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Martin Blank Happy coincidence. This November I highlight a happy coincidence in which the stained glass representations of Mario Sergio Ramos figure prominently. Mario, together with Mariana Grande, form the firm Vitreus Ignis, which was born, according to their website, as a family business in 2002 when they moved their residence from Buenos Aires to Madrid.
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sample can be seen through recognized location of this link. artisan fairs. In addition, on Wednesday 14, at 6 pm, will participate in the Science Week of the MAVA with a conference and a live demonstration of its refined stained glass technique. And also, she participates with Mariana Grande in the 1st Crafts Fair of
With a proposal that reflects the craftsmanship, shows the different crafts and one more incentive in the cultural proposal of Madrid. Mario Sergio is Argentinian by birth and, together with Mariana Grande, they moved to Madrid installing their home-workshop in the town of Valdemaqueda.
Fall of Madrid-Crafts Is More For a few years now, he has The coincidence of the role "in the Paseo de Recoletos Madrid. been immersed in the world of Mario lies in the fact that of miniatures made of glass the MAVA presents, since Three events in which we using the torch technique last September 26, an can enjoy Mario Sergio's and participates in numerous exhibition of his mastery in the realization of events in this world of extraordinary works made glass figures with the miniatures in various with the stained glass blowtorch technique. countries, such as the United technique of the torch. This great artist is, since not Kingdom and the United States, territories where this The exhibition allows to see long ago, the President of more than forty pieces the Professional Association sector enjoys a great popularity and great made with Murano glass of Artisans of the Villa de rods worked with torch, an Madrid, a position for which recognition. extremely complex he presented himself with Mario has managed to carve technique of which Mario the idea of reorganizing the a niche in this difficult sector Sergio Ramos is a virtuoso. sector and of introducing of the miniatures with his new winds of renewal and extraordinary achievements, The sample welcomes demands in the making both from the artistic aspect insects of great naturalism, craftsman. and the technical aspect, chalices or cups alla façon de venice, perfumeros and This sector of Madrid is now since the lighting of the pieces is very important for boxes, and a beautiful Nuestra sede: facing serious difficulties in the recognition of his works. miniature of a lamp of arms the face of the Castillo Grande de century XIX, installed in the S.J. de Valderas reconsideration of the Plaza In addition to the events that Avda. Los Castillos, s/n tower. de España in Madrid. I have already mentioned, I 28925 ALCORCÓN. The exhibition can be During the Christmas season must emphasize that Mario (MADRID) visited until the 23rd of this of each year, the Community and Mariana participate in many of the numerous craft info@amigosmava.org month of November. of Madrid Crafts Fair was fairs that are being held, something that this The images that we have year will not be possible due celebrated throughout the taken of this important Spanish geography, being to the works that will be their participation more carried out in the assiduous in those fairs that aforementioned Plaza de are held in the vicinity of España. Madrid, how could it be Previously to this location of otherwise? the Craft Fair of the Both Mariana and Mariana I Community of Madrid, this wish the greatest success in event had been held in the Paseo de Recoletos and the all these events, successes artisans want it to serve as a that I think they have insured given the amount of consolidation of the Paseo followers that count and are de Recoletos as a always waiting for the news they offer.
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S P E C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
The museum of Malaga
The ghost ship
The House of the Polish
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does CONTENT:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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The museum of Malaga
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The ghost ship
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The House of the Polish
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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The tradition of Mataró
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The Friends of La Granja
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The Stained Glass Center
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820º Fusion
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2018
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Vidrala, more benefits
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Create solar concentrator
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2018 program
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Glass in Cristina Iglesias
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Other trends
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Donation to Valdemorillo
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The Royal Factory
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Swarovski Temple
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Interview with Raul Calleja 27
Magic of blown glass
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How do
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The glass of Miguel Flores
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Vicrila invests
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Starglass expansion
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Calatrava, stone
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DKV Insurance Award
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Cuba builds
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Cerviglass improves
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Veteco Glass 2018
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Windows of Ariño Duglass 38 Board Of Directors
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Directive 2010/75 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of November 24, 2010, on industrial emissions. 2. States may choose to decide that a permit is valid for two or more installations or parts of facilities that are exploited by the same owner in the same location. When a permit is valid for two or more installations, it shall include the conditions that guarantee that each installation complies with the requirements of this Directive. 3. Member States may choose to
decide that a permit is valid for several parts of an installation operated by different owners. In those cases, the permit will detail the responsibilities of each owner. Article 5 Granting of permits 1. Without prejudice to any other requirements based on national or Union provisions, the competent authority shall grant a written permit for installation if it complies with the requirements of this Directive. 2. In order to ensure an effective integrated approach between all the competent authorities with
regard to the procedure, Member States shall take the necessary measures to fully coordinate the procedures and conditions of authorization when several competent authorities or several holders are involved or several permits are granted . 3. In the case of a new installation or a substantial modification, when Article 4 of Directive 85/337 / EEC applies, any relevant information or conclusion obtained as a result of the application of Articles 5, 6, 7 and 9 of said Directive should be examined and used for the granting of the permit.
Exposition of Pilar Aldana.
Mechanical Workshop and Art Laboratory are pleased to invite us to the sculpture exhibition presented by Pilar Aldana Méndez from next day 7 of this month of November.
As it indicates in his web "Exposes regularly in Spain and other countries of Europe. Among them, individual exhibitions in the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón, Madrid, in the Luniverre Gallery of Paris and in This gallery is located in the Barrio de Santa Bárbara, in Bogotá, the capital of galleries of Spain. Collective exhibitions of contemporary sculpture in the Colombia. National Glass Museum of La Granja, Pilar Aldana was born in Colombian Segovia, the Kunstmuseum in lands, specifically in the Düsseldorf and the Museum of Coburg, aforementioned state capital, but from a Germany, among others. His work can very young age she moved to be found in museum collections and in Barcelona where she trained as an private collections. artist.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Vesa Varrela.
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Graduated from the Rauma Teacher Training School, University of Turku, Rauma, Finland, 1982. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design of the University of Industrial Arts of Helsinki (UIAH, now School of Arts, Design and Architecture of the University of Aalto), Finland. 1987,
Denmark, Estonia, France. , Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Morocco and the United States. His works are exhibited in many museums, including the Museum of Design, Helsinki;
As a sculptor he sees his works as combinations of time, space and combination of material. The triviality and the rupture of the cyclical nature of time are involved in their work and the importance of light as part of them has been growing steadily.
Recently he has been working and experimenting with "Beautiful Objects" and taught there in the Helsinki Art Museum; the period 1987-2003. Glass Museum of Finland, using hot techniques: incalmo techniques, Riihimäki, Finland, He received a master's Museum of Contemporary filigree, rings in a hot glass degree from the Art MAVA, Alcorcón, Spain; studio with master blowers. Department of Industrial Estonian Museum of Art His blown objects are Design, UIAH, 1996. and Applied Design influenced by the Finnish He has received more than (ETDM), Tallinn, Estonia; experimental glass art of 30 grants, scholarships The Museum of Decorative the sixties, as well as by and national and Arts, Prague, Czech incredible unique pieces, all international awards for his Republic. of which he has work, including the Cross of Merit of the Order of the From 2002 to 2013 he has reinterpreted and reworked. designed 11 works of art in As an artist, she feels that White Rose of Finland, her responsibility to granted by the President of public spaces. younger generations is to Finland in 2010. He loves to travel, read, fish, surf and have a sauna teach and give lectures, as He has participated in well as to exhibit her works from time to time. more than 30 individual exhibitions in Finland, As indicated on its website: in various exhibitions around the world. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Works with various The piece that we choose Germany, the Netherlands, techniques: blown glass, as this month's piece from Spain, Sweden and the cold glass, mixed United States, and in more materials, combining ideas the permanent collection of than 130 group exhibitions based on existing objects the MAVA is entitled "Shortcut No. 5". or relics of them. in Finland, the Czech Republic, Belgium,
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Established artists. Martin Blank.
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Martin Blank, is one of the main figurative sculptors of North America with a style of his own.
United States Embassy in Slovakia.
In 2001, he created the "Access Martin Blank's glassblowing to Learning" awards of the Bill studio is located in Seattle, home and Melinda Gates Foundation to many of the world's most for beneficiaries in Finland, famous glass artists, including Argentina and Guatemala. Dale Chihuly, with whom Martin Blank graduated from the Rhode worked during a period of his Island School of Design in 1984 career. with a BFA in glass and went on Blank's blown glass work is exhibited in galleries across the United States and is presented at international exhibitions that include the Millennium Museum in Beijing, China, the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts and the
to work with many glass artists, including Dale Chihuly. He now owns and operates his own hot-glass firm, Martin Blank Studios, in Seattle, Washington.
His work is found in many public collections, such as the Corning
Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Krannert Art Museum, Champain, IL, the Museum of Fine Arts in Shanghai, China and Art Museum. Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL. Martin is also known for his architectural glass installations. In 2008-2009, Martin Blank's glassblowing and sculpture skills led him to hold a large public commission, "Fluent Steps," a permanent outdoor installation at the Glass Museum in Tacoma, WA.
Emerging artists. Aesa Björk. his search to work with glass as a sculptural material.
She has attended the Pilchuck School as a student and TA since 1998, where in 1999 she was also an Emerging Artist in Residence.
Æsa Björk graduated from the Glass Department of the Edinburgh School of Art with a first-class degree in 1995 and a master's degree in 1997.
In 1994 he was an exchange student at VSUP in Prague and studied with Vladimir Kopecky. This influenced his work and encouraged him in
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In 2006 he was an artist in residence at the Corning Museum of Glass. Her work has been shown internationally, she has received numerous grants, including a 3-year work grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. She currently works and lives in Bergen (Norway), where she is also an artistic consultant.
