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JAN EXNAR Recovering.
M. A. Carretero.
Since March 2015 it has been demonstrated that the "good" intention of our former deputy mayor has been a complete failure, as was already foreseen, since the room dedicated to our elders has always been empty, because the road access to the Castle, because of its characteristics, is not the The principal predatory most pleasant to transit, both agent of the integrity of our in summer and winter. Museum left the That breath of fresh air that I government team of our City and with that opened a commented at the beginning of this text seems fortunately slight hope for the has become excellent news restitution of the spaces usurped to the MAVA in the for our Museum, since I have been informed that the room Great Castle of San José unduly dedicated to the de Valderas. elderly will return to be That good lady, with her exhibition place of sculptures eagerness to expand for made in glass. Cultural her party the capture of property that should never votes of the elderly people have been stripped. of the district of San José But in addition to rede Valderas, fought the exposing pieces of laminated unspeakable so that the Castle happened to depend glass, it is intended to locate and display in that space Nuestra sede: on its Department and Castillo Grande de "alone" got that one of the various pieces of the BelliniS.J. de Valderas the Museum's rooms were Pezzoli Collection. Avda. Los Castillos, s/n stripped of their laminated Taken together is a splendid 28925 ALCORCÓN. glass sculptures to make it collection of 50 masterpieces (MADRID) a room in which the older made in glass between 1950 info@amigosmava.org people of the neighborhood and 2015 and which are the could read the free press, result of working all the art some books they put on techniques in glass of the shelves and to practice best tradition and converted various table games. into works of art. At the beginning of last summer and to mitigate the high temperatures of those days, we received a breath of fresh air whose origin was the City of our City of Alcorcón: the first deputy mayor, Silvia Cruz, had submitted his resignation, apparently , "for personal reasons".
and Toni Zuccheri, as well as young promises like Camilo Triulzi, Sally Viganò, Vincenzo Parrinello and Violetta Uboldi. It is the largest exhibition of contemporary glass now visible in Italy. Currently, the collection is exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts, located in Castello Sforzesco, Milan. The permanent exhibition of contemporary glass "BelliniPezzoli" we hope that it can enrich, in an important way, the collection that already owns our Museum. But the brightness reflected by these two good news is still tarnished by the occupation of the last floor of the Museum by the NGO Centro Trama Association that develops the Family Advisory contracted by the Community of Madrid after the transfer of space made by the government team of our Town Hall in the beginning of 2014.
I thought that it would not be an unreasonable measure that our City Council proposed to the Community of Madrid an exchange of premises for a better location of this Family Advisory, permutation that would give the Museum its original They are pieces by great structure and the few pieces contemporary artists: Andrea now located in the latter Cascella, Laura Panno, plant of greater security, to Lucio Del Pezzo, Fulvio not have to serve, as now Bianconi, Mario Bellini, Dale they have been doing, as a Chihuly, Gianfranco Frattini, tactile element of distraction Joan Crous, Silvia for customers waiting their Levenson, Roberto turn query. Sambonet, Lino Tagliapietra
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Important issue: GLASS AND CERAMIC QUALIFICATIONS (IV) MAC.
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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
From Malaga to Brasilia
Pottery root
Art Berazategui 2017
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does CONTENIDO:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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From Malaga to Brasilia
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Pottery root
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Art Berazategui 2017
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Seville capital of glass
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The glass blower
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Vitrum Application
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Party in Vimbodí
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2017
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Get behind the scenes
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MAVA Award
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2017 program
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Constellations
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Other trends
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Tennis for recycling
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How does it
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Like plasticine
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Farcama 2017
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M. Obama in Gordiola
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Sergio Conrado Dávila
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The window of Don Bosco 30 Eloy Narea Suárez
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Pasabaçe opens room
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Generate energy
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Porrón in New York
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Board Of Directors
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Order PRA/259/2017, of 17 March, updating five professional qualifications of the Professional Family Glass and Ceramics.
Level 2. VIC207_2, which is attached as Annex III to this order.
This order is dictated by virtue of the powers attributed to the State by Two. A new wording is Article 149.1.1 and 30 of the Constitution, on the given in Annex CCX, regulation of basic Professional conditions that guarantee ..// .. Qualification the equality of all In accordance with the "Organization of the Spaniards in the exercise provisions of the single manufacture of glass of rights and in the additional provision of products". Level 3. fulfillment of the Royal Decree VIC210_3, which is 1228/2006 of 27 attached as Annex IV to constitutional duties, and for the regulation of the October, the this order. conditions of obtaining, professional Three. A new wording issuing and qualifications are is given in Annex CCXI, homologation of the updated, the Professional academic and specifications of which Qualification professional titles. are contained in "Organization of Annexes CCVII, CCX manufacture in the Final provision 2nd Entry and CCXI of the Royal processing of glass into forcé Decree: products". Level 3. This order shall enter into One. A new wording is attached to Annex CCVII, Professional Qualification "Manufacturing operations of shaped ceramic products".
VIC211_3, which is attached as Annex V to this order. FINAL PROVISIONS
force on the day following its publication in the Official State Gazette.
Final disposition first Competent title
URGENT NEWS
Jewish lamps .
The City Council of Lorca has lent to the National Archaeological Museum two ritual ritual lamps blown glass jewels of the XV century that will be exhibited in the exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of this institution, which opens on October 10 in Madrid. These lamps were located in the excavations of the Jewry found in the castle of Lorca in 2003 and
that 27 of them have been recomposed in the last years from 2,600 fragments of blown glass. Lorca pieces have been selected for the exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum under the title "The power of the past 150 years of archeology in Spain" that will gather the most relevant archaeological finds located in the country in the last century and a half.
No response from the Department of Culture.
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. Taliaferro Jones.
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Toronto-based artist Taliaferro Jones has achieved international acclaim for her glass and photography sculptures, which have participated in more than 35 exhibitions in Canada and the United States.
and glass sculpture and mixed media.
He then studied and worked in Latin America and Europe before moving to the Toronto area, where he completed two years of graduate studies in Sheridan College's glass One of her solo exhibitions program. with a large sculpture of Jones exhibits glass and photography, internationally and has titled Between, premiered won commissions for glass at the Sandra Ainsley and large-scale gallery in Toronto in photography in London, February 2005. California, Hawaii and Using texture, form and Toronto, and his work has light, Jones explores the appeared in several books essence of the balance of and publications. the physical to the spiritual Jones currently teaches in his works of glass and exhibition planning and gicle prints. glass marketing and His sensual photographs of advertising at the Institute macro patterns of sand, of Advanced Learning and water, grass and other Technology (formerly natural elements carry on a Sheridan College) in dialogue with his minimalist Toronto. glass sculptures. Between his time in Tufts Jones graduated from and Sheridan, Taliaferro Tufts University and the traveled extensively Boston Museum of Fine throughout Europe and Arts School, where he Central America. earned a BA in Art History Discovering the different and a BFA in photography cultural and spiritual forces
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on his journey inevitably came to reflect findings in his work. "... referring to the sacred geometry and symmetry of a variety of cultural and spiritual beliefs ..... she tries to unleash unexplored approaches to the intangible within the viewer." Using texture, shape and light, Taliaferro explores the essence of balance from the physical to the spiritual in his glass sculptures. His sensual minimalist glass sculptures Taliaferro examines the general pattern and insists on his intrigue to get the ever ephemeral elements of balance. Finding and reaching balance is a constant journey, with layers and changing levels that continually drive Taliaferro's work. The sculpture that is exposed in the MAVA is titled "Essence"
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Established artists. Jan Exnar.
