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Galia Amsel From museums to Japan.
M. A. Carretero.
he introduced us to the director of the Institute and to some of the professors, and he showed us the various dependencies of the center. Then he took us to see the Rakusui-Tei Art Museum and its magnificent Japanese garden. As a reminder of our visit, we Therefore, we decided to delivered a catalog of our visit, apart from the Toyama MAVA. Glass Art Museum, where From this page I have to the exhibition of selected thank you, both on my behalf works for this year's and in our Secretariat, for contest, the Notojima and your kind treatment with us. Hakone museums, is housed. The images of this visit can As we already informed in be seen through this link. our Bulletin last June, the modern Kirari building that The Museum of Art in Glass of Notojima is, they report, houses the Toyama Museum was designed by the only public museum of glass art specialized in the renowned architect Japan. Kuma Kengo and also contains the city's public It shows some unique glass library. sculptures based on the original ideas of Picasso, In addition to these Chagall, etc., made in a museums, we had the Murano workshop. opportunity to visit the Glass Art Institute of The museum also shows Toyama and the Notojima Chinese glass works of the Glass Studio. Qing dynasty. At the aforementioned In the open space outside Institute we had the Nuestra sede: the Museum you can see 14 opportunity to once again Castillo Grande de glass sculptures that look greet Czech professor S.J. de Valderas different depending on the Avda. Los Castillos, s/n Vaclav Rezac, whom we time of day or time of year. met at the Lhotsky factory, 28925 ALCORCÓN. located in the Czech city of It is also interesting to note (MADRID) Zelezny Brod, on our visit in the changes as the weather info@amigosmava.org May 2013. changes. The Museum building, which is located on Professor Vaclav was the a small hill overlooking the perfect host during our visit, sea, gives the impression of being a space station for its special design. Last September, on the occasion of the celebration of the Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018, we decided to return to Japan and take advantage of the trip to visit some glass art museums that were not far from the city of Toyama.
Near the Museum is Notojima Glass Studio, where demonstrations of blown glass are made and you can buy pieces in your store. The Venetian Glass Museum in Hakone is spectacular.
It has Italian-style buildings that house a museum and shops with pieces made in Venice and Murano. Outside there is a beautiful garden that surrounds a canal like a pond. The garden has a large amount of glass sculptures, as well as a cafeteria with an open terrace at one end where live performances of Italian ballads are performed. The Museum houses a collection of more than 100 pieces of Venetian glassware. It shows modern and classic works in all forms, including vases, glasses, lamps and sculptures. In one of the buildings is located a large collection of pieces made by the Barovier family throughout its history. Also Livio Seguso and Dale Chihuly each have a room where you can enjoy their works, so different from each other, the first in a perfect colorless glass and the second with a spectacular color. Our trip has had a very tight schedule and in the end a bit exhausting, taking into account the amount of public transport we have had to use, but it has been worth it because we have been able to enjoy the museums, the people - who are always willing to help you if you see that you have the slightest problem- of gastronomy, of punctuality in the schedules, of the impeccable organization of means of transport and street cleaning, among other aspects. A trip to not forget.
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Toyama Exibition
Symposium in Novy Bor
The Berazategui Hall
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
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Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Toyama Exibition
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Symposium in Novy Bor
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The Berazategui Hall
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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The Museum of Malaga
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The Fair of the sphere
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Party in Vimbodí
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Igor Obeso in Ibiza
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2018
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Glass Agreement
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Steel and glass slide
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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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Stained glass in Chartres
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Other trends
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They discover in Canterbury
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"Fusion" in Valencia
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Mountain House
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Asphalt with solar panels
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
Westminster Abbey
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From 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
How do
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Ariño Duglass
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The Center of the Staned Glass
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19th Glass auction and annual Gala at the Liberty Museum in Philadelphia (USA).
Exhibition in Nairobi
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Exhibition "Cosmos"
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New Vitrum website
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María Zepeda's glass
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Tvitec at Veteco Glass
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Design festival
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Margarita Palou dies
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1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that combustion facilities or installations, waste incineration facilities or waste coincineration plants can not be operated without a permit. Notwithstanding the first paragraph, Member States may establish a procedure for the registration of installations to which only Chapter V applies. The registration procedure will be specified in a legally binding act and will include at least one notification to the competent authority by the holder of his intention to operate a facility.
Auction by Javier Gomez. thousands of children in that community and throughout the region. The auction of sculptures made in glass and the corresponding gala present hundreds of glass works of art by artists from all over the world.
This year's Glass Auction and Gala will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on 12th Street and Market Street.
It is an unforgettable evening of art, fun and inspiration and all proceeds support NLM's education and outreach programs, which impact tens of
In this gala, the work whose image appears in this article and which is the work of our Honorary President Javier Gómez will be auctioned. We are sure that the bid will reach a very high amount, both for the quality of the work and the purpose for which it is intended. The auction catalog can be viewed through this link.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Gizela Šabóková.
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Gizela Šabóková, was born in 1952 in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia and lives and works in Prague and North Bohemia.
meanings: fragility, organic growth as well as the ascending imaginary current of human contemplation.
sculpture is half revealed and half hidden.
With these "increasingly opaque objects standing in the view", the artist has made an important Whereas before the It is a well-known fact of morphology of the glass movement, perhaps transcending once and for the artist that, although sculptures of Gizela all the glass wall of the she graduated from the Šabóková was derived most influential Czech mainly from the cast form imaginary ghetto glass glass workshop of with additional cutting, his making. Professor Stanislav last works are, on the She understands her Libenský, she was contrary, to a large extent material and knows how always able to achieve the result of carving in to work it as perfectly as her own expression and the glass mass. an accomplished sculptor message, and she did so understands and knows Light does not cross with intense manual and how to work any other these sculptures with spiritual participation. material with her own ease or opulence. unique qualities. In its simplicity that Their captivating comes from care, In its torso form, the presence consists not consideration, only in their translucency sculptures of Gizela understanding and Šabóková speak more but also in the fact that patience, it is impossible fully about human they detain the light to overlook a moral within them, swallowing it existence; in his silence dimension in which one feels a more as if they were trying to mortal corporeality and expressive statement, retain some inner sublime spirituality are mystery for themselves, both on a personal and fully manifested. universal level. And we're in the depths of their glad we can be among Its vertical axis strongly bodies. them. emphasized in itself In this way, similar to the embodies a powerful human soul itself, the range of symbolic
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Our web
Established artists. Galia Amsel.
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Galia Amsel is a contemporary New Zealand glass artist. He was born in London in 1967 and graduated with honors of first class in ceramics and glass at the Polytechnic of Middlesex in 1989.
she lived in Hong Kong as a child and adolescent.
now it focuses mainly on casting.
His artistic experience can be separated into two very different styles: some pieces are curved and organic; others are strictly geometric and architecturally inspired.
Amsel has exhibited in Great Britain, France, Spain, Ireland, the United States, the Netherlands and New Zealand and is represented in many important art collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand .
In this latter style, Amsel At the time of his immigration contrasts the solidity of its to New Zealand in 2003, forms with skilfully worked Amsel was already highly surface details, but it is the acclaimed in his field. gently undulating forms for which it has become better Amsel's work is known. characterized by simple shapes and often vibrant Although Amsel has worked colors, characteristics that with blown glass in the past, she attributes to the years
In the permanent collection of the MAVA his work entitled "Space of the beyond" is exhibited.
Emerging artists. Christa Westbrook. Christa Westbrook was fortunate to discover the excitement of working with molten glass at the age of 16 in Liberal, Kansas. In 2012 she graduated with a BFA from Emporia State University, where she studied glass with Patrick Martin and Roberta Eichenberg, as well as many invited glass artists who visited the campus.
After graduating, Westbrook moved to Corning, New York, and began working at the Corning Museum of Glass as a study assistant. In his role as a study assistant, he helps educate numerous guests and the community with many outreach programs, such as Veterans Day Glassblowing, Beads of Courage and local public school programs. She teaches both flameworking and glassblowing. www.amigosmava.org
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Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018.
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celebrated every three years in the Toyama Glass Art Museum. In his opinion, the quality of the work is very high, both in its technical level and in its artistic level.
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Since the collection of images within the exhibition site was prohibited, they could not offer us a report on the works, but they did bring a copy of the excellent catalog that the Museum has made and in which images of the selected works can be observed . In the final phase of the contest, the jury selected 54 works and have been awarded a Grand Prize, worth three million yen, a gold medal, with one million yen and five silver, with 200,000 yen each. they.
Last September 25, our We can only think of one word to define this exhibition: President and our Secretary were in Toyama visiting this impressive. contest that has been
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The image on the left of this report is the one that represents the Grand Prix and it is an installation of considerable dimensions composed of several glass plates and a projection of images on them.
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Symposium in Nový Bor.
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represents it all over the world. Each IGS turns Nový Bor with its 12,000 inhabitants into a glass capital of the world.
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Therefore IGS has a great importance for artistic glass; It is compatible with the image of Nový Bor, Liberec Region and the Czech Republic, which are perceived as important destinations for glass. It is of great importance for the production of local glass, the promotion of Czech glass and glass art in the global context. Since 1982, around 600 artists from the Czech Republic and abroad have participated in the symposium. From 4 to 7 October, the city of Nový Bor will once again receive glassmakers from the Czech Republic and abroad at the IGS 2018 International Glass Symposium.
From the first symposium in 1982, it will be the thirteenth time that glass producers meet in Nový Bor. Each of these meetings of glassmakers, artists and designers was unique, had its own details, brought news and records, however, its common feature was the opportunity for glassmakers and artists to meet in an environment of creative collaboration, to exchange points of view and experiences, to gain and strengthen contacts and friendships.
"Glass unites us". It not only expresses the union of glass manufacturers around the world, but also the cooperation of the organization of subjects.
For the fourth time, Nový Bor is the main organizer, together with glass companies, glass schools and museum institutions as co-organizers. The city of Nový Bor boasts of its "Glass City" attribute practically from the moment it was founded more than 260 years ago. As such, it is also known abroad. There are around 120 glass companies in the city and its surroundings.
They were presented through their work to the professional public and the general public. The cooperation of foreign artists and Czech glass artisans who give life to their ideas is also of great importance. The aims and objectives of the symposium are clear, in addition to presenting prominent glass artists from around the world, is to present excellent local glass blowers, cutters, engravers, mold makers and, of course, the companies that employ them, to maintain live the tradition and guarantee the future of this great phenomenon - Czech Glass at the same time.
Glass artists from around the The most important of them world, merchants, gallerists are, of course, participating and art theorists come to the city and then share their in the IGS organization. experiences and impressions It will not be otherwise in For the local sphere, glass is of Nový Bor abroad. 2018. In fact, that is what the a phenomenon that has thirteenth meeting of IGS made it famous and still intends to express also:
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The Glass Show of Berazategui.
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The XXII National Glass Exhibition at the Berazategui Art 2018 was inaugurated in the San Francisco Municipal Complex (23 and 149) organized by the Culture Department of the Municipality of Berazategui since 1994, through its School of Glass. The Hall is characterized by the exhibition of local artists, from all over the country and abroad.
This year, it has counted on 30 exhibited works and during the opening ceremony three acquisition prizes were awarded. The winning works will become part of the heritage of the local Culture Department and will integrate the contemporary art collection of the Glass Museum. The Secretary of Culture, Federico López, stressed: "This Hall has as main objective the participation of artists articulated to glass. We have been supporting it for many years and was born as a product of the Municipal Glass School, which is a pride for us and is unique in South America. "
For its part, the director of the Arts of Fire, Veronica Avila, said: "We are very happy for this XXII National Hall, which is a meeting point for glass artists from around the country."
state process that is developed because there is a political decision by the mayor Juan Patricio Mussi to take it forward. "
Meanwhile, Fernando Casas, a student of the Molder for Also, on Saturdays, Glass Workshop, who came September 15 and 29, the to enjoy the show, said: Municipal School of Glass "Berazategui's culture does a made a demonstration of very good job with the blown glass, there were courses it offers. Personally, I activities in the museum and am very satisfied with the there was the fair of the quality of the training. " program Regalá Cultura. With regard to the Municipal TRAINING IN CULTURAL School of Glass, this Hall DEVELOPMENT reveals its vitality, as it currently continues to grant Berazategui has a nonthe title of Technical Artistic formal education project, Glass (career of 2 years) and from its Ministry of Culture, provides workshops of the which stands out in discipline with various levels: Argentina for its quality and Molded and thermoformed , variation. Lighting screens, Painting on glass, Screen printing in The holder of the Cultural glass, Thermofusion, Portfolio, Federico López, explained: "Berazategui has Thermofusion for jewelry and the most important municipal stained glass. non-formal education project At the same time, the in the country, with more acceptance and repercussion than 500 courses and of the Hall has gone in clear workshops deployed promotion and helped to throughout the territory of consolidate the Municipality Berazategui, plus the 5 as the National Capital of municipal art schools Glass, for being a pioneer in ( music, photography, glass, this work, both on an artistic ceramics and handicrafts), and industrial level. "and added:" This is a 100%
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company, Vitreus Ignis, who runs alongside Mariana Grande, with which they participate in Spanish, European and American fairs.
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On his project, Ramos explains that "our name comes from the Latin Vitreus, glass, and from Ignis, fire, passion; and with him we perfectly describe what we feel and do in our trade, as well as what we want to convey. " For him, who defines himself as a glass craftsman, quality is important. "We try to put quality before quantity, always using creativity as a strategy to constantly make new pieces". The Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón (MAVA) inaugurates its season of exhibitions with the sample "Entomología del vidrio y otros oquedades", by Mario Sergio Ramos.
or cups alla façon venice, perfumers and boxes, and a beautiful miniature of a 19th century arm lamp, installed in the tower.
As for its source of inspiration, Ramos finds it in "the observation of nature, shapes and colors and thanks to the fire that caresses the glass to transform it into Argentine by birth and This original title will allow Madrid by choice, Ramos something soft and malleable, we can has worked with art to see more than forty transmit the strength and pieces made with Murano virtuosos such as Paul movement of a feline , the Stankard at the Cornig glass rods worked with Museum of Glass in New innocence of a child's torch, an extremely gaze reflected in the eyes York, or with Lucio complex technique of of a ladybug, the Bubacco in Murano. which Mario Sergio complexity and detail of a Ramos is a virtuoso. In addition, he is the coleopter, the contrast of president of the The exhibition, open to color and texture in an the public until November Professional Association exclusive piece of 23, welcomes insects of of Artisans of the Villa de jewelry". great naturalism, chalices Madrid and has a craft
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The Glass Museum of Málaga.
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The Museum of Glass and Glass of Málaga, located in the Plazuela Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre, begins its new season with an incorporation dating from the 50s. It is a stained glass window realized by Luis Boada Rolín, together with Arrecubieta Otaño and Echaniz, who
founded in 1923 the first workshop manufacturer of stained glass windows in the Basque town of Irún, converted after the Civil War in the Unión de Artistas Vidrieros de Irún. From this well-known factory, reputed for the artistic and technical quality of its works, more than 5,000 works came
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out, commissioned by individuals and institutions, both from Spain and from countries on all continents. The work presents a scene of fishermen from northern Spain and was placed as a window on the main staircase of the workshop itself until its closure in 2008.
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The Sphere Fair.
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The artisan work of glass that is made in the Mexican town of Tlalpujahua will be exhibited through the Nineteenth Sphere Fair. About 420 artisans participate, which each day can carry out around 500 pieces of a type of sphere. On a visit to the Quadratín agency, Martín Marín Cruz, a blown glass artisan, said that the fair begins on September 29 and will end until December 16. They work all the year making spheres, so they always have in existence, but you have to prepare during the year for the greater sale that occurs in this fair, explained the artisan, who assured that there are no official figures on how many craftsmen are in that Magic Town, however, ventured: there must be little more than 500 in total, he said.
The artisan explained how his craft technique works with the different pieces that led to the study of Quadratín, glass is not bought in Mexico, it is brought from Germany, the Just to make an apple, United States, Brazil and 10 minutes are used and even China, he said. then work is done to give The blowing process is it a touch and a finish. done through a blowtorch Martín Marín has almost that blows air and gas, 40 years of experience until the glass is very soft. doing handicraft work of blown glass, he started at It is used by calibers and age 11; he was taught by according to the piece is his father, Adán Marín, an the size of the caliber that is used, he said. artisan who in his time taught more than 300 Finally, the artisan said young people to carry out that in Tlalpujahua there this activity, which he are only three workshops learned just by observing that have received support the process in a factory from the Ministry of that existed at that time. Tourism and the National He explained that to give Fund for the Promotion of an idea, a spherical piece Handicrafts (Fonart). of regular size, an artisan He explained that they are makes between 50 and about to receive the 100 pieces of these, but signposting of the when it comes to smaller workshops, that is, a spheres like the ones plaque explaining the common to Christmas location and type of trees, one day an artisan workshop. can make up to 500 pieces. Exemplified with a sphere called Apple of plenty: first the piece is made with blown glass, then fill the small spheres with different seeds.
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Glass Festival in Vimbodí.
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The artisan glass fair Vitrum de Vimbodí i Poblet (Tarragona) commemorates the Alabaster Year through the participation of artisans from Sarral (Tarragona) in this edition, which will be held on October 6 and 7. Alabaster will participate as a guest craft, in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the first modern alabaster workshop in Sarral, a municipality that this year celebrated the commemoration of this anniversary, according to the Vitrum organization.
Year, the art historian Damià Amorós, will introduce the public to the history of this activity.
market and the creation of a giant piece of ice by the Barcelona sculptor Iván López.
"Our glass and the alabaster of the Sarral share many features in common: both crafts have withstood the test of time and are claimed as part of the local culture," said the Councilor for Tourism of Vimbodí, Rosa Albes.
For two days, glass is ubiquitous in Vimbodí i Poblet, even in its restaurants, which offer thematic menus based on this tradition.
Vitrum is a unique party for its content and the variety of acts it includes, aimed at an eminently The fair has also family audience with a scheduled live desire to enjoy a unique demonstrations of blown party that mixes leisure, glass by outstanding science and tradition in master glassmakers such equal parts. as Igor Obeso Vitrum is organized by the (Guipúzcoa), Diego City Council of Vimbodí i A space will be dedicated Rodríguez (Segovia); Poblet, with the to alabaster crafts with Rafa Abdón (Valencia), collaboration of the social demonstrations by Isidre Ferran Collado entities of the city, Magre, master craftsman (Barcelona) and the local individuals and different at the head of the Paco Ramos. public and private entities. Alabaster Museum. There will also be Also, the Commissioner workshops and games of the Alabaster Sarral for children, a handicraft
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Igor Obeso en Ibiza.
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Last September, the first edition of the Ibiza Art Now Festival was inaugurated at the Casa Victoria Suites Hotel, located in Cala Comte, Sant Josep. It was a night, supervised by the artistic director of the establishment, Arturo Laso, and his public relations Chantal Alot, which also included the musicians Iraky Hans and Dj Ziur, the cartoonist Gran Farelius and the artist specialized in make up art face Maggi Florenciano . However, the highlight was the inauguration of the joint exhibition of the photographer Juan Blanco and the sculptor Igor Obeso, which will be on display until October 19 at this hotel, which saw the passing of 70 music groups as important as Guns. and Roses, Led Zepellin or Rolling Stones. And now, as explained to Periódico de Ibiza and Formentera by its director Luca Colavita, they seek to give it a new focus "through the fusion of nature, quality, class and art". IGOR OBESO Igor Obeso Aguirre (San Sebastián 1973) is considered one of the best master craftsmen in blown glass in Spain. He began in this technique in 1996, receiving training from teachers such as Xavier Carrère, Pere Ignasi or Martin Janecky, among others, and being named young artist of Euskadi.
Throughout his career, from his glass workshop in the Guipuzcoan town of Irún, he has worked for restaurateurs such as Arzak and Mugaritz and some of his works can be seen at the Russian Embassy, in Belgium and at the Hilton Hotel in London . For the exhibition of the Hotel Casa Victoria Suites Obeso has prepared a collection of blown glass sculptures inspired by the sea that has been named Itxas fruituak (Frutos del mar). As explained by the Basque sculptor to this newspaper are pieces that are supported by wooden bases and logs collected from the sea after the floods and eroded by water and which are also used "to obtain textures on glass". In addition, the visitor can contemplate «ceiling or standing lamps, some of which are reminiscent of jellyfish» and some installations for the garden «with pieces inspired by rain drops, plants and insects». JUAN BLANCO For his part, veteran Argentine photographer Juan Blanco Blanco, has selected 9 works for this exhibition, some already presented on other occasions and others unpublished. They are of diverse themes, of size 110 by 80 centimeters and have been printed on photographic paper of great quality Epson or Hane Muller with vegetal inks. In
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addition, at the foot of each photograph includes a phrase that, as explained by Blanco himself to Newspaper of Ibiza and Formentera "makes reference to the very conception of the work or its state of mind." Juan Blanco studied at the Pan -American School of Art in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires. He made his first photographic project about the famous Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullart and later arrived in Madrid with a safe conduct as a political exile in 1976. A year later, in Paris he exhibited with other Latin American artists at the Marche Sans merchants while he lived at the Marcel Picasso house. During those years he also showed his works in the gallery El Aleph in Madrid and in the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife with artists like César Manrique. She settled in Ibiza in 1995, working in cinematographic photography and female nude, and from 2004 she carried out several solo and group exhibitions in places like Can Pou, the Pereyra Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza, Can Curt or Can Tixedó In 2015 he participated in a group show in Japan and in Bilbao with Julio Bauzá and later in Districte Hyperbole, Garden Art Gallery, Espressarte and Colby Art Gallery in Chicago.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XLII).
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Rome.
Roman associations define four fundamental particularities: the common goal, the organization of the association, its members and the permanence or continuity of the objective that unites them.
F.M. de Robertis does not believe that there is a precise and concrete term that brings together all the different forms of Roman associations. Unlike this author A. D Hors believes that Collegium can refer to The Romans used the term all kinds of associations and COLLEGIUM to indicate that corporations. it encompassed a vast Kornemann and F.M. of majority of associations, but Robertis establish that it is this denomination not possible to grant to a experienced temporary or concrete terminology a local changes: Conlegium, meaning that groups all the Collegius, Collignium, Roman associations Collecium or Colligeus. because already the Roman Depending on the characteristics that shape each form of association, at different times in the long history of the Roman people many of them have taken other designations.
jurist Gaio uses several terms to address them.
widespread. Next to it appear other synonyms: Sodalicium (meeting of companions of table), sodalitas (official religious associations), and Societas (association of people for a fixed time). F.M. of Robertis summarizes all the terminology in: Collegium, Corpus, Sodalicium or Sodalitas, these last two would be equivalent. From Waltzing different authors consider that Collegium makes mention of any type of association of at least three people, who pursue a permanent common goal.
The same occurs in Ulpiano The Corpus also shows that and Marciano. the school is allowed by the Waltzing, taking into account State, and understood as a public body with legal that the names of associations suffer changes representation. The terminology is abundant, and that there is no definitive Corpus and Collegium are but we must bear in mind terminology, is inclined to usually synonymous during that there was an important defend the term Collegium, the classical period. linguistic diversity in the since it is the most conquests carried out by
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Seminar in Damascus.
Syrian glass in various historical places such as the Umayyad Mosque, in Damascus, in addition to valuing in a summary the In this sense, participants origin of each type of technique such as hot discussed the molding and cold cutting. development of this A key requirement in the technique from the event was to rescue that twelfth century around the Syrian city of Raqqa, kind of tradition and that in this Levant nation it work that reached high also included the urban artistic and utilitarian centers of Damascus levels. and Aleppo, basically. The participants at the Arab Cultural Center and in which technical and historical aspects of this artisan work were detailed.
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A seminar on the traditional elaboration of glass in Syria was closed
highlighted the use of
Culture 2018.
On the occasion of the trip that our President and our Secretary made to Japan to visit the Toyama Glass Art Museum, they also visited the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, where they
had the opportunity to once again greet Vaclav Rezac, a professor at the Institute and to whom they met at the Lhotsky factory, in the Czech city of Zelezny Brod, the Rakusui-tei Art
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Museum, in Toyama, the Notojima Glass Art Museum and Notojima Glass Art Studio, and, in Hakone, the Venetian Glass Museum, with its impressive gardens.
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Glass Industries Convention.
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The Federation of Industry, Construction and Agriculture of UGT (UGT FICA) has signed with the employer of the sector the XXI Collective Collective Agreement of the Extractive Industries, Glass Industries, Ceramic Industries, and for the Exclusivist Trade of the same materials for the 2018-2020 period.
The signature has been possible after the approval by a large majority of the members of the text of the preagreement reached in the month of July in the various assemblies held by the Federation.
2.25% for this year, 2% for 2019 and 2% for 2020, with a salary revision clause that guarantees the maintenance of purchasing power.
The agreed text supposes a decided bet for the training of the workers of the sector and The XXI Convention, which introduces improvements in affects nearly 50,000 workers, the matter of equality and establishes salary increases of security.
Steel and glass slide. in the Chinese village of Huaxi, Jiangsu Province. It is the first slide built in eastern China, is 158 meters high and crosses the forest allowing users to control the speed with their hands.
A 388-meter long slide was officially opened made of steel and glass last September in a park
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The glass in Museums: Castello Banfi.
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The "Museum of the bottle and the glass", that takes the name of Giovanni F. Mariani, is inside the castle of Poggio alle Mura, of century XIV, today known like Castello Banfi. It is located in the municipality of Montalcino, in the Italian province of Siena. The itinerary of the museum illustrates the alternating events of glass production in history, from the fifth century BC. to this day. The most interesting exhibition is probably the glass objects of ancient Rome that, according to critics, would constitute one of the largest private collections in the world. Between the historic walls, in the old stables and the mill, which continues with the original machinery of 1857, the exhibition halls
were placed with care, it is about the history of glass and the evolution of the wine container. In these rooms are exhibited collections of old wine bottles, Venetian glasses and even modern works of Venetian production, among all the wonderful "Carrier" by Pablo Picasso. The beautiful collection of Roman glass begins with small objects in glass paste attributable to the fifth and fourth centuries BC, and continues with vases and balsamari blown glass from the I and II century, to bottles and bottles of blown glass, belonging to the centuries IV and V. Some recent findings have undergone a conservative restoration in the laboratory of the vase of San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, to return to these millenary glasses its ancient glory and the characteristic
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reflections of the glass material. Among the Venetian glass, which fascinates with the color and delicacy of the workmanship, supporting a 16th-century "reticello" basket and a large glass screen with enameled brass elements, are the latest purchases of the Banfi Foundation to enrich the collection and make the visit to the museum more interesting. Museum hours: - Summer time: from 10:00 to 19:30 (from March 24 to November 12, 2017) - Winter timetable: from 10:00 to 18:30 (from November 12 to March 23, 2018 - closed on December 25 and January 1) Tickets are on sale at Enoteca, at a cost of 4 euros per person (reduction of 3.50 euros).
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Recycling. Figures of the year 2017.
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The collection of glass for recycling during the past year was close to 790,000 tons, an average of 16.9 kilos equivalent to 64 containers- for each Spanish citizen, according to the sustainability report presented by Ecovidrio that qualifies 2017 as "a great year" " This recycling work has experienced the largest increase in the last five years, almost 5% over the previous year, as green containers collected 789,235 tons of used glass.
According to the figures provided by this non-profit organization responsible for the management of glass containers in Spain, during 2017 more than 6,000 new containers were installed, bringing the total figure to more than 218,000 throughout the country: one for each 213 inhabitants. The recycling of glass serves various environmental objectives, such as the fight against climate change avoided the emission of more than 550,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere during 2017 and energy saving - missed the expense of more than 1,820,000 MWh of electric power, equivalent to five months of electric domestic consumption in Madrid capital.
In addition, it allows the reduction in overexploitation of resources, since it saved the extraction of more than 980,000 tons of raw materials, almost three times the weight of the Empire State Building in New York.
agreed by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Member States in 2017, set at 70% for 2025 and 75% for 2030.
In fact, the document indicates that the current rate of Ecovidrio directly managed the recycling already exceeds 70% collection in 60% of the in Spain and, according to municipalities, although it Núñez-Lagos, "seven out of 10 collaborates with the more glass containers (in the than 8,000 Spanish localities European Union) are recycled and, in 2017 alone, launched in Spain". 315 awareness campaigns, The president of Ecovidrio, among which are the Mutua Pere Escolar, adds that in the Madrid Tennis Open, "Recicla last 20 years "we have vidrio por they "against breast attended what we call the cancer or La Vuelta ciclista a recycling revolution" and "to España, in addition to training get an idea of the more than 360,000 children in achievements made, in the the field of recycling. year 2000 the recycling rate of Among the milestones of last glass containers it was 31.3% year highlights the start-up of and in 2015 it reached 70.4% ", the service for the hotel which more than doubled in industry "door to door", the just two decades. largest in Spain, in Madrid Ecovidrio understands that the districts of Center, Salamanca model of the green container in and Vallecas- and other cities Spain "has not yet reached its such as Santiago de ceiling" and Núñez-Lagos cites Compostela (La Coruña) , Belgium as a "reference", since Marbella (Malaga), Jerez de la its recycling rate, with the same Frontera (Cádiz), Córdoba or system, reaches 100%. Zaragoza, as well as in the Canary Islands of Tenerife, La Therefore, its Horizon 2020 plan contemplates a total Palma, La Gomera and El investment of 339 million euros Hierro. for this year, with the In the report, the CEO of distribution of 30,000 Ecovidrio José Manuel Núñezcontainers and a rate of 73% of Lagos declares himself "very recycling. optimistic" about the challenge of achieving the recycling rates
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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.
The municipality of Pampaneira is located in the ravine of Poqueira, in the central-western part of the Alpujarra Granadina.
This October we will spend a few days in the Alpujarras of Granada and we will take advantage of
the trip to visit Pampaneira where, apparently, there is a glass workshop.
Great part of its municipal term belongs to the National Park of Sierra Nevada and to the Historical Settlement of the Ravine of Poqueira.
CULTURE 2018 program.
This October we will visit 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.
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." The glass was sculpted and This new museography, carved by artisans in Italian which has had the sponsorship of the Iberdrola and German workshops with great meticulousness. Foundation, the Community of Madrid and Samsung, has The concept of luxury of the had a total cost of 2,512,516 time meant that at the euros. minimum error the piece was discarded. This group, mostly dated in the sixteenth and The longevity of Louis XIV seventeenth centuries, prevented his son from ever account for the technical reigning but through the expertise of the workshops in pieces of the Treasure of which they were made. the Dauphin "you see how the taste changes". On the other hand, the high price of each piece (in his Some glasses with time they were more dragons, a cameo with expensive than a painting by Hebrew inscriptions or the Titian) meant that only kings Fountain of the history of and princes could access Hermafrodito are some of them. the outstanding examples of this collection. Luxury, refinement and "sumptuousness" was what
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The art of stained glass in Chartres.
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Since the 12th century, this city in the center of France has been an important center for the manufacture of stained glass.
glass windows made by artists from all over the world.
stained glass windows made with new techniques.
"Stained glass But it is also a training manufacturing techniques center for people who wish have evolved a lot but to become professional without forgetting traditional Today the International master glaziers. methods. Current Center for Stained Glass techniques include glass works there, very close to "This center has a very "collage", thermoforming at the Cathedral of Our Lady strong link with the high temperatures, fusing of Chartres. cathedral and the sacred art and the ancient stained or engraving. All these Light, color and creativity are the components of the glass windows preserved elements allow many possibilities for artists, there. In fact, it is one of art of stained glass, a set although the old techniques the rare cathedrals in the of ancestral techniques have not disappeared, that have been practiced in world that preserves "added Lagier. almost all of its original Chartres for centuries. stained glass. The stained The city today has a great This city in the center of glass was born in the activity around stained France is known for its imposing Gothic cathedral sacred world, in churches glass, supported by public and cathedrals that used and private sectors. and its colorful stained "The art of stained glass glass windows that attract light as a symbol of hundreds of thousands of communication with God. making in Chartres is a But it has penetrated other fundamental part of the visitors from around the sectors such as profane history of the city. Chartres world every year. architecture throughout has defended and And very close to the history, "the director of the continues defending that cathedral, there is the CIV, Jean-François Lagier, tradition and the master International Center for told RFI. glassmakers. And that's Stained Glass (CIV), a The International Center why the International space dedicated to this for Stained Glass in Stained Glass Center had artisan discipline that still Chartres includes an to be here. Not only to fills public and private exhibition room on the preserve and protect that spaces with light. stained glass windows of "savoir faire", but also to This center, inaugurated in the cathedral and a encourage contemporary 1980, brings together a collection of 70 creation, said Isabelle stained glass museum with Renaissance stained glass Vincent, cultural manager antique collections and windows and an exhibition of Chartres. contemporary stained space of contemporary
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Other trends. Cristina Iglesias.
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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.
exhibition of the artist since her great retrospective at the Reina Sofía Museum in 2013. Even then Cristina Iglesias worked in Desde lo subterráneo, the permanent intervention in the 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 That is what Cristina Iglesias and it seems a very simple thing likes to do: move the limits to but it is not," he says. In several which art usually subjects us and of its Celosías (1996, 2006) the question how we look at things. influence of carved forms of Arab We also see him when he shoots architecture and the inclusion of his own sculptures, his Guided fragments of texts, which can Tour, or when he takes the only be read halfway, is pictures to make the serigraphs. perceived. They evoke distant "Build places where you can worlds like suspended Pavilion think, dream or just be," he says. III (2011-2016), full of dreams With this, the curator Vicente extracted from Solaris. There are Todolí plays in the selection of more works that disorient our the 23 works gathered in perception. Vegetable room Santander, in the largest (2003) works like a labyrinth, and
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Pabellón de Cristal (2014), as a field of vision out of focus. In the most recent sculptures he works with glass and expanded spiral screens. "In my work," he explains, "in addition to an abstract, very mental component, there is a very physical part that builds a place. It works like when you take different things and in the friction of each other you build 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 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.
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Discovery at Canterbury Cathedral.
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The stained-glass windows of the Cathedral of Canterbury, formerly believed to be the work of Victorian restorers, date back to the late 12th century, becoming the first known works of art to represent pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. Researchers have just made the exciting discovery at the start of a detailed study of the world-renowned Miracle Windows in the Chapel of the Trinity. An analysis of the panels, currently removed from the window and in the stained glass conservation center for their study, showed that they date from the 1180s, 20 years after the death of Thomas Becket and 200 years before Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales. One of the panels shows pilgrims on foot, pilgrims on horseback and a disabled pilgrim with crutches on the road. The incredible detail includes the bright green and yellow boots of the pilgrims, which were painted with horizontal
stripes and a polka dot decoration. This very elaborate footwear may have been intended to underline the importance of the pilgrimage. Researcher Rachel Koopmans of York University in Toronto said: "Our work was prompted by an early photograph of the window showing these panels decades before they were thought to have been made." A careful analysis has shown that while the Most of the heads were replaced by a modern restorer, most of the glass is original and the panels are genuinely medieval compositions.The date of the panels has been set by the distinctive aesthetic style of glass, which is very similar to glass dated in 1180 , as well as the date of completion of the reconstruction of the chapel in which the window is located, 11821184. " A second medieval panel, also considered a Victorian restoration, depicts pilgrims arriving in Canterbury and
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queuing to receive the relic of blood and water, a very diluted mixture of Becket blood that pilgrims drank in the hope of healing miraculous Study director Stainer Glass of Canterbury, Leonie Seliger, said: "This discovery is tremendously exciting. We are delighted to be able to have this opportunity for the closeup analysis of the panels that have provided us with new information, such as the possibility of reading the entries that were previously considered illegible. " Dr. Koopmans is an Associate Professor of History and is writing a new glass catalog related to Thomas Becket in the Cathedral. The project is funded by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral and the residence of Dr. Koopmans has the support of a Visiting Fellowship of the British Academy. Once the panels have been studied and analyzed, they will be returned to the window.
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"Fusion" in the Valencian Community.
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The Center of Handicrafts of the Valencian Community welcomes the exhibition Fusión, Jewelery with Glass Contest, after its passage through the Art Museum in Glass of Alcorcón MAVA (Madrid) and the Real Factory of Crystals of La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia ). Fusión brings together works of young talents and established artists who were selected in the I Contest of Jewelery with Glass, convened by Fundesarte, chair of promotion of crafts of EOI (School of Industrial Organization), and the Museum of Art in Glass of
Alcorcón - MAVA. It aims to offer a representative sample of this artisan sub-sector and to bring together the creations of artists who work on a material as versatile as glass, as well as to promote collaborations between artisans from different fields. In the exhibition you can admire sculptural pieces to more conventional ones, but they stand out for their beauty and simplicity, passing through jewels with messages that will make us reflect on our surroundings.
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There are also collaborations between artisans and artisans from different sectors. In short, a variety that also reflects the diversity of the people who created them and that includes the bilingual EnglishSpanish catalog of the exhibition. The exhibition can be visited from October 4 to November 29, from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day, except Monday afternoon, which will remain closed . Admission is free.
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Mountain House.
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Just as one day its founder came from Europe, the stained glass windows of Casa Montaña have crossed the borders. Today the work that has remained for three generations occupies spaces in Tokyo, Japan, Aruba, Punta Cana and the United States, among others and in almost all of Mexico. This family business began to be worked in 1913, large stained glass windows of medium proportions are made today by Gabriel Montaña Tris and his son Fernando Montaña Vázquez. It was his grandfather Ramón Montaña Simón who, when he was 12 years old when he arrived from Spain to Cuba with his brother, began to work. Years later they came to Mexico and met members of the Pellandini house, a Swiss company that sold beveled mirrors, stained glass windows and trading cards. It is then that they start buying cards that they offer around the country, being Torreón a city they visited. In that time, says Fernando, renowned stained glass masters arrived from Casa Rigaldi from Barcelona and with them they start a working relationship. Thus, in 1913 it was founded in San Luis Potosí, Montaña Hermanos and Martí. "The company was created together with a man named Martí. After years of traveling, my grandfather decided to stay in Torreón when he saw the great potential of the city. " When he settled in the Comarca Lagunera, he decided to open
his business first with the name he had in the city of Potosina, later he changed to Montaña Hermanos Sucesores and finally, from 1930 he adopted the name Casa Montaña.
vision of what is desired", says Fernando Montaña. When choosing a stained glass window, the client has a catalog at his disposal, however, "each work is exclusive, tailored and in harmony with the space. It is an In 1913 it was founded in San expensive product, not Luis Potosí, Montaña Hermanos expensive, it is an art. It is and Martí. In the words of teamwork that achieves a quality Gabriel Montaña, a stained glass product. " As far as competition is window promotes a good feeling, concerned, he explains, there are "we do things so that people are those who have not respected happy, calm and at ease, always the work, because in the stained with the philosophy of glass window there is a world of responding to the client. They possibilities, everything depends say that this work is a luxury, but on the design and the type of it is not like that, because in a glass ". For the elaboration of a public building the stained glass stained glass window it is a work fulfills the function of telling a in team, if one fails, the final story. product is not adequate. "In Casa In a church the stained glass has Montaña it has been inculcated to work with responsibility," he a special lighting that changes concludes. Currently they work in them. Stained glass educates, the stained glass window of the motivates and transforms. " Sanctuary of Guadalupe de Since 1997 Fernando Montaña Vázquez works with his father in Durango. In Torreón there are also different projects, the most the business where they also recent is the Church of San José, make old mirrors and all glass where you can see the facade, crafts. "There is a quality and a prestige to take care of, my dad near the baptismal font, the Most says that we have lasted for two Holy and ten windows of which one has just one. In the space, a things: because we do things well and because we give a very parallel group is born in which people with disabilities are good price". employed, they work with glass Some stained glass windows craftsmanship with a technique that measure up to 30 square called epoxie stained glass, meters are transported abroad making crosses, portraits, tables and require the same care as and lamps. In the space, a one that is placed in the smaller parallel group is born in which city. "In order to develop a people with disabilities are stained glass window, employed, they work with glass responsibility and commitment craftsmanship with a technique intervene, and this is coupled called epoxie stained glass, with history, recognition and making crosses, portraits, tables affection in each work from the and lamps. drawing, color selection and
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Asphalt with solar panels.
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In 2014 Scott and Julie Brusaw launched a crowdfunding campaign with which they raised more than $ 2 million to develop their idea, called solar roadways, which consisted of 'solar tiles' to pave floors, including sidewalks and roads, that produced electricity taking advantage of sunlight.
projects were developed. In 2015 Amsterdam premiered one of the first solar routes, 70 meters of bike lane that produced an average 3000 kWh, barely enough power to supply electricity to a home. The cost was three million dollars and even then The Guardian advanced that the bike lane produced 30 percent Solar Roadways panels in less energy compared to a addition to producing electricity solar roof panel. from sunlight use that energy to illuminate the surface of the In addition to the obvious road and keep free of ice and drawbacks, such as the need snow in winter. To ensure for the glass surface to remain strength and grip the panels free of dirt and dust for efficient are placed under a surface of solar panels, placing horizontal rugged glass of high solar panels on the ground resistance. (compared to placing them vertically or on roofs) has other In addition, electric cars could disadvantages. use the electricity produced by roads to be charged with clean The horizontal position, without energy. any inclination with respect to the sun, means that these The problem then was that panels produce less energy basically Solar Roadways had and are left in the shade, to develop a "type of glass that "which is a problem since the does not exist", according to shade in only 5 percent of the the publication Scientific surface of a panel can reduce American. The necessary power generation by 50 glass "must be tempered, self- percent, "they say in The cleaning and capable of Conversation. transmitting light to the solar panel below in difficult In addition, they explain, being conditions, among other embedded in the ground characteristics." scarcely circulate the air around them, "so it is Precisely the need to use inevitable that these panels tempered glass of great are heated more than a thickness and rough surface vertical solar panel, and for reduces the solar radiation that every 1 ° above the optimum reaches the solar panel below. temperature you lose the 0.5 At the same time, other similar percent energy efficiency ".
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On the other hand David Biello questioned in Scientific American the general utility of the solar tiles of the Brusaw in as much the operation of the led illumination and the thermal system to deheat the highway depend both on the energy produced by the own highway. According to The Conversation, the known figures of various pilot projects developed so far indicate that this idea "can serve as a niche energy source but will never be the way to a future energy supply." An example that is mentioned is the 'solar road' installed in Tourouvre-au-Perche, in France, which was one of the first (in 2015) and that should generate 800 kWh every day. However, "recently published data indicate a yield closer to 409 kWh per day, to get an idea of how much this is, the average household in the UK consumes around 10 kWh per day." In this case the cost per kilowatt installed is about 12,000 euros, while compared to the solar plant in Cestas, near Bordeaux, which has "solar panels carefully oriented to the sun" the cost is 1,200 euros per kW installed . One tenth and generates three times more energy.
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The Westminster Abbey.
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"The Queen's Window" "The theme reflects
was quoted as saying
transforms a previously the queen as a country by The Telegraph, plain glass window into woman and her great
adding that it was his
a colorful rural scene
enjoyment and longing first glass job.
inspired by Yorkshire,
for the countryside,"
Hockney's birthplace,
the abbey said in a
with representations of statement.
"I learned something about glass. It was a
challenge. "
hawthorn flowers.
In revealing the work,
Hockney worked with
Hockney, 81, known
Hockney said he had
York vitraux artists to
for his colorful and
worked on an iPad for
create the window,
bright pop art, portraits the design, in which he which is located on the used shades of red, of swimming pools, north transept of the portraits and
pink, orange, yellow,
landscapes,
blue and green.
commissioned him to
"The iPad is
setting for the wedding
design "something
illuminated like a
of Prince William and
symbolic or
window. It's a natural
Kate Middleton in 2011.
representative of the
thing to use, "Hockney
theme".
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abbey, a popular London tourist site and
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Christa Westbrook.
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Ariño Duglass in Panama and Bogotá.
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The company, specialized in high performance glass for the construction and rail sectors, has completed several projects in Latin America with which it promotes its international presence. One of the projects carried out by the Aragonese company Ariño Duglass has focused on the new Pacific Center multifunctional complex in Panama, which integrates the most important hospital in the region, The Panama Clinic; hotel services through a Marriott Residence Inn; business services with a corporate tower and, even, commercial services with the inclusion of a shopping center. Ariño Duglass has been commissioned to
manufacture for this project one of the most complex phases such as the dome of the commercial area, integrated in an open space that leaves the union of the towers of the complex.
most luxurious hotel in the Colombian capital. A building that has glazed 14,000 square meters outside the hotel, which opened in early September.
With these projects -in Bogota already Specifically, it is a glazed manufactured the glasses structure of more than of the Ágora Convention 2,000 square meters and Center-, Ariño Duglass height of 30 meters, promotes its presence in which is supported by Latin America where its ramified pillars and in activity in the railroad which the glazing falls sector is also based with vertically on the sides of works in security windows the facade. with high performance The high performance glass that will be glasses have the shape incorporated into of triangles, creating a transportation such as the mosaic with different metro in Santiago de degrees of transparency. Chile or Medellin (Colombia). In addition to this project, Ariño Duglass has also In addition, in Brazil, the completed the Gran Hyatt company is present in the Hotel in Bogotá, which is Belo Horizonte subway considered to be the and in the city of Santos tramway.
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The Spanish Glass Center.
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The heritage in glass emerges as a sort of Cinderella in the set of artistic assets of the city and province of Burgos.
"insisted Méndez Pozo during the presentation of this initiative, already supported by the University of Burgos, the Cabildo de la Catedral and the Higher But she has already started Center for Scientific counting the days to become Research, represented at the princess of the story. The the table by, respectively, the 2021 Cathedral Foundation vice-chancellor. Elena supports the creation of the Vicente, the canons Pablo International Center for González and Juan Álvarez Spanish Stained Glass in and the scientist of the María Burgos. Ángeles Villegas History Institute. It would be a space for research, exhibition, And it is that the initiative, dissemination and promotion led by the UBU professor to be located in the nave of Pilar Alonso, an expert in the boulevard next to the old this heritage, has the train station, it would occupy scientific endorsement of 2,000 square meters both national entities and the distributed over two floors old continent such as the which already has a design aforementioned CSIC, by the architect Nacho through the Institute of Camarero- and It would cost Ceramics and Glass, around 6 million euros (3 Institute of History and the million for the purchase of Institute of Materials Science the property and another 3 of Aragon, and the Spanish for the development and Society of Ceramics and provision of museums). That Glass and therefore of the is the crux of the matter. European, to which it
«Burgos would be a pioneer in Spain with a center like this and its Cathedral would be in line with those of Paris, Cologne, York or Lincoln, which hold creation and restoration workshops to meet their artistic needs», observes Alonso and added that it would be a unique opportunity to recover the complete glazier set that came to have in origin the World Heritage temple and also that of other monuments. "The project has a clear scientific mission and vision and from this point of view it is viable. There are the ideas, the people and the program. You only need the bet and the sponsorship, "remarks Villegas.
This action, which would be complemented by the interpretation center of Citur, seeks to return to Burgos the importance it had from the There is no financing to take belongs. Middle Ages to the it forward. They look for The International Center for nineteenth century in the art patrons and, according to of fire and pamper the Spanish Stained Glass the words of the vicewould pivot around research, heritage that is still preserved president of the Cathedral with spaces and equipment and, Alonso points out, in Foundation 2021, private The last ten years has for scientific work; the and public doors will be disclosure, with a permanent achieved international touched, including all the exhibition, to be located in a recognition. administrations: City council, black room that will allow the Meeting of Castile and Leon ideal observation of stained "Now we intend to position these values in the social, and Government of Spain. glass windows, and also cultural, touristic, temporary, "always with "It is a perfectly armed communication and original materials"; multiproject, it is exciting and it institutional relations of purpose rooms for seminars, Burgos," she says, thrilled to must be the city that claims that this train that is passing conferences, courses or share this applause with stop here and do not pass by workshops; a specialized society. library; and warehouses. and do it in another station. It would be a pity if I lost it,
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Exhibition in Nairobi.
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The work of nine women from East Africa, both for their professional and social work, is the pillar of the exhibition "Women pioneers of the arts", which was inaugurated in the Nairobi Gallery until December 8.
Along with some of his works, are also exhibited the paintings, collages and stained glass windows of eight other renowned artists: Joy Adamson, Magdalene Odundo, Rosemary Karuga, Geraldine Robarts, Robin Anderson, Yony Wai-Te, Nani Croze and Theresa Musoke.
environmentalist, is known for leading workshops for women living in the suburbs of Kenya, where they learn to create stained glass windows and sculptures through recycled glass.
Joy Adamson, author of the "This is a historical novel "Born Free" - adapted exhibition because the to the big screen in 1966 artists of today have an spent more than six years immense debt to these All of them pioneers in of her life preserving extraordinary women, and their unprecedented way of African culture, in particular, to Margaret understanding art not as documenting the various Trowell," the co-founder of something inert, but with Kenyan tribes before their the African Heritage House, the capacity to provoke a dress and customs were Alan Donovan, who social transformation. altered. presided over the event, "I do not think many Robin Anderson also told Efe. Kenyans or Africans are stands out as co-founder of Trowell, nicknamed "the aware of the role these the first large contemporary mother of contemporary art women played in fostering art gallery in East Africa, in Uganda", founded in this art in schools and among the Watatu Gallery in country the Faculty of Fine the little ones," Donovan Nairobi (1968), now the Arts of the prestigious said. emblem of the entire Makerere University, for region. Among them, Nani Croze, decades incubator of the as well as artist and best artists in Africa.
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Exhibition "Cosmos".
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sculpture, according to a statement.
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His works integrate various techniques such as glass sand casting, glass, fused glass, flameworking and painting on glass, which he has presented in different collective and individual exhibitions in Mexico, Bulgaria, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. Héctor M. Flores has exhibited his work individually in the Museum of Modern Art, Cultural Space "Muralla", Cultural Space Gallery "Rancho Tecomate Cuatolc", Gallery of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, University Museum "Leopoldo Flores", and in the state of Guanajuato, in the "Sualglass" Gallery.
The Mexican artist Héctor M. Flores inaugurated his exhibition "Cosmos", which is composed of medium-sized sculptures that depict astronomical phenomena such as black holes, galaxies, planets and nebulae at the Centro Cultural Mexiquense
"Cosmos" was presented at the Centro Bicentenario. Cultural Mexiquense Héctor Flores is an artist Bicentenario, in belonging to the second Texcoco, with the support of the generation of Mexican Government of the State stained glass and has of Mexico and the studies in Turkey and Ministry of Culture. the United States. His sculptures are made It will be open to all public until October 21st of glass and the game that makes light through from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 them, united to shape the colors, shadows and a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. every detail of the to 3:00 p.m.
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New Vitrum website.
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The renewed website of Vitrum, the Italian international fair specializing in machinery, equipment and systems for flat and hollow glass and glass and processed products for the industry, is already in operation at www.vitrum-milano.com/ en/. Its new design offers a renewed user experience thanks to a completely updated information and communication format.
participating in Vitrum, both exhibitors and professionals of the industry, and to accelerate and highlight the services and opportunities available in the sample, ensuring continuous and timely updates on Vitrum and on the products that can be found at the event. "
"We also focus on integrating content provided by the exhibitors, to increase their visibility and allow Designed taking into visitors better access in account the maximum the months before ease of use of content Vitrum. In this way, our and information, exhibitors can promote www.vitrum-milano.com their latest innovations has been completely and inform industry renovated to meet the professionals about their needs of exhibitors and products even before the professionals in the doors of the pavilions are sector. opened. In other words, "Thinking about the user, the site becomes an the update objectives that information center of reference for the industry, we set ourselves" declares the president of even outside the dates of Vitrum, Dino Zandonella the program of the fair itself. " Necca - were aimed at offering a simplified and The website can be easy navigation tool for visited from any device, all those interested in being practical and easy
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The main innovations of the website include a section dedicated to the 12 specialized thematic areas of Vitrum, which represent the macrocategories to which the exhibitors belong. "This section is already gaining support among manufacturers and awakening the interest of industry professionals," says Zandonella Necca. "Each specialized page will include articles and indepth content on that specific category, with information provided by the exhibitors themselves." Since this year, the site offers exhibitors an extensive new range of promotional opportunities (free and paid), along with greater integration with the profiles of social networks, ensuring maximum visibility and availability of content.
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Stretched glass by María Zepeda.
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she dedicates almost 24 hours a day, because give shape and detail to any figure is not easy and manufacture each sculpture can take hours and even days.
His taste is born to obtain an other objects is required. extra income, to help his family In its place of origin, the new The artisan seeks to give generations have no interest in workshops in her native land, learning the trade, so above all focused on women it seeks to maintain the craft, since it only knows 3 glass María Dolores Zepeda for 20 artisans in their locality. years has been dedicated to maintaining the artisan Currently, the only one of her tradition of glass stretched in family that follows in her her native Tlaquepaque, footsteps is her daughter, who Jalisco (Mexico). helps her cut, paint and cut some pieces. This year he visits the National Fair of Zacatecas (Fenaza) Wait, let 100 percent dedicate offering his art. yourself to be a glass craftswoman, and keep this He tells that this office learned family tradition. it from the father of his children. Her precision, imagination and creativity has made her one of His taste is born by the the best artisans of the concern of obtaining an extra stretched glass technique, not income, to help in the family only of her native Jalisco, but economy. of all of Mexico and her fame has already reached the "Although at the beginning it international level. was not easy to learn. It resulted with many burns, Thanks to his creativity and some cut, scraped, but I did ingenuity, he can elaborate not give up and here we figures that seem impossible continue to want, "says the to form through glass, but for craftswoman. María, in his designs there are Based on her experience, she no impossible, because the seeks to give workshops in her limit is his imagination. locality, focused on women, so He says that any figure that that they can learn a trade and comes to his imagination can that it helps them to have an make it. Even, there are income that helps them in the people who have asked him to home economy. make them a figure equal to Besides that it allows them to that of their pets, dogs for take care of their children and example and she does it enchanted, because she not neglect their family, because the workshop can be considers that glass should be installed in the home, just like given life and shape. the one that Maria has in her Share that this work requires house; only one blowtorch, patience and dedication. And one table, glass, cutter, among
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Explain that the material is refractory glass. As a material only uses a blowtorch, with this the glass is heated and molded, it is given the figure that is required and the glass is stretched like a hot silicone bar. Through more than 20 years in which the technique of stretched glass has worked, María has produced hundreds of figures. Although he elaborates all kinds, his favorite figures are hummingbirds, which he can fill with colors with the combinations he makes. The crafts that Maria makes have a peculiarity: none is equal to another. Although he recognizes that there are pieces that are more laborious, some that have commissioned him of that type are the mermaids, the fairies, the goblins, the images of virgins and saints. To give a perfect completion to each piece, the craftswoman Maria adds a special detail, which only she can contribute to her figures, and that is her time, dedication, and above all the love for what she does. María is active throughout the year, thanks to the invitations she receives to show and sell her work, whether it be in tianguis and fair exhibitions or local and regional festivals. Makes shipments to other cities and places abroad, wholesale. "For me, working with glass means representing my municipality, my state and Mexico in the world. Making art and figures is something that fills me and gives me life and I would not change it, "says María.
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Tvitec exhibits at Veteco Glass.
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Tvitec, the main transformer of architectural glass in Spain, will show in the Veteco 2018 showcase its wide range of glazed solutions for the singular building market. The Tvitec stand will exhibit its large glass products, which are setting a worldwide trend for the possibility of reaching 12 meters in one piece. both in double and triple glazing as well as in tempered products and security laminates or screenprinted. The new cutting-edge digital screen printing will be, of course, another of the manufacturing lines that will have their special space in the Tvitec stand to offer details of its ability to define and reproduce the absolutely genuine color.
In this field, the company will present a very novel product that will be unveiled at the premiere at the Ifema fair, from November 13 to 16, at booth 10D04. The 'Espacio Tvitec' will be open wide to professionals in the facade sector, architects and prescribers of advanced glazing solutions so that they can obtain all the information on the latest trends and technological capabilities that the company handles for processing of high performance glass and its application in projects in which sustainability, energy saving and eco-efficiency are irreplaceable currencies.
about the products that Tvitec is supplying for some of the residential and office megaprojects that are developed in the United States, such as One Vanderbilt, One Manhattan West or One Manhattan Square. But if you go so far, those who have also been employed in Madrid in exclusive luxury promotions such as Lagasca 99.
Tvitec also has a large technical department where highly qualified staff in the treatment of glass can advise the customer by choosing the products that best suit each project, prioritizing the aesthetic balance with factors such as brightness and the regulation of The framework of Veteco indoor climate and outside. seems the most appropriate to learn
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Design festival.
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At the famous London Design Festival this year -which was celebrated between the 15th and the 23rd of last September and in which more than 400 samples were exhibited- a series of works were presented that have glass as protagonist.
First he showed the project in Milan, in 2017 and now he brings it to London.
Each one has curved glass "leaves" attached to a motor that rotates them smoothly.
Ekin Kayis
Eliška Monsportová
By combining ceramics with the technique of blowing glass, the Finnish designer Ekin Kayis seeks to create a relationship between two materials that differ in texture, shape, color and finish.
Czech designer Eliška Monsportová was inspired by nature and the "poetics of the surrealists" for her Pedestal collection.
The idea is to exhibit not only new objectsinstallations but also innovative techniques for Composed of a range of their molding. containers of different These are some of the shapes, the Nordic Mood works that were collection aims to presented: recreate the colors of the Hideki Yoshimoto Finnish sky. Rise is a project by the London designer Hideki Yoshimoto and aims to recreate the appearance of bubbles and the refraction of light in water. Yoshimoto wanted to experiment with the complex way in which light transmits and reflects within different materials to create a hypnotic visual effect.
Raw Edges The London studio Raw Edges transformed a traditional Israeli dance into 30 revolving glass lamps in this installation premiered in Milan last April.
Monsportová blew a hand -made glass directly into molds made of stones before adding stained glass to the top. Jana Němcová Also of Czech origin, Jana has created a series of kiln-fused glass objects that have been combined with plexiglass and neoprene (synthetic rubber),
Named Chimera, this "dead sculptural nature" this is the author's description-is inspired by contemporary pop culture, but also aims to make Called Horah, the reference to the natural installation consists of sculptural glass lights in a world and its forms. variety of sizes and colors.
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Margarita Palou dies.
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five children: Daniel, Marisa, María Inmaculada, María Antonia and María del Mar, who represent the eighth generation of this family at the head of the emblematic Mallorcan brand, whose origins date back to 1719. She gave birth to all of them in the house they had in Dalt Murada de Palma, above the furnaces of the old factory of Vidrios Gordiola. Margarita Palou had a career as a pianist. He traveled the world by car, boat and plane in search of antique glass to create the Algaida glass museum.
Margarita Palou, widow of Daniel Aldeguer Gordiola of Vidrios Gordiola, dies at the age of 93. Margarita Palou Colomet, Lideta, passed away last September at the age
She remained active until almost the end of of 93. her days, as her She was the widow of daughter Mar Aldeguer recalled, known for Daniel Aldeguer Gordiola, of the historic being the jeweler of personalities such as Mallorcan glassware firm Vidrios Gordiola, a Queen Letizia or Isabel Presley with her firm brand that helped to Coolook. boost. She was the mother of
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The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in
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The purpose of this Association is to promote, encourage and support many cultural activities, in the broadest terms,
When glass culture
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Presidente honorario Javier Gómez Gómez Presidente Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez Vicepresidente Pablo Bravo García Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos Vocales Evangelina del Poyo Diego Martín García Francisco Martín García
tors, Full and juveniles.
José María Gallardo Breña