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Expansion of the Málaga Glass Museum.
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The Local Government Board has given the green light to the initial approval of the detailed study for the project to expand the Museum of Glass and Glass of Malaga in number 4 of the square Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre, a work promoted by the entity Espacio Glass and Crystal of Art SL. The architect is Ignacio Dorao Moris and the scope of the study is constituted by a plot of 145.27 m2 and aims to order the resulting building volume, maintaining the alignment of the Special Plan for Protection and Interior Reform (Pepri) Center on the ground floor and settling the tall plants. The corner of the building is developed in a single floor to decongest the entrance corner with Chinchilla street, since the first two existing buildings on the right of the street are distributed in ground floor plus two floors.
the Museum of Glass, following the cornice line of the cultural equipment itself.
well as access to Chinchilla street.
The new building, he said, will have an aesthetic very similar to the previous one, so that there is "architectural continuity" between the current museum building and the next one.
With respect to the other parameters of buildability, occupation and yards, the provisions of the PGOU are met.
The volume is released, so The second floor is that the configuration of the proposed as an open gallery. building offers the passer-by The ground floor that opens the possibility to enjoy a new to the square and Gaona perspective of the church of Street maintains the San Felipe Neri, from the alignment in the first bay. downhill Chinchilla street and from the interior courtyard of The buildability is set at 277.93 m2, not depleting the the museum. plot. Having released this area in favor of the yard, the project, As explained by the mayor despite increasing the of Urbanism, Francisco maximum height proposed Pomares, in the courtyard by the Pepri only in a specific they will rescue an oven point does not exhaust the found during the buildable assigned to the archaeological tastings, an plot, moreover, cedes part of infrastructure that will be able to be visited and will be that buildability to the proposed patio, that pretends accompanied by an to be a landscaped relief for interpretation center, while the neighborhood, with free on the floors one and Two access and arranged as a museum funds will be prelude to the museum. expanded.
According to the proposal presented, the volume that runs parallel to the alignment of Chinchilla Street is on the The presented volumetric proposal provides an ground floor plus two adapting in form and height amplitude to the plaza, as to the existing mediator with
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After the initial approval, it will be released to public information and the mandatory and binding Civil Aviation and Culture reports of the Junta de Andalucía will be required.
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Judicial battle for the ghost ship.
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at the beaches of Curepto. The parish museum, in fact, keeps them.
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In 1999, Oriflama SA obtained a permit from its Government to start the surveys. In the excavation they found a piece of wood that turned out to come, according to the analysis, of a "false spruce from the south of France", the same one with which the French ships of the time were assembled. Pepper seeds, glassware and metals were also found.
The fault was Fernando VI, who died without warning. That caused that the fashions changed and that the new monarch, Carlos III, imposed his. For this reason, the demodé production of glass from the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja had a worse and worse output. The solution? Send it to New Spain or the Viceroyalty of Peru where they were lacking in these products and where the important was the utility. The viceroy of Mexico, the Marquis of Cruillas, had written several times to Madrid claiming crystals ("ladillos y frenteras") for the carriages. "That they send it to him", wrote the secretary of Property, Miguel Múzquiz, "with the proviso that the sorts are only those of little demand and little appreciated by the Madrid public". The problem reaches our days and is settled in the Chilean courts. The legend says that on July 23, 1770, off the Chilean coast, the Gallardo sailing ship spotted the Oriflama, which carried the transparent cargo. As he did not respond to the salute, his sailors boarded him in a boat and discovered that the entire crew lay dead. They returned to their ship to warn the captain, Juan Guillermo de Ezpeleta, but the
Oriflama, with no one at the helm, followed his route and disappeared into the mist. In fact, it is known as the ship of the dying. Thus, the galleon, chartered by Jerónimo Ustáriz and Tovar, that had bought all the production to the king (by 1,29 million reals, about 8,3 million euros to the present change), was engulfed by the Pacific along with its load 450,000 pieces of the precious glass.
In 2005, the Court of Letters and Guarantees of Curepto gave the treasure hunters "property rights" over the site, but recommended reaching an agreement with the State. This, in turn, based on an agreement of the National Archeology Committee, refused to give the final excavation permit. "The ownership of certain goods is not a negotiable matter," says the Chilean government. José Luis Rosales, manager of Oriflama SA, complains: "We have the right in terms of a figure called acquisitive prescription," which is that if no one claims the charge becomes the person who finds it. "We put ads in newspapers [in Chile] and nobody claimed," he says.
But the Government recalls "that both the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court established that Twenty years ago, the Chilean the claims of Oriflama SA are not company Oriflama SA found its opposable to the Chilean wreck, but immediately a judicial Treasury because they were not battle between the Chilean summoned in said proceeding." government and the treasure The Executive admits that the hunters was unleashed. "He had legislation allows to cede up to spiders, opticians, mirrors, 25% of what has been cornucopias, cutlery ...", says discovered "to foreign scientific Paloma Pastor, director of the missions", but not to national Museum of the Royal Crystalline ones, as in the case of Oriflama Factory of La Granja. "Finding SA, so it would not be entitled to the cargo is a historic and anything. unprecedented discovery," he "To us," says Spanish Paloma says. Today, the original pieces of this industry that supplied the Pastor, "we would like to Crown are in museums in Spain participate in the investigations, but we do not have any and America, mainly. relationship, which is a pity. After loading 1,741 boxes with Because the deposit is worth it. the pieces (they were protected There is nothing like it under the with straw and rags and encased seas. " in leather), the Oriflama started in February 1770 in Cádiz. After its sinking, some boxes arrived
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The House of the Polish needs help.
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although he admits that "I am not in favor of spending 7,000 euros to make a temporary roof and then have to dismantle it, but it depends on the money we can get" .
The polish house, a building located at the entrance of La Granja from the Torrecaballeros highway, needs urgent financing to cover its roof. It is an infrastructure of the nineteenth century that is in very poor condition. In fact, a pathological study carried out last year commissioned by the artistictechnological association 'Friends of Glass' gave the building at that time two years of survival.
inside the Casa del Polimento, have already been completed - they have removed five containers of rubble that were basically rotten wood -, so now, what they are working on is in obtaining the necessary financing to achieve a decent roof.
In between, a team of archaeologists is also conducting a preliminary study, to be able to do the interior tastings, to determine exactly where the polishing machine was and Since then it is intended to "see what can be recovered achieve its declaration as an from it", enthuses the Asset of Cultural Interest president of the association (BIC) -for housing a of 'Friends of Glass'. revolutionary polishing machine at that time-, but as These tastings will also determine where the cache soon as it arrives, the was going - the artificial river building continues to be through which the water destroyed. reached the building to Proof of this is the loss of its operate the polishing roof with the snows fallen machine. last January. But the most urgent thing "According to the municipal now is to achieve a minimum rigger, there is a risk, of 7,000 euros from public because it is out in the open, and private entities to be that, if it is too hot, some of able to carry out the roof its walls fall," says the covering. president of the association, At that point there are two Ricardo Hernanz, "and, options: to make one quickly therefore, disappear the and provisionally - and entire infrastructure of cheaper - or to make one Granjeña. " definitive and as similar to Therefore, explains Hernanz, the original. "it is urgent to cover the "Depending on the money roof". that is achieved," explains The sanitation and cleaning Hernanz, "we will make an work, both outside and enclosure or another,"
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The price that a fixed roof would cost is not yet known, but José Mata Wagner, the architect who is in charge of the infrastructure and who has already made the preliminary study, is working to make an approximate estimate. "It is studying what price would have a gabled roof as it was in its origin." "We have asked him to estimate the price of the roof without skylights, because there we also have a question of whether the original building had them or not," Hernanz admits, adding that "those details also vary in cost." "It is still being studied because, according to some sketches, it did have them and, according to others, not", reveals Hernanz who recognizes that "that is why he has not yet made us a price", ditches Ricardo Hernanz. Once the roof can be closed to safeguard the survival of the building, it will be passed to the third phase of the project that is being carried out for its declaration as BIC, which will study the uses that the building has had, since what it does it is known that at the end of the 19th century it stopped belonging to the glass factory and was, among other things, a stable. Once the third of the phases has been completed, they will combine all the documentation to present and try to make the building classified as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. Science Week.
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One more year, the MAVA participates in the Week of Science of the Community of Madrid with its own program, which will run from Tuesday 13 to Friday 16 November.
For this they will read, use their ingenuity and observation and work as a team.
miniatures ... fantasy and beauty.
As in other years, we have reserved mornings from To this is added the already Tuesday to Friday from 10 classical activities of guided am to 11 am for primary school children and from 12 On this occasion, the motto visit to the museum and workshops, this year of am to 2 pm for Secondary, revolves around women in decoration of the own bottle, Bachiller and other adult science and technological jar or glass bottle that each education centers. innovation. student must bring to the Following instructions from That is why they have museum (clean and without the Community of Madrid, chosen the artist Miriam di labels). reservations will begin on Fiore - who throughout her They will also have the Monday, October 22. professional career has temporary exhibition developed a complex In the evenings, for the Entomology of glass and technique of working with general public, they will offer glass to carry out her work -, other cavities, by Mario S. workshops for families (on Ramos, an expert in the as the central axis of the Thursday and Friday), educational activity: a set of technique of glass worked on guided tours at 7pm, escape-room-type tracks that the torch with which he conferences, etc., for which students must overcome to makes reproductions of no prior reservation is insects, chalices and cups, find the hidden work. required.
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Mataró recovers the tradition of blown glass.