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Jan Exnar was born in 1951 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic. She studied at the Glass High School of Železný Brod, from 1966 to 1970 and at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague in the Glass Study of Prof. S. Libenský until 1976. His works highlight shape and color and look compact. They are inspired in part by cosmic spaces.
His sculptures often contain a myriad of small bubbles. For some years, the work of Jan Exnar has become more expressive, symbolic and figurative. His sculptures are mostly monochromatic. He received the Jugend Gestaltet awards, IHM Glaspreis, Munich in 1981 and Bayerischer Staatspreis, 56. Internationalen
Handwerkmesse, Munich in 2004. Exnar's works have been exhibited in several museums in Europe and the United States. His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Art in Brno, Czech Republic, the Pardubice Museum in the Czech Republic, and Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, United States.
Emerging artists. Jared Rosenacker.
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Jared Rosenacker was fascinated with glass while attending Bowling Green State University. He was captivated by his power and shifted his focus to the arts, an unexpected adventure that continually reveals deeper layers of meaning. For him, there is a correlation between transforming glass into a vessel, and the way in which glass has become a vessel that has carried it around the country and now around the world. Through travel, Rosenacker gains knowledge and understanding, which she now expresses through her work.
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From Malaga to Brasilia.
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Getting the project was complicated and took them about a year. But the artisan workshop of glass Viarca, assembled thirty years ago by the maestro from Malaga, Alberto Cascón, managed to advance the challenge and is about to culminate. The whole family, Alberto, his wife Mayte Cuenca and their two children, David and Nacho, have worked during the last two months in the creation of three stained glass windows for the church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Brasilia. In a few days they will have the work finished so that it can be exported to Brazil in early October. Although they have works of their own in England, Portugal and Equatorial Guinea, this will be the first time that the craftsmen in Malaga carry their good work to the American continent. Ten square meters and 300 kilos measure and weigh the three pieces they are working on. But dimensions are not the most significant. It is their technique, experts say. "It can be considered stained glass because its function is to cover the window hollow, but not because of its technique, they are not made as usual, neither with lead nor with copper," explains David Cascón, craftsman and son of the master. "It is an artistic work in glass and metal," he adds. The expert comments that it is two iron cut cuts that wrap the pieces of high quality handmade blown glass. This material has had to be imported from England and
France "because in Spain there is no blown glass industry," he says. It is a material of greater cost for being totally handmade. Alberto Cascón realizes the wedding dress of the main figure of one of the pieces, that represents the Weddings of Caná. He also paints the faces of the characters. "It combines fire paint with grit and carved glass plaqué," he says and points out that the latter is a double crystal that has a transparent part and another color to be able to "attack the color and create effects, overlays of tonalities or transparent areas ". It is a meticulous work "that we can do thanks to the experience of my treasured father in these three decades", indicates David Cascón. He also emphasizes that the greatest complication in the manufacture of the works have been the cuts of high complexity. Another thing is their transport, much more difficult. "You can not leave the airport in Malaga because no freighter will land here with the capacity that would be needed, since the glass has to travel vertically," says David. The weight and vibrations of the trip add tension to the glass and could break. Even so, the molds will be stored in Viarca in case it is necessary to replace some of the glass in the place of destination. An importing company from Brazil will be in charge of making the transfer once Viarca leaves the pieces packed and the wood even fumigated so that they can enter the American country. But that will be the last part of
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the process. The first came with the sketches of the pieces. The design is framed within the "new aesthetics of the churches, a current emerged very recently," according to David Cascón. In particular the pieces that prepare for Our Lady of the Assumption are recreations of a design by Kiko Argüello, the Leonese painter initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way, along with the Spanish Carmen Hernández and the Italian priest Mario Pezzi. "The priest of the diocese has been responsible for the election and has wanted his church to carry this aesthetic," says the craftsman. The colors they have used were determined "and it was fundamental to follow the color palette they sent us", details the craftsman. Besides the piece dedicated to the Wedding of Cana, the remaining two are dedicated to the word of God - you can read the term Verbum and Logos, God as the beginning and end of everything. These works are the only decorations in glass that will take the church of new plant that is constructed in Brasilia. Examples of a craft made art respecting tradition and including innovation, that is achieved with a constant formation. Nacho Cascón, for example, has studied engineering and glass design at the Royal Spanish Glass Factory in Segovia. Now what they want is to continue attracting these types of projects to take their work, the name of Viarca and Malaga to the rest of the world.
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Attached to his root potter.
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of the museum. You will also be able to see the original floors of the house On the open floor appeared as a gift. of the XVII, the entrance and the Although it has complicated the project "straw of water" which, he explains, of the enlargement of the Museum of was a thin lead pipe that brought the Glass and Glass of Malaga, the water from the aqueduct of San Telmo discovery of a pottery kiln of the XVII and ending in a pylon that can be century has been a discovery of vital seen in one of the courtyards of the importance for its owner, Gonzalo house. Between the factory premises Fernández-Prieto. Also for the and the housing were the corrals and neighborhood and the city, as it the remains of these also have been demonstrates the theory already found and will be able to see. "The documented by the historian Víctor archeologist has commented on the Heredia that the area - along with the singularity of the furnace because it is church San Felipe Neri and where of enormous size and is very well important Arab furnaces have been preserved," says the owner of the found - had a ceramic industry that Glass Museum. continued until the century XVIII. The archaeological piece, which belonged As for the design of the enlargement, to the Chinchilla family, has been the patron does not want to overtake found in very good condition. It will be much that "it's going to be a new visitable and will be part of the new concept of exhibition space that is construction that you want to open to going to surprise a lot, I think it's going the public for free. to make it speak, there's nothing in Spain as what we're going to do, that's The architect Ignacio Dorao is in why we're breaking our heads. " They charge of the works, which are also want to make a work with which expected to be completed in a year, the success is safe. "We can not be and the archaeologist Sara Diaz has wrong because my economic excavated the entire plot. "Just in what possibilities are limited, we can not lift would be the natural union of the something that we have to throw, so museum with its extension, in the we must do everything possible to middle, together with the wall of the have the Arab furnaces of the house, is where we found the oven," backyard have a dignified entrance explains the owner. "It was a gift and through this square. complicates the I'm very happy, but it also makes work what they are going to do in the everything difficult," he adds. From the future with a space that they now have inside, the logical point to continue the without exploiting, "says Fernándezvisit from the current museum to the Prieto. new construction is occupied by the furnace, so the entrance will have to This space will mean to win between be established outside. Right now 300 and 400 square meters to the Fernandez-Prieto shuffles three thousand that already has the projects that also take into account to museum. And, of course, they will not leave a kind of easement of passage be short of content. Quite the for a future putting in value of the opposite. The new site will house the furnaces of Muslim time that are in the important collection of 450 works of lot of behind and that belong to the Studio Glass that it owns and that are regional administration. arriving at Malaga. It is an artistic trend in which artists such as Ernst Although the furnace is now protected Krebs, Walter Bahr, Rick Bernstein or with geotextile and a layer of gravel, Robert Levin, among others, used when they finish the work "you can glass as the basis for creating a work visit because it is heritage of the of art and not as a domestic object. neighborhood and Malaga, gives "Each piece has no other reason than name to the street," says the promoter
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to recreate beauty or make you think," says the owner of the museum while emphasizing the delicacy and originality of the works that can already be seen in the first room of the museum in Malaga. It arose in the middle of the 20th century, had great exponents in Germany and the United States and in 1983 they met in a mythical exhibition that Joaquín Torres organized in Valencia. Vicointer '83 was the title of the exhibition, "the first glass exhibition of modern art in Spain, a bomb," says the collector. "We wanted to make a Studio Glass museum but it was not made and the collection dispersed," Fernandez-Prieto adds, pointing to the piece by the Austrian Jindra Beranek, which is displayed in her showcase, "the only one of this artist in Spain". Today, the Museo del Vidrio de Alcorcón, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid and its namesake of Valencia, La Granja and the Cerralbo Museum want to reconvene the pieces of that exhibition of the 80 with Cristina Giménez Raurell at the head. And in this show will have a prominent importance the Malaga collection, which keeps growing. "We are waiting for a couple of pieces to arrive and since I do not bring them and the material is so delicate the transfer has me without sleep, "he says.And Gonzalo Fernández-Prieto has devoted his life to glass and glass.His collection already reaches 3,200 pieces and is" so in love "with the house that for eight years and a half is a museum that is committed to making it grow with its potter's past. Enlargement is costly, obtaining permits slower than you would like and reviewing the three architectural proposals exhaustively. the works that it hopes to have finished in a year.The current reception of visitors and the staircase of ascent to the two floors above will disappear to join the museum and serve as a link to both spaces.
