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Vaclav Cigler • An obvious contempt.
M. A. Carretero.
Last Friday, June 22, a new space was opened at the MAVA to house the Bellini & Pezzoli collection.
Management for the lack of respect that has shown on several occasions towards our Association.
deceive the art world that knows palpably the presence of Javier Gómez in the existence of our MAVA.
A collection composed of 46 contemporary works by Italian authors and other nationalities and for which the previous room dedicated to works made of laminated glass has been customized and which have had to be distributed among the rest of the spaces, including the warehouse Museum.
But it is that I, as a volunteer guide who has been rendering my services in the Museum for fifteen years, have not been invited either.
Another example of this egotism, and whose practice we have already denounced on other occasions, is his total lack of respect for the skills of Javier Gómez as Artistic Advisor to the Museum, and who has been repeatedly ignoring his decisions on the policies to be followed in terms of works to include in the permanent collection and in the realization of temporary exhibitions.
According to the director, the guides of the Museum are "a matter of protocol".
This insult, this contempt and this lack of respect towards me, totally unacceptable, According to the press have had, as it could not be articles that I have been able otherwise and although it has to consult and that have been very painful, the echoed this event, the presentation of my resignation inauguration ceremony was to continue serving as a attended by the mayor of volunteer guide from the Alcorcón, the councilman of museum. Culture and Sandro Pezzoli, But this show of contempt has the collection's originator. no comparison with that Both the figure of the mayor suffered, according to sources and the Councilor for Culture close to us, the main figure of do not lavish their presence our Museum: the artist, in the events that take place promoter and current Artistic in the Museum, as, for Advisor of MAVA, Javier example, the opening of Gómez. temporary exhibitions, but it seems that this "photo" can This great figure of artistic report good media presence. glass at the world level has not been invited to attend this Our Association, closely event and has not even been linked to the history of the remembered in the words that Museum, was not invited to the mayor and the director of Nuestra sede: this ceremony, perhaps as a the Museum addressed the Castillo Grande de reprisal for the critical audience to the concert that S.J. de Valderas position we have been followed the signature of the Avda. Los Castillos, s/n maintaining towards the act of donation of the new government team of our City works that are already 28925 ALCORCÓN. Council for the aggressions it installed in the Sala Bellini & (MADRID) has been systematically Pezzoli. info@amigosmava.org carrying out towards our A clear example and one Museum and for the null more example of the relations that we maintain egotistical posture that the with the Museum director of our Museum has been showing for a long time trying to eclipse the clear, evident and important presence of Javier Gómez in the existence and in the course of the MAVA. This position can be maintained and developed before people who do not know the art in glass worldwide, but can not try to
This "bridge" is possible, as it could not be otherwise, by the necessary collaboration of the government team of our City Council and, in particular, the Councilor for Culture (?), Who do not show the slightest interest in the development of the skills that Javier Gómez has as Artistic Advisor to the Museum. As for the words of our mayor referring to the greatness of the Museum, they have a hypocritical and demagogic whiff, since their "pride in having a museum like the MAVA" contrasts with the pillage that was made and maintained by the second floor of the building to give it to a private entity and that forces us to have numerous sculptures in the warehouse, in the best of cases. As for Councilman Galindo, the same "pose" as always: neither see nor hear nor speak. A mere decorative figure. A pure stone guest. But yes, he forbade us to continue with our "Concerts at the MAVA" after having scheduled 43 events in the Museum's auditorium. Pure "love of art", as our mayor would say. Anyway, friends, I wish you a happy summer and have a good holiday.
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S P E C I A L I NT E R E S T: •
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Museum in Pedro Bernardo
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Art glass in Portugal
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The Treasure of the Dolphin
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Activities on the MAVA
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News
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Our activities
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Glass recycling
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How does CONTENT:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Museum in Pedro Bernardo 5
Art glass in Portugal
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Treasure of the Dolphin
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Jewelry in glass
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Reflections in history
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Alfredo Piris
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Karen LaMonte in Praga
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2018
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Plant of Villafranca
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The longest bridg
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2018 program
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Factory rehabilitation
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Other trends
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Foster redesigns building
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Directive 2010/75 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of November 24, 2010, on industrial emissions. Art. 3. Definitions. ../ .. 35) "diesel engine" means an internal combustion engine that operates by applying the diesel cycle and uses compression ignition to burn fuel 36) "small isolated network": small isolated network defined in Article 2, point 26, of Directive 2003/54 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 on common rules for the internal market of electricity;
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37) 'waste' means any waste defined in Article 3, point 1, of Directive 2008/98 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste; 38) "hazardous waste" means any hazardous waste defined in Article 3, point 2, of Directive 2008/98 / EC; 39) 'mixed municipal waste' means household waste, as well as commercial, industrial and institutional waste which, due to its nature and composition, are similar to household waste, but the fractions referred to in heading 20 01 are excluded of the Annex to Decision
2000/532 / EC, which are collected separately at source, and the other wastes referred to in heading 20 02 of that Annex are excluded; 40) "waste incineration facility" means any fixed or mobile technical unit or equipment dedicated to the thermal treatment of waste with or without recovery of the heat produced by combustion; by incineration by oxidation of waste, as well as other thermal treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, gasification and plasma processing if the substances resulting from the treatment are incinerated subsequently;
Rafa Abdón in Gandía.
Stained glass San Alfonso 25 Tableware for cuisine
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Maxim "Tito" Bertoni
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The work of Don Memo
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How do
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From the Hawaii Volcano 30 Mexiquense with your art 31 Convention in Murano
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Glassware course
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Astiglass in R. Dominicana
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Light bulbs of Mataró
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Roman sarcophagus
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Stories of the cosmos
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Creation and recycling
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Diploma in art
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Child throws a sculpture
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Tvitec wins a prize
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More about La Trinidad
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Board Of Directors
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From June 29 to July 29.
Rafael Abdón's sculptures revolve Exhibition VIDREREALISMO, by Rafael around his closest environment, seeking the essence, the moment Abdon. where emotions and archetypes merge. WOMEN'S ROOM OF THE ANCIENT In his works he maintains a constant MUSEUM CENTER HOSPITAL OF tension between the symmetry and SANT MARC. beauty present in nature. Hours: from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm. The sculptor scratches the surface of the material, penetrating the purity of Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the glass. Inauguration: Friday, June 29.
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17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
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11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
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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. Pablo Pizarro.
Later, the workshop moves to the historic center of Toledo, where they continue to work mainly on sculptural and mural projects made of ceramics, glass and steel. Since 2000, Pablo Pizarro has collaborated in various creative and exhibition projects with various artists, such as Rudy Gritsch (Austria), Miguelangelo da Silva (Portugal), Ramón Recuero (Spain), Marta Ugarte (Spain) and Grupo Albemto (Spain) . His artistic training is nourished by the desire to experiment that has led him to explore painting, ceramics, forging and glass, finding in this last element, together with steel, his preferred means of expression. His work is about an uncomfortable vision of reality itself, but always looking for an instantaneous balance, never static, before the chaos that surrounds humanity. The author himself says that it is an attempt to rescue the emotions lost in an increasingly rationalistic society. Pablo Pizarro gives new life He is an Industrial Technical In it he constantly searches for the contradiction of the to materials. Engineer from the intrinsic meaning of things, Polytechnic University of "Their reuse provides them always staying in extreme with a different, original and Madrid and will participate and opposite situations. there in his first collective surprising force", indicate In the glass and in the iron sources of the Segovia City exhibitions in different alternative spaces of the city. finds the ideal material to Council. achieve it. Pablo Pizarro (Madrid, 1969) Since 1996, she has been professionally integrated into These materials converge in resides in the town of a same complementarity in Alcarreña de Sigüenza from the sculpture and murals workshop of Marta Ugarte, which the most opposite 12 to 18 years old, where he where they begin to ends are represented that, meets artists such as Veiga, investigate the plastic and instead of reducing or Canfrán Lucena and Antonio sculptural possibilities of canceling each other, they Santos Viana. recycled glass. unite and attract each other In the study of the latter you until they merge into a This first contact of Pizarro will have the opportunity to universe of their own in with the glass is completed study several years of with several training courses which they exchange their painting. meanings. in the Real Fábrica de Subsequently, he moved to Crystals de la Granja. The work that we present as Madrid to carry out his National and international "Piece of the month" belongs university engineering to the permanent exhibition collaborations studies. of the MAVA and has the title "inhabited Inhospite".
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Established artists. Vaclav Cigler.
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Cigler acquired a reputation in the 1960s for geometric objects made of cut solid optical glass.
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The extraordinary craftsmanship required for Cigler's work in optical glass, which can take months to achieve, using platinum coated tanks and diamond tools to perfect the hardness, clarity and formations of the glass, increases its sense of rarity as well as its immaculate precision. Light plays a crucial role in Cigler's pieces, reflecting along the edges and in the fissures of the glass. Instead of altering the unity of a block by means of reflections, Cigler explores the interaction between interior and exterior spaces that is only possible with transparent glass. It adopts large formats and has created works for internal and external spaces, in urban and natural environments.
Born in Vsetín in 1929, Cigler underwent the classic Czechoslovakian training.
in which the artist felt free to create.
The fact that glass was not After attending the glass school officially considered as an in Nový Bor, he moved to the ideologically flawed artistic School of Applied Arts in Prague, medium allowed Cigler to where he studied with Josef progress as an artist, without the Kaplický from 1951 to 1957. control of the communist regime under which so many artists were Cigler credits Kaplický for stifled. creating an atmosphere of study
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Emerging artists. Emma Stein.
Cigler is related to these works as aids for people to live in harmony with their environment. In this way, he uses glass to investigate the cosmic order and its meaning. In Cigler's work, visual beauty is married to minimalist rationality. The art of Václav Cigler invites us to pay our closest attention to light and space. In the permanent collection of MAVA we have a work by this author entitled "Optical glass".
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the Everhart Museum. He is currently working on several pieces for an installation at St. Ann's Trinity Church in Brooklyn, NY. As a glass instructor, she has taught at Buck's Rock Camp, Brooklyn Glass and Urban Glass. Currently lives and works in Sheboygan, WI. "My work is an exploration of natural systems mainly using glass in concert with fabrics, Emma Stein received her BFA by man and by nature, and drawings and organic materials. in glass in 2011 from Alfred that works mainly in glass, Glass celebrates the dichotomy University and her glass MFA while also using tissues, between the fragile, light, in 2013 from the Rhode Island drawings and organic ephemeral and hard, sharp and School of Design. materials. definitive qualities of the His work is an exploration of His work has been shown at medium. These polar qualities natural systems through the National Museum of lend themselves to the growth / various materials made Liberty, the RISD Museum and decomposition cycle that I use in my concepts.
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The Museum of Glass by Pedro Bernardo.
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The mayor of Pedro Bernardo, Desiderio Blázquez, has put in value the work and the "total dedication" of the Municipal Government Team in a town with initiative and projects that will soon be released, such as the Museum of Glass or the Ethnographic Museum.
Blázquez has rejected the serious accusations of "abandonment of functions" and "institutional paralysis" from the United Left, and
has emphasized the Glass Museum, which will vocation of public service house sculptures by the of the team of councilors. artist and President Honorary of our "I am available to the Association, Javier neighbors and fully Gómez. dedicated to the municipality," he said.