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The plenary session of the Municipality of Mataró approved last Thursday, October 4, unanimously, a resolution proposal for the recovery of blown glass in the city.
events open to the whole city such as film forums or conferences; and that had in the figure of Joan Peiró a reference, along with the people who were at his side, to build a more just work model The proposal also makes special mention in a freer society. to Cristalerías de In the Pre-Plenary Mataró, a cooperative Hearing on September society that was for 6, 2018, the Blown decades the most Glass Association of important company in Mataró requested a the manufacture of permanent space to light bulbs in Spain. collect and The cooperative spirit disseminate the history of glass in our city. of the factory (important tradition in the city), became an educational, cultural, social, health and economic referent, promoting cultural
city; In this way, the informative space could also become a workshop school where visitors and tourists can get to know this ancient trade along with what the glass cooperative meant.
The City Council of Mataró is committed to working together with the Blown Glass Association of Mataró, to recover the history of glass and cooperativism, as well as the trade of artisan glazier, and to promote The entity states that the "blown glass of the space has a small Mataró" brand as an furnace to keep alive element of identity and the craft of artisan economic and tourist glazier, an ancient and promotion of the city. ingrained trade in our
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The 'Friends of Glass' of La Granja.
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The work of clearing the 'House of Polishing', located under the cemetery of La Granja, starts these days - after the fall of the entire roof because of the large amount of snow that fell on the infrastructure at the beginning of the year - for that the archaeologists can continue with the tastings they were carrying out so that the building can be declared a Cultural Interest Asset (BIC) as claimed by the ArtisticTechnological Association of Friends of Glass in La Granja.
quality objectives, we understand that the extramural definition of agile access routes to our historical, productive, leisure and residential centers is basic. Therefore we advocate the unfolding of the three access roads and communication between them, "says the president of the association, who acknowledges that" the three routes of access to the population center of La Granja has already defined a character that we understand it must be In this sense, the president of the respected, encouraging the third way that due to its less traffic has association, Ricardo Hernanz, been more maligned and has has already presented a suffered worse treatment ", in document so that the infrastructure is contemplated in clear reference to the entrance by the road that arrives from the Strategic Plan of the Torrecaballeros, in whose municipality that is being entrance is the building that developed by the University of housed the machine glass polish Valladolid. Thus, from the association, "after having attended the discussion tables for the definition of a strategic plan for the Real Site of San Ildefonso", explains Hernanz, "what we are exposing is the need to improve and implement a mobility plan for the Municipality, the recovery of those emblematic environments and centers and the promotion of flat glass as a spreader of our values and the backbone of employment, "he explains. "In order to improve the mobility
This road, called 'Peñafiel road' is characterized by being the same road that connects the municipality with leisure centers, sports and monumental area outside the walls. According to the association, it is the one that requires more intervention because it suffers a strangulation when traveling by an eighteenth century bridge created for the transport of glass from the Royal Flat Glass Factory to the polish house and improved access to the cemetery outside the walls. Importance of glass
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La Granja glass is an international reference and is characterized by the technological advances of the last three centuries. All the glass sector is on the third access road to the municipality, from the most industrial area, formerly characterized by the Royal Factory of Flat Crystals, later by the Verescence Factory and the Magdalena polygon until the insufficient industrial estate that ends in an area that requires special protection when suffering the strangulation of a bridge built for the passage of mules with glass and coffins. This is where the association insists that "recent history must be recovered" and "generate an environment that enhances both that technical industrial knowledge of the past, those infrastructures necessary to achieve it, as well as new ecological and environmental values". That is why they advocate that the Strategic Plan that is being prepared contemplates "the splitting of the Peñafiel road," reserving a zone of special protection that includes the 'Puente de la Máquina', the 'Casa del polimento' and the caz that supplies water to the house of the polish all this on the river as vertebrador and environmental axis ", they request.
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The Stained Glass Center.
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If you want to create an International Center of Stained Glass in the warehouse attached to the Station, as it was raised when this ambitious project was presented recently, it will be necessary to acquire these lands to the Consortium of the Railway Diversion.
If it were ceded, the "bankruptcy" of the restructuring will take place, Fernandez Santos said, so there is only one option: the purchase.
The land is valued at 1.6 million euros, and the socialist councilor believes that the project of the International Center of Stained Glass There had been talk of should have a financing the possibility of free agreement between the transfer of space, given City Council, the that it is a city project, but Provincial Council and it is not possible. the Junta de Castilla y León. As explained by the
socialist councilor Antonio Fernández Santos, there is no possibility that the Consortium can cede the facilities for free.
In his opinion, the three administrations should make the corresponding financial contributions to cover the cost of The reason is none other purchasing the warehouse, and also its than the agreement suitability to host this reached for the restructuring of the debt, interpretation center. which includes the 1.6 It is a scientific project, million euros in which the exhibition and land is valued within the disseminator, based on plan of sales of assets the research work carried planned. out by Professor Pilar
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Abad on burgher windows and the famous red glass of Burgos. Unique opportunity The city was an important creator and producer of stained glass from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, with several eras of splendor. Now, we want to take advantage of this past to promote an international reference center, with 2,000 square meters divided into two floors, which will include scientific research area, permanent and temporary exhibition and exhibition areas, informative activities rooms, specialized library and research area. workshops The project is already designed, the contents also; the investigative facet is in progress and it only remains to find the economic financing.
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820º Fusión.
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The President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Pedro Cassani, formally opened the exhibition of Vitrofusión by the artist Laura Castro Méndez, in the Hall of the Lost Steps of the Legislative Power. Within the framework of the "ExpresArte" program of the Chamber of Deputies, the exhibition of Vitrofusión (art in glass) by the artist Laura Castro Méndez, named "820 ° Fusión", was formally inaugurated.
for "women and men from different parts of the Province of Corrientes come to show how much and how good we have ... We are extremely proud of each one of you, of whom they write, those who make poetry, those who paint, who develop the art that today we are going to inaugurate with Laura. They generate a strong sense of identity ... Corrientes are proud of many things, "he said among other concepts.
On the vitrofusión itself, indicated that "it is something that is not seen every day." "When you have the opportunity to travel to other parts of the world, you come back astonished with At the opening ceremony, the things that perhaps you have president of the lower house here close by, at your fingertips Pedro Cassani, stressed the and that sometimes it really importance of housing and costs us to give you the containing the men and women magnitude of the things that we of the Corrientes culture, in a dynamic window, where different do in Corrientes and where We, humbly, the million Corrientes talents are rotating. and a little more, we feel "Express yourself is basically represented, "he concluded. support, accompaniment, or For its part, the cultural adviser collaboration to the work of of the Chamber of Deputies, the Corrientes artists, from the legislative institution, because we plastic artist Lita Figueroa, understand that access to culture recalled that "ExpresArte" has and art is a right of equality, that been showing for 30 years the artistic skills of already everyone should have ... From here we encourage the meeting, consecrated Correntinos, and those that are emerging; in the development, knowledge, "he said, emphasizing the concept of" objective of cultivating - and infecting - the human spirit and closeness, direct contact with the intellectual faculties. citizens ... because we are all people, "he emphasized. The exhibition is like this, open to the community. On the other hand, he stressed that the institution created space In this way, the community will be able to admire this technique, for two weeks, in the Hall of the Lost Steps of the Legislative Power.
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Provincial legislators, local artists, and the general public participated in the opening ceremony. The artist Laura Castro Méndez was born in the city of Mercedes, from a family of artists, her grandfather being the first caricaturist cartoonist of the newspaper "La Gaceta" of Tucumán, of the magazines "Pierrot", "Caras y Caretas", among others. His aunt, Bachelor of Arts, taught him drawing and painting with oils, acrylics and cakes, transmitting his passion for the "arts of fire" ... He has completed courses in vitrofusion and vitraux with Mila Wertheimer and Carlos Herzberg. He exhibited in the "Pazeito" of Santa de los Guácaras, in the gallery "El Palacio" in Salta, "El Mariscal" in Corrientes, in the "Garden Park" of Tucumán and in the Lucrecia Rosemberg Gallery, under the auspices of the National University of Tucumán. "What I do I call Vidriomodelado, which consists of a mixed technique of vitraux (in the form of cutting) and vitrofusion or fusing (in the enameling and baking) ..." explained in the Legislature, to clarify that "the glass used It is float glass and paint special enamels for high temperature, which melts them in an oven at 820 degrees ".
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XLIII).
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Eduardo Alonso Cereza
times and in the various Professional associations, types of associations; Its during the 4th and 5th results were: Sodalitas, centuries AD they adopt interpreted as an more the denomination of association, is not used in Corpus, understood like the various sources of the entity with legal capacity, not imperial period, except for only authorized by the State religious, official or semibut that gets to comprise of official associations (arvales, its organization; Colllegium festivals, etc.). is a broader term; with it Sodalicium is a term widely reference is made to most of used in descriptions, but not the Roman associations, and in legal sources. is usually preferred by them, Collegium is used more being able to exempt some broadly to differentiate types located in the Greek East. of associations, but always With the term Corpus more frequently for those mention is made of who perform a public role. professional associations Corpus and Collegium are and could experience synonyms, but from the exchanges with Collegium fourth century AD Corpus is during the High Empire, used more frequently to even during the 4th and 5th mention professional centuries AD. outside of associations, especially in Rome and Byzantium. Rome and Byzantium. F.M. de Robertis has carried The religious associations out an orderly analysis of the receive more numerous the frequency with which the term Sodalicium, and its terms are used at different
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components are sodales or cultores. Sodalitates refers to voluntary associations of diners and also to religious associations of semi-official cults. The funerary associations frequently receive the denomination of Sodalicium, but also it is usual in them the application of the term Collegium: Collegia Salutaria. The professional colleges adopt the terminology of Corpus or Collegium (Collegia Opificum) and its components will be called Collegiati or Corporati. Political associations are usually called Sodalitates or Sodalicia. The other associations generally take the term Collegium, but in all this we have to take into account the local denominations themselves.