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Art Berazategui 2017.
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The XXI National Glass Hall was inaugurated at Berazategui Art 2017, which has been visited at the San Francisco Municipal Complex, Calle 23 y 149, Berazategui (Argentina) until 1 October. Organized since 1994 by the Ministry of Culture of the Municipality of Berazategui, through its School of Glass, it brings together artists from all over the country and abroad to present their works.
Mussi at the opening of his speech. In addition, the Buenos Aires legislator highlighted the continuity of the event: "Everything that was started in the cultural order, persisted over time and we were improving. Culture in Berazategui had a fundamental characteristic that is synthesized in the word'continuity '. There was a generational continuity in the matter, which has made the city stand out in this respect. "
On this occasion, the Hall has counted on 62 works of 44 artists, of which 6 were local and the rest come from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), La Plata, San Nicolás and from localities in the north, west and southern Conurbation of Buenos Aires.
For its part, the local Culture Secretary, Federico López, said: "It is a project that has been held for more than 20 years, where one can find pieces of art in glass of great artistic level, excellent design and creativity." In addition, he highlighted "the political decision to target culture as a line of management".
During the opening ceremony, three prizes were awarded. The winning works will become part of the heritage of the local Ministry of Culture and will integrate the Contemporary Art Collection of the Museum of Glass, which is in formation. CONTINUITY "It is a great joy for me to continue sharing these things. I want to thank people who come from other places and who every year do us the honor of exposing in Berazategui all that he has been able to do, as well as the neighbors who visit us and who make it possible to accept such proposals "Said provincial deputy Juan Jose
Meanwhile, the director of the area of the Arts of the Fire of the Department of Culture of the Municipality, Veronica Avila, stressed the importance of the event: "It means a meeting point for glass artists and that makes us very proud. It is not a common sample, it is the only one in Latin America where you can observe the glass from an artistic point of view and not as a purely utilitarian material ". Finally, the winner of the "Bullseye Glass e Imagen Vitral" Acquisition Prize, María Eugenia Álvarez Herrero, said: "It is the third year I
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participated in the exhibition and I am very happy for the prize received. Being part of this event is always positive. It's a great opportunity that Berazategui gives us, the only Glass Hall we have in the country. " The proposal consolidates the city as National Capital of Glass, by gathering the best artists of the country every year and exhibiting the great variety of pieces registered in the categories Traditional Techniques, Techniques not Tradicional and Bullseye Glass and Stained Glass. SINGLE SCHOOL IN THE REGION The Municipal School of Glass of Berazategui works in the San Francisco Municipal Complex and is the only one in South America. His work on the treatment of this material distinguishes the district, both in Argentina and abroad. This contest has the virtue of promoting creativity, technique and expression in glass, showing the vitality of a School that currently continues to award the title of Artistic Glass Technician (2-year career) and provides discipline workshops with various levels: Molding and thermoforming, Lighting screens, Painting on glass, Screen printing in glass, Thermofusion, Thermofusion for jewelry and Stained glass. Watch video of the Hall.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. Expositión “Pliegues”.
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Dozens of metaphors from a with impurities. I have played material as noble and versatile to create art from error. " "To as glass. the purists it seemed sacrilegious, but I was looking The Burgos Pedro García, who for something more, I was today has a house, workshop looking for the interior life of and museum in Villaviciosa de the glass." Odón, near Madrid, has made a thousand folds from a And those errors have become material without folds, clean, the last pieces in oak leaves, thorns, roots, shells, shells and There are on display elves and transparent and clear. even screws that live between cyclops, waves, bubbles and And he explains: "When I the folds of their glasses. fish and thoughts. Many lives, started, in the seventies and much poetry that swirls through eighties, I took the pure glass; I You can see images of these the glass as if it were air or consider myself a pioneer in works through this link. water. Spain of glass with bubbles, Pedro García has been experimenting with glass since 1974 - and since 1974 they are many years, no less than 43 -, and a good part of his last works are going to show during this month of October in the MAVA under the title of "Pleats".
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Seville, capital of the glass 2017.
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Anfevi, the National Association of Manufacturers of Glass Containers, repeats once again the award of its award to a Spanish city in recognition of its commitment to this packaging material. Seville has had the honor of rising as 'Capital of Glass 2017', a decoration that has been given to Juan Espadas Cejas, mayor of the city.
than 2,500 people participated in the creation of the 2nd Solidary Mosaic of Glass, organized by Friends of Glass, in the Plaza de "When we talk about glass, España in Seville, where every year this material citizens' commitment to this receives more acceptance material was shown. for among the hoteliers, health and environment are businessmen and homes. In well known by the Sevillians. Seville we have been able to " incorporate devices to favor It should be noted that Anfevi the collection in the main Seville has been the city events of the city achieving a has been highlighted as a chosen to receive this award very positive response ", pioneer example in the for the high commitment of implementation of the highlighted the mayor of its institutions, businessmen Seville, Juan Espadas. circular economy model, in and inhabitants with glass. favor of the struggle to During the ceremony Juan abandon the linear model, to The city of Seville is an Martín Cano, secretary use and to throw. example of a circular general of Anfevi said: economy since the whole "Through this award we want The Cotec Foundation, circle is produced on its to recognize Seville's strong author of the first report lands. commitment to glass. It is a published so far on the In the province of this city, situation and evaluation of region that has allowed to both Verallia and O-I have implement a perfect model of the circular economy in glass factories in the Spain, published in February circular economy. In municipality of Alcalá de this year, highlighted the addition, it is worth noting Guadaíra. glass industry as one of the that we are facing a prize that is not only addressed to 'Actors and Good Practices In addition, Ravsa, Identified', thanks to its the City Council, but also Recuperadora Andaluza de economic model, in which seeks to recognize the Vidrio and authorized involvement of Sevillans with integral recycling forms an manager for waste collection glass. On February 14, more essential part. and treatment, as well as Lipasam, municipal cleaning company of the City of Seville, are also in this territory.