Blázquez has underlined, after rejecting the Also, after considering allegations of lack of the criticism of the training as alarming and control of administrative sterile, he highlighted the concessions, that far from that negative image that numerous initiatives aims to project IU on the developed by the City City Council and the Council of Pedro municipality, it works at a Bernardo, such as the good pace. clean point, the paddle tennis project or the
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Art glass in Portugal.
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Arts of Lisbon and Oporto, have had and continue to have a key role in the technical, aesthetic and artistic in this field.
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The opening in 2013 of the Contemporary Art Center of the Glass Museum of Marinha Grande has been decisive for the consolidation and dissemination of glass art in this country. The current exhibition has been organized by the Municipality and Glass Museum of Marinha Grande in Portugal and curated by Tania Rosa Martinho, director of the aforementioned museum. The Museu do Vidro de Marinha Grande was inaugurated on December 13, 1998 and its 20th anniversary is celebrated this year.
In the Technological Museum of Glass, in the Royal Crystals Factory of La Granja (Segovia), the works of 18 Portuguese artists or with residence in Portugal that work with glass or combining it with other materials are presented.
Since the 1990s, the use of glass has become standard among plastic artists, thanks above all to the collaboration of public and private organizations that promote cultural, artistic and industrial projects.
The organization of biennials A sample that had its first of plastic arts of glass and edition in the Glass Museum contemporary glass of Marinha Grande exhibitions in Marinha (Portugal) in order to Grande, the creation of publicize this material and CRISFORM (Professional encourage its use in the Training Center for the plastic arts. Glassware Sector), current CENCAL (Professional Portuguese artistic glass Training Center for the arises in the 80s, when the Ceramic Industry) and more Fabrica-Escola Irmãos recently , the projects and Stephen organizes a workshops developed by meeting of national and VICARTE (Research Unit of international artists in Glass and Ceramics for the Marinha Grande. Arts), in the Faculty of Fine www.amigosmava.org
It is located in the Stephens Palace, an 18th century building, belonging to the Royal Glass Factory of Marinha Grande. In 2013 the Museu do Vidro opened to the public its Nucleus of Contemporary Local Art where Contemporary Art Glass exhibitions are held. This exhibition starts a collaboration between the two museums that will allow, on the one hand, the Spanish public to get to know the Contemporary Art in glass made in Portugal and, on the other, the Portuguese public to know the Contemporary Art in glass made in Spain, with the Contemporary Glass exhibition in Spain, from July 7, 2018 to February 10, 2019, at the Museo do Vidro de Marinha Grande.
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The Treasure of the Dolphin.
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The new star of the Prado is a curved showcase of 40 meters resistant to aggressions, earthquakes and unwanted reflections. It serves to show in some certainly improved conditions the Treasure of the Dolphin, set of pieces of sumptuary art inherited by Felipe V of his father Luis, Grand Dauphin of France, a character run over by history and son, in turn, of Louis XIV. The exquisite treasure of 169 "rich glasses" -copas, pomos, braserillos, cups and other virguerías carved in rock crystal and hard stones- entered the Prado in 1839 and now moves from one end of the Villanueva building to the other. known as Toro Norte, due to its roundabout shape and its location on one of the two ends of the plane. The intervention of almost three years, twice the amount originally planned, has cost around 2.5 million euros. To access the Treasure of the Dolphin, two
elevators have been enabled, with the complications that something like this has in a building considered of Cultural Interest. The elevators also allow access to the new flamenco and Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, eight in total, which have cost 750,000 euros and involve an increase of 10% in the number of exhibition spaces in the museum (from 80 to 88 rooms). In times they housed French art of the 18th century, although they had been used for years as little pictorial as serving as clothing for the workers of the institution. "In the typical two-hour visit to the Prado does not usually include the Treasure of the Dolphin", admits Andrés Úbeda, assistant director of Conservation and Research of the museum. The new placement of the pieces aims to change that. Inherited by Philip V of
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the Great Dauphin of France, a man of refined tastes, the group, of great value at the time, gathers pieces especially from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. King Bourbon decided to place himself in the palace of La Granja, where he was stored for decades. Then, Carlos III sent it in 1776 to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History. In the War of Independence the Napoleonic troops took it away and then returned it with important deterioration and lost pieces. It was not the only vicissitude for which the treasure passed. In 1918, several vases disappeared in an "internal robbery", and during the Civil War was evacuated to Switzerland along with the great masterpieces of the Prado. Since 1989 it was exhibited in an armored and hidden room in the basement of the building.
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Finally, we must also highlight a small group of pieces that have arrived in the city, designed directly by famous Italian designers like Gianni Versace, Ottavio Missoni, Mila Shön and Pierre Cardin.
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All this wealth of glass art pieces, which have an international recognition, have already become part of the city's cultural heritage, thanks to a gesture of generosity from the Bellini and Pezzoli collectors, which also implies a A nod to a city that is betting, more and more firmly, for its Museum of contemporary art in glass.
The Mayor of Alcorcón, David Pérez, opened on the afternoon of June 22nd, together with Sandro Pezzoli, the new MAVA Room that houses the 46 works donated from the collection of Aldo Bellini and Sandro Pezzoli.
basses gave voice to a night of celebration that ended with a pyromusical show. The Room Bellini & Pezzoli
Luminous Colorful Sparkly. Live. These could be some of the characteristics that define the In this act, both parties signed the pieces of the new Sala Bellini & act of donation of the new works Pezzoli in the Museum of Art in that are already installed in the Sala Glass of Alcorcón. Bellini & Pezzoli. With this inauguration, we also wanted to The 46 pieces, valued at make an emotional memory to Aldo approximately one million euros, are Bellini, who died in 2006. part of this room specially designed to house works of contemporary The mayor wanted to thank his glass art donated by these two generosity to Sandro Pezzoli for the Italian collectors. transfer of his works, because with them "Alcorcón welcomes one of The pieces that can be seen in the the most important collections in Sala Bellini & Pezzoli have the Europe. Italy and Spain today join signature of prominent artists such hands in a friendly, open space, a as Lino Tagliapietra, Carlo Moretti, space that unites, which is art. Michele Burato, Silvano Rubino, Alcorcón is proud to have a Maria Grazia Rossin, Laura and museum like the MAVA of which we Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Toni have already celebrated its 20th Zuccheri or Miriam di Fiore, among Anniversary ". others. The act was also attended by the Marquis of Valderas, Hipólito Sánchiz de Toledo, the first deputy mayor and councilor for Culture, Luis Galindo and other members of the Corporation.
With this new Hall, the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón - MAVA strengthens its presence in the Spanish museum scene and puts on the European map of contemporary art a city capable of hosting part of this valuable and emblematic collection of contemporary glass art . The 46 pieces of the new Room are polychrome works, luminous, transparent and almost always worked in hot, with predominance of the technique of blown glass to cane. The entire Bellini & Pezzoli Collection consists of 1,500 pieces of glass, composed of unique works, series and design objects. The works of this collection, which are already part of MAVA's heritage, will allow the visiting public to create an exhibition discourse that narrates, through creativity, plasticity and beauty, the technical sophistication of the works and the history of Italian glass of the last sixty years, both in design and in contemporary art. Sandro Pezzoli, with his partner Aldo Bellini, now deceased, started his collection in the seventies, acquiring pieces of Venetian glass.
Most of the works are of Italian authorship and progress from the seventies to the present, which Over the years they expanded their offers an account of the recent history of contemporary glass in one eyes towards American Studio Glass works, Australian, Japanese of the most influential countries. and other European works. Subsequently, the tape that opened Italy is a beacon to the rest of the the new Hall was opened. The To the selection criteria of the world in glass art, both for the director of the Museum was in technical and aesthetic excellence weight of its centennial tradition, charge of guiding and explaining to and for the exquisite technical of the work, a strong will was those present the tour of the new joined: to support emerging artists. execution it performs. exhibition. In addition, some of the pieces have As a result of this decision, the The esplanade of Los Castillos then also been produced by famous youth of the authorship of the hosted a Summer Concert that was verets (traditional Italian artisan pieces is today undoubtedly a attended by more than 200 hallmark of this collection. glass workshops) such as Venini, musicians, among which were the Barovier & Toso, Majo, Archimede See the images we have taken of Polyphonic Choir of Alcorcón, Seguso, Salviati, Barbini or Effetre the collection through this link. Villaviciosa and the Manuel de Falla Internazional. Music School. Sopranos, tenors and
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Jewelry in glass.
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The National Glass Center of San Ildefonso has inaugurated the exhibition 'Handmade dreams', which brings together the highlights of the tradition of Czech glass, one of the most prestigious in the world in this field. The exhibition presents a total of 33 Czech glass jewels selected during the design jewelery contest "Master of Crystal, 2016", organized by Preciosa, one of the most important jewelery companies in the Czech Republic.
In the Liberec region, there are three important schools with a great tradition in crafts and jewelery, the Secondary School and the University of Jablonec nad Nisou, the Zelezny Brod Glass School or the Technical University of Liberec. Finally, also highlight jewelry made by other brands, such as Zorya or LLEV Studio.
Both traditional designs and the latest jewelery trends made by different Czech companies, especially from the Jablonec region, traditionally known as one of the most important in semi-finished products, such as pearls or glass beads, are well known. finished, with designs according to the latest trends. A region where companies such as AAC, G & B Bijoux, Odvárka Bijoux, Ralton or Šenýr Bijoux work, in collaboration with fashion brands such as Nina Ricci, Gaultier or Karl Lagerfeld.
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The exhibition was commissioned by Dr. Petr Nový of the Museum of Jewelery and Glass in Jablonec nad Nisou and organized by the Czech Center of Madrid in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, through the Embassy of the Republic Czech in Madrid.
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“Reflections in history”.
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The territorial delegate of the Regional Government of Castile and Leon, Javier López -Escobar, and the president of the National Glass Center Foundation, Andrés Ortega, inaugurated in the Museum of Segovia the exhibition 'Reflejos en la Historia. Glass and other materials in the collections of the Museum of Segovia and the Real Fábrica de Cristales', which brings together 110 pieces of the permanent exhibition of the Technological Museum of Glass and the Museum's collections in an original proposal, which puts the accent on the evocations History of glass in relation to archaeological, artistic and ethnological pieces of the province of Segovia. Until next September, this selection of works will remain open to the public, which aims, on the one hand, to involve the visitor in the diversity that is capable of generating glass, a versatility that has allowed this material to pass on its initial domestic use to become an element with functionality in architecture, optics, lighting, technology or art, among other fields. And, on the other hand, establish links between the pieces of glass from different periods and authors, and elements from different periods in the history of the province, from different materials and origins.