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N E W S (I).
The most healthy packaging. and purity It is the most hygienic and healthy packaging that exists because it does not alter the products it contains, such as food and beverages, and allows them to be stored in the long term, with high purity and quality, without implying any risk to health.
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its content and maintaining its The glass allows to preserve different products without altering characteristics with high quality
For this reason, in many countries of the world they prefer it over other packaging materials, since it does not constitute a danger to the environment after its proper use and handling because it is 100% recyclable.
Culture 2018. these pieces showed "that were exhibited in banquets and celebrations", explains the Dolphin Treasure expert Leticia Arbeteta. In those occasions the precious stones shone but also acquired an own artistic value. "Even in the real links, like the last one we've seen in England, the sideboards are mounted to display them."
Last October we visited the Prado Museum to see the new location of the Dolphin Treasure. Transfers, changes of owners and thefts. Two, in fact. This is the list of adventures that for years lived the Treasure of the Dolphin, an exquisite collection of precious glasses that, finally, finds its place on the second floor of the Museo del Prado. After three years of meticulous restoration, the 144 objects that are conserved of Luis, the Great Dauphin of France, are permanently arranged in a curvilinear showcase under a dim light that helps its
conservation and maintenance.
The glass was sculpted and carved by artisans in This new museography, which Italian and German workshops with great has had the sponsorship of the Iberdrola Foundation, the meticulousness. Community of Madrid and The concept of luxury of Samsung, has had a total the time meant that at the cost of 2,512,516 euros. minimum error the piece This group, mostly dated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, account for the technical expertise of the workshops in which they were made. On the other hand, the high price of each piece (in his time they were more expensive than a painting by Titian) meant that only kings and princes could access them.
Luxury, refinement and "sumptuousness" was what
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was discarded.
The longevity of Louis XIV prevented his son from ever reigning but through the pieces of the Treasure of the Dauphin "you see how the taste changes". Some glasses with dragons, a cameo with Hebrew inscriptions or the Fountain of the history of Hermafrodito are some of the outstanding examples of this collection.
N E W S (II).
Vidrala, more benefits.
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The consumption of products packed in glass advances at the pace of sociodemographic progress, the development of modern lifestyles and the growing preference of consumers and packers towards glass versus alternative packaging materials. In this context, the demand in Vidrala's activity regions remains stable, showing signs of development consistent with the regional economic frameworks and the consumption patterns described. Vidrala is a specialist in the manufacture of glass bottles and jars.
Under this situation, management in Vidrala will continue to focus on internal actions aimed at guaranteeing customer service, investing in its industrial facilities with ambitions for the future, materializing the expected synergies of acquisitions and reinforcing the operating margins of the business. As a result, for the whole of 2018 it is expected to consolidate the growth rate shown in the benefits and intensify the reduction of debt, which at the end of the year will be at lower levels than the current ones.
of the year, the benefit has increased by 27% over the same period of the previous year. Sales have reached 730.5 million euros, reflecting an organic growth of 2.9% and an increase over the reported the previous year of 19.3%. The figures reflect the contribution of the acquired Santos Barosa, whose results are consolidated from October 1, 2017. In comparable perimeter and constant currency, sales recorded an organic growth of 2.9%.
And, during the first nine months
They create a solar concentrator. transparent plastic attached to one of the faces of the glass. It has metallic nanoparticles and a dye. The light will be trapped in the glass and is led to the edges where the solar cells are that transform it into energy. The dye used is a powder with luminescent properties. To the naked eye, it is perceived as slightly greenish in color and is capable of absorbing light at a wavelength of 360 nanometers.
Students from the University Center of Tonalá, from the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) have developed a luminescent solar concentrator, capable of capturing light to convert it into electrical energy. This project, which they have
With the help of a transformer, direct energy is converted into alternating current, which is necessary for electric appliances to work. The Electric clear LUMINI, spherical in prototype measures one square meter, although it can shape, consists of a window reinforced with a polymer, a type of be adapted to different sizes. named Electric clear LUMINI, has won the Innovation Award in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies ENGIE-UDG 2018.
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The glass in Museums: Kakegawa.
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The building is very attractive and looks like a chapel of the middle ages, with white plaster walls and wooden beams and struts, which are there for decoration instead of resistance to earthquakes.
seem unhappy while a city burns in the background.
The richness of the colors immediately impresses: dark red robes, blue skies and vivid blue backgrounds, radiant gold for the The theme continues haloes of the saints and inside, as there is an airy the hair of Jesus. vaulted ceiling, arches You can also enjoy being from one room to able to see the windows another, and colorful close up, instead of being patterns on the floor very far up on the wall of where sunlight enters a church or cathedral. through the windows. You can see how much It also has the same craftsmanship was feeling, with a silent and incorporated into his reverent atmosphere, as creation: the subtlety of a genuine place of the expressions on the worship. faces, the realistic The windows on display touches such as the are all religious, with curtain of the tunic, the biblical scenes, portraits intricate detail of the of saints and some rather leaves, the hair, the unexpected images: Mary edges and hundreds of (presumably) playing an other parts of each organ of the church while image . It takes time to two angels observe, King happily admire all the Solomon bears a model windows on display, of what appears to be a enjoying the beauty and mosque, two people who art. www.amigosmava.org
In addition to the windows, there is a glazier tools screen and another one that shows step by step how the stained glass images are created. The explanation is only in Japanese, but the images gave an idea of how thorough the process is. And finally, there is also a small gift shop at the entrance, selling cards, chocolates and ornaments made with stained glass.
The museum is immediately behind the Ninomaru Art Museum, a couple of minutes from the castle; Admission is ¥ 500, and you save a little if you buy a combined ticket for both museums. It is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day, except on Mondays, but is open on Mondays and closes on Tuesdays if a national holiday falls on Monday.
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Recycling. Ecólatras.
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Ecovidrio, the non-profit organization responsible for the recycling of glass packaging waste in Spain, has presented Ecólatras, a meeting platform aimed at people committed to caring for the environment and protecting the environment.
contribute through their direct actions. To be part of this community of active ecologists, users only have to register at www.ecolatras.es and explain their initiative. Through a system of ecopoints members can share the most interesting initiatives of the other users of the platform and get various awards.
Users of the virtual community can disseminate their personal initiatives to preserve the environment In addition to making the or sustainable projects projects more visible, developed in their Ecovidrio wants to community. promote their Ecólatras is a web portal participation and created to value the development, granting up scope of many small to 2,000 euros to the gestures. initiatives with the greatest projection, these The initiative offers its community a speaker to should promote values such as sustainability and give visibility to citizens concerned about the care the circular economy. of the planet who are In this sense, although aware of the need for the recycling of glass change and who packaging waste actively
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contributes to preserving the environment, since recycling 3 glass containers we save the energy necessary to charge the battery of our smartphone for 1 year, the projects do not necessarily have to be related with the same. Liight, a gamification app that encourages the use of public transport, cycling or recycling was the last winner of this amount. Some of the Ecólatras already enrolled in the platform are Mario Rodríguez, creator of the 400 organic gardens of Alcorcón (Madrid), a natural space in which families can rent a plot of land to grow their own food, and César Serrano, who makes 9 years founded Ecomanía, an establishment in which the products are manufactured from waste.
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Our activities. 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.
Cultural visits. This November we will visit the Autumn Crafts Fair of the Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid to see the creations of the master glassmakers who come to the fair. The idea of the organizers is the realization of a Handicraft Fair that becomes a benchmark in the autumn of Madrid and serves as a consolidation of the Paseo de Recoletos as a recognized site of artisan fairs. With a proposal that reflects craftsmanship, shows the different crafts
and an additional incentive in the cultural proposal of the city. The "I Autumn Handicraft Fair of Madrid - ArtesaníaEsMás" will be held from October 23 to November 4, which will be located right in the center of the city, very close to the socalled Madrid de los Borbones. It will have 75 stands where they will exhibit different trades in three exhibition shifts.
CULTURE 2018 program. treasured by the Museum, but also in the aura that surrounds them, the building that shelters them and in those that contemplate them The twenty-four photographs that make up the exhibition will open new paths through which to delve into the Museum's collections and bring new This November we will visit Museo del Prado hosts this perspectives and new the exhibition "Twelve exhibition, curated by perspectives to photographers at the Prado Francisco Calvo Serraller and contemplate them, as well Museum". which has the support of as showing that the Prado Japan Tobacco International maintains its inspiring The Museo del Prado and the as a collaborating entity of the capacity two centuries after Friends of the Prado Friends of the Prado its inauguration. Foundation Foundation Foundation. present the fruit of the work This initiative joins those that twelve contemporary The exhibition presents a carried out by the Friends photographers have carried collection of twenty-four of the Prado Museum out in close relation with the photographs taken by twelve Foundation in 1991 and collections of the institution. contemporary photographers 2007, "The Prado Museum who, on the occasion of the seen by 12 contemporary Belonging to three different celebration of the artists" and "Twelve artists generations and with very Bicentennial of the institution, in the Prado Museum" diverse ways of have been invited by the respectively, whose understanding and using objective is to show the a photography, they have been Friends of the Prado Foundation to show their dialogue that, through all inspired by the works eras and styles, current art treasured by the Museum, but vision of their collections. maintains with the art of also by the aura that There are twelve creators the past, but also bring surrounds them, the building who reflect on the Museum contemporary art closer to that shelters them and those through photographic the visitor of the Prado and that contemplate them. technique, twelve different the Prado to the public of The lower gallery north of the and personal views that are contemporary art. inspired by the works Villanueva building of the
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The glass in Cristina Iglesias.