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The glass blower (VII).
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Justina Rodríguez García.
"Two fairs make frank to Barcelona every winter in the most lucid, delicate and brittle matter, although more useful than the use of man. Glass is the one, that on the first day of January, not being content with the ice of that the distance of the sun dresses him, obliges the artifice to decorate its largest square and its neighboring streets of crystalline shops, which, in reliefs, tableware, tableware, glassware, desks, altarpieces, houses with some kind of contempt of Argenteria (this is the name of this city, the offices of the two metal princes.) This nation, over the others of Spain, is scarce in the distant and subtle of their tares. in the toilets of the glass he uses Barcelona, he competes with Venice, for since his glasses are more esteemed by foreigners, if in the subtlety of his work he lets himself equal, in the curious differences and gentle contusion of his not
allowed; witness is the experience with which all over our country guarnece hands, throats and necks, dresses, oratories and dressing rooms, of the gifts that Barcelona had to its ladies, so that in imitation of what the invention industry adds to the value of metals, no they will miss it, because not to give them the fragile duration of their matter, the diaphanous and beautiful of their glasses would have made gold despicable.
in a Venetian document "chatelani de retortoli chiari, n. 10, and, finally, in the inventory of Bortolo d'Alvise (1570), Muranese glassmaker emigrated to Florence, include "cathelani a gamba" and "cathelani con filo d'oro". These objects, alluded to in the aforementioned inventories, could be imported from Catalonia or manufactured in Murano following an autochthonous Catalan model.
In any case it is interesting to The presence of Catalan see that the production of this pieces abroad is evident not area of Spain was known and only in the Bichierography, valued in Italy, being very but also through inventories significant that could be of Florentine glaziers of the introduced in such a sixteenth century, in which prominent field in the are related glass objects manufacture of glass from Catalonia. sumtuario. In one of them, belonging to In this respect it is opportune a certain Lorenzo d'Orlando, to recall the quotation from glazier (1546), are included Lope de Vega at El Abanillo: "I "tre taze alia Catalana col heard in Italy that from nodo grosso, pichóle", and exquisite glasses Barcelona later "24 taze catalane a was rich." nodo groxo". In 1540 it is mentioned again
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Application of Vitrum 2017.
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Vitrum 2017 has released its new official application and is ready to be downloaded. This simple and useful tool allows:
Find all useful information for the visit to the contest: schedules, prices, contacts, how to get to the fair …
immediately to the access points. Vitrum will take place at Fiera Milano Rho from 3 to 6 October 2017. The four-day event will combine a sampling of the most innovative technologies in the machinery industries for glass, special products and accessories with a calendar full of side events.
Visitor Services The recently launched Vitrum application for iOS and Android devices will allow industry professionals to move more comfortably between exhibitions and events during the four days of the contest.
Also, after its launch in the 2015 edition, the 'matchmaking' platform will once Search for all exhibitors in again be available to visitors to Vitrum by: company name optimize the planning of their The 20th edition of Vitrum has or product categories and business meetings with the been completely renovated find their location on the and, in addition to the best that exhibitors, allowing them to map. make the best use of their time the industry has to offer, also during the sample. Search for all scheduled includes a wide variety of events and memorize them events and parallel activities, In addition, the hashtag # in your calendar. all of which add value to the Vitrum2017 will make it easy to share the most exciting Organize your day of visit participation in the fair. moments of the contest in Exhibitors from 18 countries with cards, notes, social networks. photographs and details of will present their novelties in the event, with the widest Those who plan to take the exhibition. range of products for all advantage of their visit to The official Vitrum app is sectors - construction, Vitrum 2017 to get to know the available for iOS and Android: industrial glass, furniture, city and the rest of Italy, can - iOS home decoration, automotive hire the professional services and all kinds of hollow glass of MicoDMC to organize - Android applications (pharmaceuticals, everything they need for their Vitrum 2017 has a Digital Area containers ...). destination trips. (http:// (at the entrance of Hall 7, www.vitrum-milano.com/en/ booth A11 B20), where visitors You can also see the most travel-visitors/). can recharge their smartphone innovative solutions and applications of Industry 4.0, as Events and find a quiet place to use well as the best glass their digital devices. A complete calendar of side processing systems. events has also been The Wi-Fi connection is free scheduled to take place at the and available in both exhibition All this will be exposed in the new location in Pavilions 5 and Service Center, adjacent to the halls. 7, with full free Wi-Fi coverage. exhibition halls. All those who plan to visit This new location of the fair is These events will begin on Vitrum 2017, in Milan, can already register by completing distinguished by easier access October 3 with a seminar from the metro and railway aimed at the Italian market on the short form found on this stations and Porta Sud, as well investment incentives for link. as proximity to the Service updating machinery, following Passes for free admission to Center, where the seminars the requirements of Industry the Fair will be sent will be held. 4.0.
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Glass party in Vimbodí.
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The fourth edition of the Artisan Glass Festival of Vimbodí and Poblet has already taken place in this town of Tarragona. The program of the festival began last Saturday, September 30, at 10 am, while Jordi Agràs, director of the General Services of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, inaugurated the Vitrum Festival at 12 noon. The party has been structured around the glass tradition of the municipality and this year has had two outstanding protagonists. On the one hand, the mountaineer Òscar Cadiach, the tarraconense who has completed the 14 ochomiles of the planet, who on Saturday afternoon was named
glazier of honor of the 4th Among the proposals of edition of Vitrum. the program have also highlighted the And the other demonstrations of state protagonist, even more glassmakers, such as special, will be the new Diego Rodríguez, a giant glassmaker of Vimbodí and Poblet that master glassmaker who works in the Royal Glass was presented in public that Saturday at six in the Factory of La Granja (Segovia), Guipuzcoan afternoon. Igor Obeso and Catalan Throughout the weekend, Ferrán Collado and more than fifty proposals Antonio Fernández. have been held for a Also highlights the activity family audience. "Embraced 4.0" which The Festival of Glass consists of discovering Craftsman has the porrón how many people can as a protagonist and, for drink in porrón in the this reason, the festival street of the Abrazos, one has included the creation, of the narrowest in live, of a giant porrón of Catalonia. ice by the Barcelona Also it has been able to sculptor, Ivan Lopez. see the spectacle The mayor of the Vitrumusical in which the municipality, Joan Güell, creation of glass has remarked that the festival been mixed with the is reinforced after the music of the recognition of Vitrum as a mezzosoprano Maria Monographic Craft Fair Boixadera and Ignacio by the Generalitat. Fernandez at the piano.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXXI).
