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Paul Stankard • Travel.
M. A. Carretero.
This month of May we have Glass bottle factory in Villafranca de los Barros traveler. (Badajoz) but we were told On the 4th we will travel to by the company that due to Huelva to attend the XXVI works in the factory, the National Congress of guided tours have been Friends of Museums during canceled. So again it will be. the weekend. And on the 11th we will start In this Congress we will the trip to Japan with a group deal with the theme of of volunteer guides from trying to break the wall that CEATE to make a tour for 15 separates different days in different cities of that generations and show that beautiful country. it is possible to have young people involved in Friends' As we indicated on page 21 of this Bulletin, on the 17th associations. we will be separated from The organizers of this the group, both our year's Congress are, Secretary and myself, to visit together with the Spanish the Glass Museum of Federation of Friends of Toyama, an excellent Museums (FEAM), the museum that was Friends of the Huelva inaugurated in August 2015 Museum. and that specializes in art in contemporary glass. The congressmen have
prepared a visit to the village of El Rocío and the companions, during the work sessions, will visit the mines of Riotinto. On Sunday, the last day of the Congress, both the congressmen and the companions, we will visit the Museum of Huelva, the Monastery of La Rábida Nuestra sede: and the Muelle de las Castillo Grande de Carabelas, at the mouth of S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n the Tinto River. 28925 ALCORCÓN. We refer to this activity (MADRID) more broadly on page 15 of info@amigosmava.org this Bulletin. On the outward journey to Huelva, we had the intention of visiting the BA
directors about the need for these institutions to serve as an element to educate the public in the different branches of the fine arts. Some continue insisting on the need to attract children to serve as a link for their parents to approach museums. I do not think that this initiative is the right one, because when the child comes home enthusiastic about what he has seen in the museum, most likely his parents are busy with other tasks that they consider to be much more important, such as for example, watching a football game, and not paying attention to the illusion of your child.
I think the strategy must be In the Museum, among other the opposite: act on the exhibitions, they have made different associations of an installation of Chihuly adults so that, among their which they call "Glass art activities, they schedule garden" guided visits to museums and, when the older one The image of Chihuly, a feels sensitized by the visit leading figure in he has made, accompany contemporary glass, has his son so that can enjoy become a symbol for the what he has been able to Museum. discover. The Public Library of the city Therefore, one of the most of Toyama is also located in important activities of our the building. Association is to disseminate We hope that this visit to the the glass culture as widely as possible, either through Museum will be an unforgettable experience for guided tours, conferences with visual support that we us because of the have prepared or through opportunity to see a large collection of sculptures and a this Bulletin. museum space in which all the advances of modern architecture are installed.
In our country, the absence of culture related to art in glass is very remarkable and In another order of things, an the surprise that causes in article about the museum as the assistants to the guided visits or to the conferences an educational center was published in the newspaper its personal discovery of the nature of the glass and of the El País a few days ago. beautiful sculptures that can be very eloquent. perform The article publishes the opinions of different museum with this material.
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Conference of the GAS
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Plan of the Royal Factory
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The Vimbodí Museum
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Activities on the MAVA
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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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Conference of the GAS
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Plan of the Royal Factory
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The Vimbodí Museum
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Stamp dedicated to Alcorcón 12
Break glass work
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"Today and tomorrow"
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Congress of the FEAM
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2018
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The art of Strimling
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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. ../ .. 24) "fuel" means any solid, liquid or gaseous combustible material; 25) "combustion installation" means any technical device in which combustible products are oxidized in order to utilize the heat thus produced; 26) 'chimney' means a structure containing one or more smoke outlets acting as ducts for
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the waste gases in order to expel them into the atmosphere; 27) "operating hours" means the time, expressed in hours, during which a combustion installation, as a whole or in part, operates and expels emissions into the atmosphere, except start-up and shutdown periods; 28) "sulphidation index" means the proportion, during a given period, between the amount of sulfur not emitted into the atmosphere by a combustion plant and the amount of sulfur contained in the solid fuel entering the combustion plant and be used there
Javier Gómez in Royal Oak. glass? The 46th Glass Invitational Award Exhibition returns to Royal Oak as the largest glass exhibition in the world, presenting a dazzling display of more than 100 works of art by renowned artists from around the world.
Fratelli Tosso at La Granja 18 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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The glass of L'Ollería
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Other trends
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Marta Alonso in Milan
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The glass in León
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Glass South America
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Laminated glass
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Veteco Glass Conference
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How do
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Passivhaus
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The metallic glass
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The Cup of Lycurgus
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The Loves of Castulo
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The sarcophagus of Margarita
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Glassberries Design
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Workshop of UAH
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Most powerful telescope
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Withdrawal of beer
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Board Of Directors
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during the same period of time; 29) "national solid fuel" means that used in a combustion plant specially designed for that fuel, which is extracted and used locally; 30) 'determining fuel' means fuel which, among all those used in a combustion plant equipped with a mixed boiler using the distillation and conversion residues of petroleum refining, alone or with other fuels, has the highest emission limit established in part 1 of Annex V or, in the case of different fuels having the same emission limit value, the fuel with the highest thermal power;
In addition to the opening night of the general admission parties, VIP members are invited to participate in the famous MasterWorks Auction and the opening of a new space dedicated to glass at the Flint Institute of Arts, as well as demonstrations and conferences.
Stunning glass works presented at the 46th Glass Invitational in Royal Oak. On the cover of the article whose image we include, one of the works of Javier Gomez. Are you ready to see a serious
The opening of the 46th Invitational Glass Invitational Award began at 8 p.m. of last Saturday, April 28 and the exhibition will remain open until Friday, June 22. 4400 Fernlee Ave., Royal Oak; 248-554-0590. Web: habatat.com. Admission is free.
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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. Igor Obeso.
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Igor Obeso Aguirre is the only craftsman in the Basque Country who uses the technique of blown glass by hand or air, without exceeding the ten of the Spanish set and more numerous using the method of blowing with mold.
what he did for a oneyear course of duration with Jacques Gourbil in Ainoha-Ciboure.
and requires, among other qualities, great dexterity and perseverance".
He comes regularly to update his knowledge to the one who considers the best specialist in Spain and one of the most outstanding in Europe, Pere Ignasi from Palma de Mallorca.
He also knows the techniques of fusion and thermoforming, sand engraving and glass drilling.
The work that we have Born in San Sebastian in chosen from the 1973, he studied at the permanent collection of School of Arts and Crafts the Museum is made by In Igor's opinion, the obtaining the qualification him and is entitled "Su technique of blowing of industrial draftsman. glass by hand or by air is Garrak - Llama de fuego". His artistic vocation and "the most difficult to learn inclination towards the use of glass with light, which could influence the proximity of Irun where his master glass works developed, led him to use glass, in many cases recycled, as a raw material, elaborating especially artistic lamps.
After moving to the field of making stained glass using the Tiffany technique, for which he had the teachings of José Luis Alonso, a well-known glazier of Irún, his longing for experimentation led him to blown glass for
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Established artists. Paul Stankard.
way to enclose the real flowers in the glass.
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Soon after, the paperweight makers (mostly Americans) followed Stankard's lead. Stankard, who is now an internationally acclaimed artist, is largely credited with changing the status of the "craft" glass paperweight to the "fine art" paperweight. Among many other museums, Stankard's work is exhibited at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Louvre Museum in Paris; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; The Corning Museum of He is considered the father of His main desire was "to be on the Glass in Corning, New York; modern glass paperweight. creative side and do what you WheatonArts and the Cultural love". He started producing glass Center in Millville, New Jersey; He was born on April 7, 1943. He paperweight in his garage while and the Wiener Decorative Arts lived in North Attleboro, working in the industry to support Museum in Dania Beach, Florida. Massachusetts, in his early his growing family. years. In his autobiography, Stankard It was when Stankard showed his narrates his first struggles with He graduated from Salem County first paperweight at an art exhibit dyslexia, which caused him to Vocational Technical Institute on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, have a low score on the tests (now Salem Community College) New Jersey, that Reese Palley, because he could not read the in Salem, New Jersey, with a an internationally respected art questions. degree in blown scientific glass. dealer, saw his work and This caused him to graduate with economically sponsored During the first ten years of his a low IQ. Stankard to devote himself fullcareer, he worked as a glass time to manufacturing. of art in blower, manufacturing scientific In the book, Stankard describes instruments for several chemical glass. the pressure and stigma of being laboratories. Stankard endeavored to make his labeled as a slow learner by an educational system that at that floral glass designs look very In 1967 he worked for Francis time was not aware of dyslexia natural and botanical. Whittemore at Philco-Ford. The and the steps it took to overcome Blaschka flowers at Harvard Its glass flowers looked so real its low self-esteem and learning University and being in contact that many people mistakenly difficulties to become one of the with Whittemore inspired thought that they had found a most outstanding artists of his Stankard to start experimenting generation. with the paperweight in 1969.
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Emerging artists. Paul Josef Osterberger. Osterberger and Paul Osterberger. Together they formed the "Atelier 3Klang".
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and lover of steampunk art, my works are often inspired by distant worlds, and also in the times of our history. For this I use Since 2010 he is an for my art objects in glass independent artist of old glasses and broken glass and metal. glasses. I refine the metal Husband and father of by rust and signs of use. I two children, he has been create my objects with master of the light that is refracted glassmaking guild at the through innumerable Innviertel Artist Guild layers of glass and since 2013 and a intricate decorations in my member of the objects of light and is "Schärdinger Runde". He was born in 1987 in staged as shadows or Ried im Innkreis (Upper "As an avid follower of reflections in the different Austria). Son of the artist science fiction / fantasy areas of the metal. " and singer Christine www.amigosmava.org
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Annual GAS conference.