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something new, like when you edit a text or make a movie. Everything in my work has to do with thinking spaces, which are usually ambiguous, and where nothing is what it seems. They are invented places that help me to reflect on sculpture and its relation to space, on absence and desire, the dissatisfaction of not reaching what you want or the impossibility of seeing everything. "
Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastián, 1956) talks jumping like someone who avoids puddles of water. He has always liked deviations and semantic changes that resist language. It is a set of filters, like her works, that she resembles travel. That is why every exhibition that he does, like the one inaugurated in a few days by the Botín Center, offers new itineraries for his memory. There dive for a while: "I always leave open doors, so I work with many layers of reading, like those in a room or on a wall with a plant motif that first tries to look like one thing, then it's another and later you go discovering the number of nooks in the image, even the most hidden that can be in the detail ". I look at the one that hides the title of his exhibition, Entrespacios, with the second and inverted. In mathematics that is read as "there is some" or "there is at least one", an adverb of place that in the museum becomes friction, which arises from the dialogue between sculpture and architecture. Between an art that separates and another that implies, that arouses empathy.
Pereda Gardens that surround the Renzo Piano building. One of his sculptures is water in three movements: a high well that overflows into three large triangular structures feeding a pond that seems to flow into Santander Bay, which, in turn, fills the well. "A place full of other places where you do not know where it is going or where it comes from, whether it will come back or not. A metaphor for the flow of life, "he adds.
The exhibition starts there, outside the museum. Inside, everything becomes an echo: the interior with the outside and the visible with the invisible, suggesting a fluidity that provides a new understanding of both the space and the work. Looking at it together, it is as warm and demanding as the artist herself. There are some mythical works like Untitled. Suspended ceiling inclined (1997), where "the important thing is 'being there' underneath and it seems a very simple thing but it is not," he says. In several of its Celosías (1996, 2006) the influence of carved forms of Arab architecture and the inclusion of fragments of texts, which can only be read halfway, is That is what Cristina Iglesias perceived. They evoke distant likes to do: move the limits to which art usually subjects us and worlds like suspended Pavilion III question how we look at things. (2011-2016), full of dreams We also see him when he shoots extracted from Solaris. There are more works that disorient our his own sculptures, his Guided perception. Vegetable room Tour, or when he takes the pictures to make the serigraphs. (2003) works like a labyrinth, and Pabellón de Cristal (2014), as a "Build places where you can think, dream or just be," he says. field of vision out of focus. In the most recent sculptures he works With this, the curator Vicente with glass and expanded spiral Todolí plays in the selection of screens. "In my work," he the 23 works collected in explains, "in addition to an Santander, in the largest abstract, very mental exhibition of the artist since her great retrospective at the Reina component, there is a very physical part that builds a place. Sofía Museum in 2013. Even It works like when you take then Cristina Iglesias worked in different things and in the friction Desde lo subterráneo, the of each other you build permanent intervention in the
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Cristina Iglesias works with intensities, changes and sequences. With bays, thresholds and moors. Also with forecasts, expectations and memories. It has long claimed the right to contradict itself as an artist and an active spectator in front of its facilities. He took his idea to that idea from his time at the Venice Biennale in 1986, when he was 36 years old and an urgent fascination with botany, which never left him. Nor photography as a drawing and the idea of a laboratory to elucubrar ideas. Her time as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich is reviving these days in the Plastic Arts Workshop of Villa Iris, also from the Botín Foundation. Time is the great theme that circulates through his sculpture in public spaces, where he plays with the rhythm of the city and how people activate it. Forgotten streams (2017), for example, his most ambitious project at the base of the Bloomberg building, designed by Norman Foster in the City of London, is about the pace one can change and the capacity to wait. "It is important that a piece can at a certain moment ask you to wait for something to happen, sometimes when it is immobile. Or wait to see if something will happen again. It has to do with amazement, but also with a serious idea of time, how we use it, "he explains. Maybe that's why he works with chronometers and the doors of the Prado Museum move eight times a day. The one of tomorrow already has it full with its next project, one of the most special, its installation in the lighthouse of the island of Santa Clara, in its native city: a great glass of bronze in the interior emptied of the building of the lighthouse and a translucent footbridge that will allow to contemplate the piece from several perspectives. A new exercise in suspended thinking.
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Other trends. The Lady of Elche.
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of the deposit is not excavated. " The author of the Lady was meticulous in the details. "It emphasizes the treatment of the face, framed in jewels, but the objective of the artist was to describe the jewelry and the fabrics of the clothes. He was not interested in the language of anatomical expression. " The Lady's hieratic face remained in the Louvre, despite the fact that Republican Spain demanded "The Lady of Elche has the already sold other finds, and to its return. "In theatrical glory of a queen and those responsible for the productions of Alberti and possesses the appeal of an Louvre. María Teresa León, Spain was angel with the strength of an personified as the Lady. And On the Spanish side, the Amazon." Margarita Xirgu dressed, in archaeologist Pedro Ibarra, exile, as the statue for the Salvador Dalí has been one of chronicler of the discovery, Numancia of Cervantes. the artists surrendered to the had informed "the Royal beauty of this figure. 121 years Academy of History and the The negotiations continued have passed since the jewel of authorities of heritage, but on after the Civil War. The Spain Iberian art was discovered on August 8 the president of the of the dictatorship and the a farm in La Alcudia, three Council of Ministers, Antonio collaborationist France of kilometers from Elche. Cánovas del Castillo, was Vichy reached an agreement, assassinated. that hampered after a tug of war for the Aupada like essence of Spain, any official response, exchange of pieces. "In as much in the Republic as, "Aranegui explains. Petain's difficult equilibrium, he mainly, in the Francoism, the wanted to get closer to Spain idolatry towards this sculpture The bust ("some have so that Franco would be more of the IV century before Christ theorized that it was part of a propitiated "a degree of woman sitting or standing, but neutral, less friendly with the manipulation such that it even I defend that it is not") receives Axis, and thought that, by returning the Lady, that would got to move the investigators in France the name "lady" be the case." of its study a time "Says because "the antiquarians of archaeologist Carmen the time had begun to replace The return and his exhibition at Aranegui Gascó, professor the name of Venus, with which the Prado, since June 1941, emeritus at the University of the representations that were mark the beginning of the Valencia, who has published baptized were baptized, for withdrawal of the international La Dama de Elche (editorial something more in keeping bibliography. "The propaganda Marcial Pons). In this book, he with the times ". is displayed that Spain is a regrets that de la Dama "have civilization without rival in its Funeral use been more interested in antiquity." His image is sentimental aspects than the The investigations follow, like multiplied in stamps, labels, study of their context". those that have pointed out brands ... that the Lady is a goddess, That key moment was on something that Aranegui, who The block of sandstone, 65 August 4, 1897, when comisarió 20 years ago a great kilos in weight and 56 agricultural laborers installed centimeters in height, remains exhibition on Iberian art in irrigation and planted Paris, discards: "I believe that in the art gallery until 1971, pomegranates on the farm of when it is moved "escorted La Alcudia. The bust appeared it is a representation of the and by taxi" to the values of the elites of that as a reused piece inside a society. " It also remembers a Archaeological Museum to wall. After being shown a few highlight a center that needed known fact, its funerary use. days in Elche, "the queen a star. There he continues with dwells", as the ilicitanos called "Its hole was analyzed from the back and it is known that it his penetrating gaze. her, left for Paris. contained ashes and Can you move to temporary "International archeology had combustion remains of human exhibitions, as was done, in a romantic vision of Spain as bones." 1965, to Elche? "The piece is an exotic place, of ancient stabilized in its conservation, traditions," explains Professor Who made such a wonder with precautions does not Aranegui, and coincidentally, a almost 2,500 years ago? "A have to be an obstacle". French-Spanish scholar, Pierre contribution of my book is that However, Professor Aranegui when studying the set of the Paris, who came every fears that in raising this issue summer to Spain, was in Elche Alcudia it is deduced that there will happen as before, "when was a workshop of very good and moved quickly. a banker identity breaks in, the Lady sculptors in what was the who paid 4,000 francs to the Iberian city of Ilici. Today, 80% loses". owner of the land, who had
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Donation to Valdemorillo.
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The Giralt family of potters, owners of a century-old glass factory, have donated some thirty pieces of special value that make it possible to complete the wide range of articles that make up more than 360 works for the municipality.
The person in charge of making the donation has been María Luisa de Arquer, who at 93 years of age maintains the "enthusiasm to remember those times of production".
working on the preparation of new showcases to add to the funds already visible in the Cave Museum of Ceramics and Glass (CUMMVAL).