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Eduardo Alonso Cereza
The sand core technique was normal in the 7th century BC. and the main producing centers were not located in Egypt. The distribution seems to have been made by the Phoenicians, and an Asian origin seems to have been found in the findings made in Asia Minor: it is continued with the application of a technique already known and developed during the second millennium a.C. but the forms obtained vary according to the tastes of the moment.
and distribution, together with the Phoenicians. Both peoples distributed them; the Greeks stand out in a special way in the manufacture of the glass of this period given that they contributed their ceramic forms as models to imitate. During the Hellenistic period (3rd century - 1st century BC) the glass centers located on the coast of Syria, together with Alexandria, stand out.
The navels made with the technique of the sand nucleus continue to occur, although new forms appear, The large number of pieces but from the second century located throughout the BC. lose prominence in favor Mediterranean can make us of the use of molding think of a variety of techniques, carving and producing foci. mosaic glass. The Greeks, if they did not Numerous pieces of this make this type of pieces if period are made in mold in they maintained a close colorless glass and in relation with the production mosaic glass.
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They are taken like models to imitate the forms of the typical glasses of the time: amphoras, plates, bowls etc. Special mention should be made of Rhodes since there has been a possible glass workshop corresponding to the Hellenistic period. During excavation of an old house in that city were found a large amount of remains of glass manufacture, however the facilities have not been found. Golden glass vessels are produced here, in addition to a large number of beads, pendants, head pins and playing pieces, pieces of rough glass, tubes to make beads, glass remains of smooth colors, beads etc. Many manufacturing residues were also found along with tools and containers used to obtain the glass.
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N E W S (I).
Glass disks.
with promises to reach 20TB of storage.
(HDD) with glass. A Japanese company is undergoing tests to replace Achieving its goal, could the current material of exceed the capacity limit of mechanical rigid disks 12TB (12000 gigabytes)
The current technology has reached a limit point where the temperature begins to be the problem, that is why they are looking for new materials that can resist it, without degrading the stored information.
Culture 2017.
the time from important mythological and religious collections and museums. themes, that will allow to discover the evolution of Among the artists are this painting created in great names like Tiziano, one of the most beautiful Tintoretto, Veronese or cities of the world, Lotto, whose works can Venice. be seen from the importance of color and 89 works provided by Some of the most the observation of the large international important artists of the natural through the image collections, many of them sixteenth century never exhibited in Spain. painting, belonging to the of power and beauty as Venetian school, are part arguments, until the A journey in which the destruction of the of this show that brings works are arranged to be together masterpieces of brushstroke and color in enjoyed with the pleasure the works of the last of the pure glance. years, portraits, pastoral, Last September we visited the Museo Thyssen, in Madrid, to enjoy the exhibition The Renaissance in Venice. Triumph of beauty and destruction of painting.
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N E W S (II).
Totem behind the scene.
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4,500 pieces of glass and mirrors were needed to create the crystal man, a glowing figure emanating from the ground and emulating the minerals.
The artistic team in charge of generating a whole world For now, it has been within the great white tent of possible to enjoy this brilliant the Circus of the Sun was costume and many others in inspired by an endless the exhibition Totem behind number of elements to the scene, which was in the recreate this route, from It is a character born of the Madrid cultural center showy tropical frogs, to the universe of the Circus of the Galileo until late September. characteristic colors and Sun that will tread Madrid Totem told the story of touches of the African tribes, soil from November 10, when human evolution, from the and even the stylized shape the new show of the amphibious form to the of the butterflies. Canadian company arrives in desire to fly.
the city.
Prize to the MAVA. The City of Alcorcón has celebrated the II Edition of the City of Alcorcón Awards. With this ceremony, it is made an institutional recognition to the different entities, associations, clubs, companies and nongovernmental organizations, among which make up the so-called civil society of Alcorcón and develop in the city a very important work. In the Arts category, the Museum of Glass Art of Alcorcón (MAVA) was honored this year, celebrating 20 years since its birth, housing in it glass works of the most recognized artists worldwide. The award has been a sculpture by Javier Gómez, who has been inspired by the colors of the city's flag to develop an A-shaped sculpture in a work that rewards the spirit of the award-winners.
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The glass in Museums: Glass Vallée.
Our web
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The glass museum was inaugurated in 1993, in the annexes of Manoir de Fontaine, a 16th century architecture in the French town of Blangy-sur-Bresle in the heart of the "Glass Valley". Norman glaziers developed a specialty in jars that integrates all the activities, from the design of the mold to the decoration. In the middle of the 20th century, this group comprised about thirty companies specialized in bottling perfumery and pharmacy. Today they are half a dozen by grouping and integrating into large groups.
In 400 m2 of permanent exhibition, expert guides on the glass factory routes where their elders, women and children made the wealth of the Bresle valley for centuries.
manufacturing and manual, mechanical and semi automatic.
There you will explain the process of manufacturing a luxury bottle and you will marvel at a demonstration of Hervé You will also discover the Quénu glass blower. work of refractory clay You can visit the museum required for the design of from March 15 to October crucibles and ovens 31. (entry into the secrets of Guided tours with a compositions and minimum of 4 people and pigmentation). a duration of 45 minutes. The guides will present Each visit is glass recycling and the complemented by a different production commented techniques in the field of demonstration of the 30cold glass, cutting, minute glass blowing. polishing, polishing, capping, hot glass, annealing glass
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Recycling. Campaign of European musicians.
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The Friends of Glass European consumer platform has recently launched an awareness campaign to spread the importance of glass recycling for sustainability in an attractive, educational and fun way.
reasons of food safety and preservation of the taste of food and beverages.
join them in their musical journey.
Glass has infinite lives, can be recycled again and again, without loss of quality or quantity, transforming back into packaging.
have included songs by Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Petula Clark, Kool & the Gang, and Peter Bjorn and John.
material.
'Endless Chorus' is part of a wider awareness The Danish band The campaign aimed at Bottle Boys has teamed highlighting the benefits of up with famous British glass and part of a recent rapper and comedian independent survey Ben Bailey Smith, also commissioned by Friends The initiative carried out known as Doc Brown, in of Glass and developed this hidden camera action by InSites research through the 'Endless agency. Chorus' campaign, Coro to interpret a series of musical successes of the The study reveals that Sin Fin, has brought last decades (from 1910 while 85% of Europeans together well-known to 2000), creating a remix would recommend glass European musicians to give life to glass, in a bid that highlights the containers to their friends different lives of a glass to promote knowledge of and family, millennials are the ecological properties container over time. the least aware of the of glass containers. Among the selection benefits of this packaging The campaign's talking bottles, created by Illustrious, a UK sound technology company run The endless lives of the by Martyn Ware, former glass are united through member of the band This integral recycling avoids the generation of 'talking bottles' that have Heaven 17, are made of surprised the customers 100% glass and feature a waste and reduces the of a bar in Brussels, 3D printed base with use of raw materials, microphone and energy consumption and Belgium, frequented mainly by international technology Bluetooth to pollution. students, inviting them to capture background It is also an ideal sound. packaging material for
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In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2017.
Cultural visits.
On October 7th and 10th, we will be attending a series of lectures by members of Fulkolor, Miguel Angel Blasco and Reinaldo Zamora, at the "Casa de la Cultura" in Valdemorillo (Madrid), as part of the "Passion for Glass" commemorating its twentieth anniversary.
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Our activities.
CULTURE 2017 program.
This October we will visit the MAPFRE Recoletos Foundation to see the Zuloaga exhibition in the Paris of the Belle Époque. 1889-1914. The exhibition aims to offer an image of the work of the painter of Eibar unusual in Spain.