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The island of Murano, Italy, will host the 47th annual conference of the Glass Art Society! The Glass Path will guide attendees through the winding path of the remarkable history of the island as they explore the future of glass and discover the hidden routes that connect the conference venues. A selection of Murano glass factories and studios will provide Glass Art Society with the incredible opportunity to use these facilities as venues for the conference. Attendees will also participate in the highly anticipated GAS conference programs, including glass demonstrations and lectures on inspiring glass themes, and will also enjoy special Murano-exclusive programming while being surrounded by the beauty of the Venetian region. The San Pietro area will be the place to be, the central meeting center.
It is a space that offers an opportunity for attendees to meet and connect, eat and drink, and watch some incredible demonstrations.
share ideas and participate in workshops on the history and current state of glassmaking.
The theme of the conference offers the opportunity to The opening ceremonies will promote an exhibition at the give people the opportunity Vetro Museum in Murano to honor our winners of the with the works of selected 2018 award and will remind international artists present some that they are no longer on this occasion. with us. The exhibition is curated by The closing ceremonies will Tina Oldknow, former curator be special: an opportunity for of modern and contemporary attendees to line up on the glass at the Corning Museum canals and watch the glass of Glass in Corning, New fashion show mounted on York. colorful gondolas. Il percorso di vetro is thought This is a unique conference in a literal and symbolic for GAS, Murano is a place sense and can be a that will connect us with the metaphor for many things: it past and the future of glass is an approach, a direction, a and will take us to Il means and a research path: Percorso Di Vetro: the Way a vehicle for discovery. of Glass. The pioneers of this trip are After Norfolk, Virginia in the exposed artists who, from 2017, and before St. the masters of the mid-20th Petersburg in 2019, this century to the new talents, year's venue for the 47th have contributed significantly annual conference of the to the development of glass Glass Art Society (GAS) is as a creative tool. Murano. The brochure of this event More than a hundred glass can be obtained through this artists from around the world link. will gather on the island of Venice to exchange and
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Master plan of the Royal Crystals Factory.
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The objective is to reduce losses in search of economic equilibrium. Completed the management commission that has been carried out since July 2013 the School of Industrial Organization (EOI), under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, the National Glass Center Foundation launches the master plan designed to solve the problems that afflicted the institution and the new president of the board, Andrés Ortega, president in turn of the Segoviana Business Federation, confirms the appointment of a new general director.
visits to the Glass Technology Museum and more actions are planned to increase the increase," he says.
center for accreditations and certifications" professionals in the sector. And in the museum aspect, in addition to the The first result is visible since rearrangement of the entrance, the managers of the Royal last April, since the access Factory are now awaiting the area to the museum and the restoration of the domes, with store has been remodeled, an investment of 1.5 million and now each space has its own entrance, more attractive euros, in addition to other and more representative of the actions "aimed at that the activity. One consequence has National Glass Center has the been the increase in museum relevance it has to have ». admissions and in-store sales, Already the previous director, which according to Ortega Blanca García Agulló, have been "much higher than appointed by the School of in the same period last year." Industrial Organization, said last summer that the future of The work plan is "very ambitious" and decisive, once the Royal Glass Factory was not threatened, although the the activity is channeled. With the entry into the Court of Accounts had required Ortega explains that the presidency of the patronage of development of the master the development of the master the CNV de Ortega Foundation plan involves developing the plan that is now put on going. last November, the institution museum, industrial and Ortega emphasizes that the has begun a new stage; The educational projects of the first step to develop it is the implementation of the Real Fábrica de Cristales "to incorporation of the new approved master plan is provide work for the next director, and that they have immediate and the first step years". One of the initiatives of good prospects. Last month, has been the selection of the work in the industrial field the Board of Trustees of the new CEO, which will be involves rescuing old molds CNV Foundation approved the presented in a few days, as and working with prestigious accounts of the last financial soon as some issues are designers to "open other types year, which did not materialize completed. The organizational of markets with a because they are not yet changes that the Foundation differentiating product, a "official". has carried out within its production line that the Real The budget for 2017 was possibilities have already been Fábrica can do". around two million euros and noticed last Easter, assures In the educational field, the the chairman of the board only Ortega. plan includes studying the notes that the end of the year "Everything is in the initial possibilities of the Higher "has been better than the phase, but the meetings held School of Glass, so that not previous one", with "quite by the board of directors every only does it teach a higher minor" losses although the Monday have already led to degree but it is "a reference Real Glass Factory has not yet new agreements to increase overcome the deficit .
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The Glass Museum of Vimbodí.
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The Museum and Glass Furnace of Vimbodí and Poblet has reopened to the public last April with a new live demonstration space of blown glass and a larger store.
since its opening 25 years ago and has represented an investment of 90,000 euros, 60% of which have been funded by the Diputación de Tarragona.
The mayor of Vimbodí and The installation was closed Poblet, Joan Güell, for works since December believes that this action is to make a remodeling that "a giant step" to make the has changed the reception, installation end up the shop and the becoming "a cultural and demonstration space tourist reference in where the master Catalonia for its glassmaker works, uniqueness and attraction epicenter of the Museum. for visitors".
Thus, a new electric melting furnace has been installed that replaces the previous gas furnace, a change that allows to gain security and represents an economic saving of 40%.
Now, the Consistory wants to work in the exhibition space, located on the first floor of the Museum, where the collection of local glass pieces is located, to make it more didactic and show the most Two new cooling ovens emblematic and significant have also been placed and elements that make the area has been Vimbodí glass a resource rearranged to expand the ethnological and tourist space for the public. unique in Catalonia. On the other hand, a new The Museum and Glass work space has been Furnace keeps alive the structured that is closed to glass spirit that the public, combining the impregnated the functions of the warehouse municipality during the first with the tasks of half of the 20th century, preparation of the pieces when up to four glass for sale. furnaces and a parallel activity of coated with jugs This is the first great performance of the space with twill came into
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operation. However, the tradition of stained glass in Vimbodí and Poblet is much older and dates back to the 12th century, in the middle of the construction of the Monastery of Poblet, when there was a glass oven in the Nerola area where lamps and other pieces of glass were manufactured. for the new Cistercian abbey. Glass production became an industry from the twentieth century, when they began to produce objects for industrial uses, religious, decorative, agricultural and, especially for domestic use. The main pieces that came out of the ovens were porrones, oil cans and catarafas of Catalan green and white glass, as well as pitchers, salt shakers, canaries and decorative pieces. Vimbodí and Poblet recalls the glass-making spirit with the museum and with the Craft Glass Festival of Vimbodí and Poblet, Vitrum.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities on the MAVA. FUSIÓN.
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Fusión was created with the aim of making known the new talents and values of contemporary Spanish jewelry with glass. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Glass of Alcorcón (MAVA) hosts in an exhibition 41 pieces or collections, made by 29 creators from all over the national geography Fusión is the first national creative jewelery show with glass. In order to publicize the new talents and values of Spanish contemporary jewelry with glass, Fusión was born, convened by
the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón - MAVA and Fundesarte, chair of promotion of crafts of the EOI (School of Organization Industrial).
pieces worked with glass.
Among the participants were young talents, architects, designers, craftsmen and consecrated artists, who Now, several pieces have designed and produced been selected by a the pieces combining committee of experts at glass with materials such the highest level in our as gold, plants, ropes, country, composed of plastic, leather ... and a representatives of the wide range of options that branches of have allowed , also, craftsmanship, design, establish collaborations conservation and glass. and dialogues with artisans from different After passing through the disciplines. MAVA the exhibition will visit various venues in The images we took of Spain and abroad. the opening of this event can be seen through this In this first call 53 authors link. have participated who have proposed 166
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Stamp dedicated to the Castles of Alcorcón.
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Correos has presented a new stamp commemorating the centenary of Los Castillos de Valderas, a palatial ensemble of Saxon style located in the town of Alcorcón that was inaugurated in 1917 by the Marquis José Sanchiz y Quesada. The president of Correos, Javier Cuesta, accompanied by the Undersecretary of Development, Rosa Navarro, and the mayor of the municipality, David Pérez (PP), has been commissioned to show the new seal corresponding to the Heritage Series and valid throughout the European scope. The stamp is illustrated with the image of the main palace, which was the residence of the Marquis of Valderas, and with a background tape with the red and green colors of the local flag.
will last and that more people come to see it, "said Cuesta. The president of Correos has insisted that this type of initiative "has a direct effect" on knowledge of heritage and the attraction of visitors and tourists, "also granting it" global projection "through philatelic societies, philatelists and webs and specialized magazines. In the same line has been expressed the Undersecretary of Development, for whom "it is all a pride that Alcorcón and its castles contribute to take the Spain Brand around the world", making "the image remain and last forever because, in addition, it will pass to be part of the postal museums ".
palace complex of the Castles of Valderas -formed by three castles- was commissioned in 1916 by the Marquis José Sanchiz y Quesada to the architect Luis Sainz de los Terreros, although at the beginning of the Civil War the castles were vacated by the family and a barracks was installed in the main castle. At the end of the 60s of the last century, the whole was abandoned and deteriorated until it reached an almost ruinous state. In 1988, the sixth Marquis of Valderas, Hipólito Sanchiz and Núñez-Robres, decided to donate them to the City Council of Alcorcón, which reformed them and gave them a new public use.
At present the big castle houses the Museum of Art in For its part, the mayor has Glass of Alcorcón and the stressed that this new seal, Center of Support and which will be "linked to the Family Encounter; the history of the city," is "the second castle houses a finishing touch" to the The aim of the issuance of celebration of the centenary cultural center where this unlimited circulation, of these fortifications, whose courses and workshops on which expects to reach 3.2 request to be qualified as an ceramics, jewelery or million copies, is to "enhance asset of interest Patrimonial photography are held, and the historical, artistic and the third one was not (BIP) by the Community of architectural value of the recovered due to Madrid "is about to fortifications", since "this will conclude". deterioration. make them exist, that they The construction of the
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Break the work of Jeff Koons in Amsterdam.
