect for works of public utility; This reflects the nature of the activity, to perfect or improve the work techniques this type of association, that is, "its public utility". and to contribute to the professional learning. All the professional associations are protected Roman professional by patrons of great influence associations are industrial who promote industrial associations because they prosperity. carry out the same type of activity or trade and the Of these, three are those returns obtained with it are that stand out for their public greater. utility and because they He has also wanted to give a carry out a prominent role commercial sense. Given the within the municipal activity: fabri, centonarii and commercial and industrial nature we have to take into dendrophori. account that in the same It is very common in the school different professions epigraphic sources to and professions appear that appear linked, and do not complement each sometimes as Tria Collegia other. Principalia. Waltzing considers that the The factory school absorbs
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different workers related to construction. Next to the term usually appears an adjective that accompanies it in order to explain, and is followed by the type of work. The centonarĂa are the creators of centones or pieces of coarse cloth. The term can also be transferred to individuals who used the centons. The dendrophori, in the festivity of Cybele and Attis, were the ones who wore the sacred pine, with which they appear intimately linked with the cult of the mentioned goddesses. They are linked to the wood industry, its transport and trade. Waltzing considers that they were professional colleges with a clear religious content and with a preponderant role in the cult of Cibeles. The union of the three schools in the cities was due to a joint act of a public nature and required by the municipal activity: the fire service.
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N E W S (I).
Farcama Spring.
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Murcia. The San Julián de Cuenca Park, with more than 1,250 m2, houses artisan products and a gourmet area, as well as demonstration workshops and entertainment activities. On the second day of the fair, on May 2, the regional government will hand out the 'Miguel de Cervantes' craft awards consisting of three recognitions: the Applied Craft Design Award; 70 exhibitors will meet at the 39 artisans from Castilla La the prize for the Best Mancha, 11 of them from IV edition of Farcama Product and the prize for the Primavera from May 1 to 5 in Cuenca and the rest of Spain Artisan Entrepreneurship. mainly from the Autonomous Cuenca. Communities of Madrid and
Culture 2019.
Last April we visited the Prado the Prado, Fusilamiento de Museum. Torrijos and his companions on the beaches of Málaga, the In the framework of the work of Antonio Gisbert, which Bicentennial, whose driving is exhibited, with the idea is to celebrate the Prado collaboration of Ramón and Museum as the great gift that Cajal Abogados, along with his has been given by the preparatory sketch (exhibited Spanish nation, this exhibition, for the first time after his recent in room 61 A of the Villanueva restoration), oil paintings, building, commemorates, until prints and documents related June 30, the 150th to painting. anniversary of the nationalization of the royal In 1868, during the mandate of collections with the only Antonio Gisbert in the direction painting of history that was of the Museum and at the commissioned by the State to beginning of the Revolutionary
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Sexenio, the nationalization of the royal collections took place, which became dependent on the State, to convert the Prado into the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture. In 1886 the liberal cabinet of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta commissioned the work around which the exhibition is articulated, which became a symbolic element of the construction of the Spanish nation from the perspective of the defense of freedom.
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N E W S (II).
Memorial stained glass.
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The relationship that has been established between Game of Thrones and Northern Ireland after hosting its filming for almost a decade is already inescapable. 70% of the production of the series, adaptation of the literary saga of George RR Martin, has taken place there, reason why the next outcome after eight seasons in HBO supposes also an event for the country. For this reason, Tourism of Ireland wanted to get involved in the celebrations and events to commemorate the end of an
already historic product in the history of television, with the installation of stained glass windows throughout Belfast. Glass of Thrones, as it has been baptized, is its next action after those made in 2016 (Doors of Thrones) and 2017 (Tapestry), with which the real locations used in the recordings could be explored from the computer.
Each one will refer to one of the main houses of fiction, with several scenes reproduced in the murals that summarize the highlights of the story. The first one was unveiled on April 15, and focuses on the Stark House. Its origin, Winterfell, is located in reality in Castle Ward in County Down.
As the following episodes are In total it consists of six stained released, the next five will glass windows, which will be appear in the city. These will unveiled taking advantage of the immortalize some of the most emission of each new chapter iconic events of the series. that makes up the final season.
The boycott threatens a factory in Israel. The dispute with the Haredi community has been heating up for years because the high temperature furnaces at the Yeruham factory operate seven days a week. The future of the Phenicia Glass Works bottle factory in the Israeli city of Yeruham in the Negev is in danger after a boycott of the haredi (ultra-orthodox) community because the plant operates on Saturdays. The dispute between Phenicia and the Haredi community has been simmering for years because the high-temperature ovens, which bake the glass, operate seven days a week. While the Gur Haredi community insists that this is a desecration of the Sabbath, Phenicia says that the complicated process of making glass is only viable if the ovens run throughout the week.
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The glass in Museums: Immenhausen.
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The Immenhausen Glass Museum is located in Reinhardswald, near Kassel.
Local references to the location of the Immenhausen museum form an important area in the exhibition program.
It is in the patronage of the city of Immenhausen. In addition to the production and finishing The museum has the techniques, which are support and sponsorship presented on the basis of of the "Society of Friends equipment, machinery, of Art in Glass Richard photos and videos of the Süßmuth eV". glass factory, there is The glass museum was information on the inaugurated in 1987 in regional distribution of the old generator building glass manufacturing and of the former Süßmuth the working and living Glattütte. conditions of the glass glass manufacturers in The museum offers information on the history the forestry glass factory in northern Hesse. of glassmaking from its beginnings in the Near East nearly 6,000 years ago to the sixteenthcentury forest stained glass windows in northern Hesse, in southern Lower Saxony.
The history of Glashütte Immenhausen documented in the museum begins in 1898, when the company, founded by two entrepreneurs in 1809,
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was relocated by the Lords of Buttlar from Ziegenhagen to Immenhausen. The company, which produced mainly medicalpharmaceutical glass and glassware for domestic use, experienced an economic boom after its acquisition by Hermann Lamprecht before the First World War, which was mainly due to the invention and production of jars. patented droppers that are sold all over the world. At the end of the 1920s, inflation and the global economic crisis led to the cessation of production. Am Bahnhof 3, 34376 Immenhausen, Germany
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Recycling. New York and the skyscrapers.
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What would the city skyline be like if the modern buildings ceased to be covered with large windows and shiny steel ... For decades, the gigantic glass towers have been an aesthetic emblem of New York but this reality can change drastically if the daring proposal of its current mayor, Bill de Blasio, goes ahead. Not content with the important package of environmental measures approved with the New York City Council, De Blasio has announced a bill that would prohibit the construction of skyscrapers with large glass and steel facades, as part of the set of measures to reduce by a 30% greenhouse gas emissions (causing climate change) in the city as a whole by the horizon of 2030. In the presentation of the proposal for environmental actions (Green New Deal), Bill de Blasio highlighted on Monday April 22 that the glass and steel facade skyscrapers are "incredibly inefficient" because they let a lot of energy escape; remembering that energy inefficient buildings are the main cause of greenhouse emissions in New York. De Blasio's proposal could also force existing glass buildings to be updated to comply with the new stricter carbon emissions guidelines, incorporating new insulation systems or offsetting their emissions with other environmental measures such as power generation with renewable sources.
"If a company wants to build a large skyscraper, they can only use a large amount of glass if they do all the other things necessary to reduce emissions, but New York City will no longer allow buildings to be erected that harm the Earth and threaten our future. "De Blasio said.
compels certain commercial and residential buildings in the city to reduce their carbon emissions. .
"Today is a historic day," was heard again and again at the press conference on the steps of the City Hall, where a broad coalition of environmental, community, trade union and The mayor indicated some of the political organizations came buildings of the Hudson Yards together in support of ecological development plan (in the Hudson measures, in an environment River area of Manhattan) as festive, according to the chronicle "examples of the wrong way of of this act spread by Efe. doing things". The legislative project approved Mark Chambers, director of the by a wide margin by the Office of Sustainability for the Municipal Council of New York mayor of New York, reiterated includes six major blocks of that the proposal announced by actions, directed mainly to the De Blasio "does not mean that fight against climate change. buildings can no longer use Thus, the large public and private glass," according to statements buildings of the city, including the made by the New York Post. Trump Towers, for example, Chambers pointed to the should be modernized with new recently built American Copper windows and thermal insulation Building in Murray Hill, a Kto be more energy efficient. shaped structure clad in copper As of 2022, building owners will and glass, as an example of a be required to start reducing their modern skyscraper that would carbon emissions, which by 2030 still be acceptable under the must have been cut by 40% and New York rules. double by 2050, in accordance The Green New Deal program of with this legislation. the current mayor also includes plans to increase the production The Climate Mobilization Law has the support of the American of electricity from renewable Institute of Architects and also sources, the extension of the includes measures to require that recycling of organic matter, the the roofs of certain buildings be reduction of the use of noncovered with vegetation, solar recyclable plastics and panels or wind turbines. measures to reduce the consumption of processed meat The municipal plan will require products. studies on the feasibility of On Thursday, April 18, New York closing plants or power plants that generate electricity from took a step forward in the fight fossil fuels and replace them with against climate change by renewable energy and batteries. approving a plan of ambitious measures, the main one of which
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Our activities.
Cultural visits. As we report on page 5 of this Bulletin, at the end of this month of May we will visit the Corning Museum of Glass to learn about its collections and also attend the exhibition New Glass Now.
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In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2019.
Broader in scope than most glass exhibitions, the show includes work created using every conceivable technique, including neon, carving, and kiln-working, as well as pieces made using the more frequently seen casting and hand-blowing methods. The first exhibition of its kind in four decades, it follows precedents set at the Corning Museum by Glass 1959 and New Glass: A Worldwide Surveytwenty years later.
CULTURE 2019 program.
The Prado Museum, in the framework of the celebration of the Bicentennial, with the collaboration of the Community of Madrid and the Fondation Beyeler and the support of the Embassy of Switzerland and the Mirabaud Group, presents "Giacometti in the Prado Museum", one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, who conceived art as a single and simultaneous place of confluence of past and present time.
Although he never traveled to Spain, he attended in 1939 the
exhibition Chefs-d'œuvre du Musée du Prado held in Geneva, where a large part of his collections had been moved during the Spanish Civil War.
The 20 works exhibited 18 sculptures and two oil paintings- come from national and international public and private collections.
In this exhibition several of Giacometti's favorite painters were represented, such as Durero, Rafael, Tintoretto, El Greco, Goya or Velázquez.
The tour begins in the room of Las meninas de Velázquez, continues in front of Charles V in the battle of Mühlberg by Titian, near the Lavatory of Tintoretto, runs next to the work of El Greco and contrasts with the colossal bodies represented by Zurbarán in his Hercules series.
Carmen Giménez, its curator, conceives the exhibition as a posthumous walk, where the sculptures of the artist pass through the main galleries of the Prado.
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The glass of Shreveport. School this year to work with students, as well.
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In addition to learning techniques, students learn safety procedures and how to work in a studio environment using high-temperature burning furnaces and ladling glass averaging at more than 2,100 degrees.
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“It’s almost like a dance,” Pennington said. “You have to work as a team. It’s very community-oriented. You have to learn to communicate well.” Students also learn how different colored glass and materials work together and how to adapt to the "unpredictable" art form.
Eric Hess and Michelle Pennington are Glassmaking is thriving in coastal on a mission to mold Shreveport into a cities — such as Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, Haystack city of glass. Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, The first step in their master plan: and Pilchuck Glass School in forge a populace of glass artists and Washington. enthusiasts. The business partners saw an “We’re trying to build a community,” untapped market in northwest Pennington said. Louisiana. Hess and Pennington are the founders of Sanctuary Glass Studio and Sanctuary Arts School. In March, their business officially opened inside Red River Brewing Company at 1200 Marshall St. in Shreveport.
“There’s a gap between Dallas and New Orleans where there’s no glass so we wanted to fill that space,” Pennington said.
The Create Your Own classes welcomes the public into the studio to Inside, individuals who work alongside make their own glass pieces from start the artists are taught to see glass in a to finish, which they may take new light. home. The design may reflect a “It’s just so beautiful,” Hess said. “You season’s theme or holiday, such as a can see through it. It reflects. You can flower for Mother’s Day or ornaments for Christmas. Private sessions are light it in different ways. It’s transitional. There’s just something so available for occasions including birthdays, company team-building, or magical about glass.” couple’s date nights. Sanctuary Glass Studio is the for-profit Sanctuary Arts School will make it arm through which the public may affordable and accessible for purchase glass art created by the students, in result, assisting to make partners and commission artwork. Shreveport an art destination, Hess Also, "Create Your Own" hands-on said. Molding area residents into glass glassmaking classes are open to the artists and taking in transplant artists public. could result in an economic impact and growth. Sanctuary Arts School is a nonprofit dedicated to educational and “It creates this huge economic impact charitable services. in the community — employing over 100 people, attracting tourists from all Students enrolled in the school will over,” Hess said. “We have all of these receive in-depth lessons on the plans to develop this but of course we history, science, and art of need employees.” glassmaking and hands-on training, which they may use to pursue a career For artists, the school serves as a in glassmaking. development center for styles including sculpting, blowing, sand The outreach programs take the casting and kiln-casting. Students will artistry to underserved groups and be equipped with the training and communities. resources needed to pursue a It’s all a part of an agenda to empower profession in the craft. residents, grow the glassmaking Enrolled students of the art school industry, and make Shreveport a distinct arts destination driven by local may enroll as a part of an eight-week course, adapted from a 16-week creatives. course taught by Pennington at the “The glass art world is not going to University of Texas-Arlington. Class move forward without new ideas, and sizes are smaller than a traditional bringing new people into the classroom, allowing students to community really pushes that to receive more time working directly with happen,” Pennington said. “To create instructors and learn at a faster pace. new work and techniques makes Hess and Pennington are adjunct things different than what it’s been in professors, so students at colleges the last 40 years." may earn credits through Sanctuary Hess and Pennington contend to Arts School. National artists have construct a glassmaking industry in an committed to visiting Sanctuary Arts area where the artistry is sparse.
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“The colors change with different temperatures, so you have to learn how to work with color because some are going to heat up really fast and some are going to take forever. But when you’re working with those together on the same piece — let me tell you, it’s challenging,” Pennington said. Sanctuary Arts School’s outreach endeavors are dedicated to taking the glassmaking experience to underserved communities, including the elderly, disabled, veterans, and economically disadvantaged students. Instructors and volunteers work with the groups as they paint glass artwork — which they may keep — while learning the history and processes of making glass. The instructors envision the studio as a place for veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome to use as a therapeutic outlet. The studio is handicap accessible for those in wheelchairs. Also, students with hearing impairment are welcome. “How can you make communities better? You make sure those who are disenfranchised or on the fringe are included in the community because they’re just as valuable as everyone else and they contribute to the community,” Hess said. Hess and Pennington weren’t always transfixed by glass. They were following different career paths before succumbing to the pull. Hess had led a life as a visual artist, dancer, director for a ballet company, newspaper journalist, and owner of an advertising agency for 20 years in New Orleans. Pennington, a native of Ohio, was on her way to earning an undergraduate degree in graphic design at Bowling Green University. Their fates changed when Hess was asked to assist a friend at his glass art studio. Across the country, Pennington enrolled in a glassblowing class in her last year of school. Once they tried their hand at the craft, all other plans shattered. Hess sold his ad agency and enrolled at Tulane University with a concentration in glass art. In 2015, the two met while in the graduate studies program at the University of Texas in Arlington. They both were on a new pursuit to make glass art a profession.
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Other trends. Our heritage is in danger.
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commitment with the citizens is more money in the budgets, because the patrimony is of all, for that reason we must commit ourselves with a continuous dialogue with the associations", he added. From Ciudadanos, bet by regulating participation through the law of patronage and generate tools for debate so that politicians understand what society wants. Alicia Torija, archaeologist and member of Podemos, has demanded the collaboration of the citizens and the support of the Administrations to the associations that are dedicated to the control of protection.
From elpais.com 04/22/2019.
"We can not bear a 91% reduction in the conservation of the cathedrals. The decline in investments for conservation is terrible. " The voice unites associations and institutions that are dedicated to protect and preserve Spanish heritage before the Administrations, but the quotes are from Antonio Coronel, president of the Spanish Association of Companies of Restoration of Historical Heritage (Arespa). The expert was part of the dozen specialists and policy makers who participated this Monday in the Heritage and Politics debate, organized by the Alfonso X el Sabio University at the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM).
Ciudadanos they also claim the need to recover the category of specialization to intervene in the milestones and avoid irreparable failures. An urgent reform
"Civil society must be more involved and supported," he said. "We must create a participatory methodology and articulate it into a law. In the Council of Heritage of the Community of Madrid the citizenship is not present ", explained Torija.
The reform of the Historical Heritage Act of 1985 has also been pending, "The law of contracts is a time with the incorporation of intangible, bomb that left the previous industrial and landscape heritage, government, we must make it clear. always respecting the competences That law is an outrage, we were of the autonomous communities. aware of it, but we have not had "We had a draft of the reform, but it time to reform it, "said Javier has stopped with the convocation of García Fernández, undersecretary the elections," he says. of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. "This law is designed so Tourism, but with care that the Administration can not do anything and if the PSOE returns to Another source of tension in heritage conservation is its govern will be one of the main sustainable exploitation. The head tasks to undertake," he added. of the Government has clarified with "The contract law is stifling us. In forcefulness that "heritage is a Colonel was the most forceful of the any other country you are paying source of identity and culture and speakers when exposing the needs 20 times more for our work. The big that is compatible with sustainable construction companies are taking of the patrimony before the exploitation, but we can not fall into the contests and are destroying the the myth that all tourism serves, impending general elections. fabric of companies and specialists. because it is incompatible." He warned of the consequences of We are going extinct because we the 2017 reform of the contracting "The tourism that goes to the beach do not have access to those law, which prioritized economic contracts. It is insufferable. Trades is not the same that enjoys the losses in the intervention of heritage: conservation is the priority. are being lost, heritage is in monuments. The Prado Museum can not be danger, "said Macarena Sanz open 24 hours", he added. Lucas, restorer. "Who has benefited from the lack of specialization in contracts below While Paloma Sobrini, In this sense, from the COAM it is 500,000 euros, when we all know denounced that "Dragados can not representative of the PP and that most of the restoration works general director of Heritage of the be qualified as a restoration are below? I do not know, but company". "We need to protect our Community of Madrid, has been whoever has harmed is the more flexible in the reconversion of restorers," says the representative monument, because there are bad of Citizens, Mariano Fuentes. monuments for other uses, practices in the restoration and they "because the cancer of the heritage In favor of citizenship are irrecoverable damages, "said is the disuse". the head of Arespa. García Fernández, right hand of the While the member of the COAM Minister of Culture, José Guirao, In this sense, he agreed with the Heritage, Mercedes Díaz, has representative of VOX, Lucio Rivas, believes that the defense of assured that "not only must we historical heritage needs the who asked for a reform of the conserve, but also allow the citizens and their associations. In contracting law to avoid that the transformation of heritage, his Government plans he had most favorable economic offer is something that current laws do not foreseen an increase of the not harmful for the heritage. facilitate". economic endowment to help these "It is not the same to preserve a Alicia Castillo, president of Icomos initiatives. monument as to make a tunnel. España, has warned about this "The more civil society is Access to public contracts must aspect: "Private interests are being vary according to the same, "added strengthened, the more protected imposed on the public" and has the heritage will be. We must Rivas, whose party has not pointed out the danger that the encourage associations to work dedicated a single line in its Palace of Fine Arts of San program to the defense of heritage. more and to have more means, Sebastian is going through. Neither the PP. From Podemos and "added García Fernández. "The
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Art of vitrofusión.
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The project was in charge of Lilian Edith Vargas and executed by the guest artist Alejandra Gubinelli. Arte en Vitrofusión Saenzpeñense was developed in a workshop format with students and teachers from the Juan XXIII Polytechnic School in the Argentine city of Roque Sáenz Peña Presidency.
incorporated into the Institutional Educational Project of the College Polytechnic Juan XXIII, offering students also a possible job opportunity at the end of high school. GLASS AS AN ARTISTIC INSTRUMENT
The project developed by Lilian At the end of these workshops, a Vargas aims to introduce adolescents and young people sample was made at the educational institution where the from the city of Sáenz Peña to the knowledge of glass as an final results of the project were artistic instrument within the presented. discipline called 'Vitrofusión'. It is important to highlight that the As mentioned, this patronage project is framed in the Law of project was developed in the Patronage provided by the Institute of Culture of the Chaco workshops of the artist Alejandra Gubinelli, located in the city of with the great objective of Sáenz Peña, and had as main promoting local culture with the recipients to teachers and participation of companies and students of higher courses of the individuals in the sustaining of Polytechnic College Juan XXIII cultural projects. (UEP 37) of said city, who did it That is to say that through the within the framework of extra management of artists, curricular hours within the companies can allocate a Institutional Educational Project. percentage of what they periodically pay in terms of Gross The main idea is that students discover that they can convert Revenue to specific cultural such everyday material into an activities, without this requiring artistic object. an extra expense and does not demand extra time in You will experience the power of negotiations. creativity and the great This project seeks to develop and ecological characteristic of glass, enhance the artistic discipline of as recycling techniques will be used. vitrofusion, not only for the development of artistic-creative capacity of its participants and the community of Sáenz Peña, but also as a matter to be
school curriculum, in order also to achieve a possible work exit for its students. VITROFUSION, IN 3D
Vargas, in his project of execution indicates the possibility of being able to happen of the plane level, to 3D with the use of molds and volumes. The assembly will be visualized with 50% plaster and sand molds, a practical method to find the thin layer (tin layer of the glass), among other tasks. 'With all this knowledge and acquired field experience, participants will produce a large mural that will be installed in the College itself, on the occasion of celebrating the 50th anniversary of this institution at the end of the school year', reveals Lilian, who also assures that 'This mural will be the final product of the Project, and the first of other products to be achieved in the following years by the participants themselves'. Undoubtedly, the objective of the exhibition is to visualize the work developed by the students within the framework of the Project, as well as to promote and stimulate the artistic cultural activity of vitrofusion, enhancing the artistic artistic vein of the project participants.
Culture accompanies these Another of the objectives of the projects that have been benefited Saenzpeñense Art in Vitrofusion by the Law of Patronage in order project is to ensure that the to promote identity. discipline is incorporated into the
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Glass and color in Burgos.
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Glass. Red Blue. Design, art and crafts. The Tourist Reception Center of Burgos (CITUR) is committed to innovation and creativity in its two new exhibition spaces, 'In search of light' and 'Wine Design Space', dedicated to the art of stained glass and the universe of wine , and that open their doors coinciding with the feast of Holy Week, as an extra cultural resource for visitors (and also from Burgos).
color .
The exhibition content consists of a videomapping on the historical relevance of Burgos in the art of stained glass. The capital was the center of production and creation in the 13th century, with the arrival of the masters and the creation of Burgos red glass, unique in the world. The prominence of Burgos continued in later centuries, renewed in the eighteenth It is played with the connection century with the Enlightenment between glass, essential material and Art Nouveau, and remains to in stained glass, bottles and this day, with the works of glasses, and the red and blue Enrique Barrio. colors characteristic of the Of the burgalés glazier they are, "crystals" of the Cathedral and precisely, the two reproductions the wines of the DO Ribera del that can be seen in the space, Duero and Arlanza. Burgos is that correspond to the also wine and, centuries after compositions of the Monastery of becoming the European the Huelgas Reales and the epicenter of the art of Cartuja de Miraflores. Next to glassmaking, it continues to be a them, updated information benchmark in restoration, repair panels with images of the and creation with new stained glass windows of the techniques. Cathedral (the rosette, the 'In search of light' is the title that oculus of the facade of Santa has been given to the exhibition María or the Assumption of the space dedicated to the history of Virgin), as well as the most glassmaking, which is located in modern of San Pedro will be the basement of the CITUR. installed. of Cardeña, made by Barrio. Crossing the glass that recalls the historical, artistic and cultural And from the heart of the art of past of Burgos, silkscreened with stained glass to the soul of the names of Diego Porcelos, El wines, a couple of floors above. Cid Campeador, Beatriz de 'Wine Designe Space' has been Suabia, the Cathedral of Burgos conceived as a space dedicated or the Cartuja de Miraflores, you to wine, art, design and enter a universe of light and architecture, which will be in
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continuous renovation to incorporate the latest innovations and the most striking designs in bottles, labels, cups, decanters, corkscrews, bottle racks or cellars.
Interesting curiosities are included such as, for example, the collection of the Seven Deadly Sins, in which each of the bottles is designed specifically to represent lust, anger, greed, greed, envy, pride and laziness. Also, a bottle designed by David Delfin, which emulates a bottle of perfume, or another reminiscent of the French guillotine. Among the showcases, which are interspersed with information panels, is a bottle tribute to the Marquis de Sade, with spikes on the outside, which "causes pain to catch it, but pleasure to drink it." Or the exclusive Regina cup, designed for the Danish royal family on the occasion of the celebration of the silver jubilee of the monarchs in 1992. The exhibition is completed with a gallery of the wines of the stars, in which you can see the brands promoted by Antonio Banderas, Coppola, Brad Pitt or Juan Echanove, and a video in which the universe of wine is intertwined with history of the stained glass. Glass, color, red, blue and senses to highlight the artistic wealth of Burgos.
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Glass in Singapore.
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Changi, in Singapore, seems to have no limits. In the last six years it has been chosen as the best airport in the world and, with the intention that no other aerodrome takes away such distinction, has just opened in its interior a commercial megacenter of about one and a half million square meters.
An amazing piece of engineering.
longest swimming pool was built - explains that he has been inspired by the film The speed of water "Avatar" by James Cameron 40 meters high, which would to design this spectacular be equivalent to a building structure. with 14 floors, the waterfall is The Prime Minister of located at the central point of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, the new extension of announced this project six Changi. years ago and the truth is Surrounded by a forest with that he has only suffered a The space, called Jewel more than 2,000 trees and delay of a couple of months palm trees, the gigantic jet (jewel), connects the four on the planned plan, which receives water through a terminals of the airport and has invested more than its corridors are expected to glass dome at more than 1,000 million euros. parade more than 40 million 7,500 liters per minute, During the week prior to the people from today and until which falls into a metallic inauguration, half a million the end of 2019. "container" that can still be Singaporeans - just the lucky seen from a transparent A quite possible figure, ones who managed to book platform in the basement taking into account that a ticket online - were able to floors. Changi transits more than 65 enjoy the facilities of Jewel, million passengers per year. Surrounding the waterfall, where, in addition, there is a Canopy Park emerges, a mega-cinema, a hotel and This gigantic project, which covered tropical forest, in almost 300 stores. , between was inaugurated officially, is which a bridge with glass shops and restaurants. a revolution in terms of the floor and suspended 50 current airport concept, since Among them, the only meters high has been built; a it is about luxury being Spanish bar, Tapas Club, network for walking and breathed in every corner of created by Miguel Díaz and jumping, a labyrinth of it. the chef José Alonso, who bushes, another of mirrors tanned in the kitchen with And a luxury is to have an and several slides. Santi Santamaría and Sergi authentic tropical forest and Jewel's architect, Moshe Arola and who already the largest waterfall ever Safdie - the author of the triumphs in his other two built in an indoor enclosure. iconic Marina Bay Sands stores in the Asian city. hotel, on which the world's www.amigosmava.org
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New president of Ecovidrio.
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The Board of Directors of Ecovidrio, on the proposal of the Spanish Wine Federation, has elected as president Javier Aubareda (Freixenet SA), who will hold the position until December 2020.
20th Anniversary, and now we have more desire than ever to continue advancing and consolidating the recycling of glass containers in our society ".
determine the future of Spain in terms of sustainability.
The directives of dumping, waste, and packaging and packaging waste are in the process of transposition to "Within the huge framework of Spanish legislation. They set environmental protection, which For his part, Jorge Villavecchia we are all called upon, Ecovidrio, targets of 70% by 2025 and 75% (SA Damm) will continue as vice which is a non-profit association, by 2030 for the recycling of glass containers. president representing Brewers specializes in a specific area, of Spain. that of glass, in which we wish to In this context, Javier Aubareda provide our service in the most will work to surpass these figures Javier Aubareda faces his effective and efficient, "he added. and that Spain reaches a mandate with enthusiasm and will develop the strategy of Aubareda recalled that "glass, in recycling rate of glass containers Ecovidrio during the next relation to the environment, does of 85% in 2025 and 90% in 2030. exercises. According to the not interact with nature, is inert Javier Aubareda is an Industrial Strategic Plan 2020, the entity and is 100% recycled infinitely Engineer and Master in Business will invest 141 million euros in times maintaining exactly the Management and Technology order to exceed the ambitious same original characteristics so it (GET). recycling objectives established is incorporated very by the European Directive. appropriately to the concept of In 1983, he became part of Circular Economy". Freixenet where he developed Among the plans to be his professional career developed, Ecovidrio will "We are optimistic because we accompanying the growth of that reinforce containerization know that we have a team with wine organization in functional infrastructures, make shock plans the capacity, knowledge and areas such as administration, in areas that require a higher rate experience to surpass the taxation, logistics, organization of selective collection, and European demands", he and information, investment improve the collection and concluded. processes, international analysis of information on expansion and, at the same time, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES collection management with the he has charged at the corporate aim of improving the Aubareda, access to the position level in different Freixenet Group sustainability of this and the in a key social and legislative companies such as Bodegas recycling chain. context to advance effective Valdubón, Solar Viejo de policies of environmental care. Laguardia, Freixenet SpA, The new president said: The Spanish Circular Economy Freixenet Spzoo, Yvon Mau "Presiding Ecovidrio at a time like Strategy and the Law on Climate Bordeaux or Freixenet Portugal. this represents a challenge. Just Change and Energy Transition one year ago, we celebrated our are two of the milestones that will
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Expansion of the Málaga Glass Museum.
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The Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía has given the green light to the project to expand the Museum of Glass of Malaga, located next to the church of San Felipe Neri, whose final approval will be addressed in the coming days by the full municipal.
developed in an annexed found, among which is an plot of 145.27 square old potter's oven of the meters. seventeenth century, which will become The volume that runs parallel to the alignment visitable.
The action is promoted by the owners of the museum, the entity Espacio Vidrio and Cristal de Arte SL and will be
The idea of the property is to exhibit on the ground floor of the extension some of the archaeological remains
of Chinchilla Street is raised on the ground floor plus two adapting in form and height to the existing mediator with the Glass Museum.
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The expansion will house a collection of more than 500 pieces by the greatest international creators of the art of glass in the 20th and 21st centuries, including names such as Dale Chihuly, Peter Layton, Egidio Costantini and Chikara Hashimoto.
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Courtney Dodd.
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Cave Museum of Ceramics and Glass of Valdemorillo.
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Guided tours, numerous consultations on routes and places of interest, new donations that enrich the funds of the Cave Museum of Ceramics and Glass .... The Tourist Information Point of Valdemorillo grows in activity. There are many groups of individuals, associations and other groups, which are aimed at the service that ensures a complete tour of the town, including facilities of special interest such as CUMVAL and the emblematic chimneys around which stands the House of Culture Every weekend, and also during the entire Holy Week, you can make the most of it to enjoy the town even more by requesting this personalized attention in tourism. The activity recorded in the first quarter of this year marks a very positive trend in tourism. This is pointed out by the City Council itself, judging by the number of requests for guided visits that are being processed, both at the level of individuals and from the most diverse groups, most of which come from the capital
or from other points in the region. . And not only this service proves the interest that is awakened when it comes to knowing in more detail the municipality, as there are also increasing inquiries made at the Tourist Information Point, located on the ground floor of the María Giralt Building, going to he users determined to collect material and data that allow them to discover the different places, enjoy practicing one or other routes and, in general, check the offer that this population offers them, both culturally, environmentally and in other areas, such as commercial and hospitality matters. In addition, the funds of the Cave Museum of Ceramics and Glass also continue to grow, thus giving greater content to CUMVAL, to the point that also in the rest of the old ovens that are part of the architectural design of the Casa de Cultura Giralt can also be contemplate permanent exhibitions as a very complete sample of what was the activity of the old factory. In fact, the vestiges of the industrial production developed in this town are
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equally important in other sections, with some factories from which bricks emerged, such as the one that was donated by a neighbor from El Escorial who found it intact. when carrying out works in your home. With an age that exceeds the century, the simple but representative object has been in perfect condition, showing the seal that proves that it is local. They are precisely donations like this, as they all add up, almost continuously, a great variety of objects that bear witness to the quality and breadth of articles that came out of the old ovens today Valdemorillo emblem, which contribute in a decisive way to add attractiveness and interest "to a visit that so much likes the groups of friends, the different associations and tourists in general who come to us", as underlined the Mayor, Gema González, that "given the great activity that is being registered, he trusts that the trend will continue along the same line and the Tourist Information Point that is located on the ground floor of the María Giralt Building "continue to register the influx of visitors we all desire".
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New shop window in Ibiza.
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On the 9th and 10th of April, Roman Mural installed a colorful stained glass window in the church of El Roser in Ibiza, which, in its eight square meters, recreates the scene of the Virgin delivering the rosary to Santo Domingo. This artisan of glass is also the author, together with Oksana Notsyk, of the 10 windows decorated with shields of the cathedral.
The stained glass window reproduces the scene of the Virgin, with the baby Jesus in her arms, when she hands the rosary to Santo Domingo. For the translucent window and whose glass is broken by the inclemency of time and the dilation produced by the temperatures it suffers.
Poles have different: 50 per 100 centimeters; 40 for 80 ... ».
And why blown glass and not of another kind? «Because he is the best. The air bubbles that it contains make the interior illuminate in different ways throughout the day, depending on the passage of the sun. It gives a lot of strength, they are very Peters thought that, one day, he bright stained glass. Those little could substitute another window bubbles trapped in the glass are Three weeks ago, one of the "with the scene of St. Ciriaco, like lenses that multiply the rays cold (and broken) windows of the who is the co-owner of the of light ». Bathed in colors every church of Roser, in Vila, was parish." It goes for long: time the sun shines, the replaced by a colorful stainedaccording to the current pastor appearance of the interior of the glass window, a small artisan because there are more pressing temple has changed radically. jewel that was created by the needs, such as combating the It does not have large pieces. couple Roman Mural and woodworm that devours the Mural tries to be small so that the Oksana Notsyk. It is not the first wooden roof. set is more stable: "If the piece is time that these Ukrainians leave small, it has less risk of their mark on the island. In 2012 Mural says that it was easier to breakage, of cracking, in the they took over the renovation of create the cathedral of Ibiza: "They were ornamental. They future. Its own weight exerts a the ten stained glass windows of only had a border and the constant pressure with the the side aisles of the cathedral shields, with a colorless passage of time ». They are with different shields. background. The Roser's is glasses of six millimeters that, in Horizontal, 4.2 m long by 1.9 m totally figurative. It's like a the middle, have a film so that, in high, it is divided into seven painting, but in glass, with case of breakage, it does not fall pieces, which allows to aerate characters, landscapes, little apart into a thousand pieces: "It the temple. In total, weighs angels ». Mural is like a painter, may have a crack, but it is not almost 20 kilos per piece, about but of stained glass. The first totally destroyed". thing he does is the sketch: "In 140 kilos in total. Mural works in the English way, artistic stained glass it is very For its preparation, four months on a horizontal trestle measuring important to know how to draw of work have been needed, more well. It is essential for the work to 1.8 by 1.3 meters. Other than three months for the craftsmen prefer the horizontal develop correctly, to be process of making the sketch, light table. He, like an oldsymmetrical. We, who have cutting the glasses with rulina studied Fine Arts, have a certain fashioned painter, illuminated and cooking them in ovens (up to ability ». from behind by natural light: "I do five times) at 620 degrees for 48 some things on tables of light, but They have used handmade they are small, like a face, hours. blown glass from Jaslo (Poland): shields ... I do not like it because A meticulous work that has cost "I know two blown glass you can not get away much. I about 20,000 euros and was factories: the best one is in would have to take a huge promoted by the former parish Germany, but I use the one they staircase to see the work from priest, Francesc Xavier Torres make in Poland: better price and above, from afar. The painter Peters, who changed his parish the quality is practically the likes to observe from three or four (he is now in Sant Antoni) before same. The difference is that the meters ». it was installed, which was done Germans have a standard format on April 9. of half a square meter, while the
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Dale Chihuly in Nueva Orleans.
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A new exhibition at the Arthur Roger gallery shows how one of the most familiar American artists of his generation is still full of surprises. "Chihuly" at the Arthur Roger gallery contains several dozen works by the artist and his studio, mostly from the last two years. Despite its compact chronology, the show, which occupies all the adjacent spaces of the gallery on Julia Street, has something of the weight and spirit of a retrospective: it is the largest show in the work of Chihuly, 77 years old, of the gallery in the almost three decades of its association.
incorporate its biomorphic glass forms into the structural components of the architectural space. The ceiling forms a passage to a gallery containing the stunningly beautiful "Fire Opal Chandelier" (2018). Unlike most of Chihuly's spider pieces, it is hung downward, which gives it a more intimate and almost confrontational feel. A series of "Glass on Glass" illuminated wall pieces that Chihuly began performing for an installation at the Medical Center of the University of Nebraska in 2017 are also presented.
In fact, Roger calls it "the most ambitious exhibition of the gallery's 41- Its starting points are forms derived from compositions of ikebana, created year history" in a press release through gestural splashes of molten accompanying the show. glass pigment, although the theme is "I am impressed with the immense more explicit in some pieces than in attention to detail and careful planning others. But its overall effect is a that everyone has contributed to bring fascinating hybrid: the serene the latest artistic vision of Chihuly to experimentation of Matisse's latest New Orleans," said Roger. collages expressed with the almost violent energy of Jackson Pollack. The gallery has been physically transformed for the occasion. Visitors While the format is new for the artist, entering the main gallery space will find they feel completely one piece with Chihuly's work looking up: "Persian the three-dimensional works in other Roof" (2018) unfolds like a floating parts of the show, especially with the garden more than 20 feet above a gently rounded shapes of their narrow corridor. "Baskets" series, which glow like fantastic tidal pools in the natural Its most obvious antecedent is environment . Light of the gallery Chihuly's "Fiori di Como", better known space at 434 Julia St. as the monumental roof installed at Bellagio in Las Vegas in 1998, and The forms derived from Ikebana are probably the most responsible piece of also the subject of a series of works making the artist a household name. on paper that leave the slightest impression of anything in the show, in "People did not know what to do with it part because the three-dimensional when it first became known," Roger pieces have such dominant said of the Bellagio piece. "The hotel presences. While they are interested had to remove all the furniture in the in analyzing Chihuly's artistic process, lobby, because people could not keep some began as studies for the more their eyes off the ceiling and tripped substantial pieces of "Glass on Glass," over it." they seem more destined to fill a particular collection niche than works But on its smaller scale, there is a line of art that are convincing in of passage in the current piece that themselves. goes back to Chihuly's Varadero Studio in Seattle, where it began to
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The program also underlines that, entering the final stretch of a long and extraordinarily successful career, Chihuly is still very involved in the production of the works of art that bear his name, or brand. An open-loop short film shows Chihuly overseeing the creation of his "Rotolo" pieces, several of which are in the exhibition. The Italian word means "coil", and a smoothly produced montage shows the gigantic but delicate process of making them, which consists of winding lengths of molten glass around bars while cooling in seemingly weightless turns and loops. Unlike the suspended pieces that are made of individual components that are assembled later, the "Rotolo" is produced in one piece at the same time by a team of assistants, and seeing them come to life in the video while Chihuly directs the process and Floating like a presence outside a Rodin painting in the background is fascinating.
It is a portrait of an artist who has a lot of control over his work, and the works of this impressive show are among the most intricate and beautiful of his career. "Every time we do one of Dale's shows, they remind me how many people respond to their work, from people who have been collecting it for years to people who enter and who have never been to a gallery before," said Roger. "It's inspiring work in many ways, but perhaps especially in the way it drives the idea of what art in glass can be." Dale Chihuly at Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans From April 6 to June 22 Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street, New Orleans. USA.
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Remembering Leopoldo Flores.
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it's our heritage, it's the heritage of Mexico and especially the Mexiquenses, "said María Dolores.
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Speaking specifically about the "Cosmovitral", which today is an iconic image of Toluca, which provides cultural identity, is a building composed of stained glass windows designed by the master Leopoldo Flores, through which he explains the creation of the human being, the struggle of dualities , good and evil, day and night and man in relation to the universe.
In this sense, Anastasia Sergeevna, Director of the "Cosmovitral" Botanical Garden where this work is located, shared that the enclosure began to conceive it in the year of 1975, which was when what was previously the September 16 Market was removed and was when Flores Valdés worked on the project for almost a year and then carried it out with the support of more than 60 artisans from the municipality of Lerma. "This stained glass window was inaugurated in 1980, but in 1990, it was when the artistic project with the glassplate that connects the" Sun Man "with" Andromeda "was finished, and the explanation it gives is very beautiful, because" The Sun Man, with its flares with all that radiates, fecundates through the cosmic sperm, through the constellations that we see above, this woman that we see in the part of the constellation "Andromeda", in which life is gestated, in the woman's belly we can see a circular rotating movement, "he explained. seunonoticas.mx
here. He had the strength and the creativity, because we all have to Leopoldo Flores Valdés, originally be creative, in our doing, in our from the municipality of daily life, and strength, because if Tenancingo, State of Mexico, was we have something against, we remembered on the third must get ahead at any cost, do not anniversary of his death, as a let us win. He was a people who prominent artist, sculptor, painter, never allowed himself to be muralist, great human being, father, defeated and had that great friend, husband and brother, who creativity, let's say that with that he thanks to his artistic legacy has was born, but he also worked all his managed to give cultural identity to life ". Mexicans. As for the artistic legacy left, among Three years after his physical the highlights for the great departure, the sculptor is still dimensions of the work, is "El present among the Mexicans Cosmovitral", the mural through his work, which inspires, "Aratmóferas" of Cerro de dialogues, encourages and Coatepec, of the Autonomous embellishes the capital of the entity. University of the State of Mexico, the mural "Periplo" Plastic "in the María Dolores Almada López, widow of Flores Valdés, explained Museum of Modern Art, the mural" The Independence of Mexico "of that art and culture were the Government Palace of the responsible for getting to know entity, and the" Man Contemplating each other and starting a life Man ", in the Palace of Legislative together, a marriage in which she Power, works that give pride and was her greatest admirer and identity to the State of Mexico. highlighted two qualities of the Mexican artist that should be "Leopoldo's legacy is for everyone, continue to achieve objectives. it belongs to everyone, it belongs to everyone, everything that he left is "Leopoldo was a leader in not personal, that's what I could everything, in his way, in his behavior and in his doing, which is say, what Leopoldo is for everyone,
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He also reported that the emblematic building has in its structural design the artistic stream "Art Nouveau", a French style that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and like any artistic break, said movement sought to break with the academy, with the classic or conventional art. "Here we have, 75 tons of steel, 45 tons of blown glass and talking about stained glass, they are 35 tons of leaded and they are 28 colors; The colors we have in our stained glass window, were not only from Mexico, they were brought from other countries, precisely because of the wealth of color that was needed to carry out the project and glass pieces from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany were brought , France, Canada and the United States, "he explained. The "Cosmovitral", is located in the Historic Center of Toluca and is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with guided tours to learn about the dialogue of the teacher Leopoldo Flores and the historical background of the construction of the building.
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New Verallia oven.
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For a long time, the people of Burgos have understood that one of the reasons that explains the strength of its industry is its unbeatable geographic location.
of the professionals coming from the central services of the multinational, to which is added a team made up of engineers, experts in civil engineering, in furnaces, in production machines in But what may not all know is that its hot glass, in cold glass ... position in Castilla y León, next to La Rioja and not far from Castilla The director of the Burgos factory, La Mancha also place it at the Teófilo Gangoso, is proud of an epicenter of "the largest wine investment that, as summarized, region in the world." "means ensuring for 15 years the stability of 233 families in Burgos A reason that is more important directly and another 100 indirectly." than Verallia, the European leader and the third worldwide in the But it is also in the face of next year manufacture of glass containers for the management of the group has the food sector, continue betting committed an investment of that Burgos continues to be the another 10 million euros, which will plant with the greatest productive serve to reform the second furnace capacity of the 7 that the that has the factory Burgos (each multinational has in Spain and installation of this type has a useful Portugal. life of about 14 years). In total, a disbursement of 43 million that is To do this, at the end of last synonymous with the future. February began the construction of what will be "one of the largest The new furnace will achieve an ovens in the world" within its sector, increase of 7% in the productive which will invest 33 million euros capacity of the factory in the and in which they will work, to Burgos East polygon (formerly achieve its execution, «More than known as Gamonal). 1,200 employees from more than A forecast of growth of the activity 60 companies». that is supported by what mark "our The construction of the new kiln, market studies and commercial which will have a dimension of 160 forecasts". At present, 1.7 million square meters, has forced Verallia glass bottles are released daily to mobilize all its resources so that from the factory in Burgos. the new facility can be in operation "at the end of May or the beginning 70% of the glass production of the Burgos factory goes to the wine of June". sector. A market in clear recovery The deadline of just 100 days in Spain and in which the wineries requires working on that mission managed to overcome the crisis of day and night with the objective of the crisis with a commitment to the factory recovering as soon as internationalization. possible the productive capacity it Now, this land that has been had before the start of the work earned abroad has been added (now the plant is running at half with the improvement at the gas) . national level. Reasons why To the aforementioned human Verallia are optimistic at this time. resources are added more than 60 Between 12% and 15% of machines (a 750 ton crane, selfproduction also goes to the elevating platforms, telescopic manufacture of bottles for spirits handlers, hydrodemolition (liqueurs) such as whiskey, gin, equipment ...) working anise, pacharán, vermouth ... and simultaneously. the other 10% goes to cellars and The technical direction is made up sparkling
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But if the construction of the new furnace is going to be important for something, beyond achieving an increase in productive activity, it is because Verallia's facilities in Burgos are going to be "more flexible and agile". The investment made will be used to have in Burgos «the latest technology worldwide in glass melting furnaces» and, among other things, it will allow us to go from manufacturing 7 different bottle references simultaneously to 8 and later even 9. What does this breakthrough mean? Gangoso sums it up that it will allow them to deepen their goal of being, in this order, "the best for quality, for service and for cost". Because it is about being able to "respond in less time and more efficiently to the needs of our customers". Something that is not trivial when competing in an increasingly global market and with countries with very low prices. "This is the only way today to compete face to face and to ensure the future of workers and their families."
The director of the factory also assumes that the investment "will allow having the best energy efficiency ratios" and having a technology that reduces the consumption of fossil fuels. Verallia is doubly congratulated as the execution of this investment almost coincides in time with its 50th anniversary in the capital of Burgos. A milestone that was fulfilled last fall, but whose celebration has left for this 2019. The millionaire investment well deserved to wait a few months and celebrate the two news at the same time. Some institutional act is planned and also with the workers.
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Chinese capital in Saint Gobain.
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One of the icons of modern Paris is the Louvre Pyramid, designed by architect Ieoh Ming Pei and now 30 years since its inauguration. The Compagnie de Saint Gobain was the architect of shaping it with the manufacture of glass sheets and the triangular structure that characterize this work. The firm, which has accumulated four consecutive sessions on the rise in the park, could be planning the partial sale of one of its factories to a Chinese company, while reinforcing the investment in Vietnam. According to Bloomberg, the French newspaper Les Echos has reported that Saint Gobain could sell 60% of its factory in the French town of Pont-Ă Mousson, in the industrial region of Mosselle, to the Chinese company Xinxing, citing the unions and a memorandum sent to the Ministry of Economy of France.
price of 34.5 euros. After four consecutive sessions in positive, the company gains 18.2% so far this year and revalues 22.5% from the lows of December. Right now, the action is at levels six months ago. The benefit will grow around 20% in two years The company seeks to reinforce itself in the face of competition from manufacturers in China and India, an argument that was also used by Alstom and Siemens to merge, although without success. Despite the fact that 70% of Saint Gobain's income came from Europe at the end of 2018, the fact is that 12.5% came from Asia-Pacific and that is where it has more opportunities to grow.
advised to acquire their titles compared to 73.7% who did in October. However, the estimate of the market consensus collected by FactSet shows that net profit will quadruple this year compared to the previous year and will grow by 18% in the period 2019-2021, year in which it will exceed 2,000 million euros. According to these forecasts, the shareholder that incorporates Saint Gobain into its portfolio will recover the investment in ten years only through the benefit route, an attraction that adds to the dividend yield of 4% foreseen for 2019.
More investment in Vietnam
At the time it seeks to strengthen the factory in Mosselle with foreign capital, Saint Gobain inaugurated at The net profit of 420 million the end of March its second euros that it presented in 2018 plaster factory in Hi Phong, has contributed to the north of Vietnam. deterioration of analysts' As they explain from the support to the value, which The titles of the French company, it is one of the most already borders on the manufacturer of glass and high advanced plants in the world in recommendation to maintain performance materials and (although it has spent the last its specialty, with a capacity to construction have come to rise produce 17 million square two years with favorable around 3% during a session, meters every year. advice). although they have ended the trading day with a rise of 2.8%, A 63.2% of the 19 experts who which has led the action at the follow the French company www.amigosmava.org
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Mirador de Lindaraja.
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Mirador de Lindaraja, a name adapted to the Castilian of al-Ayn Dar Alsa, the "eyes of the house of Alsa", was a watchtower open to the landscape before which a low garden extended. The apeĂąazada armor of the Mirador de Lindaraja was built under the second reign of Muhammad V in the year 1380.
he probably also had in his disappeared palace of the Alijare.
oxidation of the metallic elements and loss of polychrome.
The objective of the restoration The peinazos are pieces of wood was to return structural consistency and enable the that fulfill a double function: correct reading through the constructive and decorative. replacement of the glasses They are polychromed in red, according to the color distribution black, white and blue, and used in 1871, the only and last decorated with gramiles, fine proposal that has been preserved grooves drawn on the exposed to date. Made of pine wood, it is made up surface of the wood. of more than 90 different types of Its current configuration is due to The intervention began with the combs, which together form a dismantling of glass and panels the intervention made in the self-supporting structure as an of the armor for its transfer to the armor and the tower between inverted trough. Its design restoration workshop, where the 1854 and 1855 because it was follows a purely geometric different restoration processes collapsed and threatened with pattern of regular and irregular ruin. In 1871 all the glasses were have been carried out: Chemical octagons. The novelty of this cleaning of the glass. Elimination armor lies in the presence of cut placed, restoring the color of old reinforcement structures. sequence and fixing them with glass colors (blue, melado, Cleaning and biocide treatments white, red and green) instead of pieces of cloth to the wood. of wood. Seated in polychrome, wooden zafates fitted on the Restoration work was carried out consolidation and structural back. years ago and among the reinforcement of the analyzes carried out it was reinforcement and application of The roof of the Mirador de possible to confirm that the a protective layer. Structural Lindaraja, as a zenith lantern, is colors originally used were consolidation of the armor cloths made of colored glass different: so red replaced the using pieces of fiberglass and assembled in a vaulted wooden original purple and white polyester resin adapts to the structure. It is the only example replaced the transparent one. design of the combs without of these characteristics that is They also deduced that the main adding excessive weight while preserved in the Alhambra. reason for deterioration has reinforcing the assemblies. Its formal finish recalls what been its orientation to the north Placing the glasses on the back. would be the closures, the and the constant entry of Assembly of the new lattices, of most of the windows rainwater, dust, wind and drag of reinforcement after the of the Palatine spaces of the organic material. reinforcement of the supports. Alhambra. The Arabic text of the Installation of maintenance Mawlid of 1362 describes in the The pathologies detected at the infrastructures. Reverse lighting Mexuar a spectacular glass roof time were the accumulation of system with LED technology, to that should have been similar to dirt by the backfill, deformations appreciate the colored glasses in and cracks in the wood, this one. Muhammad V must the visit. have liked this type of roof, which separation of the assemblies, www.amigosmava.org
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The Ribeira Sacra.
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The techniques of blown glass Representative Manifestation and the Spanish knot will opt, of Intangible Cultural Heritage on the other hand, to be in Spain. Intangible Cultural Heritage. Of the blown glass, there are The Historical Heritage Council two producers with historical decided to propose to Unesco tradition in this technique - the that the Ribeira Sacra, which National Glass Center of the runs through Ourense and Farm in Segovia and Los Lugo, entered the World Vidrios Gordiola in Mallorca Heritage List. although it was spread throughout the country through The candidature will be small craft workshops. prepared throughout this year, will be presented in February The report highlights the 2020 and will be voted on in survival over time of the 2021. centers producing blown glass, which have maintained activity The Ribeira Sacra is the uninterrupted for three westernmost symbolic centuries. landscape of continental Europe. The Spanish knot is an identity textile tradition of our country, Located in the valleys of Sil in force since the sixteenth and Miño, it gathers a group of century. monasteries, monasteries, churches, chapels and Its origin is linked to the cruceiros that, due to their knotted carpet of Spain and variety and density, make up a currently there are few master unique cultural space craftsmen who know this throughout the world, an technique. example of primitive The Royal Tapestry Factory in monasticism that developed at Madrid is the only place that the end of the 4th century. gives this training. In addition, the council also On the other hand, the Council decided to present the blown of Historical Heritage informed glass and Spanish knot of the presentation of Spain, techniques as a
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together with Mexico, of the international candidacy 'Handmade processes for the elaboration of the talavera of Puebla (Mexico) and of the ceramics of Talavera de la Reina and El Puente of the Archbishop (Spain) ', which will be evaluated in December at the next Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee of Unesco in Bogotá. New web In the field of underwater heritage, next June, the United Nations agency will evaluate the 'Nuestra Señora de la Mercedes Project' as a good practice. The response of science in deep water against the plundering of the submerged heritage ', which includes the archaeological prospecting campaigns undertaken by the Ministry of Culture and Sport since 2015. On the other hand, the Ministry of Culture and Sports launched on Friday the We Are Heritage website to promote the dissemination of the 47 Spanish sites included in the Unesco World Heritage List.
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BA Glass makes investments.
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The Leon factory of the company BA Glass Spain will complete in 2019 a series of investments amounting to 37 million euros that began in 2018, with the total renewal of one of its two glass production furnaces, to provide it with greater energy efficiency and fusion capacity.
molding machines informatized and with greater number of sections - and the updating of the inspection and palletizing machines of the finished product. The increase in production capacity also meant the expansion of the composition plant, with new silos for storage of raw materials.
incorporation of technological improvements in the molding machines and the inspection of the containers, in order to extend the useful life of the oven.
With this global investment of 37 million euros, the work center that the BA Glass Group has in LeĂłn, where 250 people work The facilities of this directly, will have achieved company, which currently And all this with significant a substantial update by employs about 250 technological providing important employees, were visited on improvements and security technological Monday by the president of in relation to the facilities improvements in all the the Junta de Castilla y and workers of the plant, processes that make up the Leon, Juan Vicente the company added. packaging production. Herrera, as explained by On the other hand, for its glass. the company in a execution in the fourth statement. This will also have its quarter of this year it is reflection on the useful life The Leon complex carried planned to make an of a factory that supplies out an investment of 25 additional investment of 12 the main reference brands million between April and million in the other furnace in the segments of wines, June of last year that, in of the factory. sparkling wines, soft drinks addition to the renovation It will be an intermediate and food, being in this last of the furnace, sector where its productive incorporated equipment in repair, consisting of the all work areas, highlighting renovation of the refractory activity stands out the materials and the most. the introduction of new
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The purpose of this Association is to promote, encourage and support many cultural activities, in the broadest terms,
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Presidente honorario Javier Gómez Gómez Presidente Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez Vicepresidente Pablo Bravo García Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos Vocales Evangelina del Poyo Diego Martín García Francisco Martín García
tors, Full and juveniles.
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