Without neglecting the traditional interpretation that links it to the topic of black Spain, the exhibition travels beyond this conception and shows how Zuloaga's painting (Éibar, 1870-Madrid, 1945) combines a deep sense of tradition with a fully modern vision, especially linked to the
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Paris of the Belle Époque and to the symbolist context in which the painter moves in those years. The sample, with more than 90 works, has counted on more than 40 providers, between national and international private collections.
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"Constellations".
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The Center for Contemporary Creation of Andalusia (C3A) takes a tour of visual and experimental Spanish poetry in the exhibition Constelaciones that brings together about 400 works of 98 artists framed in the period from 1963 to 2016.
Fernando Millán, Felipe Boso or Jorge Oteiza.
typewriter by Bartolomé Ferrando or two large pieces by Guillem Viladot.
"Among them they launch this idea of open poetry," In the end the visitor is he added. with Silencio, "a magnificent piece of The last block of which Ferrando that practically the sample is composed opens and closes the is Extrañamientos, "when exhibition". These are the poem leaves the broken glass that express letter, the word and even "the previous violence the reference to the that there is to form a The exhibition, which can paper," Marigómez said. word". be seen in Córdoba until January 7, 2018, has four Thus, "it becomes a The director of the piece, an object that is curators and is divided Andalusian Center for into three blocks: Abyss, also manipulated and Contemporary Art already has to see Looting and Extradition. (CAAC), Juan Antonio sometimes with the third Álvarez Reyes, recalled One of the dimension". that this is the sixth commissioners, Luis exhibition that hosts the Marigómez, explained in In this section he also highlighted magazines of C3A and is the result of a the presentation that it comprehensive research was taken as the starting experimental poetry, which are characterized project between the year 1963 because the by "there remains a group CAAC and the Museum of previous year a work and the poet almost Contemporary Art of Uruguayan poet, Julio Castilla Leon (Musac). Campal, arrived in Spain lost until his name." In this section they are In addition, as a parallel and formed a group activity, on October 7 called Problematic 63 in included from some games reunited to the there will be a round table which he enters into pyramid, that promoted led by Antonio Monterroso relationship with poets Antonio Gómez; a and a poetic reading. then very young like www.amigosmava.org
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Other trends. Harvesting with sticks.
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Manuel Vicent.
I remember that morning of a very distant autumn in which I entered totally smoked in the room of the black paintings of Goya in the Museum of the Prado and the sensation that produced me the picture Duel to strokes under the effects of marijuana. They were times of urban battles against the police in the rattles of the dictatorship. Atocha and the University City of Madrid had demonstrations every day with banners and cries of freedom, amnesty and autonomy statutes, with clouds of tear gas, rubber bullets and some lead that had brought several dead.
walls were only the creation of the sleep of their sleeping watchmen. The grass divided the pictures into two: those that brought you up and those that brought you down. The grass exalted to an unspeakable degree The Garden of the delights of El Bosco and to all the Greco, to Tiziano and Velázquez. His characters left the frames and occupied all the air through which he saw the girls fly, the virgins of Murillo, the handsome knight of the hand in the chest along with some very carnal venus. It was a pleasant feeling.
he was an old man full of anger and wisdom. During the four years of misanthropy that was there cloistered fighting against its demons was dedicated to cover 32 square meters of wall with corrosive visions and schizophrenic nightmares. In the card that accompanies the Duel to Cuddles box explains that this type of fight to death was only allowed in Catalonia and Aragon. In the rest of Spain it was forbidden.
In the original painting that couple of racial Spaniards have their feet on the grass, but when they pass the painting to the canvas from the On the other hand, when he glued walls, the deplorable entered the room where Goya's restoration made them appear with black paintings were displayed, he their legs buried and that mistake In Amsterdam, he had acquired an could see that there was no way for has turned the scene into a symbol excellent herb in the stalls of the those diabolical figures to be of the violent Spanish immobility as Paradiso nightclub, an old church diluted by the morbidity of a fate. converted by the hippies in his cannabis. tabernacle, and in Madrid that was Some experts argue that Goya on This paranoia increased as he parted from the labor of a happy days had painted sketches of gazed closely at the Duel-todemocracy extracted with forceps pastel sweet vintages underneath Cuddles picture. Perhaps this from the parked car in the shade of those black paintings and one in the Spanish Academy of Language, rejection was due to the fact that that distant autumn tried to guess this painting only expressed deep them uselessly aided by cannabis I would wear a trumpet-shaped hatred between the two Spains, within the blue and pink clouds that cane, hurry it with slow strokes, I which had surfaced again in the preside the fight of the two villains. would walk first on the fallen street. In fact, from that moment a leaves, red, yellow, purple of the police helicopter could be heard Today, the room of Goya's black Botanical Garden, and then, flying overhead. paintings is always crowded with smoked far below, the Prado spectators who only seek beauty, According to her double source of Museum in the hope that the grass but the incompetence of the political inspiration, Goya painted swinging would open the doors of perception leaders has made the games and happy holidays in the to the invisible entrails beneath the independence challenge against the beauty. In a way, this pleasure was prairie, a naked duchess with state reproduce the scene of a blind mother-of-pearl and etchings full of also a form of resistance to Spain with legs buried. witches and executed, cartons for Francoism. tapestries with gallant and hanged There was a time when a dream of At that time, the Prado Museum scenes, capoches of the Inquisition, ethics and freedom united the was practically uninhabited. In one the club vile, a donkey with a frock Catalans and the rest of the corner of every empty room a coat, and a male goat presiding Spaniards. I do not know if it is still beadle was sleeping, and as I over a coven. possible to imagine that a delicate advanced in solitude among the oils cluster of invisible grapes is in the The atrocious Spain and that of the of kings, saints, knights, and midst of those two scoundrels who Enlightenment coexisted in their battles, I received the hallucinated are killing each other. sensation that those figures on the canvases. When Goya went to live at Quinta del Sordo, around 1819,
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Tennis for recycling.
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Ecovidrio, the non-profit entity responsible for the management of glass packaging waste recycling in Spain, has become an environmental sponsor of the Senior Masters Cup for the second consecutive year. The tournament took place from the 28th to the 30th of last September in the Marbella urbanization of Puente Romano. In this way, both organizations have joined their efforts to make this event an example of sustainability and respect for the environment.
The trophies that were given to the winners of the tournament were made in recycled glass and were presented at a ceremony attended by tennis players John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Yannick Noah, Sebastian Grosjean, Pat Cash and Albert Costa.
collaboration to create responsible habits and increase the rate of recycling of glass in the locality.
In addition, thanks to this alliance, Senior Masters Cup and Ecovidrio committed to recycle 100% of the glass consumed during the The citizens have also competition in which been able to live on foot tennis legends like John of the passion of sport McEnroe or Carlos Moya and the recycling of glass will join forces to achieve thanks to the numerous this challenge. containers, in the shape In this edition, also of a giant tennis ball, containers were placed in which have been installed the facilities of the in Marbella. tournament and in the The objective is to tracks. promote citizen
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Jared Rosenacker.
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Glass that looks like plasticine.
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Children and elders clustered around one of the stalls in the medieval Asampe market.