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The New Church of the Dutch capital dedicates two months every year to a "masterpiece", and this time it had chosen Koons'.
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In Gazing Ball, which could be translated as a mirror sphere, he copies with his assistants famous fabrics, the Mona Lisa among them. Then add a blue balloon, which reflects the environment and the viewer. Being almost in the picture, "both represent the present and are part of the work creating a changing optical and spiritual unity." "The eye of Perugino, of Koons and of the spectator are mixed in a moving threedimensional masterpiece", according to the description posted on the website of the Amsterdam room.
The closing of the special exhibition dedicated to the American artist Jeff Koons (1955) in the New Church, Amsterdam, has ended with part of his work in tatters.
A visitor has stumbled upon the sphere of glass painted blue that accompanies a copy of the oil painting Virgin with the Child and four saints, by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino. The piece is part of the Gazing Ball series, composed by Koons since 2014. This time, it ended up on the floor right at the end of the concert that closed the show. The temple is also an art gallery and has not specified its value. The accident occurred when the last notes of the organ of the New Church
The artist himself has said that "it is not about copying but about the concept of participation", facilitated by the replica and the mirror effect of the sphere.
sounded, whose organizers had chosen Italian music of the sixteenth century, the time Jeff Koons is one of the of El Perugino, for the most sought-after creators in farewell. the world. The concert was free and everything went smoothly In 2013, one of its stainless steel dogs, titled Balloon until a spectator gave a Dog (Orange), was lucky hit to the blue ball, auctioned for 58.4 million which has startled all the dollars (47.5 million euros) attendees. in the Christie's room in New It is an older man, York. according to eyewitnesses, who has been helped later The Dutch date was a premiere, being the first by the security service. composition of his series "Everyone has run to the Gazing Ball presented in the work to hear a tremendous country. 'clack'." When they arrived, The Nieuwe Kerk had they saw the pieces previously exhibited The scattered on the ground, "said another spectator to Holy Family, by Rembrandt, Pentecost, by El Greco, and the De Telegraaf The Last Supper (rose), by newspaper. Andy Warhol, in his series of The spokesmen of the exhibitions dedicated to room have not pronounced masterpieces. yet.
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"Today and tomorrow".
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Today, he is a vector of information, fiber optic, even silicon. Inhabited by this context, the exhibition "Today and tomorrow, the young guard of French glass" explores the poetic singularities.
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The contemporary glass factory: a convergence between art, design and technique At the edge of industry and advanced technologies, glassware here is a source of aesthetic surprise.
The Musée - Center d'art du verre (MCDAV), in the French town of Carmaux, presents the collective exhibition "Today and tomorrow - the young French glass guard".
Encouraging the emergence of glassmakers and shaking up traditional techniques, the MCDAV offers immersion in current production.
With pieces that are prone An exhibition that brings to be projected in the together almost seventy research and development emerging artists, all having of new techniques. in common a certain Artologists found traces of practice of glass. glass making until the third Between art, design, millennium BC, in technology, craftsmanship Mesopotamia, and now and chemistry, the glass continues to reinvent perspectives of "Today and itself. tomorrow" reveal forms and processes that defy limits. First molded and opaque, it becomes blown and Bringing together transparent. It is colored designers, visual artists, ink in the stained glass artisans and technowindows and Venetian researchers, the exhibition glass, among others. highlights the poetic and A luxury item, glass magnetic part of glass. accompanies modernity Sculptures, objects, through optics and containers, vectors of astronomical observation. images, of liquids or of Element of light ... emanates above all industrialization, flourishes from this hanging the with the real manufacture plurality, the malleability and the power of mutation of mirrors, future SaintGobain. of a material sometimes considered banal. At the beginning of the 20th century, glass creates Exhibition "Today and tomorrow": glass, between celestial cities, steel and clouds. tradition and emergency
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Tour an enormous tower (The wave and the earth, and Samuel Aurélie Abadie Sauques) or infinitely thin and filigree (clouds Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert) ... sometimes annoying (Argus, Raza Vicente) ... Sometimes the protector (In the refuge, Marie-Anne Baccichet) ... Here with icy sounds (All white, Damien François), quite soft and warm (Cube cut black and bronze, Vanessa Mitrani) ... The exhibition "Today and tomorrow" multiplies the means of expression and harmonic resonances.
A happy dispersion, like the play of light, in turn illuminates the utilitarian dimension, the decorative charge ... Or the ambiguity of this crystalline-looking material, but still amorphous (disordered, without periodic form), like that of a liquid. And the mobilization of design, sculpture, video, performance ... The exhibition "Today and tomorrow" reinvents the texture, as well as the place of contemporary glass. It was inaugurated on April 1 and can be visited until October 15 of this year.
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Congress of the FEAM 2018.
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Every year the Spanish Federation of Friends of Museums (FEAM) holds an itinerant congress that brings together representatives of all federated associations.
have young people engaged The work of the morning will in Friends associations." conclude with a space for dialogues among the This need will be explored congressmen, a teamwork through success stories and and the presentation of how to encourage them to conclusions. make this necessary change This meeting forum aims to happen quickly. In the afternoon there will be promote the debate on a visit to the village of El The meeting will begin on current issues of cultural Rocío. Friday 4 with the delivery of interest as well as the documentation to the The cultural program of this management of the day for the companions will associations themselves and congressmen, followed by the General Assembly of consist of a visit to the mines their activities in support of partners and an opening of Río Tinto (Cerro Colorado, museums. ceremony in which a Roman Necropolis, mining At the same time, it aims to conference will be given by train, Corta Lago and Corta publicize the work of the Mr. Diego González Atalaya), a lunch and return Friends of Museums in the Batanero, archaeologist, and to Huelva. Community in which the will deal with "Citizens, This day will conclude for all congress is held and Heritage, Museums and attendees with Salve Rociera establish relationships with other things of wanting". and a drink at the new associations and with On Saturday 5, the congress Hermandad del Rocío de the cultural entities of the program will begin with Huelva. region. "What is a young friend and On Sunday 6 there will be This year 2018 the XXVI how to find them Success National Congress of Friends stories", led by Eliana Zanini, two guided visits, one to the of the Museums is Young Friends coordinator of Museum of Huelva and another to the Monastery of celebrated in Huelva, from the World Federation of May 4 to 6 of this month. Friends of Museums and the La Rábida and the Muelle de las Carabelas. Argentine Federation of The motto of this edition will Friends of Museums. Our Association, as in be "The touch makes love: have young friends is It will continue with "And now previous years, will be represented in this Congress possible" and its goal is "to what do we do? Manual of by our President and our break the wall that separates instructions and steps to different generations and follow" space led by Paloma Secretary. show that it is possible to Richi, coordinator of Young Friends of the FEAM.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXXVIII).
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Eduardo Alonso Cereza
The Alexandrine masters are believed to have established workshops in Rome and Campania in the same period in which the Syrians did it in northern Italy. It is known that these master glassmakers arrived in northern Italy because we have the case of Ennion, who created a branch in this area. The blowing technique went through an experimentation phase, but it was short-lived because the Syrian artisans active in Italy, during the August period, managed, in an interval of twenty or thirty years, to apply almost all the technical blowing varieties.
located in the Po Valley and its there is early glass in more quantity, as if there had been an center was Aquileia. important center of production Pliny tells us that at the there. beginning of the first century AD other workshops were established in the Campania area (15). Something after the establishment of glass centers in the Po Valley, a workshop was founded at the mouth of the Rhone River.
Gradually the workshops are extended in a northerly direction, through Gaul and Germania.
Branches of the centers located at the mouth of the Rhone and in the Po Valley are established in Lugdunum (Lyon) and Vindoniss (Brug).
From these centers glass will be exported to a large part of the European area not occupied by the Romans.
Major glass centers in Northern Europe will be: Amiens, Reims, Treveris and Cologne.
The workshops of the south of the Gaul, with center in Lyon, and the zone of the Rhine, with center in Cologne,
Plinio tells us that in his time there were already glass workshops in Italy, Gaul and Hispania, but he does not tell they will invade with their us anything about the productions the Iberian Isings believes that blown installation of the first factories Peninsula until practically the glass was not popularized in Hispania. end of the Empire. before the time of Augustus In the most Romanized areas following the reverse path to Alexandria, in the imperial era, of the latter province, the Betis that maintained by the Roman remained a great center of valley and the east coast, legions: from east to west. production and preserved the glass is more abundant and ancient techniques: molding, The first workshops that does not only consist of pieces mosaic, carving and polishing. Sidonian glassmakers almost exclusively of luxury. In established in Italy were the valley of the Guadalquivir
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Visitors can find Farcama Spring more traditional products and crafts made in ceramics, jewelry, glass, wrought iron, wood or textiles and from the five provinces of La Mancha.
More than 50 craftsmen will go to Farcama Primavera in Guadalajara. The third edition of Farcama
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Spring, to be held in the plaza of the Palace of the Infantado de Guadalajara from May 3 to 6, will have the participation of more than 50 artisans and different activities
The glassmakers who will attend the Fair are Ana Úbeda, from Albacete; Conrado Córdoba de Julián, from Chilarón de Cuenca; Isaac Pérez Sánchez (DeCristalia), from Abitas, Navarra; MalvayGris Murano, from Madrid; and Pineda de Luelmo, from Los HuerosVillalbilla, Madrid.
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Last April we visited the Prado The exhibition is organized jointly with the Museum Museum to see the Rubens Boijmans Van Beuningen of exhibition. Sketch painter. Rotterdam, and will also be Rubens is the most important seen in that Dutch city. painter of sketches in the history of European art. While The exhibition was inaugurated we barely know about a dozen on the 10th of last April and can be visited until August 5 of oil sketches before him, we this year. still have about 450 in his hand. The practice of making oil sketches was initiated by a few The Museo del Prado artists in the sixteenth century, presents an exhibition that such as Polidoro da aims to draw attention to this aspect of Rubens' art and will Caravaggio, Federico Barrocci, Tintoretto or Veronese. include 82 sketches, as well as around 20 paintings, This practice, however, is drawings and other works that exceptional in his work. Based help to contextualize the on these precedents, Rubens sketches. turned the painted sketch into a fundamental part of artistic
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practice. This is proved by the numbers: while we only know a few sketches of his predecessors, there are still about 500 sketches of the master of Antwerp. This makes him the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. He made them for different reasons: to try different ideas for a composition or a figure; as samples to present to a client; as reminders of a face or some work of art that he could incorporate into his paintings; as designs for book covers, stamps, parts of a building or ephemeral constructions.
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The art in glass by José Strimling.
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On April 4 at the Spanish Casino in Mexico City, the opening of the exhibition by the artist José Strimling, whose main medium is glass, took place. The architect and visual artist José Strimling shows his artistic sense at the Spanish Casino. in the heart of the Historic Center of Mexico City, in this, his first exhibition in this
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venue. The artist exhibited more than 50 works, some of which are exhibited for the first time. The work is considered by the artist as fresh, new and is composed of several stages of his artistic career, in which he has around 20 years working on glass as the main material of his works, and has the
support of galleries in San Miguel Allende, Puerto Vallarta, Puebla, Oaxaca and a representative in Mexico City. The inauguration was in charge of Inés Recavier, renowned writer, and the cutting of the ribbon by her son Daniel Strimling, giving way to a welcome cocktail for attendees.
Fratelli Tosso in La Granja. colors have been combined to form flowers, stars, dots or strokes; first they were placed neatly on a metal surface or inside a mold and then picked up with incandescent glass and blow them. The company Fratelli Toso was one of those who worked with greater skill and skill these techniques that visitors can contemplate until September 30 at the Glass Technology Museum of the Royal Glass Factory.
The Royal Factory of Crystals of La Granja (Segovia) inaugurated the exhibition "Fratelli Toso", on one of the most prestigious international families in the work of Murano glass. This collection of Lutz Harald Holz gathers pieces made with Murano glass between 1902 and 1980, according to the Real Fábrica de Crystals in a
statement. The exhibited works have been elaborated with the traditional techniques of blowing with cane and the filigree and murrinas venetian blinds, these last ones were perfected during the Roman Empire and resurged from the 16th century thanks to Muranese glaziers. The murrinas used in a great variety of
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Founded in 1856, the company acquired greater prestige with the collaboration of influential artists such as Guido Cadorin and Hans Stoltemberg Lerche. Later, designers Ermanno Toso and Pollio Perelda also formed part of the team. From 1950 on, they began to specialize in the production of unique high-end pieces, which can also be seen in the exhibition.
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The glass in Museums: Kyohei Fujita.
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molten glasses. The colors and images are reminiscent of a volcano releasing lava. The title is appropriately called Nagare or flowing. We have never been able to see a piece of glass that expressed a sense of movement.
and even children can enjoy a visit to the Kyohei Fujita Glass Museum. A visit to the glass museum means a trip to Matsushima. You can find the museum inside the Hotel Ichinoba. Nearby hotels, such as Hotel Sohkan, often have discounted tickets at the tables in their lobby, so you can take advantage of the fact that an adult's entrance fee is 1200 yen.
Other rooms in the gallery, all with Fujita's works, make His works have even been us smile because we will be presented abroad, such as astonished to see the at the Metropolitan Museum curves, the precision and the of Art in New York. And soon thought that were reflected In addition to the magnificent we will discover why. in each of the pieces. art, there is a video in Japanese that presents Fujita may have died in the Flowers, fruits, boxes, Kyohei Fujita and a gift shop mid-eighties in 2004, but his whatever, and Fujita specializing in glass works by works are still timeless. They certainly has. Surprise the local artists. are comparable or even amount of art pieces and exceed the modern pieces of ended up spending almost In the MAVA we have a work other artists in design and an hour in the museum by Kyohei Fujita in the production. when combined with a walk permanent collection. through the outside garden After paying the entrance, and the gift shop. we enter a corridor wrapped in a soft and gentle glow. At There are also several small the end, he arrives at a piece mirror rooms in the museum of glass panel where he where you can look and see walks to find the first of your reflection at multiple several galleries. angles at the same time. Opposite is a large red vase that seems to throw white
With numerous colors and designs, families, couples
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Recycling. Reasons not to recycle.
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problem posed by the textile industry in the world - the second most polluting -, such as Ecoalf and Ecoology, and several designers who have decided to experiment with fabrics from recycled materials. , aware that they are the future of fashion.
We have tried for years to participate in that recycling culture that does exist in the rest of European countries but we still find many obstacles. Will we really save the world by separating the waste? Is it true that our consumerist zeal is destroying the planet's resources? Is it true that the Circular Economy has arrived to save the Earth? International congresses, media, discussion forums ... All insist on the urgent need to reduce pollution, minimize the waste we generate and, in general, be more respectful with the environment. The implementation of the Circular Economy is one of the most clear objectives in the Europe 2020 agenda, which aims to generate smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The idea is to implement a resource utilization system where the reduction of the elements prevails. He flees from the current "use and throw" and is committed to reuse, repair and recycling to give the materials a second life. But putting this system in motion supposes, in addition to the work of the institutions, the effort of the citizens. And although we have tried for years to participate in this recycling culture that does seem to exist in the rest of the European countries, we still find ourselves with many obstacles and do not finish trusting in the process. 1. City councils do not make things easy: there are few cubes It is one of the most repeated complaints: there are few containers, especially in some municipalities where the recycling policy is not a priority. And as they are scarce, it is necessary to walk long distances and, with the weight of the bags,
it is sometimes impossible to reach. But according to data from Ecoembes in 2016 there were 572,739 yellow and blue containers in Spain, distributed throughout the country (14,782 more than the previous year). In this way, 99% of Spaniards have access to the selective collection of this waste with an average of one container per 100 meters. Also, if we do not recycle, the size of landfills and incinerators will continue to increase outside of the city, posing a great threat to the environment and health. The effort is worth it.
The last one to join sustainable fashion has been the Sevillian designer Lourdes Montes, who in the last edition of the International Flamenco Fashion Show (SIMOF) presented the first farala dress made with fabric from recycled packaging. 4. Recycling costs us all money On the domestic level, you need to spend more money in cubes. And in what refers to the collection, the municipalities have to make disbursement in containers and equipment for the selective transfer. But it is also the saving of energy, water and raw materials, the recycling industry is Spain is responsible for the creation of 42,000 jobs direct or indirect.
If we talk about savings, the future is the imposition of the rate of 2. Because a person does not do garbage per generation, which is it, nothing happens already underway in some municipalities of the Balearic The waste generated by a person does not mean anything, Islands and Catalonia. This will reduce garbage taxes to those compared to what large families most committed to the companies generate, for recycling of packaging, glass, example. But more and more companies with corporate social paper and organic waste, paying only for waste that can not be responsibility, that is, taking reused. measures of social, economic and, of course, environmental 5. Everyone does it wrong and so responsibility that includes waste we do not advance anything management. It has happened to all of us: going An example of this is to throw paper and find containers Mercadona, which has in the container, plastic ... And in implemented energy saving the plastic container we have policies, the reuse of packaging found cardboard boxes or in the and the use of products used in glass stoppers that have not been other production phases; and separated. Ikea, which has installed solar panels in its stores and manages But at present, the percentage of the operation of almost 300 wind improper waste -equived- is low in comparison with the waste that is turbines. deposited correctly. 3. What is done with recycled materials is of worse quality and In Spain, in 2016 - we still do not have data for 2017 - 1,351,903 uglier tons of containers were recycled How will a shirt made with fabric which translated into made from packaging be the environmental benefit means: same? They are not natural 1,000,000 tons less CO2 fabrics, they are synthetic, and emissions; a saving of 20 million still do not deserve all the cubic meters of water and the confidence in what versatility, reduction of 7 million megawatts texture and quality is concerned. of energy. But there are already several brands that have decided to put an end to the environmental
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• Our activities.
• Cultural visits. On May 17th of this month of May, our President and our Secretary, taking advantage of their trip to Japan, will visit the Toyama Glass Museum.
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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.
The modern Kirari building that houses the museum was designed by the renowned architect Kuma Kengo and also contains the city's public library. The sixth floor includes the exhibition of the "art glass garden", where a collection of installations by Dale Chihuly is exhibited.
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On the occasion of the celebration of the XXVI National Congress of Friends of Museums, we will visit the Museum of Huelva on the 6th of this month of May. This Museum, formerly known as the Provincial Museum of Huelva, was inaugurated in 1973, providing the city with a cultural space where archaeological discoveries of
Huelva territory from the prehistoric period could be made known up to the last artistic manifestations already in the 20th century. , as for example, painting by Daniel Vázquez Díaz or José Caballero Muñoz-Caballero. The building itself of the Museum was due to the project of the Sevillian architect Lorenzo Martín Nieto.
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Fleeing from everything excessive in architecture, presents a harmonious building very Andalusian taste, with notes of mudejarism in the work of rejería and a landscaped access that according to the theories of the moment would be a vegetal screen to isolate the building and the works they contain.
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The soul of the glass of L'Olleria.
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In the middle of that white valley, between the left margin of the Clariano river and the Solana de la Serra Grossa, the village of l'Olleria. The Ollerians have always been a laborious people. Dedicating throughout history to the production of oil and wine, along with traditional craft and trade work. From the primitive Roman pottery of the pots, from whom it takes its name, to the manufacture of glass, pyrotechnics, basketry, furniture and liquors, guilds that have their roots in medieval times.
A staging presided over by an oven that keeps liquid magma inside.
the whim of hands so tenuous and delicate as the breath that lips emit.
That some diligent characters manipulate by means of stainless steel rods that they take to the mouth and blow to model it at will.
Visiting the exhibition of the Ecolleria - open to the public for direct sale -, it is marveling at the forms, the transparencies, the colors of a material that is here, at the same time, art and necessity.
They are the master glassmakers craftsmen. The last of the Philippines because we are, as they assure us from the company Ecolleria, before a trade in serious danger of extinction. Like so many others that pass from parents to children.
A catalog made 100% with recycled glass. Vicente Pons, responsible for production, and JosĂŠ Albuixech, director of the factory, strive to transfer both ideas.
Because not only is there a way to do things, unique in The reasons: its hardness - the world, such as making the furnace melts the glass glass in an artisanal way, but at 1480 degrees Celsius -, also a declaration of for the expertise it implies, intentions: because recycled glass saves nature, creates Attending the manufacturing and because in reality it does not pay what are worth new jobs, and teaches a new process of the "vidre bufat" pieces made in many cases lifestyle: solidarity. is an unusual experience. on the fly. Without molds At
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Other trends. Cervantina route of Tetouan.
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The Moroccan city of Tetouan has inaugurated an unprecedented Cervantine Route in Africa and based on the multiple mentions that Miguel de Cervantes makes about this city in northern Morocco throughout his work.
a captive were freed from the dungeons of Tetouan," Cervantes wrote in the entremés "The Divorce Judge."
Although Cervantes was never in Tetouan -or at least it is not documented-, the city is mentioned twelve times, in which it refers to its murky dungeons, its thriving slave market and its dynamic port where Turkish ships docked. they disputed the control of the Mediterranean with the Spaniards.
In "La gran sultana", one Morato Arráez "reached a light ship / stopped in Tetouan / and the girl later sold / to a famous and rich Moor / whose name is Ali Izquierdo".
It seems that the dungeons of Tetouan were the symbol of the most terrible of destinies.
the visitor will visit the medina and the different neighborhoods where the professional guilds are still recognizable, continue through the dungeons and end at the Puerta de los Vientos, which gives access to what is known as "the new city" or "the Spanish Ensanche" . From the Puerta de los Vientos there will also be two points of the tourist route that will take the visitor to the new city: the Cervantes Institute, for obvious reasons, and the Plaza Mulay el Mehdi, which many Tetuanis continue to call "Primo Square" (by Primo of Rivera, name that took in the colonial time, between 1912 and 1956).
There was in the 16th century a famous slave market in the city, in the place known as Ghersa al Kabira; his memory has been lost and today that place houses It seems that in his long five a cultural center, but now it is years he was captive in Algiers one of the points of the (1575-80) where Cervantes Although these two points did not Cervantes route, recalls El Fathi. heard hundreds of stories of even exist at the time of other inmates who alluded to Cervantes, the idea of including After presenting at Tetuán's Tetuan as a city full of dangers them on the route is also footprint in 2015 a congress in and whose dungeons were more the pages of Cervantes (twice because he wants to be "a tribute feared than those of Algiers (it is also in Don Quixote), El Fathi to the Spanish language and said that from Tetouan they had matured the idea of creating a culture and to hispanism in Morocco," recalls El Fathi, one of 3,000 captives). "literary, cultural and tourist the most reputed Hispanists in The idea of the Cervantes route route" in the Medina of Tetouan, this country. which is World Heritage since is due to the professor of 1997. Spanish at the Abdelmalek And so Tetuan, which was the Essaadi University in Tetouan, capital of the Spanish It had the support of the City Abderrahmán el Fathi, who Council of Tetuán, the Cervantes Protectorate in Morocco, which teaches a subject called "The previously suffered in its midst Institute of the city and the Moorish world of Cervantes" and Consulate of Spain, and finally the War of Africa between Spain in 2015, helped by his students, last April 23, emblematic day to and Morocco (1859-60), which he tracked the work of Cervantes commemorate the death of the has been the scene of "The time all mentions to Tetuán, according writer, was inaugurated in Bab al between seams", and that in short treasures so many Spanish to El Fathi to Efe. Oqla, one of the doors of the medina, the first plaque of tribute memories, counts already in its "The judge will be inclined to streets with the memory of the to the writer. condemn me, and, thinking that Prince of Ingenios. he punishes me, he will take me Bab al Oqla will then be the first out of captivity, as if by a miracle stage of the route; From there,
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Marta Alonso Yebra in Milán.
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Marta Alonso Yebra, ponferradina of birth and Leon on all four sides, studied architecture with the vocation to build and has directed his professional career to design. The blows that the crisis has given to his profession led him in that direction.
All this is explained by Marta Alonso Yebra and Imanol Calderón Elósegui in one piece made entirely in Spain, as is already the norm in their creations and previous designs made in collaboration with the Royal Factory of Crystals of La From Mayice, the studio that she Granja. founded with her partner and also Craftsmanship and design go husband, Imanol Calderón hand in hand in Mayice projects Elósegui, develops a successful that have already taken their career that has taken her designs works to international to New York and will soon be at competitions as the independent fair of Wanted Design in New the Milan Design Week. York, between 2011 and 2015, His latest work, Filamento, has within the Interiors from Spain been the winner of the Born space of the Institute of Foreign Awards Spain in the home Trade (ICEX). category. The award opens the doors to the couple of architects and designers to participate in the international exhibition of all the winners of six different nationalities that will take place during the Milan Design Week. The international winner will be chosen in October, in London 2018.
They presented their product RAY then a table inspired by the sea. Marta Alonso observed in the port of San Sebastian how the fishermen wove their nets and came to learn the technique to develop this multipurpose table that they presented in New York.
The installation will be during the At the same fair they also Milan Design Week, in the gallery brought their creation Light box, a special edition of pieces with of Rossana Orlandi. paint based on gummies and Filamento is a sculptural piece aromas in support of blown glass made of a single piece of glass more than one meter long. When by the Royal Factory of Crystals of La Granja. it is illuminated, its form and
accompaniment composed exclusively by Juan Manuel González García, Leon musician. The merger of tradition and technology took shape in the Rfc + line that they created in 2016 from the historical molds of the Real Fábrica de Cristales. «The Rfc + collection responds to our fascination with the materials, the purity and tradition of glass», they explained then. It began with the selection of 22 molds among the more than 4,500 that make up the 1900 collection of the Royal Factory. They then carried out and supervised the design and production of a new light source "to illuminate the space and backlight the material". A collection with 13 lamps inspired by the old models was the result of this unique work in which new technology and tradition came together in their inspirations.
Mayice, whose work in the field of design has echoed prestigious magazines of the sector, took another step forward in his career with the inauguration, last March, of the Skywalk of Gibraltar, a project of glass gazebo in the Alto matter disappear, giving way to a In 1998, twenty years ago, when del Peñón that they designed in 2015 with Jonas Stahl. filament of light as a result of the they were still studying architecture, this restless couple "The work of an excellent team of study of its geometry. began experimenting with the engineers, construction, The propagation of particles architects and the Government of called photons becomes a visible colors of the jellybeans to introduce them to pieces of Gibraltar, has managed to design and linear form of energy. It glass. from the first sketches to the last serves as a study of how light travels through concave and Finally they managed to improve detail to maintain its original concept and essence," they the result and apply even with convex glass. explain. aromas in the design of Ligth Box, which has a musical
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The crafts of glass in León.
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The 7th edition of the "European Handicrafts Days" was held on April 7, a European event that aims to showcase the know-how of artisan workshops, showcase their skills, tools and work environment .
European Craft Days, FOACAL held the exhibition in León on the crafts of glass.
FOACAL, with the support of the Junta de Castilla y León, takes advantage of this celebration to promote the crafts of the Community, bringing art and traditional trades closer to the public by means of a sample of trades in three cities of the region, which will rotate in successive editions.
Emplomado and jewelry in glass using different materials with glass as a fundamental element.
The demonstrations will have the presence of 10 artisan workshops of the Community in each province, and are grouped by crafts with the intention of showing the different techniques and processes that make up the crafts of glass, textiles and jewelry. The objective is to generate a dialogue with the visitors explaining the work process of the craft companies that participate in the event. Each workshop transfers a part of their daily activity to the street to show the public their craft and the techniques and processes used in the preparation of their work. Throughout the day they teach the tools, machinery and materials that are used and finally the result of their work showing finished objects. This event also serves to promote participating artisan businesses through their promotional material such as brochures, posters, videos ... In this year's edition of the
THE GLASS OFFICES Vitropia Rosa García Morán
Nile Ojea. Nilo Glass. Low relief glass engraving.
starts in Madrid in the world of carving and glass engraving. About 25 years ago he moved his workshop to Pinillos de Polendos, making unique pieces since then. His sons Joaquín and Santiago continue with the workshop as a second generation. Severina Martínez Saldise. SMS Art in glass. Thermo formed pre-baked process.
Glass engraving is one of the most prestigious traditional crafts and is done by using a lathe with an abrasive disc that, like a brush, allows to engrave any drawing on the surface of the glass.
Artisan glass workshop specialized in hot-melt techniques for the realization of functional and decorative objects.
The Craft Prison. Murano glass beads with blowtorch
Between the application of glass for functional works such as leaded stained glass windows and the elaboration of sculptural objects that link directly with a surrealist language where sometimes it includes with great subtlety a wink of humor.
Artisan workshop specialized in the production of jewelry with Murano glass and sterling silver. Raúl Santana Stained glass Santana. Emplomado and tiffany.
Vivanco design in glass. Sculpture with recycled glass.
Artisan glazier with more than 35 years of experience. Closely related to Segovia, it also counts on its history with important works in other provinces of that Community, such as Valladolid, Soria, León and Ávila. Disciple of one of the best glassmaking workshops in the region, it has become a reference, especially for certain restoration projects of notable complexity or new large-scale works.
Stained glass Laborda. Emplomado of glass.
Glass workshop Dyes.
Artisan of the glass expert in the techniques of leaded, grisaille, tiffany, thermoforming, fussing, enamels, blowtorch innovating and exploring the infinite possibilities that they offer. He combines his professional activity with teaching at the Regional Craft Center of Catilla and León.
Artisan company dedicated to molten glass, thermoforming and fusing. Oscar Santiago. Cut glass. Workshop that begins in 1952, when Joaquín Santiago Calvo
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He has more than 20 years of experience in glass. They cover an important number of techniques such as lead, fusing, tiffany, sandblasting, thermoforming, restoration, enameling, lamination, grisaille and torch for the development of their products. Toly Mateo. Grisallas.
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Glass South America 2018.
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Glass South America is the main biennial fair in Latin America for the world of glass, and this year celebrates its 13th edition. From May 9 to 12, 2018, Glass South America will host the best that the technology and glass processing design industry has to offer at the international São Paulo Expo Exhibition & Convention Center in São Paulo. Brazil. Representing the Italian glass industry, the delegation headed by Gimav, in partnership with ITA (Italian Trade Agency), validates the dynamic and high-level participation of Italy in this trade fair abroad. As in the last edition in 2016, 15 member companies of Gimav, which occupy more than 400 square meters of exhibition space in the Pavilion of Italy, will show the main technologies of the industry, for visitors mainly
from North America and from clearly recovering, with more the south. than 22% growth compared to 2015 and a share of 7.5% "For the flat and hollow glass of the total." sectors of Italy, South America and, especially As for exports, Brazil is Brazil, they are strategic currently in 12th place in the markets in which we have ranking of the 15 main invested for a long time, countries of destination of despite the changing machinery, systems and economic and political products of Italian glass situations that have worried processing, with which its the area in recent years. general participation exceeds 2.4%. Our insightful business references could see beyond However, if for flat glass the difficulties, and now the there is still a slight drop relaxation of the recession compared to previous and the moderate economic surveys, with a decrease in recovery of Brazil are turnover of -2.9% compared translated into encouraging to 2015, the hollow glass is in margins, also thanks to the a more encouraging upward introduction of structural phase, helping Brazil to enter reforms that pave the way the ranking of the main for future optimism ". countries of destination, climbing from place 29 to 13 Laura Biason, director of in just one year, with a Gimav, confirms what the participation of 2.13% of total Center of Studies of the exports of Italian hollow Association has registered in glass. the last 12 months. "In terms of billing - emphasizes Biason - South America is
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The laminated glass.
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Summary of an article by Agustí Bulbena.
In 1903 a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, 'discovered' the process of lamination, in a completely casual way. He left forgotten a collodion solution in a flask, when evaporating completely, he left stuck inside it an elastic celluloid protective film, which when breaking the flask kept its fragments together. This anecdote provided the idea for the manufacture of the first laminated safety glass.
why it must be kept at a temperature of 10 ° C. The sheets of PVB are usually transparent, but there are the PVB of color and also the mate.
The aim is to achieve sufficient flexibility of the PVB to create perfect adhesion between the glasses. Cycle times are a function of the thickness of the units. It is logical that a glazing with greater thickness needs a clearly longer time to wait for the necessary temperature to reach But since the early 1930s, when the interior of the unit and also allow a correct and complete DuPont and a group of US manufacturers and mills formed a cooling at the end of the cycle. In any case, the duration of this consortium to develop a 'high performance safety glass', there operation is between 5 and 6 hours. has been nothing accidental in the evolution of laminated glass Manufacturing process of in the sectors of automotive and laminated glass with ethyl vinyl architecture. acetate (EVA) Definition and components EVA is not affected so much by Laminated glass is a composition temperature changes, therefore, it can be stored at room formed by two or more glasses temperature. joined together by one or more intercalary. It is the union of The EVA sheets are usually inorganic materials (glasses) by transparent, but there are the means of an organic material. EVA of color and also the mate. Laminated glass can be Differences between PVB and manufactured from most EVA commonly used combinations of The EVA films of laminated glass glass sheets and interlayers. are a solid mixture of vinyl resins Manufacturing procedure prepared to react with temperature (vinyl acetate, Rolling process in which the polyvinyl alcohol ...). interlayer is a solid film that is placed between the sheets of The mechanical strength of glass or plastic and is then laminates with EVA is lower than subjected to heating and laminates with PVB, especially pressure to obtain the finished due to the elasticity of the EVA, product. which stretches much more before breaking. The PVB is Manufacturing process of more rigid and transmits better laminated glass with Polyvinyl the resistance to the laminated butyral (PVB) glass assembly. The PVB is a flexible material On the other hand, the EVA and sticks at a temperature of absorbs less moisture. approximately 20 ° C, which is
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Therefore, storage under normal environmental conditions is possible, which is not the case with PVB. As for 'yellowing', as with all polymers (organic chemistry with carbon and hydrogen), it can be produced sooner or later depending on the raw material and the quantity and quality of UV protectants used. The lamination of glasses with EVA is feasible especially for works of concrete laminated glass and of small circulation: curved glasses, inserts (fabrics and polyester), layer glasses, printed glasses ... When there is a commercial solution with PVB, the EVA will hardly be able to compete. While it is true, the lamination with EVA gives a lot of autonomy and flexibility to glassware, which have a more option to capture more special work. Benefits The most outstanding property of laminated glass is that, in the event of a fracture, the plastic film prevents glass fragments from falling off, considerably improving its mechanical behavior in the event of an impact and avoiding the danger involved in projecting glass chips. . Special laminates Laminated glass fire resistant Laminated glass in which at least one interlayer reacts at high temperature to give the product a very high level of fire resistance. The laminated glass every time has greater presence in any glass enclosure, due to its main characteristic that is to be considered as safety glass.
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Veteco Glass Madrid Conference.
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The Fair of Madrid hosted on April 11 the day 'Glass, an architectural solution', organized by Interempresas Media with its publication Vitrea, together with Veteco and Asefave, which dealt with glass as a solution in architecture. As reported by Ifema, the event, which has a high technical content, was also the framework for the presentation of Veteco Glass, the new commitment of the Veteco Exhibition, organized by Ifema and also held at the Feria de Madrid, from November 13 to 16. 2018, within the framework of ePower & Building. This day was also held last March, at the Sofia Hotel in Barcelona, with a great success of the call. In the first part of the event, several technical presentations were developed by Raúl Calleja, Director of ePower & Building; Pablo Martín, Director of Asefave, and Agustí Bulbena, consultant architect in glass. Bulbena was in charge of opening the day with a presentation on the paper that interprets the glass inside the hole in the envelope of the buildings. For his part, Pablo Martín took the floor to explain new developments in terms of
regulations, which concern the glass sector. He put the finishing touch to the first part of the day Raúl Calleja, Director of ePower & Building, who made a presentation of this call, which he defined as "the largest event in Southern Europe of solutions for the entire life cycle of the building". In his speech, Calleja explained the novelties that he would bring in his next edition ePower & Building and the salons he hosts, which maintain his identity. Among these new features, Veteco Glass stands out, a space within Veteco that will gather "the novelties of the glass industry, where manufacturers and transformers will be represented, solutions in structural glazing, special applications, interior glass, manufacturers and distributors of fittings and specialized machinery. In addition, it will also host a large conference on glass to create sector and boost the dynamism of companies. " In the second part of the day, a discussion table on glass took place as a solution in architecture. For the first time, representatives of the three glass manufacturers, AGC, Guardian and Saint-Gobain
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Building Glass presented their impressions on the contribution and trends of glass in architecture. Francesc Ventura, responsible for architectural glasses of the company, attended as representative of AGC; On behalf of SaintGobain Building Glass, Isabel Sánchez Camacho, Director of MKT, Technical Sales Support CITAV and Business Development of the company, and Juan Imaz as Guardian representative were present. The experts delved into different subjects such as the glass manufacturing process; the benefits of this material; the role of the transformer; the concept of 'glass à la carte'; the future of the material; the concept of 'the great dimension' or the role of glass in terms of safety and sound insulation. In short, all the experts agreed on the concept of glass as an architectural solution, because "it is a noble and flexible material that always adapts to the demands of the market while still having much to offer the construction market". Our President was present on this day, given the importance of glass in architecture.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Paul Stankard.
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The Passivhaus standard.
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The construction and rehabilitation under the parameters of Passivhaus is opening step by step in Spain. However, there is still some suspicion and ignorance about the benefits of this type of construction both in the sector and among consumers. In fact, it is usual to argue against these buildings despite their advantages. The arguments are still numerous to not build better, gain energy efficiency and save more, as explained by the president of PEP, Adelina Uriarte, during his speech with the conference "Reasons not to build under the Passivhaus standard", which has taught within the PEP day "Myths, present and future of the building and the rehabilitation of buildings under the Passivhaus standard", held in Huesca with the collaboration of FAC Huesca, and in which it has unmasked the main five reasons that are put as excuse and that they are not true in statements to elEconomista.es
depreciation of "1% per year, so in ten years it would be amortized and savings would begin".
there is still a certain reticence in the promoters and builders.
"We must value what the sector can contribute, making buildings 3. Rehabilitation: the Passivhaus without pathologies is important, standard can also be used in as well as a better construction". rehabilitation. Proof of this are Progressively these reluctance experiences that are taking place are overcome, as well as the within AragĂłn. Specifically, the ignorance of the citizen, which Aragonese Government is means that "what is not known is betting on rehabilitation in Teruel not demanded", which is why under this standard. The PEP is carrying out these investment is 15% more, but the conferences in different return is 13 years, which autonomous communities. confirms that there is an annual The future prospects are amortization of approximately favorable. In Spain, seven years 1%. ago, there was only one building 4. Triple glass: this element is under the Passivhaus standard. considered not necessary to Today, there are more than 50, have a thermal comfort some of which host more than environment inside the building, 171 homes as in Bilbao or 26 besides thinking that it is more floors as in Zaragoza. expensive. Again, it is not like Currently, there are around that. 43,000 square meters built under The triple glass is not the same the Passivhaus standard and the as a double glass, just as forecast is that in the coming "nowadays nobody would think years it will reach 200,000 square of putting a simple glass like meters. "Growth is exponential." before". In addition, "they begin In addition, new advances are to not be so expensive". being made to achieve greater 1. The Passivhaus comes from a 5. Mechanical ventilation is efficiency. "As long as technology expensive: this other argument is advances, improvements can be cold climate: it is true that the not true either. Mechanical Passivhaus standard comes made." In fact, at the beginning, from a cold climate, which makes ventilation with heat recovery is attention was paid only to energy not expensive. Supply and it tend to think that "it is not demand, but now there are other demand has allowed its price to certifications related to the suitable for Spain". However, "it be "reasonable". In addition, it works well and the energy generation of energy. has important advantages savings that are produced are already measured, and there are because stale air is breathed in Among the latest actions that are being carried out in this field are the buildings, but with this buildings that have been built in ventilation the quality of the air in those related to heat pumps, climates that are more severe which are increasingly used and the interior and an optimal than in Spain." in which there is no certification. oxygen level are guaranteed 2. It is expensive: the without losing energy. The objective in which the Passivhaus standard can Institute is working in Germany is They are explanations with "require a higher initial to know which machines are which Adelina Uriarte has investment, it is true", although more efficient to be able to dismantled false beliefs about the possible extra costs vary the Passivhaus. Little by little, a compare. between 0% and 10%. building standard that nowadays When analyzing the useful life of is opening up in Spain, although "This also means that the industrial market has to put the the building, of about 50 years, it batteries on demand." is observed that there is a
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Discovery of metallic glass.
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Artificial Intelligence has provided a shortcut to discover and improve metallic glass and, by extension, other materials difficult to obtain, at a fraction of the time and cost.
list of properties you want in a material and, using artificial intelligence, quickly reduce the huge field of potential materials to a few good candidates."
ingredients have been evaluated in the last 50 years, and only a handful has been developed to the extent that They can be useful.
The team said the new method Researchers at the SLAC The ultimate goal, he said, is will be useful in all kinds of National Accelerator to get to the point where a experiments, especially in the Laboratory took advantage of scientist can scan hundreds of search for materials such as a Stanford synchrotron sample materials, get almost metallic glass and catalysts radiation light source system immediate feedback from the whose performance is strongly that combines machine machine learning models and influenced by the way they are learning-a form of artificial have another set of samples manufactured, and those intelligence where computer ready to test the next day, or where scientists have no algorithms gain knowledge of even in an hour . theories to guide their vast amounts of data-with development. search. Over the past half-century, experiments that quickly make With machine learning, no prior and break they filter hundreds scientists have investigated understanding is needed. of sample materials at a time. about 6,000 combinations of ingredients that form metallic This allowed the team to glass, added article co-author Algorithms establish discover three new ingredient Apurva Mehta, a staff scientist connections and draw conclusions for themselves, mixtures that make up metallic at SSRL: "We were able to and this can guide research in glass - a lightweight and more make and select 20,000 in a unexpected directions. resistant material than steel single year." and do this 200 times faster "One of the most exciting STRONGER AND than what could be done LIGHTWEIGHT THAN STEEL aspects of this is that we can before, report in Science make predictions so quickly Advances. The metallic glass is an and make the experiments go amorphous alloy, with its by so quickly that we can afford "It usually takes a decade or atoms arranged in all to investigate materials that do two to get material from not follow our general rules discovery to commercial use," directions, just like the atoms of glass in a window. about whether a material will said Northwestern University form a vessel or not," said the professor Chris Wolverton, one Its glassy nature makes it co-author. on paper Jason of the first pioneers in the use stronger and lighter than the Hattrick-Simpers, a materials of computation and artificial best steel, in addition to better research engineer at NIST. intelligence to predict new resisting corrosion and wear. materials and co-author of the "Artificial Intelligence is going Although metallic glass shows to change the landscape of article. . great promise as a protective how material science is made, "This is a big step to try to and alternative coating to and this is the first step." reduce that time, you could steel, only a few billion start with nothing more than a possible combinations of
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The Lycurgus Cup. Then they decided to kill him and so Dionysus raised the curse.
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If we look at the image of the glass, we will see that Lycurgus is cloistered by the vine, as only attire boots. The figure is escorted by Ambrosia crouched on the left. The satyrs of Dionysus follow, preparing to throw a rock at Lycurgus. On the other hand a shepherd's staff. On the right side of Lycurgus we can see the figure of the god Pan and at his feet a panther with a canine aspect. The panther's face has been lost but it is supposed to be dozing next to the king. Then the image of Dionysus with a tirso in his hand, with the Oriental dress. In the composition also the calf of a leg is missing. Behind it hangs a streamer, from the thyrsus and overlaps the raised foot of the satyr with the rock, all this completes the entire circumference of the cup. Top the foot of the cup with vine leaves, and the rim with leaf shapes with varying lengths that fit the scenes in the glass. The Lycurgus Cup dates from the fourth century after Christ and is exhibited in the British Museum. Maybe it was made in Alexandria or Rome around 290-325. The excellent state of conservation suggests the likelihood that it belonged to the treasury of a church and had never been buried. Maybe it was in some sarcophagus. In 1800 the golden bronze flange and the actual foot, possibly restored during the French Revolution, were added.
coincidence but of a very elaborate work. It has been speculated that the Romans could master the use of nanoparticles. If they added silver and gold to the already melted glass, it was dyed red and produced changing color effects, something totally unusual. The Romans left us a chalice in honor of wine and its god, as well as feasts and rites inspired by madness and ecstasy.
There are other representations of this story where Lycurgus attacks Ambrosia with a doubleedged ax and the companions come to his aid or also Lycurgus only entangled in the vine. The existing representation more similar to the scene that shows us the glass, is a mosaic of the apse of Villa del Casale, in Piazza Armerina (Sicily).
Some experts have suggested that the scene may refer to the victory of the Emperor The secrets that this piece keeps There are several stories about Constantine I over Licinius, who are still studied today. One of its the representation of the was killed in 325. Regarding the main characteristics that has Lycurgus Cup. A version of change of color is interpreted that made it unique in the world is its history tells us that Lycurgus was evokes the maturation of red manufacture in the form of a cage the mythical king of Sparta, who grapes, hence the reference to and dichroic glass. The changes wanted to kill a follower of the the god of came. It is believed of light cause it to change color. god Dionysus (Bacchus), that the cup was used in The glass acquires a ruby tone Ambrosia. This in the attempt to celebrations of the Bacchic cult, when the glass is illuminated get away became a vine and very common around the year from behind and green when it is became entangled in the leg of 300 among the Romans. As illuminated frontally. The British Lycurgus to end his life. Another written testimonies, there is a Museum was made with this version tells us that Lycurgus letter, supposedly from the prohibited the cult of Dionysus unique piece in 1958. Emperor Hadrian to his brother-in and when he learned that his -law Lucius Julius Ursus Researchers discovered in 1990 followers, the Maenads, were in Serviano, enunciated in the that by examining pieces of this his kingdom, he sent them to jail. biography of the Historia glass, the Roman craftsmen who Dionisio took refuge with Tetis, Augusta, where mention is made had made it were the first the nymph of the sea and sent of the gift of two dichroic cups. humans to use nanotechnology. the drought to the kingdom. The glass contains traces of Lycurgus went mad and killed his Another detail to highlight this silver and gold reduced to cup, is the lack of foot, something son by confusing him with a nanometers in diameter, which common in glasses in the form of trunk of ivy, the plant translates into a thousand times consecrated to the god a cage. This may mean that it what is a grain of salt. Leading was passed from hand to hand Dionysus. The people of the technology for that time, even for kingdom consulted the oracle, during the celebration. At other the current one. To obtain this times, these cups were which predicted that while type of glass, it is necessary to suspended in the air like oil Lycurgus was still alive, they carry out a very complex process, would not obtain fruits of the lamps, which allowed to therefore, it is believed that this appreciate its dichroic effect. earth because of the drought. object was not the result of a
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The Mosaic of the Loves of Cástulo.
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The University Institute of Investigation in Archeology Ibera of the University of Jaén (UJA) is analyzing the Mosaic of Loves, in the Ibero-Roman site of Cástulo, in Linares (Jaén), with the objective of determining the type of raw material used and its origin.
and contents), stuccoes and mosaics, as well as paleoenvironmental analysis, through the study of seeds and coals, led by researchers from the UJA Eva Montes and Oliva Rodriguez Ariza.
In addition, four researchers led by Professor Peter This work, which has been Vandenabeele, principal developed until April 24, is investigator of the group part of the project 'Cástulo: on Archeometry and Arqueométrica Natural Sciences of the Investigation y University of Ghent, the Transferencia Social', of departments of Archeology the Ministry of Economy, and Analytical Chemistry of Industry and this Belgian university and Competitiveness, whose the University of Evora responsible is the (Portugal), as well as as researcher of the UJA the Archaeological Alberto Sánchez. Ensemble of Cástulo and the Junta de Andalucía. As reported by the UJA in a statement, in the analysis The Mosaico de los of the mosaic researchers Amores, recognized by the are using Raman National Geographic microspectroscopy and X- magazine among the most ray fluorescence. important discoveries of 2012 and dated between This work deals with the the end of the 1st century physical-chemical analysis and the beginning of the of diverse materials, such 2nd century, is striking for as ceramics (decorations its color. www.amigosmava.org
It is composed of tiles of small size, characteristics of the High Empire and similar to those of Pompeii, stone and glass paste in red, yellow, green or blue, with allegories in their corners of the four seasons, in which images stand out high quality and realism, very sharp, similar to those that appeared in North Africa or Sicily, which shows the relationship that was between Castulo and this area of the Mediterranean. The central part tells in scenes, of clear form, two classic myths: one is the one of the judgment of Paris, by which the war of Troy began, after the confrontation of Juno, Venus and Minerva by the apple of the discord. Also appears the myth of Selene (Greek goddess in Roman mythology was the moon) and Endymion, pastor of the fell in love and fell into a deep sleep that only woke up for her.
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The sarcophagus of Margaret.
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Between the Egyptian sarcophagus and the tomb of Princess Disney, this is the surprising tomb that Queen Margaret of Denmark has ordered to rest her mortal remains when she dies. No doubt the Danish monarch can never be accused of lack of foresight, since she has commissioned this work, whose construction has just finished, for 15 years to Bjørn Nørgaard, one of the most prestigious artists in Denmark. The original tomb has been named by its creator as 'Sakofag' and has been placed in the chapel of Santa Birgitte of the Cathedral of Roskilde, in Copenhagen, the same place where the remains of other Danish kings rest. The set is more than three meters long, weighs seven
tons and has been built in glass, in reference to the transparency that Margarita from Denmark has wanted to carry throughout her life. But in the funerary monument there are also other references. The catafalque on which it rests is made of sandstone from France, the birthplace of her husband, Prince Enrique, who died last February and the three pillars that support it are Danish granite, Faroese basalt and Greenland marble: one for each of the three countries that make up the kingdom of Denmark. The elephant heads that adorn the three pillars, molded in silver, represent the insignia of the Order of the Elephant.
of the queen for 51 years. Prince Henry has a figure in the tomb, but his body will not be next to his wife's. According to his will, he was incinerated and before his death he ordered that his ashes be thrown into the sea. A kind of final rebellion in front of his wife and in front of the country that refused to be named king consort, as he claimed for years. The photographs of the funerary monument have been disseminated by the Danish royal house and the queen has hired Pavel Stingl, director of documentaries, to record the entire process of assembly and placement in a film to be called 'Sarcophagus of a Queen'.
All a sign of the unusual illusion that should make the The surprising tomb has cost queen have such a crystal three million euros and it clear last dwelling. does not lack a tribute to who has been the husband
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VII Glassberries Design Awards.
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In 2018, the seventh annual Glassberries packaging design competition is being held, promoted by the Portuguese group BA Glass, manufacturer of glass containers for food and beverages and present in Spain with two factories through BA Glass Spain, with the aim of to discover the talent of young designers. The first edition was launched in 2012, the year in which the company celebrated its centenary, and since then students are challenged to design a new glass container according to a specific market. For this edition, BA Glass has invited Smurfit Kappa as a partner to launch a very different challenge: to design a glass bottle for the table wine market and a corrugated cardboard packaging to accompany it.
academia and industry. Romania is the newcomer to the contest, which joins Portugal, Spain, Poland and Germany. The Glassberries team has visited each of the invited university centers and provides a detailed information session to students on the technical, aesthetic and procedural guidelines of the contest. Once assured of complying with all the requirements, students' projects must be submitted online before May 12. A panel of experts will then analyze all the accepted papers and select the winners based on four main vectors, which identify BA Glass and its clients: creativity, solid identity, innovation and sustainable development.
Participants should consider both containers as a complete The winners will be announced solution for a marketable at a public ceremony to be product. held on June 7 in Barcelona, during the iconic Design Week As BA grows in new markets, of this city. Glassberries continues to strengthen the ties between The Glassberries Design
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Awards competition offers young designers the opportunity to express their visions through glass, creating new, original, audacious and inspired concepts, while facing the challenges of the industry. BA's ambition is to make Glassberries a reference for all European students and young designers. The academic institutions participating in this edition are the Portuguese universities of Beira Interior, LusĂada de Lisboa and Aveiro, as well as the Higher School of Art and Design (ESAD) of Matosinhos; the Spanish Center Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (EINA) and the University School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona (ELISAVA); the Polish Academy of Fine Arts of Krakow, Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and University of Fine Arts of Poznan; the German BAU International Berlin (University of Applied Sciences); and the Romanian Transylvania University of Brasov.
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Glass workshop of the UAH.
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The University of Alcalá de Henares has the privilege of having one of the most important glass blowing workshops for scientific purposes throughout the country.
In Spain, the number of professionals does not reach twenty. In the glass workshop the work is almost completely handmade.
The glass they use is The glass workshop of special, borosilicate, a the UAH advises, component that provides designs, manufactures great hardness and and can modify or repair prevents breakage in standard pieces and situations with sudden newly designed pieces for temperature contrasts, teaching and research something very common purposes. in a research laboratory.
know that our work is useful for research '. The workshop also does a very important job of saving, since they repair rudimentary pieces, easy to replace, but also other complex pieces that in the market would have a much higher cost if they had to be acquired due to breakage or deterioration.
José E. Mateu, one of the few glassblowers left in Spain, confesses that it is It provides services, not an easy job, not even Cataloged parts are above all, to the a job within the reach of manufactured and laboratories and everyone: 'a certain taste repaired, glass is researchers of the UAH for aesthetics, a lot of recovered and recycled but, due to the shortage from systems, appliances patience and also of professionals in this and non-repairable parts temperance are sector, it also offers its and, as we have already required , because we services to other indicated, unique pieces must not forget that we universities, institutions are created: 'from time to work with fire, but glass and private companies. catches you and this time, one of our becomes much more researchers brings a In Germany, according to drawing or explains what than an occupation. ' some statistics, the type of piece you need to association of scientific For more information, perform a new glassblowers brings click on this link. experiment, and we do it. together about 2,000 It is very satisfying to professionals.
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The most powerful telescope in the world.
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Below the University of Arizona football stadium, a team that includes some of the best American minds designs and manufactures the mirrors of the Magellan Giant Telescope, thought to be - from 2020 - the world's largest optical observer.
"First you get all the ingredients: the glass, which must be placed first, and you put it in the oven".
Mirror Laboratory is the only place equipped to manufacture mirrors, which can take up to seven years to make.
The Magellan will produce images with ten times better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in orbit since 1990 and which has The resulting piece given us impressive The story of its origin and weighs about 17 tons and images of the Universe. construction was narrated measures approximately by the Great Big Story With the new telescope, 8.4 meters in diameter. channel, as part of the which will gather Converting that Frontiers series. information located translucent mass into a millions of light years The astronomer Patrick precision lens takes away, astronomers will McCarthy says that the another two or three have an even more beginning of the process years, in which it is privileged view of the is very similar to the polished and tested. distances of our Universe. preparation of a cake. The Richard F. Caris McCarthy refers to the process in which glass is exposed to such a high temperature that it melts to form a dense layer.
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Withdrawal of beer from Stella Artois.
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Stella Artois has announced the "limited and voluntary" withdrawal of 2.07% of the beers sold in Spain in green glass containers of 33 centiliters, because they could contain glass particles. The company, which has not provided the specific number of units that it will withdraw from the market, has ensured that it is a precautionary measure to "guarantee the safety of its consumers". The decision is made after the "detection of a failure" in the glass container fabricated by a supplier of the brand- in 33 centiliter bottles that "can cause a small fragment of protruding glass to break and fall inside the glass. Beer". "The withdrawal applies to less than 2.07% of Stella Artois glass bottles sold in Spain annually, and the number of bottles potentially
affected will be even much less than this amount," the company insisted.
its production factory" .
From the company have remarked that although the affected stock is "extremely Stocks have also been limited - exactly the blocked in the warehouses equivalent to less than 0.1% of distributors, wholesalers and retailers to prevent this of the annual sales of the group in the EU -", the batch product from reaching the of beer of Stella Artois shelves. affected is distributed The company has facilitated throughout Europe and may through its website the have potentially reached codes with which consumers Malta, Cyprus, Greece, can identify beers that may Portugal, Reunion and potentially be affected. Poland. In Spain, these bottles have Therefore, contact has been been commercialized established with importers through customers of the and distributors in these Food and Horeca channel, regions to take precautionary and the food safety measures. authorities have already "Any consumer who currently been informed. has Stella Artois beer Within the European Union potentially affected in Spain" (EU), they have also decided will be susceptible "to receive to voluntarily withdraw the compensation, while "limited quantities of Stella advising" not to consume or Artois green bottles of 33 cl allow others to consume the in Holland and Belgium, potentially affected product, where Stella Artois has "he stressed. operations and, in the latter,
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Our Newsletter is worded in:
The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with current management.
March 2018
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,
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Presidente honorario Javier Gómez Gómez Presidente Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez Vicepresidente Pablo Bravo García Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos Vocales Evangelina del Poyo Diego Martín García Francisco Martín García
tors, Full and juveniles.
José María Gallardo Breña