The three chimneys saint and sign of the locality, are, In fact, the total of pieces donated in the current in reality, Vulcano, Moisés The pieces belong to the legislature, more than 360, and Progreso, and they stage of Juan Falcó or gives an idea of the quality return, to the showcases Sociedad del Aulencia, and interest of this that really are a reflection which corresponds to the collection, an aspect that is of a part of the local history, period from 1845 to 1913, especially recognized by a fruit bowl, serving dishes, as the Consistory explains the City Council. rabanera and dishes from in a press release. the Mosaico series, Both the local mayor, sources from the Greca The pieces, all of them of Gema González, as well series in brown and blue, earthenware, go to swell as council members as well as a salad bowl and the collection of works Encarnación Robles and dishes with a border from donated by the Giralt Luis Hernández, also another series, Paisaje. family. present during the visit, thanked the Giralt for their A valuable and more than Of special value both for its permanent willingness and outstanding contribution age and variety and for collaboration in preserving that was delivered being in some cases the and promoting the accompanied by other 12 only preserved piece of that knowledge of a part of pieces: two bottles of glass model, such as a glass local history. . Valma, a pair of vases art retort, this wide sample noveau, one of them 'returned' to Valdemorillo, Part of the collection of decorated, and bottles of to the same place where pieces donated by the pharmacy, including also they were made, converted Giralt family can be one in which the name is years ago into Cultural admired, as a permanent reproduced and the center. exhibition, through the botanical drawing of the interior of the emblematic plant that was intended. chimneys, while already
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The Royal Factory increases its sales. management or the cultural The Foundation is also working on the protection of the technique of blowing glass, dating at least from the 1st century BC. One of the main foundational purposes of the institution is to conserve and value the Spanish glassmaking heritage, a part of which is concentrated and manufactured in La Granja. For this reason, for several months they have been working jointly with the Ministry of Culture to ensure that this technique is declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC).
museum, the store, the production, the training and the residence.
The museum, for example, received a total of 48,104 visitors in 2017 and until October 2018 the figure was close to 37,000. Among the most significant exhibitions this year include 'Fusion, Jewelery with Glass Contest', which showed 41 of the most innovative pieces of creative jewelry from 29 artists from all over Spain. A selection of 33 Czech glass jewels selected during the 'Master of Crystal, 2016' design jewelery contest or The Real Fábrica de Cristales de In order to move towards a new, the Murano glass exhibition by Fratelli Toso, one of the most La Granja is already taking the more profitable and attractive first steps towards its recovery. model for society as a whole and prestigious international companies in the sector have Since the new directive of the for glass professionals, Ortega also gone through this center. As National Glass Center recognizes that a change was well as a sample that reflects the Foundation was incorporated, necessary, which has already trends of contemporary artistic the objective is clear: to become begun and that translates into a national and international significant improvements. In the glass in Portugal through the reference in the glass sector. On first place, the investment in the eyes of 18 artists of the country. the verge of fulfilling a year as renovation of the domes stands Although the best results of the president of the Foundation, out, valued at 1.5 million euros. A year have been in sales, since, Andrés Ortega, head of the work that is already in execution as pointed out by the president of Segovia Business Federation the Foundation, in the first three after establishing a safety and (FES) takes a "more than quarters have grown 10% over accessibility plan for visitors to positive" assessment of the the previous year and expects the Glass Museum. work, although he admits that the These days, the scaffolding has the upward trend to continue first months were of deep been installed inside the building throughout of the last three analysis to understand the and work is underway to restore months. meaning and the operation of the the two domes of the Central The innovations that have been Real Glass Factory. Nave de Hornos. In addition, the included to achieve more The economic situation of this center complicated its survival and called into question three centuries of activity and history. Therefore, the main step of the new directive was to refinance the debt of 3.5 million euros that weighed on this organization, but they also proposed the challenge of obtaining investment in machinery and circulating to continue improving the quality and dissemination of the works and products manufactured. They are still immersed in this work, which is dilating due to the delay in receiving the subsidies that have caused the change of Government of the nation.
attractive products have contributed to this growth. Among them, the manufacture of pieces with colored glass, blue and For the same purpose, they intend to acquire a new furnace green, and recycled glass, with a production capacity much initiatives that, as indicated, have had a great acceptance among higher than currently existing customers and with only three and that would provide a much higher quality glass. The latter is, months in the market have already had a decisive impact on in his opinion, an indispensable requirement for the Royal Glass the increase in sales. Factory. The approximate cost of Another of the objectives to be achieved with the new master this improvement project is plan is the opening of new trade 150,000 euros, he says. routes. At the national level, the On the other hand, remember that throughout this period have board of trustees is also making been restructured access to the contacts with companies to market the product outside the museum and the store, has factory, located in La Granja. In intervened at the counters and In addition to these grants, the has given greater visibility to the fact, according to Ortega, there is master plan also ensures the already a selection of items that collection of lamps. In addition, continuity of the Royal Glass will soon be available in El Corte the production lines have been Factory. At this moment, the third Inglés stores, among other improved. and final phase is being establishments. The Board of Trustees works developed, which focuses on intensively on the five areas that The National Glass Center providing diagnoses and Foundation currently has 40 proposals for the different areas converge in this building, employees. However, once the of action that are included, such declared an Asset of Cultural Interest by the Junta de Castilla master plan is fully defined, the as archeology, architecture, needs to incorporate staff to the y León and the Industrial building pathologies, asset template can be determined. Property of Spain. That is, the adaptation of the central nave and its lighting will be undertaken.
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New Swarovski temple.
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series of twisted shelves, loaded with contemporary models, obviously made of glass: cufflinks, small cushions for pins, insects of rhinestones and sneakers raised with pearls.
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Not to mention the recent models designed by renowned designers, like this lipstick completely decorated with crystals, which is actually an incredible bag, designed by Judith Leiber. "The Swarovski archives are fascinating, as are the fantastic collaborations developed over the years with the brands that have come up to date to flesh out their ideas. That's what I wanted to capture. I went and came from Wattens to New York all year, a little less lately, "explained Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, pointing to her rounded belly. The Italian is expecting her first child by January 2019. A curio cabinet created by the British artist and set designer Simon Costin, a kind of potpourri of brilliant ideas, often related to cinema, was also open to visitors.
On October 24, Swarovski opened the doors of its headquarters in Austria to the curious. The largest supplier of precious stones to the fashion industry has a reputation for jealously guarding its manufacturing secrets.
steel and amber mail, which we owe to Paco Rabanne.
"Today is the birthday of our founder Daniel Swarovski. It would have been 156 years old. He has always believed in change and innovation, that's why we are all here today, "said Like the Renaissance Venetians, his great-grandson Markus who denied any craftsman the Langes-Swarovski during a right to leave the Serenissima, speech in the lobby of the on pain of death, in case he Swarovski factory. revealed the secret of making mirrors, a monopoly of the city. In Daniel, a glass cutter born in 1862, patented a glass cutting almost a century and a half, machine before founding his Swarovski has almost never glass factory in Wattens, using allowed journalists to enter his local hydroelectric power. Today, famous Alpine factory in its different departments employ Wattens. some 27,000 people in the How things have changed ... On world, with an annual turnover this rainy Wednesday evening, slightly lower than 3,000 million Markus Langes-Swarovski and euros. Nadja Swarovski welcomed dozens of journalists in their new The event also served as an design studio, Manufaktur, and in occasion to reveal the name of numerous new collaborators the adjoining exhibition spaces, hired by the Austrian company. displaying iconic clothes, ornaments and accessories. Highlighting Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, the famous Italian From the beautiful Alexander McQueen "chess" dress of 1999, designer and influencer, named creative director of Swarovski adorned with dazzling antique Professional, which deals with gold crystals, to this Gianni the relationships with the great Versace pearl dress, to the houses and brands of the world. Giorgio Armani dress from The Great Gatsby, with diamond He has presented several rhinestones, and this magnificent spaces, including a spectacular retro-futuristic tunic, in stainless www.amigosmava.org
From the gothic bib worn by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge, to the fantastic white diamond dress made famous by Shirley Bassey, with which she sang Diamonds Are Forever, the 1971 James Bond soundtrack. Testifying the company's family history, the entrance wall is covered with glass copies of the expert hands of the 25 Swarovski tribe members who have been successful in front of the company. During this visit, Markus LangesSwarovski also introduced a new creative partner, Julia Körner, an Austrian architect expert in 3D printing who has worked with Iris Van Herpen and collaborated with costume designer Ruth E. Carter on the crown and the majestic necklace worn by Queen Ramonda in the movie Black Panther, played by Angela Bassett. "Our goal is to go further. That's exactly what Swarovski does when venturing into 3D printing, "says Julia Körner, citing founder Daniel:" Development never stops. Innovations in one area inevitably lead to innovations in others. " Nothing is more true. In addition, when saying these words, the architect was 20 meters from the latest model of the BMW 8 Series, whose gearshift and console are fully decorated with Swarovski crystals.
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Interview with Raúl Calleja, director of Veteco.
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this industry. With what parallel activities is Veteco going to tell on this occasion?
Everything is ready for Veteco to open its doors. The 16th edition of the International Exhibition of the Window and the Glass Enclosure, will occupy in its entirety pavilions 9 and 10 of Ifema, those of greater capacity. Under the umbrella of ePower & Building, the event will be the meeting point for the Iberian and Southern European professionals of the sector. Raúl Calleja, director of the contest, explains in this interview what his impressions are on this edition of the contest.
Veteco 2018 is again the center of attraction in southern Europe of the world of window and enclosure. What expectations do you have in this year's edition, what are your feelings?
This edition of 2018 I am sure will confirm the trend of clear recovery that was actually observed in the last edition of 2016. We from Veteco will offer the best scenario for the sector to develop its commercial strategies, thus contributing to the recovery of the sector. In the 2016 edition, Veteco saw the birth of a specific sample for the sector of solar management, Veteco Solar. Now, the experience with Veteco Glass is repeated. What is the objective of concentrating these subsectors in a single space and what response has there been from the companies that integrate them?