In the case of Pazos, born Argentine but based in Tarragona, this year was his third participation in the market Huesca, hired by the organization to exhibit his skills as a master craftsman with this material.
recent years has acquired medieval aesthetics to integrate into the program 'The bell of Huesca, a summer of legend'. The motto of this edition was 'to work without masks, to use without barriers'.
"We usually move in fairs and events dedicated to crafts," said the craftsman, although he admitted that Internet sales had opened a new market for his products.
From Friday afternoon until late Sunday, Luis López Allué Square was filled with handmade jewelry, cheeses from the other side of Spain or soaps with all kinds of smells and textures.
The activity of this craftsman was an almost obligatory stop for the hundreds of people who, taking advantage of the truce that gave the rain during the afternoon, There is something walked through the hypnotic about the way the different posts that are part fire turns the glass into a of the appointment that is material as ductile as organized every year on plasticine, finally forming the occasion of the World vases, ashtrays and other Day of Mental Health, decorative elements, which which is celebrated on also sells in the same October 10, and which in position as a workshop.
In this case, the volume of participating artisans forced to place them also in Moya Street and St. Peter's Square.
In it, Jorge Fabian Pazos quickly moved the glass before the fire, until reforming and composing beautiful silhouettes. "People are surprised, because after so many years of practice, I need very few minutes for each piece, and the truth is that for them it resembles a little magic," explained this artisan, who left more than one with the mouth open, endorsed for more than 30 years dedicating itself to something as delicate as it is to model the glass.
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In addition to the market area, the event has an extensive program of activities, which included all types of initiatives for different ages, from Arab dance workshops, children's storytelling or folkloric performances.
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Farcama 2017.
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Farcama 2017 starts on October 6 and will be open until the 15th. This is an edition with 70 per cent of artisans from the Castilian-La Mancha region, the Plaza de la Artesanía is opened with live workshops and the tents are removed to make way for a wider pavilion. It will have 203 artisans, of whom 70 per cent will be from the region. In addition, 12 autonomous communities will be represented, there will be craftsmen from France, Hungary and Portugal, and agents from 10 countries will also be at the fair to establish business contacts. It will be a fair where they will bet on the professionalization of the artisan sector and in which they want sales to increase. "Artisans need to increase their sales to improve their quality of life," said the Minister of Economy, Business and Employment, Patricia Franco.
A renovated fair
goods.
Farcama opens a pavilion and forgets the tents. It will be in the outer zone where the exhibition surface is increased and where it will also be won in comfort, since the corridors will be up to one meter wider. In this sense, the renovation comes to the very image of the fair. Change the logo and enter the "orange representing the handicraft". The new image wants to reflect "the landscape" and the sector itself in the region as indicated by the counselor.
But the presence of furniture, forging and metal, textiles, glass and food is not lost either.
Due to the new distribution, in the lower part of the fair there will be up to 300 square meters more for exhibitors, a 12 per cent more space in this plant of the fair. The stars of the fair are the craftsmen and 203 will meet in Toledo. Approximately 150 will have permanent stand during all the days of the fair. Until the 200, some 25 more will be in the area "CLM Sale Group" and in the exhibition "The Time Paused" can be found around 30.
In addition, the budget of the fair is reduced by 11%, since it goes from the 315,000 euros that were executed in 2016, to The most represented sectors the 279,000 that counts this year. It's about doing "more for in this fair will be ceramics, jewelry, leather and leather less", said the counselor.
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From the four cardinal points and from the five provinces artisans will arrive until Farcama. The glass sector will be represented, according to the website of the Fair by DeCristalia, Grisallas Moreno, Llue Vidrieros, Lume Vidrio, Malvaygris Murano, Nyrb Stained Glass, Olga Art and Color, Opal Workshop Glass and Tints Glass Workshop. The stands where the participants of Farcama offer their products will not be the only one that can be contemplated. Spotlights will also target the exhibits. First, and during all the days of the fair, it will open its doors "El tiempo pausado", an exhibition whose curator is the Toledo designer and decorator María Aranzadi, and who will gather in the Toletum building pieces of more than 30 artisans with the to show "how the most traditional craftsmanship coexists happily and finds its place in the current environments".
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Michelle Obama en Gordiola.
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Michelle Obama has spent a week incognito in Mallorca, where her friends James Costos, ex-US ambassador, and Michael Smith taught him the most authentic places on the island. It is the second time that Michelle Obama visits Mallorca, but this time she has done it without her daughters or her husband and has not met (at least officially) with any member of the Spanish royal family. Although, according to its route, it seems that Queen Sofia had passed her agenda of 'essential'.
receives in the Marivent palace.
and also acquired some articles of glassware.
The Obama have pieces of glass from this familyowned company in their homes, decorated by Michael Smith, husband of James Costs. That is why the guest of honor wanted to know the craft process that is followed to elaborate them
The owner of the company, Mar Aldeguer, who is among the favorite jewels of Queen Letizia, personally attended to them. "They wanted to go completely unnoticed, so we did not even take photos of the visit."
On one of its routes, Michelle Obama's security device arrived at the Gordiola factory in Algaida, where 300-year-old blown glass has been made. It is one of the favorite businesses of Queen Sofia on the island. In fact, he visits the factory every summer and takes there to the visits he
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Sergio Conrado Dávila.
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Sergio Conrado Dávila, is one of the artisans who will participate in the International Fair of Crafts, Fiart 2017, dedicated to Santiago de Cuba, to be held in Havana from 5 to 17 December in Pabexpo and for that, this artist organizes a collection of more than thirty pieces between lanterns, mirrors and screens. Along the roads of the central road, large red ones stand out and in reality few know that at the end of that paved road lives someone who knows many secrets to the glass. The craftsman resides on the outskirts of the city, among trees, peacocks, a pleasant smell of guavas and without any noise: "This is a profession quite clean, a bit noxious and quiet; not violent, do not have to give many hits, there is no noise
and I like that, "said the craftsman.
The manual skill is inherited from his father but the technique learned from If you visit, it is common to Manuel Rodríguez, a teacher see him review his catalog he met in the capital. and is behind the photos and Sergio is in Santiago de awards there is a story. Cuba one of the experts in Sergio was a Mechanical the finishing of lamps and Engineer and the art claimed stained glass. him a few years ago. His signature was recognized Its beginnings were like with the Award in the restorer and from 1990 it category of Best Work to the goes to the technique of the Glass Lighthouse leaded in plated glass. the Ibero-American He has the workshop in his Handicraft Fair in 2004; won own house and the family the International Prize conspires for everything to "Stamp to Excellence" go as the creation orders. awarded by Unesco in 2006 and was awarded the Fiart Arming these works is like Prize for the "Art Deco" completing puzzles that do ensemble in 2010. not forgive mistakes in the assembly: "some years ago did not enter the colored glass that was imported through the Cuban Fund for Cultural Goods, then we had to solve with what we had," he added the creator.
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Now it is necessary to complete a selection of more than thirty pieces that will be destined to the International Fair of Crafts 2017, dedicated to the creations in glass.
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The window of Don Bosco.
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From last Friday, September 15, you can see in the chapel of the communion of the Church of Santiago, in the Alicante town of Villena, the impressive stained glass window dedicated to Saint John Bosco who, on the occasion of the centenary of the arrival of the Salesians the city, has been installed as a sign of gratitude.