The exposed glass works are integrated into the rooms and showcases that host the exhibition of the Museum's permanent collection, in such a way that, as a game, the viewer is invited to discover which is the piece of contemporary glass and which is the historical element, and also to observe the dialogue established between both that has determined its environment and location in the exhibition. 'Reflejos en la Historia' is the result of the close collaboration between the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Segovia Museum, which contributes 70 pieces to the exhibition, and the National Glass Center Foundation, through the Technological Museum of the Glass, which yields 40 pieces. The director of the Museum, Santiago Martínez, and the director of the Technological Museum, Paloma Pastor, are the curators and coordinators of the exhibition. From luxury item to domestic, functional and artistic element No other material has been able to look better the physical aspect of other noble, precious or semi-precious elements, such as glass. Quartz, agates, onyx, in addition to porcelain and other metals have been perfectly imitated through glass. Its rich physicochemical properties give it a high degree
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of mutability, which allows it to play with opposite poles such as transparency and opacity, or hardness and fragility. Although glass already existed in nature in various forms, its use would have to be sought in the first processes of vitrification of certain ceramics and in the evolution of the faience industry, or of metal. His discovery is circumscribed to a series of experimental processes that culminated in making a liquid mass, almost pasty, whose plasticity in hot allowed to work it and give it the most diverse forms, but when cooled it became hard and often fragile. Thanks to the blowing technique, which emerged in the 1st century BC in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was possible to produce glass pieces of different morphologies and dimensions, and in a record time the glass went from being a luxury item to become an item within reach of all social levels. With the incorporation of new technologies, from the nineteenth century, they have been able to take full advantage of the rich morphology and the physicochemical qualities of glass, which have allowed it to adapt not only to its domestic functions of origin, but also to conquer other foreign lands such as optics, lighting, biotechnology, air-space technology, telecommunications and, of course, art.
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them you go up and film in detail how the stained glass windows are. We usually • face breaks due to mechanical action due to blows, the effect of fungi and lichens several diluents such as vinegar and that literally eat the glass and, for thirty distilled water, and they are given in years, a new threat such as air pollution. liquid. Then, once dry, we scrape with Do you think that in Spain you take care of specific brushes and remove the lights yourself as you should? the heritage of removing the paint where we are stained glass? The auctions that the interested. It is the opposite of when we Administrations make when a restoration paint a painting. For that we use a light and conservation work is tendered are table, which allows us to see what we paint. In this phase each dye has to have done very lightly, by people with very little a batch, we can not paint the whole piece training. Now the price on quality prevails, and jobs are given to the one that offers at once. We would have to paint the blue first, which is a transparent contrast, then the lowest price. That implies that in the end the results are not what they should www.eldiariomontanes.es the grids, which are the metallic oxides that allow us to create the shadows ... So be, and sometimes they are irreversible. Glass has provoked wars and has served The commissions that approve these that each color brings us a firing. In this for centuries as a substrate to tell the projects have little preparation. -How has story. Spain has a huge heritage of stained phase the first is the profiling, which are the sector changed in our country? - It has glass and in a not too distant time also had the lines that form the silhouettes. After changed a lot, and not for the better. Until the modeling comes, for which we also a wide range of producers and creators recently in Spain there were suppliers, but use very special brushes. dedicated to this ancient art. But times now we have returned to the origins, as have changed and the current -Day the pieces, play the puzzle ... with colored glass. There are very few glassmakers have had to adapt to an suppliers because they have closed many -That is the part of the emplomadura, industrial era maintaining the artisanal factories dedicated to this activity and we which is the construction of the stained essence of their work. Each time they are glass. It is about composing a design that had to go back to look for it in other less, but they do not renounce an art that is as close as possible to the original, but European countries, especially France and they have turned into a profession. They Germany. Spain has never manufactured the construction of the stained glass criticize the lack of a rigorous commitment window imposes limitations on us. The colored glass, except in printed glasses to the craft professions and the lack of with very basic colors. This glass is made emplomadura itself is the structure that training, which hinders the generational by blowing it with a cane, as it was done supports the crystals, is what gives changeover. The Cantabrian Alfredo Piris three thousand years ago. A bubble is strength to the whole. Once it has been is one of the few master glassmakers left leaded, the joints of the leads are welded made, cut, sassa and expanded on a in Spain. table. It is a very artisanal and complex on both sides with tin and silver, and that -How did you get into this world? process. To make a subway you need two makes it much more rigid. After this part well-versed guys, who know what they are we proceed to the caulking: a specific -I was lucky to start working very young doing. The compositions for the colors are putty is put between the lead joints and due to family circumstances in a glaze an enigma. I have many books where it the glass to remove the slack and make it company in Santander. Years later I went appears how to get the different colors, but waterproof. When cutting the pieces we to glass, because they have many things always something is missing, the teachers have to take this phase into account. We in common. I worked with great masters, never told everything. -For that is the can not cut them as we want: we have to like those of before, like Luis Bada, a great documentation that spoke to us.-It is adapt the lead lines to the original glassmaker from León, and with fundamental. In my case, I've been going drawing to distort it as little as possible. Echevarría, who was a descendant of the to book fairs for many years, to libraries ... We also seek to put the pieces in the Maumejean saga. Afterwards I have been and I've tracked down every place or oven, where we can not introduce large going to France for many years and I have corner where there could be some pieces, among other things for the own had the opportunity to study with people interesting information. In this way you are safety of the shop window. who were in charge of the conservation of collecting a lot of documentation, and French heritage, in Chartes, in Cologne ... - How is the process of the restoration of some very important one. A little over ten And there I learned that they take us light stained glass? years ago I found in the Menéndez Pelayo years. - To the restorer we have to stick to what Library a 12th century treatise, which was -You have seen your job change a lot ... we are going to repair, to the wounds that a letter from Menéndez Pelayo where the we are going to cure from the stained - Before the companies distributed the archbishop of Toledo explained to the glass windows. In those cases it is very work and there were many profiles, archbishop of Seville the compositions for because it was the way that nobody knew important to know who made them to the manufacture of colored glass, of the know the characteristics of their work. all the parts of the work and could put on medieval one. That treaty is transcribed These sets complain very late; the stained from Latin to Spanish through a friend their own. Nowadays the glassmaker has -glass windows do not have programmed historian, and the Corning Museum in New to do everything. Having dexterity with obsolescence. And when we warn the drawing helps a lot. The mechanical York wrote a book talking exclusively aspect of the trade, which is to cut and fill, restorers is because they are on the floor about this treatise. It was a good find. -And can be done by a person who trains for it. most of the time, or will be ... Sometimes what about the future? -In Santander and But painting is more complicated, making a they fall to the ground and are not Cantabria there are few glassmakers. The restored, they put a vinyl directly and they Administration would have to favor this good design ... There are very good glassmakers who fail in that: they recharge stay so wide; it depends on the shift type of professions. For example, this year commission and the preparation it has. In throughout Europe is the Year of the the stained-glass windows, or they are a the case of restoration it is very important Apprentice and it is given tremendous bit tacky ... In this job you have to know to know who made the original stainedhow far you can go. That balance is importance, while here we do not know glass window, because that allows us to difficult and very important. almost what it is ... Before there was more: know its characteristics through more glassmakers, more suppliers, more -What phases does the creation of a shop bibliographies that reflect how they orders. Now, for example, there is also no window involve? worked, what methodology was used, excessive demand for blown glass, -The first thing is to see what the clients what painting styles they used ... In that because it is very expensive. One square ask us, draw it on the cardboard and see sense they have lost many concepts meter can be worth 700 euros. how the original cutting is going to be. It is because, unfortunately, today's I have many boxes here with many cuts the anteroom of the shop window. There glassmakers, who have had the good because we try to take advantage of we see what pieces are going to compose fortune to work with glassmakers of the everything we can. Especially now, that it. You have to take into account the size last century, still retain many important there are many less wholesalers in Spain, of the real pieces, the number that notions of the trade, but the lack of compose it and the characteristics of the specialized training means that we do not and either we are going to look for it or we pay it at exorbitant prices. It has hit a rise glass: if those pieces are colored glass, have ways to transmit them in a rigorous in the last terrible years. That has been transparent glass, or painted and vitrified way. As I say, in the restoration it is noticed not only in the number of orders, colored glass, that is, they pass by the essential to do research work. And for but in that people are encouraged to get oven for its composition. that you have to have a bibliography to throw away. For that you have to like your into this job. Because in Spain -Work with a variety of glasses ... glassmakers are needed, without a doubt, work a lot. If you are a lover of the trade, -The glass is a world: there is blown glass, throughout your life you are collecting a to maintain the heritage we have, but it is there is printed glass, colored glass or very difficult for people who leave a school lot of bibliography, many books, many pallid ... There are multiple ranges not only documents. I have a large bibliography on or a workshop to set up their own of colors, but of textures. And each window glass and this trade, which I have been workshop, unless they join several and set requires some, depending on the site and gathering and studying over the years. up a cooperative, and not even like that. the characteristics of the work itself. In that What challenges do you face in That is why it is very important that the sense, the current glassmaker is a glassmakers that remain of my generation restorations? - It is very difficult to know magician who works between space and have the possibility of transmitting to the how a work is and what restoration light. new glassmakers all that type of tricks, of requires that is not on the table. That's mejunjes, of compositions, of forms of -Draw the pieces, but also paint them. when we really see all the pathologies work. In short, to consolidate a good trade that it has. Before, the glassmakers had -It is exactly the same as in the thirteenth before it is lost, because if not at the end to go to the churches with binoculars; century. We start with products that are we will all end up making Tiffanys lamps, fortunately nowadays there are drones metallic oxides, iron, copper ... and then and the thing has changed, because with which is what is done today in the craft allow us to vitrify them. It is mixed with courses.
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Karen LaMonte in Praga.
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H. K. Littleton, Erwin Eisch, Kyohei Fujita, Isabel De Obaldia, Mare Saare, Jeff Zimmer, De La Torre brothers, and others. Now joining this diverse array is Karen LaMonte, in the institution’s first temporary exhibition, curated by Milan Hlaveš. “Clothed in Light”will feature LaMonte’s signature sculptures of three-dimensional, life-sized dresses rendered in crystalline glass: haunted investigations into corporeality and femininity. The choice of LaMonte is intuitive considering the artist’s close ties to the Czech Republic. After her graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States, LaMonte was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship and continued her studies in the atelier of Vladimír Kopecký at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague. There, she learned and mastered the glass casting technique, first developed by Czech artists Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, that would become central in her practice. LaMonte also went on to work with glassmakers from the North Bohemian town of Železný Brod, and to this day is still based in the Czech Republic. As Portheimka’s website has it: “Thanks to this place, the Czech Republic became for Karen LaMonte not only her home but literally her destiny.”
Constructed in the 1720's to serve as a summer residence for the aristocratic Dientzenhofer family, the Baroque Portheimka Summer Palace has been repurposed as the Portheimka Glass Museum, the first institution devoted exclusively to glass art in Prague. The national cultural monument, named on its website “a baroque pearl of the Prague district of Smíchov,” was converted into a glass museum by Museum Kampa with the support of the Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation. Portheimka will present a permanent exhibition, host workshops for children, and is currently unveiling its first temporary exhibition, a display of American artist Karen LaMonte’s spectral glass figures that will remain on view through November 4, 2018.
And there are thematic affinities, too. In its description of LaMonte's exhibit, Portheimka writes: “Admirers of her garb are fascinated by the flawlessness and fragile beauty of almost dreamy metaphorical objects, the mysterious translucence of its provided the perfect solution. Museum matte surfaces as well as the genuine Kampa invited the art glass expert volume of richly pleated fabrics Milan Hlaveš from the Museum of contrasting with the half dematerialized Applied Arts and other collaborators to silvery-like imprints of absent women’s join them in realizing this dream, and bodies inside the glowing matter.” in June of 2018, Portheimka was LaMonte's classically inspired, opened to the public in its new evocative sculptures seem eminently incarnation as a glass art institution. suited to display at the Portheimka, According to statements from the itself steeped in and carrying the representatives of the Kampa weight of the present past, neither fully Museum, it is not intended to be a ancient nor contemporary. Their purely classic museum, but rather an tensions map well onto the space: both interactive, experiential, and at once out of time yet still imbued with educational space. life and spirit, and all the more powerful Visitors are invited to wander through for it.
a series of unique and charming rooms - the Chapel, the Dining Room, the Garden, the Cabinet of Curiosities, and the Hall with a Chandelier - and immerse themselves in the interplay of According to Helena Musilová, director the palace’s richly baroque of the Museum Kampa, the idea for atmosphere and the contemporary art Portheimka’s conversion into a glass objects housed within. exhibition space arose in April of 2017. Previously, there had been no museum Until now, Portheimka’s main offering has been its permanent exhibit: "Glass of glass or any specialized institution devoted to art glass in Prague, despite as Art." This exhibit comprises works considerable popular interest in Czech by legendary personalities of Czech glass including the late René glass among both tourists and Roubíček, Jaroslava Brychtová, and residents. Vladimír Kopecký as well as a number In 2016, Museum Kampa dedicated a of younger artists, some of whom hail large exhibition to Czech glass directly from Portheim. masters, and soon began looking to expand and find a permanent home for Also on display at Portheimka is a selection of around thirty works by the project. Portheimka, with its renowned foreign artists: Dale Chihuly, sumptuous history and ideal location,
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Curiously, however, Portheimka also mentions of LaMonte’s glass garments, which are still her main form and focus: “To many it seemed a trivial idea without a deeper content.” Although Portheimka goes on to unequivocally laud LaMonte as “one of the most renowned personages of contemporary glass art,” it remains for the viewer to decide on the contentions surrounding art and craft, surface and concept. In any event, LaMonte’s addition to the roster of artists at Portheimka only further suggests its relevance and importance as an intriguing new space committed to the complex, immortal life of glass.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XL).
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b) In more Romanized areas In fact, in Iberia there are not such as the Betis valley and just fragments of blown the eastern coast. glass from the most primitive c) The Catalan coast. times of the Augustan age d) Palencia. The glass here that can be dated safely. is not locally produced, it represents an import from other points of the Peninsula or from outside of Roman Hispania. The pieces are luxury.
The chronologies of the burials with glass ointments of the ampuritan necropolis still assignable to the Augustan period, such as those of Ballesta nÂş 6, Rubert 30, Torres, 54 or Plinio says that the manufacture of blown glass Nofre 8 to whom Almagro was widespread in Hispania Basch assigned a in the third quarter of the first chronology, are still in question today. between century AD. C. Augusto-Tiberio, mainly due Taking into account the to the ceramics aretinas and different archaeological sigillatas that accompanied testimonies obtained to date, them and also to the coins. it seems that in our Recent researchers think Peninsula the findings of blown glass objects prior to that these chronologies the time of Tiberius are very should be delayed. Some scarce, as likewise also the fragment of glass of this findings corresponding to the period in a stratigraphy of Caesaraugusta corresponds Augustan period are very only to a simple rod still rare or practically
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made of glass paste. In Celsa, the few oldest fragments of blown glass correspond to a stratigraphic level that can be dated as early as the 20s AD. However, from the higher levels, dateable in the years 50-60 AD. the fragments of blown glass become much more abundant. In Baetulo it seems that there is only a fragment of the Ising 1 form, from this ancient period, coming from a stratigraphy in the Rector's House of Santa Maria Park. In Conimbriga, in Portugal, the oldest blown fragments of glass would correspond to the period of Claudius and would be forms Isings 3 and Isings 18. Something similar we can say of the city of Emerita Augusta where the oldest elements of glass would also be of the time of the JulioClaudios.
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Working Glass.
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Garvia) has curated this project that invites 16 artists to use glass for the first time in their works.
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The result allows us to reflect on the new ways of curating in collaboration, and in dialogue with artisans and workshop technicians.
in the Museum of Art in Glass of Last June, the program of TVE Alcorcón (MAVA). Metropolis dedicated its broadcast to the exhibition The urban artist E1000 (Emil Working Glass that could be seen
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An exhibition that proposes "a return to the manual work of authorship, from the study and experimentation of glass in the workshop. It represents a point of inflection, a process of action and creative positioning through experimentation and the work of the material in artistic production ".
Culture 2018.
Last June we visited the Prado Museum to see the exhibition about the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto.
portraitist.
But his expression of religious feeling is very personal: sometimes bordering on the Although he was one of the most humorous, it usually transmits an talented Venetian painters in the acute emotional intensity, even first half of the sixteenth century, more marked by the acidity and dissonance of the color. Lotto was also one of the most peculiar, and his tireless itinerant These notes can also be seen in career marginalized him minor religious paintings, such as somewhat from the Venetian the San Jerónimo penitente school. (Prado), a late work from 1546, which Lotto painted for his friend This Venetian period was Vincenzo Frizier, alderman of the interrupted by new extended Venetian hospital of Santos Juan stays in Marche (1538-1540) y Pablo. and Treviso (1542-1545). In 1549 he finally left Venice for the Marches, and lived his last years as a lay brother in a religious community in Loreto. Lotto painted mainly religious subjects, but he was also a
The compositional invention and the psychological penetration of his portraits, where the insinuation of a tense and agitated interior life is characteristic, make Lotto one of
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the greatest portrait painters of the Italian Renaissance. The profoundly pious sensibility that emerges in his paintings is also manifested in the book of accounts (Libro di spese diverse) that he carried during the last eighteen years of his life (15381556). This important document, almost unique in its kind, provides abundant information not only about the professional practice of the artist and his social world, but also about his reflections and intimate feelings. Criticism, however, has been far from unanimous when it comes to interpreting Lotto's personality and his attitude towards the religious controversies of his time.
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The Directorate General for the Environment of the Junta de Extremadura has formulated a positive Environmental Impact Statement (DIA) for the project to expand the glass factory in Villafranca de los Barros (Badajoz), promoted by BA GLASS SPAIN, SAU.
17, 2018, was published in the Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE).
Located in the industrial estate 'Los Varales', the total area of the industrial complex will be 276,658 With this project the plant will square meters, including the expand its production planned modification. capacity, which will go from the current 825 tonnes / day There will be three buildings to 1,075 tonnes / day, thanks attached to existing ones, to the installation of a third according to the Junta de regenerative furnace. Extremadura.
The resolution, dated May
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The longest circular bridge in the world. in the Grand Canyon of Arizona (United States). The bridge, which has been built with 150 pieces of hardened laminated glass and 3,000 tons of steel, but does not have a cable that serves as a stabilizing structure, has passed numerous tests that guarantee its safety.
The Grand Canyon of Fuxi, located 60 kilometers The world's longest news agency reported. from Zhenghou (capital of horseshoe-shaped glass This glass platform, which has Henan province), allows bridge will open in China, you to enjoy the been under construction for suspended 360 meters above panoramic views of the eight months, is 30 meters the Fuxi Grand Canyon in waterfalls, mountains and long and nine more than the Henan province (central one that was the longest in the caves that surround the China), the official Xinhua world with this shape, located area.
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The glass in Museums: Izu Glass.
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The Izu Glass and Craft Museum is a Japanese museum that presents the glass art of art nouveau and art deco styles of the late nineteenth century Gallé, Daum, Tiffany and Lalique and engravings, ceramics and garments
of that time with about 250 items on display. In the workshop you can try making stained glass, bead accessories, simple kaleidoscopes and fusion and bitspache. (Reservation is required).
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There is also a museum shop and performances of old music boxes. His address is 11-300 Omuro-Kogen Ito City. It is open every day and its schedule is from 9 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
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Recycling. Recycling light bulbs. recycled, approximately 2,000 tons of light bulbs.
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The Ambilamp association offers more figures on the recycling of these types of bulbs in Spain, as well as the location of recycling points in your area.
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Incandescent and halogen bulbs and their recycling
The bulbs and the materials that compose them are totally recyclable and must be treated in an adequate way to recover their components, such as glass, metal or mercury. It is important because some of them, like mercury, can be dangerous. Specifically, mercury, like that contained in light bulbs, is a component that can be harmful to human health and the environment. But where are the bulbs recycled so that they do not pollute and take advantage of their components again? In this Green Ecology article we tell it. Energy-saving, discharge, fluorescent and LED bulbs This group of light bulbs are very important to recycle, because they contain small amounts of mercury. Mercury is a substance highly toxic to human health and very polluting to the environment, so its recycling is essential to avoid risks. For example, in Spain, there is Ambilamp which is a non-profit association, which is responsible for collecting these types of light bulbs. We will find special containers for the recycling of light bulbs in electrical distributors, shops or clean points in your locality. The bulbs must be deposited whole (avoiding that they break), without boxes or wrappings and inside their collector. However, in these containers we can not throw halogen bulbs, or filament bulbs, conventional or incandescent. How a light bulb is recycled the process
These types of bulbs are not recyclable in Ambilamp containers, so where do you throw halogen and incandescent bulbs? The truth is that you can only throw in one place to avoid contamination. They must be Once at the recycling plant, each recycled at the clean points. The type of bulb is separated and reason is that its composition is follows its recycling process: very different from the aforementioned, since they are Recycling fluorescent much older products. Fluorescents pass through a conveyor belt. The first step is to Recycling of halogen and cut the tips of the tube, making it incandescent bulbs easier to remove the heads. The First, all the incandescent and tube is then passed through a halogen bulbs collected go vacuum system, which collects through a shredding process. In the fluorescent powders that will addition, its components are then be distilled. The glass goes separated by gravitational through a process of grinding differences and in electrostatic and cleaning, and the metal is systems. Thus, four kinds of also crushed, separating the components are obtained: ferrous aluminum from the other metals, non-ferrous metals, glass components. The plastic is and molybdenum or tungsten. crushed, like glass or metal. After being crushed, each type of Since the concentration of mercury in these types of bulbs is material is taken to its not very high, about 20 mg / kg, destination to be reused. they should not go through a Recycling of low consumption distillation process. Just go bulbs, discharge and LEDs through the distiller, if the proportion of mercury exceeds 20 In these bulbs, the lamp is placed in a clamp by the cap and ppm. the glass is broken by pressure. The glass from recycling can be Then, this is passed through the used as raw material to make distiller, in order to recover the other elements and the aluminum mercury. At the end, the clamps can be sent as scrap or used in are opened and the metal foundry or other types of bushing is ejected. The mercury factories. evaporates due to the high The European Commission temperatures of the distiller. Subsequently, it is cooled until it established a calendar at the end of 2008, in order to gradually becomes liquid. remove the incandescent bulbs Once recycled, mercury and and between the months of pure glass can be used as raw September 2009 and 2013, the material, impure mercury serves withdrawal of the incandescent in desalination plants, impure bulbs market was scheduled, so glass for bottles, ceramics or that from the year 2016 , only asphalts, metals for foundry LED bulbs, compact fluorescent industries and plastics are used lamps (LEC) and energy-class to manufacture other Plastic halogen lamps will be marketed bottles. B. The objective of recycling all The best record in the recycling these bulbs is to conserve the environment and prevent the of this type of light bulbs in Spain, took place in 2010, when emission of pollutants. almost 13 million units were
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• Our activities.
• Cultural visits. In this month we will visit the basement of the building, a space that was isolated from Treasure of the Dolphin in the current route of the visit, the Prado Museum. This collection, which arrived so a new location has been chosen . at the Museum in 1839, is now exhibited in its entirety in the North Bull, located in the central body of the second floor of the North or Goya body of the Villanueva building.
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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 2018.
During the twentieth century it has been exhibited in different spaces of the Museum, the last one was inaugurated in 1989 in an armored room in the
It is a circular space in which a continuous curved showcase of 40 meters in length has been installed, which has the maximum technical conservation requirements and includes supports and lighting systems designed specifically for each of the pieces taking into account their shapes and materials.
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Sorolla A garden to paint From July 6 to January 20, 2019. Curated by María López, Consuelo Luca de Tena and Ana Luengo. In this month of July we will visit the Sorolla Museum to see this new temporary exhibition. The great passion of Joaquín Sorolla was to paint, but above all in the open air, observing the continuous play of natural light.
Throughout his life the desire to have his own garden grew. Sorolla had begun painting gardens in 1906 at La Granja, but when it came time to design his own, after 1910, the decisive inspiration came from the Andalusian gardens: the Alhambra in Granada and the Alcázar in Seville, which had painted again and again from 1908 The numerous drawings in which he was scribbling his ideas make us glimpse the attention
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he paid to his project, the continuous boiling of his imagination. Parallel in time to the great commission of the murals of the Hispanic Society of America, designing and planting his garden was the fun and relief of his last years. The paintings in Sorolla's garden are the works of a wise and mature painter who, at the height of his life and his fame, paints only for his pleasure.
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Rehabilitation of old glass factory.
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light to completely absorb The divisions in the space its magic, transforming it are made of glass, into the dream laboratory. allowing new ideas to be drawn on the walls A 2016 project located in directly as an open sketch Amsterdam that consists book, inviting team of a main artery of the members to contribute building that is used for and develop concepts the construction of together. prototypes and is visible from the offices and The furniture, like the upper balconies at any desks of the teams, are With more than 1,000 inspired directly by the big m2, it was renovated by time of the day. ships and float like islands Roosegaarde, with The main stage of the in space. architect Daan building is malleable to its Roosegaarde and his dream functions such as From the top floor the team of designers and open laboratory sessions studio offices offer engineers. and educational activities. stunning views of the harbor and the river as if Inspired by Special features include they were windows to the Roosegaarde's the ideal library that world. fascination with the Dutch contains a very extensive skies, his new design collection of old and new opens the space to Dutch books. The abandoned building, which was built in 1937, was an old glass factory located near the port of Rotterdam and near the Erasmusbrug, in very bad condition and was about to be demolished until Roosegaarde noticed him and caught his attention.
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Other trends. The Porch of Glory.
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The Porch de la Gloria, a masterpiece of Romanesque art in Europe, has revealed its entire palette of colors and a few secrets after a decade of recovery work. In the tasks have collaborated universities of several countries, chemists, architects, archaeologists, physicists, computer scientists and geologists under the direction of Concha Cirujano and Ana Laborde, of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain. But neither they nor the team of 12 restorers that has remained on the scaffolding for 50,000 hours could imagine the intense chromatism that lasted under that thick layer of deterioration and grime that hid this treasure of the Cathedral of Santiago. The project, funded from start to finish with 6.2 million from the Barrié Foundation, has not added anything new to what was there. It has been limited to bring out and consolidate the hidden beauty: three differentiated oil polychromies, which overlap and give testimony to the pigments and techniques used in the Middle Ages, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; that is, the original plan and the subsequent restorations to the taste of the moment.
directly on the sculptural ensemble, interventions of centuries and previous decades were added, with wrong or clearly aggressive techniques.
In the sixteenth century, the facade of the Obradoiro suffered its first drastic transformation. In 1519, the cabildo ordered to build doors to the great central arch of the narthex that protected the Porch and that always The Porch is approaching 850 remained open. The decision was years old. As reference dates, the based on the "scandals and life pension granted in 1168 by disorders and other Fernando II de León to Maestro incombenientes" that "went up at Mateo is conserved to secure him as responsible for the works of the night" in this temple that gave cathedral, and an inscription carved ceiling to the pilgrims at the end of on the monument itself: "In the year the Paths. When the Romanesque façade was installed to install the of the Incarnation of the Lord wooden doors, part of the statues 1188 , on the 1st of April, Master Mateo placed the lintels of the main that were fundamental in the iconographic idea of Matthew was door of the church of Santiago, already removed. Some belong which directed the work of these portals from its foundations ". From today to private collections, such as Isaac and Abraham, in the hands of the medieval polychromy many the Franco. The pair of prophets vestiges are preserved, and there now decorates the pazo de Meirás. are figures (angels carrying the column and the cross) in which Around that process of radical under the patina the blue lapis reform in the XVI, the second lazuli has been completely recovered polychrome is dated. The preserved, a pigment that together blues were azurites that have with the gold dazzled the pilgrims degraded over the centuries; the who stepped the Romanesque reds were vermilion and cochineal narthex. lacquer; the greens were copper and the whites were lead. The But, in addition, they have been incarnations of faces, feet and able to identify as of that stage hands were more intense and other colors, always agglutinated darker than the medieval ones. with flax oil, such as verdigris,
copper resinate, vermilion, earth pigments or white lead. The garments were decorated with half moons, squares, circles and With the research undertaken in polylobulated shapes by stamping 2009 and the cleanup of the Pórch, without relief. The incarnations with the vulnerability of the work has which the faces were given life in also been confirmed. To the serious the 12th century were applied in structural problems of the baroque very thin layers and were a light façade of the Obradoiro, which pink. filtered streams of "liquid water"
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As explained, "the materials used" in this second polychrome "were not so exclusive" but highlights the decoration of mantles and robes with brocades. For this, they resorted to a technique imported from Flemish painting that "imitated in relief the embroidered gold fabrics" of the time.
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Foster redesigns the Barclays building.
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Norman Foster, probably the bestknown architect in the world, has a close relationship with Madrid that is evident, for example, in the Cepsa tower (one of the four skyscrapers of Castellana Norte, his work), the headquarters of his foundation (which is in the neighborhood of Chamberí) and the next extension of the Prado Museum, which will also carry your signature. And to all this, a new project of integral renovation of the Barclays building is now added, at number 1 in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid.
more obvious replacement of a façade that today looks like a concrete shell with a transparent one , with an outer mesh. The new structure, "a robust system of stainless steel and glass", uses "the latest technologies" to "provide solar control in response to the weather," the promoters say in a note.
their scope and also by the proposals, but which nevertheless touch on the sense that both "improve connectivity and break down the barriers between the world of the private and the public." Symmetry and triangles
And in this case it will achieve it, or try to do it, joining the interior of the The reform, which also includes the Barclays building with the outside of opening of an interior atrium and a the square through the transparent façade. This has been designed large terrace divided into two heights, will cost around 10 million with a structure in diagrid; that is, euros, according to Antonio Simón, with a symmetrical pattern of beams that intersect and reveal triangular The works, which will begin in the representative of CBRE Global shapes that the famous 83-year-old coming weeks and are expected to Investors. The preparatory work British architect, Pritzker Prize in finish within a year, will completely has already begun and the 1999 and Prince of Asturias Award transform the exterior of the building refurbishment work will start for the Arts in 2009, has used in based on stainless steel and glass. immediately, he added, with the other of his works more known. For The result, baptized as Axis, seeks aim of having ready next year at to become a "transparent" building this time the new building, of 3,930 example, in the Hearst tower of New York .. connected "with the city", explained square meters and that will be Foster. dedicated to commercial use on the Thus, under that same idea of ground floors and first, and offices connection, the most important Sometimes, the architect added in the two superiors. transformation of the interior is during the presentation held at the proposed: the opening of a central City Hall of Madrid, it is necessary The general coordinator of the atrium that will allow to see all the to insist on the obvious. And the Mayor, Luis Cueto, thanked the floors from the bottom, connecting obvious, in the case of this small imminent arrival of a work that is them visually and also providing building built in 1971, which almost convinced that it will be a new looks like the younger brother of all milestone for the city: "The icons of indirect natural light to offices and commercial areas. those around, is its magnificent modern architecture create value. location in the heart of Madrid, on a Madrid will be worth more after Foster's aspiration, as he himself corner of Genoa street and the Norman finishes his job. " And he explained, is that his new building promenade of Recoletos, just recalled, in addition, that the other "improve the quality of life in terms before becoming the Castellana. Or great work that Foster and Partners of public spaces, and that can what is the same, located right at has in progress in the capital - the create a better work environment" the top of the neighborhoods of expansion of the Prado Museum and call the attention of the Centro, Chamberí and Salamanca. is just on the other side of the pedestrian. Hence the name chosen for the Prado-Recoletos axis, which is a The promoters estimate that around project, Axis, axis in English. candidate to be recognized as a 375.00 people pass through Plaza World Heritage Site. Humanity. Thus, the redesign that has been de Colón each day. commissioned by CBRE Global Foster, meanwhile, has made a Investors - the owner of the building parallel between the design he has since it was purchased in January made in the Plaza de Colón and the 2017 from Barclays - will result in a Prado Museum, very different in
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Stained glass windows of San Alfonso.
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According to investigations by the stained glass artist Patricio León, the stained glass windows of the church of San Alfonso were ordered by the Redemptorist Juan Bautista Stiehle, its designer, between 1882 and 1888, and brought from France.
the restoration processes, types of glass, burning, the way of working human figures, the forms of background and intervention in glass.
Despite the fact that with this process the recovery of the stained glass was achieved, a periodic revision of the state of Today, of the 102 that decorate welding, painting, cleaning and the temple, 88 are part of the first revision of possible breakages restoration phase that is financed due to vandalism, stones and by the Municipality of Cuenca other external circumstances is (Ecuador) and executed by the required. company Vidrarte, led by León. Municipality Process The Mayor of the city, Marcelo According to him, the placement Cabrera, announced that the of the stained glass windows will work has an advance of 70 be ready until July, however, he percent and that it had an said that inside the contract does investment of $ 320,000. not contemplate the restoration Likewise, the director of of some stained glass windows Historical and Patrimonial Areas, of the façade and that his Pablo Barzallo, informed that by intervention will depend on the means of the grisaille technique signing of a complementary the originality of the stained agreement, "but that is glass was maintained and the something that will define the glass of the breaks of each piece Municipality of Cuenca "he is recovered. added. Both agree that the intervention León explained that the of the stained glass windows is restoration process required a important for the city, not only study of the technique used by because of the artistic and the creator of the stained glass patrimonial value they have, but windows of San Alfonso, Henri because they are "unique in Louis Victor Gesta. South America". At the moment, Thanks to the information work continues in the church and obtained in France, Leon knew is open to the public.
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Images and figures that have been embodied in glass works of art Among the images that stand out are religious and saints such as: Santísimo Redentor, Santa Rosa de Lima, San Pablo. Other images are: The Heart of Jesus and the Divine Child; The stained glass windows of the Crucifixion and the Last Supper stand out in the upper part of the altar of the church. There are also 17 rosettes. These are the first stained glass windows that arrived in Ecuador 136 years ago and were placed in the Cuenca church of San Alfonso, which are characterized by being of French origin and authored by Henry Louis Víctor Gesta. DATA > phase. Within the plan of restoration of heritage assets, its lighting is included to be appreciated at night. > location The temple is located at the intersection of Borrero Street and Bolívar, in the Historic Center. > delivery The contractor claims to finish his part in July and 14 stained glass windows are outside the restoration agreement.
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Ware for haute cuisine.
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The Catalan firm Luesma & Vega, which designs and manufactures crockery for haute cuisine, has reached sales of 500,000 euros in the last year, has worked with clients such as El Bulli, El Celler de Can Roca, Mugaritz or José Andrés and already exports to 32 countries around the world.
customized tableware for countries around the avant-garde gastronomy. world, such as France, Italy, Germany, Since then, Switzerland, Norway, the internationally renowned United States, Canada, chefs have Mexico, Brazil, China, commissioned collections New Zealand or, more and unique pieces for recently, Japan, thanks to their dishes, including an agreement with a local Quique Dacosta, Koy distributor. Shunka, Azurmendi, Diverxo, Arzak, Anand "We are constantly Gaggan and Astrid & expanding," says Vega, Gaston, according to the who stresses that haute Luesma & Vega is a Generalitat. cuisine restaurants "need design studio and a product that large "Haute cuisine has production workshop industry can not produce" thought that the dishes founded in 1991 by and that their studio, on that best explain their master craftsmen Ester the other hand, has been discourse are ours," says Luesma, specialized in able to understand what Xavier Vega, who ceramics, and Xavier chefs do and adapt to stresses that the new Vega, expert in glass. your specific needs. gastronomy has It was in 2010, and after understood that the This craft workshop having previously worked dishes also play a key currently has seven with El Bulli de Ferran role in the culinary workers specialized in the Adrià, when the company experience. sector and operates in a decided to devote itself warehouse of 1,500 Currently, Luesma y Vega fully to the manufacture square meters in the is present and distributes of specialized and municipality of Molins de its tableware in 32 Rei (Barcelona). www.amigosmava.org
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Máximo “Tito” Bertoni.
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was made, the glassmaker said: "I am fine, according to how we have gone in life, although today we are going through a bad time at the country level. The economic For this type of work, Bertoni situation is complicated. Vidrios also has the glazed After 12 years of progress, material. where many things were "We do everything that is achieved, today we have to It is located in Roque work not only of Junín but put the maximum effort to Vázquez 126, by Máximo also of the zone. Where they get ahead, "he said. Mario and José Bertoni, sons call us, come on, we have no Always with hope, the of the founder of problems traveling, "said Bertoni family does not glassmaking. José. hesitate to continue working, They have glasses of More than 50 years as it always did. different types for works, be it Máximo Camilo Bertoni, "I hope that in a few years, houses, offices, premises, etc., less for automotive, as "Tito" is the one who started we will comment on this as with glassmaking and an anecdote, which stated by José Bertoni. although he is currently happened and helped us to There are all types of glass: retired, he always learn," he said. tempered, laminated, profilit, collaborates with his Meeting thermoacoustic DVH, etc. children. Last Friday, June 8, a "They are security glasses," "I worked in glass since I meeting of colleagues from said Tito, adding that they was 15 or 16 years old, the field was held to share a also worked with that's why I have more than barbecue. It took place in the polycarbonate, a more 50 years in the field," he LP facilities, in the Industrial resistant material. said. Park. It is known that modern When asked what balance Bertoni Vidrios, located in Roque Vázquez 126, in Junín, Buenos Aires, is a glassworks that emerged as a family venture of Máximo Camilo Bertoni, "Tito", more than 50 years ago, and that based on the effort and dedication extended in time.
buildings usually have large windows or glass walls, with double hermetic glazing (DVH), thermo-acoustic, very bright.
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The work of Don Memo.
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With each turn of the lathe the glass takes shape, is polished and bevelled.
pressure, a table in which cuts and assemblies are made, the area of the factory and spaces in the that plates of glass and chipping are placed, all guarded by a Virgin of Guadalupe.
because he assures that in addition to making cuts on glass he does other works "glass can be given thousands of forms, Don Memo regulates with his from something simple to hands the speed and the something very elaborate, such strength, his raw material is so fragile that a splinter is enough to There, very close to the Isabel la as polishing, glass carving, Católica metro station, Mr. Memo bevelling , chamfers, cuts, crack and so strong as to stop mirrors, here we do everything. " receives clients every day who the winds behind a window. Despite his career and For three generations the family require his services to repair a chandelier, the mirror of a knowledge, he is not considered of Mr. Guillermo Rivera dressing table, to put the a teacher in his area, but a Hernández, is dedicated to work showcases in a shop or for some worker who learns every day and with glass, carving, beveling, who has fed on others, especially engraving. stained glass, polished, his father whom he qualified as a engraved the same for homes as Its factory consists of several lathes in which specialized work genius. for businesses, offices, is done, the first is the plate that "I learn day by day, glass is a commercial premises and even reduces the glass in a rough very nice material, but you have art exhibitions. way; then it goes through a to know how to work, it can also Ensures that there are modern stone that removes the residues betray you and even mutilate machines but he prefers to from the emery; Later, the you, so everything has to be continue working as he was taught by his grandfather and his polishing process begins with the done very carefully," he explains. poma, which is a compressed The students of the School of father, that is to say with his rubber and finally a soft lathe Handicrafts of the National hands and some tools such as called felt that serves to polish Institute of Fine Arts also cutters and an artisan factory and do fine work. recurrently request cuts, bevels that he has kept since he started the family business made with rudimentary tools and even with boats , buckets and rags.
In each process a drip system is used through perforated buckets and patched with sticks that serve to regulate irrigation; as well as polishing sands.
The first workshop of the family served for 65 years in the street Leandro Valle number 8 in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, but after the earthquake of September 19, 1985 the colonial structure was damaged and were relocated in an uninhabited neighborhood in the alley of Nezahualcóyotl, also in the Historical Center, although in a space seven times smaller.
Don Memo regrets that the material is increasingly scarce for what has become more expensive.
"There are no workshops like this and little by little it is more difficult to get the raw material, there are no mines in which it is exploited, for example the ceriul, there is Chinese material but it is In the current workshop the walls crap and it does not work", he of an old building divide the area explains. in which the glass is sandblasted Don Memo does not define and a jet of water under himself as a glassmaker,
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and polished to give life to their creations, mainly those who are instructed to be stained glass designers.
He also worked closely with an architect Omar Blanquet, who has won two competitions internationally, "he gives me his idea, he tells me how to do it and I make it come true in glass". With 37 years of experience, Don Memo says, "I like my job a lot, it depends on my family and my workers. This is my life and what I want is to teach a young person who wants to learn this job that is wonderful", he concluded Don Memo.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Emma Stein.
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Glass from the Hawaii Volcano.
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A "caution" sign is found in a lava flow on the outskirts of Pahoa during the ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Life-threatening glass fibers caused by the eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii are taking over the Big Island.
measure up to a few meters," said Don Swanson, a research geologist with the Hawaii Living Volcanic Observatory.
"Pele's hair and other lightweight volcanic glass are falling to the west of the fissure and are accumulating on the ground inside Leilani Estates," said the US Geological Survey.
The threads are only one thousandth of a millimeter or two in diameter, but they "Winds can shed lighter are often entangled. particles at greater distances. Residents are The volcano, which has "You can get lots of Pele's being asked to minimize been erupting for more hair that can be a foot or exposure to these volcanic than 40 days, has two thick entangled," particles, which can cause destroyed 600 homes on Swanson said. skin and eye irritation the island, but now the The glass threads usually similar to volcanic ash. " state faces an additional have a small sphere at the crisis with the arrival of In previous eruptions, end, but often break dangerous threads called Pele's hair came to places creating sharp points. Pele's hair. where drinking water is Pele's hair is named after preserved after landing on Thin glass fibers are the creator of the Hawaiian the roofs of Hawaiians who created when gas bubbles Islands, goddess of fire, collect rainwater to drink. inside the lava burst on the lightning, wind and surface and have a striking "If the filters are not thin volcanoes. resemblance to human enough to filter the hair, In the Hawaiian religion, hair. then these fibers can get many people believe that into the water, which can "The skin of the bubbles Kilauea is the home of a cause great harm to explode, and part of this family of fire gods, anyone who drinks it," skin stretches in these very including Pele. Swanson said. long threads, which can
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Mexiquense with its art in glass.
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Pedro Ramírez, originally from the State of Mexico, has worked 18 years with glass, a technique that many call "blown glass" but he prefers to call it "art in glass" His learning was from a young age, since his parents were dedicated to making these crafts in glass, but for Pedro it is
not a job but a taste for art.
needs fire, glass and his creativity.
His job is to walk from exhibition to exhibition offering his products, since he mentions that he can do any kind of figure that people ask him for.
Such is the pleasure of creating these figures that they have lost count of the number of pieces they have.
His figures range from the With this work he has smallest of 10 pesos to supported his children figures of 1,500 and is and his wife, a rewarding currently in the National job for Pedro since he Fair of Gómez Palacio. mentions that he only
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Second Convention in Murano.
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The Second Convention of International Glass Associations, sponsored by the fair of Milan Vitrum and ITA (Italian Trade Agency), held from June 6 to 7 in Murano (Venice), achieved considerable success in terms of results, participation and innovation for the glass sector. The meeting was attended by representatives of seventeen international glass associations and representatives of the most important technical media, from all over the world. During the two days of the convention, several technical sessions were held around the main points of the industry. There were also opportunities to share impressions and experiences among attendees and parallel events with artistic and cultural content. All this was part of the twoday meeting in Murano, which strengthened the determination of the organizers and delegates of the world's leading glass associations to continue their joint work, with a collaborative effort that, over time, can be perfected and improve with an even higher quality and precision.
absolutely innovative itinerary of the industry, this year we managed to outline the priorities to follow, aware that concrete results can only be visible in the medium and long term. Furthermore, if the Murano Convention can already be considered the annual spring meeting for the glass industry, at Vitrum 2019 (from October 1 to 4 in Milan) we will undoubtedly have the opportunity to update ourselves and feed our intentions to increase the value of the industry around the world, "said Vitrum president Dino Zandonella Necca at the end of the convention.
"In the last 12 months - explains Laura Biason, director of Vitrum since the first edition of the Convention, we have continued to strengthen the link between all the delegates that participated last year, while we relate to the new players in the industry . We were successful; and this was another great satisfaction for us because it means that we are on the right path. We are pleased to welcome in our community the flat glass association of Finland, as a new member this year, and two new representatives from Brazil and Endorsed by the work done in the Slovakia. But the most recent first meeting in Murano, in June developments do not end there. 2017, and by the holding of a Thanks to our shared objectives, meeting on October 4, 2017, within we were also able to complete the the framework of the 20th edition of list of discussion topics that began Vitrum, the international glass fair to be delineated last year. held in Milan, The Murano event Communication and information was held at Stazione Sperimentale take their rightful place among the del Vetro, the internationally priority issues, along with technical accredited laboratory and research and production standardization, center, studies, analysis and, in education, training, history and general, technical developments in culture, energy and environmental the glass industry. administration. As is true for all productive sectors, the element of "This second meeting of the 'promotion' is essential for our International Glass Associations industry. It is incumbent upon us to confirms the importance of understanding the real needs of the transmit to the media an market and its protagonists. But this understanding of the true essence is only the beginning because, if last of our efforts, based on the principles of cooperation and joint year we laid the foundations for an
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action, which can not do anything but work for the benefit of all. " At the convention, there were representatives from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and, of course, Italy. The experiences shared by these countries were essential for the successful development of the convention. In three intensive work sessions, all the delegations presented case studies, plans, objectives and, not least, their needs. "All the experiences have been very attractive and, in some cases, very moving," says Zandonella, "because they helped to put in order a group reflection. Strengthening R & D efforts and supporting companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, in interpreting the regulatory language related to the glass industry in Italy and abroad, are undoubtedly essential. It was also observed that, in some areas (the specific case of Brazil was the center of a long analysis), the economic situation has had a considerable impact on the 'welfare' of the industry and its workers. A call was made to make a collective effort to undertake specific actions in terms of training to help and prepare local workers in order to keep up with the competitive procedures of the global market. " "Our sense of community," added Biason, "becomes evident again in these contexts because by sharing the projects and the results achieved, as well as the difficulties faced along the way, it is possible to see the problems from different perspectives. And, often, that means finding an interpretation that could be the winning solution".
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Leveled glassware course.
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The hall of the Foundation for the Ethnography and Development of the Canarian Handicrafts (Fedac) in Domingo J. Navarro Street, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, hosted the past few weeks an introductory course in leaded glass. The techniques for cutting and pasting glass to produce a leaded stained glass window similar to those worn by 12th century cathedrals are some of the teachings received by the twelve students who have attended the course organized by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria to introduce the amateurs in this ancient craft of the hand of the craftswoman Tuula Giraldo. The councilor of Crafts of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Minerva Alonso, verified the progress that the students have experienced after 60 hours of training. They are so delighted with what they have learned that they took the opportunity to request a new continuation workshop to further advance in
this profession. The apprentices, who started from scratch, have first assimilated the theory to know the origin of the glass, in addition to the tools and materials necessary to work it.
shape, and then to be able to weld and put putty to finish. This is the first window course organized by Fedac since this initiative began, open to the public in 2016.
Minerva Alonso stressed that They discovered, for example, the Fedac Hall has become a the so-called cathedral glass, very important center to the hand-blown glass, the opal promote the crafts of Gran and the tiffany, and also that it Canaria in the Triana neighborhood because it can be smooth or carved. allows to host exhibitions of They have also known that to artisans and courses to open a cut the glass you need a path for fans and that can be diamond-tipped roulette, a presented to the call of artisan polishing machine to make the card as a professional edge smooth, and other tools alternative. such as stained glass scissors, The proposal to teach the work tingle to open the lead strips, processes of traditional trades pliers and hammers. are not only aimed at offering Afterwards, both groups have labor alternatives in been able to move on to the handicrafts, increasingly valued practical part, and after cutting among Gran Canaria and the glass, design a sketch to tourists, but also are aimed at distribute them in different preventing their extinction shapes and colors. because they are treasures that have been transferred The next step is the most from generation in generation complicated and the one that requires great skill because it and constitute a cultural wealth is time to cut the lead rods and that the Cabildo has proposed not to let them get lost. introduce the glass in their groove so that the glass takes
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Astiglass in the Dominican Republic.
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Astiglass, a family business that started its activity in 1993, is assuming an increasingly important role in the transformation of glass, participating in numerous architectural projects both in Spain and in other countries. A clear example of this is the Roble Corporate Center, a corporate office center in Santo Domingo.
hours of air conditioning equipment making the building more efficient from an energy point of view" representative of Astiglass.
These characteristics must also be accompanied by an adequate light transmission according to the sunny area in which the building is located, allowing the employees of the offices to have lighting Robles Corporate Center stands in conditions that allow them to work Plantini, the financial heart of Santo with comfort. Domingo. In this new corporate To meet the requirements of the office center, with a construction project, the glass should have a area of 30,975 m2, style, avantcomposition that would respond to garde and innovation are some of them. the distinctive features of this According to José Antonio project. In addition, the corporate Povedano, "this glass is the only center is connected to the Hotel one on the market capable of Real Intercontinentat, which gives offering a light transmission of 35% the project an unmistakable and a very low FSolar, in this case atmosphere of prestige and only 14%, maintaining a neutral success. appearance. In addition, glass, Astiglass came to this project thanks to the configuration of the through his client in the United sheets that compose it, has the States, "to which he demanded a quality of being 'anti-hurricane', with glass of high technical performance capacity to withstand gusts of wind in addition to comply with of up to 250 km / h ". homologations of anti-hurricane Another important aspect that has glass", explains José Antonio Povedano, commercial manager of been taken into account in the Robles Corporate Center project is Singular Works of Astiglass. safety, a quality that this glass The location of the project required provides for two reasons: certain technical requirements to be found in a region of extreme warm A high degree of anti-vandalism resistance, greatly retarding the climate. "In a country with such entry of an intruder in case he tries high solar incidence as the to access the interior of the Dominican Republic, one of the benefits that is most required is that building. the glass filters a high index of Given the risk of impact of infrared radiation and this is projectiles and objects on the glass achieved with a low Solar Factor as a result of hurricanes, the (g)", indicates Povedano breakage -if it were the case- would It was also important to reduce the occur safely without causing physical damage to building users. flow of heat energy inside the building not only during the day, but A delicate logistics operation also at night. As there is such a difference in temperature between One of the main technical the interior and exterior, "the glass difficulties involved in executing the should work as a thermal insulator project has been due to the care that glass was required in its also at night to reduce working
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handling "Superselkt 35/14 layer glass is very delicate to handle, so in the production process it is required a scrupulous processing protocol. This forced us to include additional improvements in the manufacturing recipe that resulted in the desired quality that the project and our client required ", explains José Antonio Povedano. In addition, the glass manufactured by Astiglass had to be transported to Santo Domingo, so the logistics operation was also very delicate. However, Astiglass already has a considerable knowledge in logistics operations of this type, as indicated by the commercial manager of singular works of the company: "From the point of view of logistics, we have extensive experience in this type of shipments, which they always do it by sea. Fifteen years ago we started sending glass for projects in the Canary Islands and for five years we have expanded our reach to South America. Of course, the type of packaging and the mooring of the same to the container play a very important role so that the merchandise arrives in perfect conditions ". The execution of the work and glazing has been developed satisfactorily and its behavior is as expected, as Povedano summarizes: "Grupo Robles participates in the real estate industry, developing and building large multipurpose complexes that include shopping centers, corporate centers, hotels, entertainment areas and large-scale housing projects. It is a client with a wide knowledge of construction materials and the level of demand, from the beginning, it was very high, but our service and the excellent result of the product offered led us to get the recognition of the client, which has generated in we a huge satisfaction.
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Light bulbs 'made in' Mataró.
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exhibition, the aim is to premiere a documentary, made by the entity Mapasonor, based on interviews with former employees and people linked to the company. "Our function is to recover the testimonies of Cristalerías de Mataró and to tell us small details of the day to day, their relationship with the company, memories of activities, etc. For us it is a fundamental job to be able to keep the oral testimonies of the people who worked in the cooperative, some of them already very old ", explains Kilian Estrada, member of the entity. During the years of autarchy, all the bulbs used in Spain, emerged from Cristalerías de Mataró (1909-2019), a cooperative of great productive and historical value - its statutes were drafted by Joan Peiró, Minister of Industry of the Second Republic-, but until now not sufficiently recognized.
identify the images and make the description enriched of the documents", explains Alexis Serrano, director of the Maresme County Archive.
Once a month, former employees of Cristalerías de Mataró are in a room in Can Palauet, headquarters of the historical institution, to see An injustice that, on the occasion images, the most part means a of the centenary of its fund that occupies 9.6 linear foundation, some former meters. employees of the company, According to Estrems, three grouped in the Associació Vidre reasons explain that there are so Bufat Mataroní, and institutions many photos of the factory: "In of the city, such as the Maresme the culture section of the Regional Archive, will try to cooperative there was a correct. development laboratory, "We want to recover all the information that is not yet in the archive or in the museum of Mataró so that it does not get lost and, at the same time, make the cooperative public," explains Marcel Estrems, president of the association. The celebration of the Centennial of the Forn del Vidre 1919-2019 will center around three axes: the online launch of the documentary and photographic collection of Cristalerías de Mataró, now deposited in the Maresme Regional Archive; the inauguration of an exhibition in the Museum of Mataró and the creation of a documentary video. Work done by professionals, but with the constant support of the cooperative's former employees who improve the project with their information and direct experience. Photo identification For example, in the case of the archive fund, former employees of the cooperative "help us
Although the most outstanding acts will not take place until 2019, the kick-off of the year dedicated to the Forn del Vidre took place on June 8 - International Day of the Archives-, in Can Palauet, in an event with the participation of Martín Iturralde , Associate professor at the University of Barcelona and winner of the Joan Peiró scholarship, who spoke about the company; and María Salicrú, historian and member of the Mapsonor Association, who explained the documentary. A historic cooperative
A whole year to try to put in the place of history that deserves an important company for its photographic contests were held cooperative system, among its milestones is the development of and it was a company that a broad social work, a rationalist received many institutional school, a culture group or a visits". mutuality; for their production In these sessions the workers capacity, apart from the light not only complement the bulbs, they also manufactured description of the images with thermometers, lampshades, the names of the colleagues that bottles, glasses or decorative appear in them, they also tell objects; and for its workers, anecdotes and even production constituted as a large family, processes. "!How many among which was the memories! A long time has aforementioned Joan Peiró or passed, "the elders lament. Salvador Cruixent, mayor of An exhibition and a video Mataró during the Second Parallel work is also being done Republic (1936-1937) by ERC. on the creation of an exhibition, Cristalerias de Mataró, due to the scheduled for fall 2019, the will financial crisis, the fall in of which is "to explain consumption and the loss of the Cristalerías de Mataró as a American market, closed its shop productive unit of the city", a window in November 2008, sector sometimes forgotten by suspending the contracts of the the prominence of textiles, that 80 workers of the cooperative. "from the cooperative of glass Finally, in 2009 the cooperative you can tell the story of Mataró", donated its fund of more than 400 according to Serrano. In this pieces of artistic glass and its case the workers have also documentary fund to the helped to document the Municipality of Mataró. industrial and craft pieces. And finally, together with the
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Uncovered a Roman sarcophagus.
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A team of Serbian archaeologists has discovered an intact Roman sarcophagus at the archaeological site of Viminacium, near Kostolac and east of Belgrade, in Serbia, where from the first century AD. they established a military camp and one of the most important Roman cities of their time, the capital of the Upper Mesia.
"We can conclude from the funeral trousseau that these two people surely belonged to the upper social class," Ilija Mikic, of the Serbian Archaeological Institute, told Reuters.
The old Viminacium had a forum, palace, temples, amphitheater, racecourse, baths and workshops, aqueducts and fortifications.
And, at the moment, only 4% of the archaeological The woman was buried site has been explored, next to an exceptional funeral trousseau: delicate according to Miomir Korac, the site's director. glass bottles containing perfumes, gold earrings, a "Viminacium, with its 450 necklace, a silver mirror hectares, is an open area and several hairpins. for exploration, I'm sure it The sarcophagus will provide an Along with the man, a contained two skeletons, immeasurable amount of silver belt buckle and the that of a tall man of middle remains of his shoes have information," concludes age and that of a thin and Korac. been preserved. younger woman.
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Stories of the cosmos.
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On a hot summer afternoon, the foundations that allowed the weak voice of a child is us to begin deciphering the heard calling for help under Universe. a pile of rubble. His dedication, ingenuity and Four hours have passed passion were so valuable since a glass factory that Germany displaced collapsed in Munich England in the field of the (Germany) and the small optical industry, being to this one - named Joseph von day one of the most Fraunhofer - manages to prestigious in the world. escape unharmed. Millions of camera lenses He had arrived there after and laboratory instruments becoming an orphan three have the seal of quality of years ago and devoting German optics. himself to learning the trade With only 22 years old, of polishing and carving Fraunhofer experiments with glass next to the petty owner new materials and develops of the workshop that was a method to make the best plunging into ruins. glasses, which would be part But that day would change of telescopes that begin to this child's life. The future discover objects never King Maximiliano I, who is in before seen. charge of the rescue work, However, what really becomes his mentor, paying revolutionized the for his studies, giving him knowledge of the Universe access to books and taking was when, playing with him to work at a leading prisms and slits through company of optical which sunlight passed, he elements. discovered that the Since then the boy begins a "rainbow" had dark lines. dizzying career that quickly He managed to count 574 of leads him to become the them with his instrument, best designer of optical which is known as the lenses and instruments of spectroscope. the planet at the beginning of By pointing his telescopethe 19th century and to lay
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which he had designed a special mount to be able to move it conveniently-to other stars and passing his light through the spectroscope, he found that the lines they saw were different from those of the Sun. This fact that could go unnoticed by many represented the discovery that the stars are different from each other. Half a century later it began to be understood how these "traces" in the spectrum revealed the composition of the solar atmosphere. The tragedy, which seemed not to move away from his life, led him to an early death on June 7, 1826, at 39 years of age, poisoned by having inhaled the vapors of heavy metals used in glassware for so many years. His short life marked a milestone for what would later be the astrophysical exploration of the cosmos, to discover the composition of stars, planetary atmospheres and even, for the discovery, through the spectrums, of the expansion of the Universe.
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Re-Crea. Creation and recycling.
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The awards of the contestexhibition 'Re-Crea. Creation and recycling 'have been delivered by the mayor of Granada, Francisco Cuenca, to a dozen works by students of the School of Art.
Health and Consumer Affairs of the City Council, the company Inagra and the School of Art of Granada.
glass, all made with 80 percent of its components coming from waste that is usually deposited in recycling bins.
The exhibition is open to the The categories established public since May 17 at the for the contest are yellow, Casa de Zafra, in the heart blue and green, to which As reported by the City of of the Albaicín. economic prizes range from Granada in a press release, In the event, organized to 700 to 150 euros, plus three the winners are authors of a mark the World Environment honorable mentions. large turtle and a cardboard Day, the mayor has stressed gorilla, a dragonfly plastic that we must "draw attention The award ceremony has packaging, a native prickly also counted with the and create a collective pear with glass bottles or a participation of the Councilor conscience", with "some cat made with cans, among for Urban Planning and works that have a high others creations linked to Environment of Granada, quality, but also a high recycling. Miguel Ángel Fernández component of commitment Madrid; the director of The mayor has been in and denunciation". Inagra, Sebastián Fernández charge of revealing the The exhibition 'Re-Crea' Toronjo, and the director of names of the 17 winning collects a total of 45 pieces the School of Art of Granada, students of this exhibition, among sculptures, paintings Blas Calero. organized by the Department and pieces of enamel and of Urbanism, Environment,
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Diplomat of "Art of Glass".
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The well-known Venezuelan designer Carolina Scharffenorth will arrive in Miami in the last quarter of this year, to teach in a Diploma of the Florida Global University, the techniques and applications of glass. "The course starts from the most basic work with vitrofusion, to the realization of utilitarian and vitromosaic pieces," said the artist. Carolina, who has more than 18 years of experience working glass, has a number of significant and majestic pieces, where she prints her incomparable creativity and art. The Venezuelan creator,
who has also worked as a graphic designer and photographer, devoted herself to applying the arts of glass to architecture, creating stained glass, murals, modern windows, threedimensional stained glass, hanging, wall cladding with vitromosaic and room dividers, with a contemporary touch.
attracted by the arts, can also be a participant in this educational project, which will last approximately two months.
At the same time, the artist told us, they are going to do programmed courses (even online) about the art of fire, in order to teach the theoretical part to learn how glass behaves with "I also like to teach and heat, oven handling and that's why I created this everything related to diploma with the university, which is aimed materials. necessary to develop this art. at plastic artists, architects, designers, The diploma will be held goldsmiths and related," the second week of said Scharffenorth. September, in the spaces of "Florida Global However, anyone who University" in the city of has no experience and Doral. feels encouraged or
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Child throws a glass sculpture.
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The accident of a child who broke a glass sculpture can cost a family in Kansas City $ 132,000. Sarah Goodman, her husband and son were at a wedding reception at the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center in Overland Park. Sarah told the middle Kansas City Star that her family was preparing to leave and was saying goodbye to the father of the bride, when they heard a noise. When they went to see what had happened, a glass sculpture was on the ground. Goodman told The Star: "He probably hugged her. Maybe my son hugged a torso because he is a nice, affectionate and sweet kid who has just graduated from preschool. " Parents could pay dearly for that hug. Goodman said he received a letter from Travelers insurance saying: "This loss occurred when his
son was in a closed area of the property and collapsed a glass sculpture. Under common law in Kansas, you are responsible for the supervision of a minor and your lack of supervision during this loss could be considered negligence, "The Star reported. However, in the surveillance video you see other people in the same room where the sculpture was.
"There was no border around that. There was not even a sign saying, 'Do not touch.' " A spokesman for Overland Park says the sculpture was given away and that the city is responsible for protecting it, but added that it should not be touched. "There is a social responsibility not to interact with it if it is not designed for interaction," Sean Reilly told KSHB.
The letter also asked the Goodman said he still does Goodman for their insurance not know how he will pay for information. the glass sculpture and that he is upset that no one in the Goodman says that while city showed concern for his she is arranging with her son after the accident. insurance company, she believes that maybe she will "Honestly, he's had not have to pay the bill nightmares every night," because the sculpture did Goodman told KSHB. not have a no-touch sign. "None of these people ever Nor was it cordoned off for said 'how is Troy? How is visitors or insured, in his your child holding up? Is your opinion. face okay? '" "It's on the main catwalk. It is Goodman told police, that he not a separate room. was called to the scene due Without Plexiglas. Without to a riot, that his son had protection. It does not hold facial injuries, but police told back, "Goodman told KSHB. him that it was a civil matter, The Star reported.
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Tvitec wins the 2018 Isolar Award.
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Isolar Glass, one of the leading European groups of independent insulating glass manufacturers, has awarded the Spanish company Tvitec System Glass the Most Representative Project Award of the year for the work done for the glazing of 1100 15th Street Midtown Center in Washington.
The award will be extended to the main actors in the development of the project, especially in relation to the execution of the facade.
In this case, the prestigious architecture studio Shop Architects, the specialist in carpentry and installation of envelopes, Oldcastle Building Envelope (OBE), This complex is one of the and the main contractor, the reference works of the Leon American Clark company in the capital of the Construction. United States. Tvitec manufactured nearly Tvitec supplied from its 5,000 double-glazed units for Cubillos del Sil factory, very the Midtown Center with the close to Ponferrada, more addition of selective layers of than 22,000 square meters Guardian and AGC to of diverse eco-efficient glass prioritize eco-efficiency both products to convert the inside and outside the former headquarters of the complex. mythical Washington Post The Spanish architectural into a modern commercial glass transformer added its and office complex, which 4.0 technology of tempering will also host the and lamination to ensure the headquarters of the safety and sound insulation American credit institution prescribed for this Fannie Mae. demanding project. The Isolar 2018 Award for Midtown Center, in the heart the most representative of Washington, is presented project was delivered last as a set of two blocks of 14 month to a representation of floors that communicate with Tvitec during the annual each other through a series meeting of the German of bridges that connect the insulating glass brand. two wings on a large central courtyard. www.amigosmava.org
The exclusive facade, designed by Shop, is a curtain wall with panels in which the glass is combined with copper panels and aluminum extrusions through 40 different geometric joints. The director of Internacional de Tvitec, David López, was satisfied with the achievement of this award, which he dedicated especially to the American clients who trusted and continue trusting in Tvitec. The company is already developing other emblematic building projects in Washington, but also in New York, Boston, Dallas or Miami, among other American cities. In some cases they are super-tall skyscrapers that exceed 300 meters in height. The director of manufacturing, Recaredo Prado, who was in charge of collecting the award at the annual meeting of Isolar, thanked the jury and all the European partners of Isolar for this distinction that highlights the international, sustainable and high quality of glazed solutions of Tvitec.
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More about La Trinidad.
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The Plenary Session of the City Council of Seville, meeting in ordinary session, has definitively approved the Special Plan for Interior Reform (PERI) prepared for the grounds of the old La Trinidad glass factory, located on Miraflores Avenue. In this framework, the delegate councilor of Habitat Urbano, Antonio Muñoz (PSOE), has put in value this plan that responds to the agreement signed between the Consistory and the compensation board formed by the owners of the floors of the Glass Factory, through that these will be ceded to the City Council after being subjected to consolidation and security works by the compensation board, while on the grounds of the site excluded from protective measures will
be built more than 200 free rent housing.
Government that began the "unblocking" "
The plan has been approved with the favorable vote of the PSOE, PP and Cs and with the abstention of Participa Sevilla and IU. In this regard, Muñoz indicates that it is "an issue that had been blocked for more than ten years and that will involve the urbanization of the area, the conservation of the nave and the provision of square meters for green areas, free spaces and some 200 homes" .
On his side, the councilor of Cs Javier Moyano indicates that it is a modification "in which all win, where the heritage and real estate development and the citizen and private interest coexist".
The councilor of PP Maria del Mar Sanchez Estrella has been "proud" to move forward this modification of the PERI that "has been dealing for ten years in the Management of Urbanism", indicating that it was the PP
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However, the spokesperson of Participa, Susana Serrano, has shown his doubts about the design that is being raised, while his counterpart in IU, Daniel González Rojas, has valued this "step forward" to get the rehabilitation of the Glass Factory , but does not agree with the proposed housing development because "there is no protected", to which Muñoz responds that it is what marks the urban planning.
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The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with current management.
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Castillo de San José de Valderas. Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 28925 ALCORCÓN MADRID
The purpose of this Association is to promote, encourage and support many cultural activities, in the broadest terms,
When glass culture
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