Veteco is evolving at the pace that the sector itself, to meet Veteco is celebrated under the their specific needs. This is due umbrella of ePower & Building, to the creation of sub sectors along with the Construtec, within the Fair, but each with its Bimexpo, the new Archistone -the own identity. This is the case of old Stone Fair-, Matelec and Veteco Solar, which had a great Matelec Lighting, making it the reception in 2016, the same that largest event in Southern Europe we trust this new Veteco Glass that offers the latest solutions for initiative, which is being very well the entire cycle of life of the received by this industry. building. It coincides, in addition, Veteco is celebrated again under in the same dates with the the umbrella of ePower & second edition of Matelec Building. What has represented Industry. for the Construction sector a The next edition of Veteco is awakening a great expectation in the sector, so our expectations are very good. Within ePower & Building, which we hope will bring together 1,700 companies from 100 countries and 80,000 professional visitors, in Veteco 2018 we expect to reach the 400 exhibiting companies, which would represent an increase of 30% compared to 2016, and will announce their offer in pavilions 9 and 10 of the Feria de Madrid.
sample of this scope, how has it reacted?
The initiative to convene under the umbrella of ePower & Building all of our classrooms that provide solutions for the entire building cycle has amply demonstrated its success, the results achieved and the high levels of satisfaction recorded. The formula is perfect, taking advantage of the synergies common to the different events, but at the same time preserving The 2016 edition was a clear each one's own identity. The example of the sector's recovery. proof is that it has been Does 2018 follow the same established as the largest trend? summit in southern Europe for
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The parallel program of Technical Conferences is one of the main assets of the Hall. In this sense, I want to highlight that one of the mainstays of the Veteco program, which is common to the rest of the ePower & Building fairs, is once again 'Arquitectura con Eñe', a meeting point, business and dissemination of trends and knowledge for studies. of architecture, engineering, construction, promoters, socimis .... In this context, the II Architecture Awards with Eñe will be convened, including the prestigious Veteco-Asefave awards, destined to different categories of the envelope. They will also hold technical conferences within Veteco Glass and Veteco Solar. In the first case has convened the technical conference 'The insulating glass, beyond the concept', which will involve the companies Tvitec, Astiglass, Cerviglas, Ariño Duglass, Glass Industries Ramos, Tecnalia, Vitrosep, Dow, Sevasa and Vidresif. The day, organized by Interempresas Media, will take place on the morning of November 15 and will be moderated by Agustí Bulbena, glass consultant architect and collaborator of Vitrea. In the case of Veteco Solar, the 'II Conference on Protection and Solar Management has been convened. How to improve comfort through its control 'that will feature the participation of Asefave, Serge Ferrari, Vertisol, Screen Protectors and 6M Systems. This day has also been convened by Interempresas Media and the magazine Protección Solar. It will be held on the afternoon of November 14. Finally, what message would you send to the professional of the world of windows, solar protection, flat glass and glazed enclosure not to miss this edition of Veteco? I would encourage you not to miss attending Veteco, essential appointment in your agendas, to be up to date on the current sector of the window, solar protection, flat glass and glass enclosure.
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The magic of blown glass.
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The magic of the blown glass of the Mexican David Vargas (State Prize of Handicrafts 2003 and in charge of the Blown Glass Workshop in the School of Painting, Sculpture and Handicrafts) was present within the Cultural Festival Revueltas 2018 to be inaugurated in the Museum of Popular Cultures.
With the presence of the director of the Institute of Culture of the State of Durango (ICED) Socorro Soto and the owner of the museum, Gabriela Sanchez, the artisan David Vargas, thanked those present at the same time he spoke about his artisan production that from many He has been doing years.
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The work in glass and ceramics of David Vargas is a luxury for its beauty and perfection, and that in front of the rich indigenous crafts of Oaxaca and Michoacán, or in front of the innovative that is realized in Tlaquepaque and Tonalá, Jalisco, the one of this artist It occupies a prominent place.
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How does it.
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Blown glass by Miguel Flores.
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"It's a traditional technique in the family, this comes from generations," said Mexican Miguel Angel Flores, artisan for more than four decades, and who works with blown glass.
with the heat of a torch at high temperature, and containing butane gas, fire that is shaping the package you want to make .
By recognizing that it is a dangerous action that makes, by the use of fire, in his extensive experience has never had an altercation that prevents him from Interlaced glass is one of continuing his work, "I like the most common, as it is what I do, I enjoy it," said liked by its finish and the craftsman. Originally from Puebla, texture; from religious the fate of Flores brought figures, to flowers, With the intention that the him to the city of cantera characters from history crafts it produces y plata, Zacatecas, a and from cartoons, they continue for generations, place where he has been can be part of share some workshops living for a couple of Michelangelo's creativity. with those interested, and years, and which has being an unusual exercise Although their proposals become more than his in the state, Flores is vary in terms of formats, home, a space to dedicated to travel the largest has been promote and disseminate throughout the country to made is two meters, the technique he sell their pieces and which took almost a produces. . awaken the interest in month in manufacturing, local consumption. Soon About the process while there are other it will be part of a explained- the blown small that take up to five handcrafted run in the glass is an activity that is minutes to have them historic center of the imposed through bars of ready and for sale. capital. American glass fused
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Vicrila invests.
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The historic Basque glassware manufacturer, Vicrila, which recently completed its first 128 years of life, launched its strategic plan 2018-2022, at the end of which, after investing 17 million euros, it expects to increase its presence in foreign markets from the current 40% up to 60%, which will allow you to double your turnover to reach 50 million euros, according to its CEO, Fernando Bermejillo. Vicrila, in the hands of the instrumental society Mivaricar since last June, managed to overcome the complicated bankruptcy situation in which he was, according to Bermejillo. In view of the positive evolution of the company thanks, among other factors, to the total collaboration of the workers and the favorable situation, the shareholders who, initially contemplated investments amounting to 12 million euros, decided to increase the same up to 17 million in the next five years. The investment process will focus on increasing innovation to improve the design, expand the range of products and modernize the tempering lines. The company based in Leioa will introduce technological improvements in thermal treatments and automation, in addition to reorganizing the production of its Lamiako plant. The aim of the Basque firm is to double sales in that period and go from the 25 million
euros that it plans to close 2018 to reach 50 million euros in 2022. As Vicrila is already a leader in the Spanish glassware and glasses market together with its former shareholder, the French Arc, between both firms control 50% of the market, future growth, according to Bermejillo, has to come from sales abroad . In this sense, they are closing agreements with local partners in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Mexico, two of the main markets of the company, with a view to positioning themselves stronger in the United States. The investments aim to increase the "flexibility" of their furnace lines by introducing greater automation of their machinery, including quality control by artificial vision systems, to "generate more added value to the manufacturing processes, diversify the supply of products and increase production by reducing costs and, above all, energy expenditure ". In this sense, Vicrila, a company that is intensive in the use of energy, mainly natural gas to power its kilns, is seriously noticing the increase in the price of energy in Spain. Fernando Bermejillo, after remembering that energy is the second largest item of costs after labor, since it reaches up to half a million euros a month, said that in this 2018 it has suffered an
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increase in prices up to now of 8%, an increase in the cost of a factor that affects directly to the competitiveness of a company that has 237 workers on staff. The manufacturer of glass, mainly destined to the Horeca market, the hospitality industry, foresees that by means of the different planned adjustments, the total annual expenses will suppose a decrease of 1.5%. Bermejillo reiterated that the strategic plan 2018-2022 places special emphasis on growing abroad, especially in markets such as the United States through its commercial alliances with British (Neville) and Mexican (Pavisa) companies. "The objective of doubling the turnover and increasing the export is ambitious but feasible", in a stable economic situation highlighted Bermejillo. The planned investments worth 17 million will be used to start up a new tempering line, both glasses and glasses, from 2019, since the tempered glass products provide superior impact resistance and a longer duration. , for example, for clients such as bars and restaurants. The strategic plan includes incorporating some fifty new references throughout 2019 into the product catalog, to add to the 300 that currently work with greater assiduity. Among them, larger glasses as required in Germany and northern Europe, and special glasses for beer, within a total list of more than a thousand items.
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Starglass expansion.
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The president of the regional government of La Rioja, José Ignacio Ceniceros, has visited the Starglass company located in Agoncillo where he has been able to learn about the new projects and investments of this Riojan company.
manufactures more than one million units of tempered glass a year, and has remarked that it is a company «clearly exporter "since 80% of its production is sold to countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, at the same time that it has a The President of the very important presence Government of La Rioja in the market of the has highlighted "the replacement of buses growth forecasts and new and coaches in Spain. projects and investments" of the Starglass company, Ceniceros has after the investment made highlighted the ability to this summer of one million overcome this company euros in the that went through difficult modernization of its times during the crisis. tempered glass oven. "Currently is healthy, thriving and maintaining José Ignacio Ceniceros employment," he said. has made these statements in the visit he In this sense, the has made to this president of the regional company of La Rioja executive has set an matrix specialist in vehicle example to the firm Rioja safety glass, which of "how it is possible to
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overcome the bad times when there is a viable business project, workers and a committed management team" has remarked at the same time that has shown its support to this company that has "desire to get ahead, creating jobs and wealth for hundreds of La Rioja families". The firm has two production centers: the Agoncillo factory, founded in 1991, and the one in Mieres (Asturias), which emerged in 2000. In addition, the group has another plant in Brazil dedicated to the manufacture of armored glass for customized car applications. In total, currently employs 270 workers (175 in El Sequero and 95 in Mieres).
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Calatrava, stone.
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As if it were a spell, the bridge that Santiago Calatrava created for Venice will become stone. As if it were a curse launched by the more than 5,000 people who have denounced the bridge for having fallen for it during the ten years that have passed since its discreet inauguration, parts of glass will become opaque and the light will no longer cross them. Too many falls, too many blows, too much pain and, above all, too many compensations have convinced the Communal Board of Venice. It is not the first time that a Calatrava bridge has been modified after its opening. There is the case of Bilbao. The difference is that this time the change has the approval of the study of Calatrava that "has been made available to the City of Venice in case they need any technical advice about the bridge," explain sources close to the Valencian architect. Sources that insist on remembering that, in spite of everything, in spite of the falls and the denunciations, "the roughness of the surfaces of the bridges of the bridge fulfill
all the regulations". In this sense from the environment of Calatrava recalled that, in the context of a trial between the City Council and the construction company, a police report was provided indicating that on the days of humidity or rain the incidents of falls on the bridge of Calatrava " they were not more or less numerous than in the rest of Venice with those weather conditions. " In principle what is planned to change are only the tiles of the landings, but in Venice and point out that it may be the beginning of a longer metamorphosis.
The paradox is that this work was neither complicated nor expensive and could have been done in a couple of nights. But the municipal government of that time rejected the idea because of the bad image that had been given by the extra costs of the construction. For not having made these small changes last minute, Venice has had to spend hundreds of thousands of euros in compensation during these years.
And, since it was almost sneakily opened on September 11, 2018 to the present, more than five thousand lawsuits have been filed against the city This is how the Italian for having slipped through it journalist Francesco Bottazzo "and in dozens of them the relates it in an information for government was forced to pay the Corriere della Sera. The even between 50 and 60 intention of the municipal thousand euros ", writes government is to replace these Bottazzo. eight double slabs of the The replacement of the eight bridge of the Constitution, rungs will cost around 40,000 removing the glass and euros as reported last week by replacing it with traquita, a the municipal councilor for type of volcanic rock. public works, Francesca The same information from Zaccariotto, and are part of a Bottazzo recalls that it was strategy to find a definitive Calatrava himself who, a few solution and get you to walk on weeks after the opening, the bridge on rainy days. to be suggested replacing the glass considered a risk sport. with trachyte.
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DKV Insurance Award.
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The Swab Fair in Barcelona has been the framework in which the artist Tamara Arroyo has won the DKV Seguros Prize for a piece produced in the workshops of the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón (MAVA) for the exhibition Working Glass, and that was presented to the award by the Mallorcan gallery Addaya Center d'Art Contemporani. The piece reproduces the real window of the artist's kitchen (a profile of a glass window) and in front of it, on the floor, four plastic t-shirt bags, of different
but which today appreciates, and which highlights its highly In this way he wants to relate the sensitive nature. public and private sphere of his life, and the urban and domestic In fact, he has in mind the realization of two new pieces space, inviting the public to an autobiographical story with which that, at the moment, live in his to reflect on contemporary imagination. society. This territory, that of fantasy, often coexists in his work with This piece with which he has won the prize is the first work that of known reality. that Tamara, a young His works always give off a great multidisciplinary artist from vitality, conjugating memory and Madrid, makes with glass. daily life. A material that was unknown in terms of its artistic possibilities, colors.
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Cuba builds with recycled glass.
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Cuba could well be classified among the countries that propose the most unusual solutions, at the same time ingenious, and that is that the report published last month in the state press leaves little doubt about this. According to the government newspaper Granma, in the not too distant future, the construction of houses whose components will be made from recycled glass from recovered old bottles will begin in Cuba. The idea, which was born in the Provincial Raw Materials Recovery Company of Villa Clara, aims to use products of low demand, such as glass, from which thousands of tons are recovered annually with the bottles of beers and rum sold in the market. market, and that can not be reused in the factories by their characteristics. Experimentally, beams, blocks, tablets, plateaus and slabs are already being produced experimentally, using a mixture of ground glass, cement and recycled paper.
This solution for the elaboration of materials for the construction of houses seeks to give utility to the glass collected by the companies recovered of raw material, which is normally poured in places where it contaminates.
their salary, according to the report published in the Granma, because before they earned 400 pesos a month (16 dollars) and now close to 1200 (48 dollars) for their contribution to the country.
Laboratory tests are still In Cuba thousands of tons of underway with all the glass are generated annually products made from crushed in the tourist facilities of the glass in order to certify them country, which are not used for mass use before the end of the current year. by the factories, which usually only reuse a small So far there are only two amount, but only the clearest drawbacks to mass use, and most transparent. although the creators of this invention and work on The base of the invention created by eight workers of solving it. the Raw Material Recovery The first one is that the Company is an old stone blocks built with this crusher mill that was technique take around 15 adapted to process old days to complete the drying broken glass bottles. process (a traditional block takes less than 3). "We put a mat, the support and even an electric motor, The second is that it would as well as other take a ton of glass to attachments, until we made produce only about 164 it work," one of the Cuban blocks so that to achieve 'innovators' proudly productive capacities at the explained to the press. industry level would require a The inventors of this curious thousand tons of glass milled annually. technique were "rewarded" with a substantial increase in
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Cerviglas improves its facilities.
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During the past months, the company Cerviglas dedicated to the manufacture of glass, has made a large investment in improving and expanding its factory. Among the interventions carried out in this Valencian company based in the town of Turís, the extension of 6,000 m2 of esplanade for the loading of material from the trucks of its own transport fleet stands out, as well as the customers who collect the material in their vehicles. facilities. This extension converts the loading process into a much more fluid process that favors movement within the
structural silicones, fulfilling the thermal On the other hand, the needs for its correct warehouses available to adhesion and curing Cerviglass have also necessary for this type been expanded, adding of adhesives. 1,000 m2 for storage and classification of the In turn, we have final product, which will proceeded to change all the current cutting also facilitate its distribution and loading. tables, both monolithic and laminar, to obtain In addition, it will have greater precision and 1500 m2 more to store improvement in the final material of special product. needs, and cutting and All these modifications manufacturing area of and new acquisitions these. have been made to Between them they obtain a greater emphasize materials of organization and resistance to the fire, optimization in parallamas, production, reducing antivandálicos ... manufacturing times and It will also have a wide improving the quality area where it will be both in the final product possible to bond to the and in the service to frame by means of customers. enclosure.
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Veteco Glass 2018 is scheduled in Madrid.
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From November 13 to 16, Veteco 2018 will once again concentrate the attention of professionals in the world of windows, facades and glass enclosures.
chain (pavilion 10).
In addition to the commercial activity generated by the exhibition work of products and novelties, Veteco Glass will also have a space dedicated The 16th edition of to the dissemination and Veteco will host about exchange of knowledge 300 exhibitors and, as in and experiences. the previous edition, will For this, the technical be part of ePower & conference 'The Building, an umbrella insulating glass, beyond that also includes the the concept', has been Construtec and Matelec convened, which will events, thus constituting include the participation the most important of Tvitec, Astiglass, show in Southern Cerviglas, Ariño Europe in the Duglass, Ramos construction cycle. Industrias del Vidrio, Veteco is located in Tecnalia and Vidresif pavilions 9 and 10 of the companies. Ifema premises and will The day will be have a new sector with moderated by Agustí its own identity, Veteco Bulbena, architect Glass, an exhibition consultant in glass and space aimed at industry collaborator of Vitrea, and the glass value and organized by
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Interempresas Media. Veteco is once again the meeting point of the window industry and the glass enclosure.
Under the motto 'Transforming the way we build a Green World', ePower & Building will focus on sustainability, innovation and technology. In this way, under its umbrella, Veteco enhances its capacity to convene and becomes one of the most important events in the window, façade and solar protection sector. Interempresas Media and its publications Vítrea Novoperfil, Vitrea, Protección Solar, AFL and Rehabitec News will be present once again at Veteco, at booths 8N13 8N11, in pavilion 8.
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Windows of Ariño Duglass.
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has developed these high-tech glass and high resistance to abrasion caused by the impact at great speed of the desert sand.
That is, about fifteen days after its official opening. The route will have 36 trains, of which 35 will be conventional and one, VIP category.
It is not the only challenge that has had to be faced, since the glass also has to be prepared to withstand the high temperatures of day and the Ariño Duglass, specialized in very low temperatures of the the glass sector, has been night, which would also cause responsible for the breakages before which development and manufacture frequent replacements would of the windows of all highhave to be made. speed trains, which will make The developed technology and the journey known as AVE the gas that is introduced in desert, which can reach a the double glazing prevents speed of 310 kilometers per the outside temperature hour. regardless of whether it is cold A project for which this or hot - affecting the inside of company from Zaragoza, a the train. national and international The glass has already been reference in the glass sector, tested successfully, since on has had to make more than December 31, Talgo 350 4,500 units of a material with Haramain, called "AVE del high technology to withstand desierto", completed, in the the extreme temperatures of testing phase, the first trip the desert. between the two main cities of Specifically, the R + D + i Saudi Arabia. department of Ariño Duglass, Now, it was expected that the in collaboration with the first journey began to provide Department of Applied Physics commercial service for of the University of Zaragoza, travelers on October 11.
"The project, due to its technological level and its economic importance, has meant the definitive turnaround in Ariño Duglass, which has given us a boost towards a superior business model", according to Raimundo GarcíaFigueras, CEO of Ariño Duglass.
The R + D + i department of this company from Zaragoza, together with the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Zaragoza, has developed specific glasses for the Talgo 350 Haramain windows for the High Speed line between Mecca and Medina , in Saudi Arabia.
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Ariño Duglass, based in La Puebla de Alfindén (Zaragoza), thus advances its commitment to advanced technological products, with high benefits in energy saving and exclusive solutions in tempered glass, thermosetting, laminate, screen printing with design, double and triple glazing. The company, which has a staff of 150 professionals, currently exports 80% of its production to markets such as France or the United Kingdom, mainly, apart from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Holland or New Zealand.
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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
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