20th century, of the Salesians coming to Villena to attend to the children and young people of the city. The stained-glass window shows some of the most emblematic signs of the Salesians: Mary Help of Christians, the facade of the school, the coat of arms of the Salesian Congregation, St. John Bosco and figures of several students of the school. One of the students represented is Luis Navarro Sánchez, who died on the train in April of 2006, when he was in 4th grade of ESO in school.
Bosco in heaven, whom the saint told them" I wait for you all in paradise. " With this idea of having enjoyed friendship with God in the courtyards of the school, and being under the protection of Mary Help of Christians, it is a work of art that moves to prayer and put our trust in God.
The image will be blessed by the 10th successor of The stained glass is the Don Bosco, D. Angel work of the Villanese Fernández Artime, Rector artist D. Manuel Bernabé Major of the Salesians, Gómez, using the next October 7, in the visit traditional techniques he will make to Villena on used in ancient times for the occasion of the the stained glass Centenary and culminate windows of the great with this act in the cathedrals. Eucharist of 20:00 in the "With this image we want Church of Santiago. The window, in its outer to remember all the part, gives precisely to The result is filled with students who have Calle Párroco Azorín, the new light inside the passed through the one who was a promoter, chapel and enriches the school and already enjoy at the beginning of the artistic heritage of the city. the company of Don www.amigosmava.org
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Eloy Narea Suárez.
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The 91 years of an artisan of stained glass and mural. Yes, paint still. In spite of his 91 years and the trembling of his own hands of the parkinson, Eloy Narea Suarez still takes the brushes and is dedicated to realize grisallas in the faces of saints, virgins and other figures that are born of his ingenuity.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Don Eloy has irrigated a myriad of children of clay, terracotta and glass all over the national territory and in some parts of the foreigner. This admirable task was collected by one of his granddaughters, journalist by profession in a didactic and very illustrated book called, simply: 'Eloy Narea, the artist'.
Grisaille is a stained glass technique that very few craftsmen are able to perform with total efficiency.
Mercy Narea, the publisher in question, was born and works in
Don Eloy has been doing it since he was a pub. almost a child. First in his native Ecuadorian homeland, Solano, an anonymous village of Cañar where he learned his first letters and, also, his first traces. This experience in the elaboration of stained glass and murals of ceramics and glass was reinforced by the courses he did in various parts of the world such as Faenza, Italy; Ferrobrás, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Llamart, Caracas, Venezuela; Colorrobia, Florence, Italy … Right now, although his daughters Cecilia, Martha and Rosa- have taken over the workshop he has in the Obrero Independiente neighborhood, on the Loma de Puengasí, Don Eloy thoroughly reviews the works and gives the last verdict. Works, that is the extensive curriculum of this artificer of stained glass and mural painting. Although his successors keep a detailed record of everything that has come out of the prodigious hands of his progenitor, many works were not recorded but rejoice the neighborhoods, towns and cities where they were placed by the master.
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Guayaquil, but was always fascinated by the perfection of the work of the patriarch of the family. There are 297 pages that collect most of the works of the artist and also count with precision and clear language the life, passion and trajectory of this artisan who marked a before and after in the art of transforming glass and clay into art pure.
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Pasabaçe opens new room.
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Pasabahçe, one of the world's largest manufacturers of glassware for home, has opened a new showroom and office in the German city of Düsseldorf. The showroom will feature diverse collections within the company's wide range of products.
Design, the showroom has a system of high glass covered walls of custom design for different product series of Pasabahçe, allowing an efficient and innovative display of the product.
Abstract visuals positioned between the different product Praised by consumers for groups create a great impact products that make the with its impressive size and difference, Pasabahçe now transform the exhibition space opens a showroom within its new into an intimate experience. offices in Schwanenhöfe in The "Nude" section of the Düsseldorf, Germany. showroom is designed to reflect the brand's identity. The new 300 m2 showroom will serve as a new base for Natural materials and thin Pasabahçe customers in shapes combine to create a Northern Europe. product viewing functionality. Products that are on display in the showroom include mass produced and handcrafted company products for retail and hospitality industries, unique products within the "Nude" range which is the design brand Global Sisecam Group, as well as exclusive products aimed at the premium segment.
main clients and business partners in Northern Europe attended, members of protocol and executives. About Pasabahçe Pasabahçe Cam Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. (Pasabahçe), part of Sisecam Group, a global developer in the glass industry, is the second largest producer of glassware in Europe, and the third largest in the world. Pasabahçe, one of the most established companies in Turkey with its roots dating back more than 80 years to Ataturk, also owns 'Pasabahçe Boutiques', the country's leading retailer in its field with a unique concept of specialized retail.
Surfaces that look like concrete form the basis of the display Offering more than twenty structure, thus reminding visitors thousand automated and handof the motto of "simple is crafted products to a large beautiful". audience worldwide, Pasabahçe The main exhibition elements exports to 140 countries and has serve as modern internal production facilities in Kirklareli, furniture, constituting one of the Eskisehir and Denizli in Turkey main blocks of a broad design. and Bulgaria and the Russian Federation abroad. At the opening ceremony on Designed and built by the famous September 19, Pasabahçe's architectural house Demirden
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They generate renewable energy.
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The British University of Exeter has announced the design of Solar Squared, glass blocks with small integrated solar cells that, in addition to allowing light to pass, generate renewable energy.
transparent tile, are able to guarantee thermal insulation (not like common glass blocks), and in addition to allowing natural light to enter buildings, have been manufactured with the technology necessary to collect the maximum amount of solar energy.
The name of these innovative glass blocks is Solar Squared. Each block incorporates solar cells destined to They have been generate renewable designed by researchers energy, capable of at the University of Exeter feeding directly to the in the UK and are building where they have capable of generating been installed. electricity through solar energy. Due to their modular design they can be The main idea of its architecturally integrated creators is to produce in any building, both in clean energy in buildings, new constructions and whether public or private when making reforms. homes. Similarly, and in the These glass blocks, words of its creators: which have the "The simplified nature of appearance of a technology allows www.amigosmava.org
incorporating conventional building materials, which means that their applications are very numerous." Currently, Solar Squared is in the test phase and from the University of Exeter ensure that they are waiting for a patent for this technology. At the moment one of the great difficulties for its series production would be its price. In that sense, Professor Dr. Hasan Baig of the research team emphasizes that rather than comparing them with conventional solar panels (in terms of the value of the block itself as a building material), the important energy savings it will generate the product.
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The dump in New York.
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"The most 'cool' way to festivals in some towns. drink wine." In its second meaning, The American magazine the RAE defines the now'Insider' defines thus the fashionable object in boom that lives the North America as "a porrón among the most glass vial widely used in modern of New York. some Spanish provinces to drink wine by jet The 'hipsters' on the because of the long other side of the pond python it has in the belly." have been amused by the old Spanish wine Drink a cookie decanter that was once Who knows if they will present in many homes soon have to expand the and still used at popular
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description with the two New York pubs that have rediscovered it and enjoy drinking a cookie. One is called The Honeywell and they offer tastings of wine, spirits and all kinds of cocktails with this unique bottle. But also in the restaurant Huertas offer from last year this experience 'typical spanish'.
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Presidente honorario
Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
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José María Gallardo Breña
Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
Vocales
Javier Gómez Gómez
Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos