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Volume II — Number 59

September 2013

Monthly Newsletter

William Gudenrath  The resurgence of CNV.

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"After the storm becomes calm", "There is no evil that lasts a hundred years", "In Christ, king post" and "Adapt or die" , are expressions that could define today the rudder that has had to produce earlier this summer at the National Glass Centre Foundation ( FCNV ).

After the serious news that had been happening in the future of the Foundation since the economic adjustment measures were taking place systematically in government grants received this Center , glazier world national benchmark in our country , the former managers not had to look at other budget policy that eliminating expenses, conseNuestra sede: quential proposals for job Castillo Grande de S.J. de Valderas layoffs , cuts maintenanAvda. Los Castillos, s/n ce costs to unsustainable 28925 ALCORCÓN. levels and the like.

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However, we are not aware that they had tried to implement any measures to increase revenues.

Finally , the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism did resign the

M. A. Carretero.

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Salazar -Simpson , and the Director General , Aurea Juarez , and performed the transfer of management to the Industrial Organisation School ( FEOI ) appointing new General Manager and Chief Fernando Emilio Bayon Cabanes Miró.

Provide it with a network of distribution and sale of products made through a chain of stores located in major cities of our country.

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In response to the concerns expressed by Alfonso Muñoz Ruiz, signature Vetraria Muñoz de Pablos SL, of Segovia.

Ensure that imparts Glass School optimum quality of teaching, for which you must have a competent faculty and facilities equipped with the proper equipment .

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Provide glass craftsmen

President of the Foundation , Francisco

We filed a petition at Change.org FEOI through and to which we refer on page 5 of this Bulletin.

During the month of September we will try to increase the number of signatures affixed to the petition and close it when we are able to have a meeting with the new manager of the FCNV .

of courses about the various glass techniques taught by teachers with proven experience and prestige , with enough work and material prices in line with those centers have been conducting similar characteristics worldwide.

Clearly, these objectives can have a high cost , but I think that the FEOI have enough experience to get springs and sufficient reIn my humble opinion , for- sources to fund them , if med by the collection of not in the short term, yes views collected from a lar- the medium to long term. ge number of members of They should also consider Spanish art glass world , I the need for the National think , at least the perforGlass Centre is the meemance of the new admiting point of reference for nistration of the Foundaall members in the world tion should focus on four of Spanish art glass , thereobjectives: by avoiding the current  Back to traditional pro- fragmentation and lack of duce glass objects that communication between have shaped the undis- its members. puted prestige of the National Glass Centre worldwide .

I hope to move-ments is now wishes to the management team of the FCNV.

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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:

Important issue: the Intellectual Property Law (XXIX) M.A.C.

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Part of the month

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Petition to FEOI

Intellectual Proper- of exploitation rights of the photographs as ty Law

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Shock Therapy

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Magan in Corea

BOOK II. TITLE III. Of Audiovisual Recordings.

 Activities on the MAVA  News  Our activities

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 Glass recycling  How does CONTENTS:

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may be made in the production process of the audiovisual recording.

The duration of the exploitation rights to the producers of the first fixation of an audiovisual recording shall be fifty years, counted from January 1 of the year following its completion.

Part of the month

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Established artists

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Young artists

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Petition to FEOI

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Shock therapy

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Research line

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Activities in Museums

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Activities in the MAVA

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Sebastian in La Granja

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Magan in Hello! Spain

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Jose Fernandez Castrillo

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Ancient procedures

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Factory New Baztan

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News

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Culture 2013

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Musical art on glass

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Furnace Socastro

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The glass museum

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Exposition in La Granja

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Stained glass in Miraflores

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Glass recicled

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Elegance in glass

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Cultural tours

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Culture 2013 Programme

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Book of Olafur Eliasson

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Senior at MAVA

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Other trends

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The glass in Costa Rica

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Layoffs in Bormioli

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Glass art

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New products

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The game Glass Road

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Our President, Miguel Angel Carre-

How does

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tero, was interviewed a few days

Investments Verallia

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ago by Nacho Ares on the Cadena

Life experiencies

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Craft Ranamok 2013

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Expressing a medical

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Scientific glassblowing

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Pain vitrified

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Directorate

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Excluded from the concept of lending operations referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 3 above those effected between establishTITLE IV ments accessible to the public.

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This right shall not enjoy the cable distribution companies when emissions or transmissions relayed broadcasters. b) The reproduction of fixations of their broadcasts or transmissions. c) Making available to the public, by wire or wireless means, of fixations of their broadcasts or transmissions, so that anyone can access them from a place and at a time individually chosen. d) retransmission by any technical procedure of their broadcasts or transmissions.

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URGENT NEWS 

The glass in the SER.

Ser for the program Ser History.

colorations origin glasses .....

The interview will be broadcast on one of the programs of Ser History in the first fortnight of the month of

The recording of the interview was

September, according to informa-

conducted in the studies that the

tion provided by Nacho Ares.

chain has in the Gran Vía in Madrid.

The show airs Sundays from 4-5 in

Questions focused on different as-

the morning and is also included in

pects of the glass in general and

the web of string that can be ac-

their origin, composition, differences cessed through the following link: between glass and glass, glass diffu- www.cadenaser.com/ser-historia/ sion through history, the various

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Part of de month. Eva Vicková.

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Department of the Academy, magnificent artist himself.

Eva Vlčková wins the Bavarian State Award with his first book, "Chalice" (1991), made while still a student.

Later this work would be ac-

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quired by the Museum of Glass in Jablonec nad Nisou.

Find in geometry that applies to his works: circles and squares, symbols of infinity, a connection with the past and with eternity.

The surface of his pieces are treated with acid, sometimes also polished, giving them exquisite finish.

Vlčková Eva makes his works for herself, not for possible public, hence they are so intimate and special.

Sensitive Touch Exposure MAAfter ten years studying and

tists, Vlčková uses the techni-

working continuously with

que of mold-cast glass.

glass, first in the Middle School of Zelezny 'Brod (1983-1987) and then at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (1987-1993), we can

As a student of Stanislav Libensky '(1922-2002), the last before his death-preserved parts monumentality and ele-

VA met three generations of Czech female artists.

Seven women, younger Eva Vlčková, with very different styles works and yet united by the quality of its work.

gance of the master.

The move by the Museum of

the material they are made

He finishes his graduation,

sculptures.

however, with Professor Vla-

ceased "Neo I" Vlčková, as

say that Eva Vlčková knows

Following the tradition of the last generations of Czech ar-

dimír Kopecký Libensky suc-

the sample, both the work "Sculpture VIIb" Anna Matoušková and "Laid" from

cessor in the leadership of the Miloslava Nievaldová.

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Established artists. William Gudenrath.

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William Gudenrath is a glassblower, glassmakers of the past, and these scholar, lecturer, and teacher. are illustrated and described in a number of books and video segHe is an authority on historical hot ments including Chronicle: The Porglassworking techniques from antland Vase (BBC-TVand A&E, 1989), cient Egypt through the RenaissanFive Thousand Years of Glass (British ce, and has presented lectures and Museum Press, 1991), Journey demonstrations throughout the through Glass: A Tour of the Corning world.

Museum Collection (The Corning Resident adviser for The Studio, Gu- Museum of Glass, 1992), and Master Class Series II: Introduction to Venedenrath ensures excellence in the facility and its programs, and regu- tian Techniques with William Gudenrath (The Corning Museum of larly teaches introductory and advanced courses in Venetian techni- Glass, 1998).

cles on the manufacture and ancient repair of the Portland Vase for the 1990 volume of the Journal of Glass Studies.

Gudenrath received degrees in music from North Texas State University and the Juilliard School, and is on the International Advisory Committee UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. His works are sold in the Museum’s GlassMarket, as well as other exclusive stores and galleries nationwide.

ques.

In addition, Gudenrath coHe demonstrates techniques he be- authored with noted glass scholar Dr. David Whitehouse several artilieves to have been employed by

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Young artists. Neringa Vasiliauskaite.

A member of the Lithuania's Artists Association, Section of monumental art.

Between 2004 and 2009 has had numerous windows in Vilnius, and Krincinas Kretingale in Lithuania.

He became stained glass almost by accident. No one in his family worked the glass and only his grandfather wanted to be an architect.

It came quite late to work with glass, as manifested.

Born in 1984 in Lithuania. Lives

In 2006 he graduated as a stai-

and works in Vilnius.

ned glass in Vilnius Art Academy

In 2004-2005 studied architecture in glass at the Munich Art

and in 2008 earned a Master in the academy.

Academy.

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I was very interested in studying Fine Arts and, through a contest, started in the windows, and is now very happy working this technique.

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Petition to FEOI.

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On July 4 began , through Change.org , a petition to the Industrial Organisation School in solicitábamos them , as you can see in the header image , that will promote knowledge of glass, retain the heritage glazier and form professionals able to " take " an autonomous , all located in an industrial building baroque rescued so.

This request began in a letter that we sent Alfonso Muñoz Ruiz, Muñoz de Pablos Vetraria , in which we asked verbatim: " Dear friends , I send you an article on the state of the Glass Factory Farm that disseminated among stakeholders in the world of glass and the general public . FCNV The situation is catastrophic and has gravely endangered the continuity of the activity, ( impaired already long ) . The aim of the Foundation EOI is to use classrooms for courses in economics and business, but not to a real management of a facility that was and should remain a global benchmark in its field .

With great sadness and concern , greetings. Alfonso . " The article you quote can be viewed through this link .

Also acceded to this request some firms located in Germany , Argentina , Belgium, Brazil , USA , Finland , France , Great Britain , Guatemala , Italy , Mexico , Netherlands , Panama , South Africa and Uruguay .

But some of us deeply saddened absences we consider very representative of glass art in our country.

As a sign of solidarity , we quote the words of Professor Fernández Navarro accompanying his signature on the petition : " Because you have to regenerate the cultural project that inspired the creation of the Foundation to save the building CNV most important and representative of the Spanish industrial architecture of the Age of Enlightenment , and because you have to make this unique cultural institution referral center glass in Spain covering the artistic and technical teaching , the museum , technical assistance to industry , and glass handicraft production . "

this center . It's really a great misfortune for this country that cost centers like this much effort reborn from its ashes , now back to a situation of neglect, ostracism and decay with the invaluable work being done to support R & D and Culture of Spain and the UEuropea JM ª . Rincon. President of the Spanish Assoc of Scientists and Research Professor CSIC. Leader and founder of the Lab / Group Glassy and Ceramic Materials IETcc -CSIC " .

Eduardo Osimani signature accompanies the following comment :

"As a former director of the artistic and technical training of the National Glass Centre Foundation , I join the request for the National Glass Centre , can rebuild an organization dedicated to art glass , design, technical and research , and to channel their courses nationally and internationally, as wine making until a few years ago , it is unfortunate to lose such a landmark for other causes than the glass, its formation , its museum and its producAlso Professor Jesús María Rincón accompanying his signa- tion , which can be done in a serially and high qualification in reture with these words : productions of historical pieces , " As a scientist devoted to glass lamps, accessories and catering and derived materials ( ceraaccessories . mics and glazes ) I express my full support for the Museum and My greeting and support the moRoyal Glass Factory of La Granja vement to petition. "

At the date of issue of this Bulletin acceded to this request 387 signatures, many from people known to the world of Spanish glass , and others of which we do not know his identity but not only maintain , but increase have exhibited commendable the potential cultural and espesympathy for the problems afflic- cially in R & D + i can develop ting the National Glass Centre . www.amigosmava.org

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The CNV need shock therapy.

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countries have a purchasing power Strong. - The previous management had started commercial operations just some international expansion .

- We know that there was a contract with Qatar and any intention of doing something in China.

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- Are they measurable promotional those actions that are referenced ?

Do you have a translation on a budget?

It is premature to venture what the future awaits the National Glass Centre ( CNV ) . You have to go under the knife business and rehabilitation undergo severe .

Its former director , Aurea Juarez , and moved to the output of Trustees meeting held in Madrid which would be a change of chip. He had just left the ship rudder after it accepted his dismissal , but trusted in the good hands and the professionalism of the new captains of the ship.

Dean of the School of Industrial Organization .

The motto seems to be more support and less subsidies . And the increase in income is by strengthening production and marketing. The current bill is " tiny " laments Bayon, the figure at about 500,000 euros.

- We must be clear about one issue .

Every society , and of course here also speak of the National Glass Centre Foundation , is unable to survive on its own only with subsidies, grants or contributions for private employers .

Experience tells us that just can not stand.

The center does not need just a medicine, requires a reincarnation , shock therapy , which can pass through the execution of stock , for the reformulation of credit or funding reviews ... That will look and decide as appropriate .

- How has gestated taking project Another issue that needs to be clear : lead the National Glass Centre Founwe come to lend a hand and do dation ? everything possible to get that solHe put us in the Ministry of Education vency . because the EOI had merged with A new stage facing the historic insti- Ensures that the School of Industrial the Spanish Foundation for Innovatution of the Farm under the manaOrganization is crucial to adopt an tion of Crafts ( Fundesarte ) . gement of the School of Industrial Orentrepreneurial vision , and it goes They thought it would be appropriaganization ( EOI ) public foundation through enhancing marketing. I te to take a business approach to linked to the Ministry of Industry , guess also strengthen the production, unite our experience in managing Energy and Tourism. and this requires staff . In recent trusfeasibility plans for small and metees discussed the possibility of a new His background and experience are dium businesses and our ability to record of employment regulation the guarantees that leaves his card. manage and consolidate business from January 1 you had included in His teams are specialists in "the deve- problems . the plan. Is it true ? lopment of viable plans of small and Then we designed a roadmap was medium enterprises in the manage- The issue is very sensitive staff . It is divided into three parts. The first was ment and resolution of problems and premature to predict anything , esto make a report of the current stain building companies ." pecially when there have been few tus of CNV , which was filed on July were predicted EREs and the final With these long dresses compliments 6 . Following that report, take the one was bad and removed. Now I the new management the CEO of helm for a maximum period of two can only say that we have no clue this organization and also for eight years to provide business-oriented and any statements made about the days of the founding of the CNV . project . future of the workers would be risky .

Fernando Bayon mixture of caution So could be the case that the instituWhat I can show is that something own with initiatory scores firmness tion continue alone or be integrated must be done and sooner than later and safety of a surgeon , scalpel in into the EOI . And finally , get into because you can not expect much hand, enter the operating room wimanagement , which is what has more. lling to dissection . happened since the last 17 .

We are talking to the council and the This time the procedure you perform " Sustainable itself » latter would be job losses . There are is almost life and death. It's to be " - After the meeting and change ma- formulas that can be applied , such endorsing the viability of the center nagement , the Foundation EOI spo- as greater flexibility. It's certainly not and ensure the promotion , developke to relaunch and reposition the our desire to make a record of very ment, education , research and disNational Glass Centre . Do they large employment regulation . semination of craftsmanship and hisknow how? tory of glass manufacturing and ot- A week ago , the former director , The aim is that the CNV is sustainaher artistic cultural and scientific actiAurea Juarez left the meeting satisble by itself and does not have to vities related to technology and art fied Madrid because he trusted their live contributions from employers or glass » . professionalism and the Foundation government subsidies .

EOI potential to drive the formation "With this management delegation of the School of Glass . What are your The National Glass Centre Foundaaims to relaunch CNV Foundation tion of the Royal Glass Factory of La plans in this chapter teaching and and a repositioning of its products research ? nationally and internationally" , outli- Granja is a wonderful name , but lately is not very prestigious and well nes the EOI its ambitious goal that - The EOI is a facility that has a very known . leads to the Royal Site . important part of business school.

It requires a process of creating and All issues related to training of profesThis not just any medicine or treatsionals working with glass are extrement. " Need a reincarnation , shock brand and a marketing policy that mely important . In this regard , I suptherapy ," asserts Bayon . The first step passes through a marketing plan not port to recover , if it could , the dein ensuring the proper management only for Spain but for the entire gree of the School. world . and promotion of the activities was the appointment of a new manage- Our market has to be the world , esment team in front of which is Emilio pecially in countries with purchasing Cabanes , and so far manager power. Right now only ten or twelve

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Line of research: Inclusions (XVII).

Estefanía Sanz Lobo.

was also mixtures with ground

Arenas. SoLiCe Arena ( cont. ) glass, glazes and frits .

In Fig. 1 shows silica sand

This material can be said that

mixed with copper nail .

it is very interesting when used

Were monitored air bubbles trapped irregular because the

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space occupied by air in the case of the previous image here has filled the enamel.

Furthermore there is a balancing effect expansion coefficients ( the enamel copper has a much higher ratio than glass, and much lower silica ) .

in very small quantity sandwich , forming a thin film and

which is used to modify the

(SiO4 ) - , is a kind of natural quartz , which arises in the form of compressed sheets or plates easily separable .

Mica has been used as a pig-

with that vitrifiquen transpa-

ment in painting techniques

rent as enamels, glass chips or and decorative , whether it is the same ground base .

Two pieces that are sandwi-

ground to a fine powder provides a slightly iridescent effect.

ched rutile . In Fig. 3 , mixed

As pigment , mica is used in

with coarsely ground glass

combination with other mate-

and blue enamel .

rials to achieve different ef-

mixed with brown enamel .

Rutile (TiO2) Titanium oxide

sium hydroxide , H2K Al3

other elements associated

In Fig. 4 , on a frame sieve ,

RUTILE SAND .

Silicate mica aluminum potas-

COLOR MICAS

fects : • Pearly Mica fine particles are coated with a thin layer of titanium

color ceramic and the coeffi-

These micas are supplied spe-

white (titanium dioxide , TiO2)

cient of expansion of glazes

cially prepared for work with

to produce pearly shades , sil-

and enamels .

glass, and come in powder

ver or white - silver . Show a

and several metallic shades :

metallic sheen on the surface.

It looks dark purplish brown with strong metallic luster.

The first results of experiments on rutile were similar to those of silica sand : trapped air bubbles were so great that difficult to appreciate the brightness of this material.

In Fig. 2 shows a detail of a rutile sand sample between two glasses .

yellow gold , red gold , black, cyan.

Mica is a mineral that exists

thickness of the grains favors trapped air , creating a irregular bubbles .

similar to the pearly , as deri-

according to the different

nium white, or only iron oxide ,

qualities .

achieving a wide range of

Hendirse in uniform layers can be up to 0,005 mm thick.

tant to high temperatures and one of the best known electric insulators .

Is chemically inert to most

For this reason, an attempt

Iridescent pigments are very

naturally so its exact composi- ved from mica powder coation and their properties vary ted with iron oxide and tita-

Mica is transparent and resis-

As with the silica sand, the

• Iridescent

substances .

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coppery golden hues from yellow gold to copper red .

Compared with pearly , however , are less transparent and fairly close to the shades of gold, bronze and copper authentic.

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Activities in Museums I.

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Activities in Museums III.

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Activities on the MAVA. Course.

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Sebastian in La Granja.

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The Mexican sculptor Enrique Carbajal , known as Sebastian , internationally renowned for his monumental sculptures scattered around the world , is now working with glass forms in the former Royal Glass Factory of La Granja, Segovia , from his collection " Quantum " .

Convinced that the future of art , even that of humanity , is in the mix of science , art and technology , like a Renaissance man but in the XXI century , in an interview with Efe Sebastian is passionate talking glass "It's like cosmic , they are the stars."

After having closed in their home country the show " Quantum " , with pieces created from physics and geometry, this artist born in Chihuahua ( Mexico ) 65 years ago , has decided to change and go to the glass materials , using thus a tradition undeniable manufacturing .

Coinciding with an art show in the streets taking place in La Granja ( Segovia ), with colored shapes , their large -scale steel sculptures , Sebastian has begun work on its project at the Royal Factory of La Granja , founded illustrated by King Carlos III in the eighteenth century .

From this sanctuary of glass, the sculptor does not hide his excite-

ment at the fact that a piece of quantum geometry is to be made of glass, with which he hopes new possibilities : " the pieces are going to transform , to grow , to Maybe there will be beautiful aesthetically deformations , is an experience. "

industrial , which is the state of technology , or computer , to make their strokes , or calculate their processes to create on a computer.

The technique of this teacher, who has made more than 120 exhibitions in different countries, He estimates that , within a is based on analyzing and creamonth, will be developed fully in ting the pieces in the plane , to and out of the ovens his first be modeled on the computer sculpture of glass, and then carr- then , to pass them on to a third ying out some series and even dimension and merge them into create molds for glass blowing, bronze. to obtain a full statement .

It's simple, argues, " is a process Recognizes that has worked with technology with current calculaall materials and has studied all tion , mathematical models turforms of geometry, while adding ned into sculpture ." that the glass moves by other ruIn reference to his great works , les than the bronze or steel the Sebastian has announced that great figures : " It is beautiful , in two and a half months , comhas many risks " , also offering a pleted a large piece , 60 meters different aesthetic , qualifies. high , which will be placed in For the sculptor , in its evolution , the Mexican municipality of Chithe artists , some conscious , otmalhuacán , whose name mehers unwittingly, have followed ans "place of the Shields " . the blend of art , science and Sebastian elaborated clarifies technology and , in his opinion , that the Aztecs chimalhuacanos " you have to do is produce shields for war , hence his work is consciously with the computer, based on a warrior Chimali , the sculptures quantum are mawhich he calls " The warrior de well . " shield" .

And is that from the perspective It will be the symbol of the city , of linking the quantum aesthetic warrior colossus day and night, work , clarifies that there are arbecause his weapon becomes tists who are conscious of ema torch , 'a very iconic symbol , ploying pictorial materials are "says the author of the sculpture.

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Magán in “Hello! SPAIN”.

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I need to attend this show with a bold attitude , daring and willing to enjoy the experience with the five senses , let go and enter a world where everything is possible .

Artists give us ideas and a part of his imagination for us to we sup-

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plement with our perception.

Surrealism , Cubism , Constructivism and XXI century pictorial currents come together with us and we hope to enjoy a concert to be savored with the eyes.

The exhibition, curated by Dmitri Hong , begins with works by artists of the first generation "cutting edge " as Picasso , Dali and Miro , and then continues with the development of a second generation , among those found Antoni Tàpies , Jaume Plensa , Antoni Clave , Antonio Saura and Eduardo Chillida.

Representing the third generation of contemporary artists " Hello ! Spain " exhibits the work of Carles Congost , John Genovese , Gañán Emilio , Luis Gordillo , Abraham Lacalle , David Magan , Miguel Macaya , Miguel David Magan , an artist who

From 2 July to September 1st of

Iglesias, Enrique Brinkmann , Am-

makes his works with glass and

this 2013 , the Seongnam Arts

paro Sard , Alfonso Sicilia Sobri-

we are honored to count him among our partners , exposed

Center in Seoul houses this set of no , Juan Uslé , Juan Francisco parts with a wide variety of stro- Casas , Matias Krahn and Che-

by Chillida , Picasso , Dalí , Miró ,

kes and nuances.

ma Cobo .

A joint space only a series of

The exhibition " Hello ! Spain " is

works produced strangeness in

the third in a series of internatio-

the receiver, disorient and build

nal art exhibitions organized by

Tàpies Congost and in faraway Korea during the summer.

Nothing better to refresh your mind during this hot season ob-

a path unexplored with a partial the Seongnam , formerly an exserving his works and those of ot- expression of the artists for the hibition devoted to John Moore her artists who represent modern

rest who admires granted .

and contemporary painting of the nation of El Cid .

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(2011) and German contemporary art (2012 ) .

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Jose Fernandez Castrillo.

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León Cathedral marked his childhood. It is the last master glassmaker of the Cathedral of the Sea.

cathedral where Fernandez Castrillo placed his stained glass .

Mine liked . " Since then it has continued to investigate the secrets of glass.

This 69 year old Leon , a native His windows are also in the builFigure in the main window maof Ditches , is a leader in the ding Bayer and the Clinic of Barnuals , including the ' Bible ' in world of glass , as creator of art celona. this area , the Spanish glass , Nie- that centuries renewed a trade .

The artist Leon has not adhered to Alcaide . " I imagined that he saw things only to the windows for historic The Leon José Fernandez Castri- done ." Thus began developing buildings , but also has made nullo , who has lived eight years in a technique that a critic for La merous sculptures and stained Barcelona - " but I studied BaVanguardia defined as ' vitrofree , as you just placed in the chelor 5th of the Augustinians of grafía ' and Castrillo used in reMuseum of Radio Roda de Bara , Leon and Astorga 6th " pointed - modeling the building of boocommissioned by journalist Leon not known exactly how much he ties , over 40 windows of the inLuis del Olmo . influenced the windows of the ner courtyards .

Your admired Luis Garcia Lefty , Cathedral . " Even then I was The vitrografía , according to its which he considers "a wise ',' not spellbound looking . They are inventor, is to look at the glass as only as a stained glass , but also the best in Spain . I never get tia canvas , and you get to chan- as a painter " , referring to the red of seeing them , "he says . ge the passage of light and windows of the Cathedral told " Fernandez Castrillo , imparting creates textures. you had to restore them as netheir knowledge at universities in cessary , but as little as possible Castrillo acknowledges that the Mexico , Italy and at the presti'.He has not forgotten. technique is "very complicated " gious Pilchuck Glass School in and that " requires a lot of skill ." Castrillo is , for more than three Seattle (USA ) , Olympic made decades , lifelong pattern of the Cathedral del Mar in Barce- "You have to handle a lot of Centre of Glass Foundation of lona . glass, but the results are not Barcelona. achieved with other techniques.

It was the year 1992 when he He has had numerous exhibitions was commissioned a stained Is drawing with light "he explains. in Barcelona , Paris , Louisville or glass window commemorating He has been making glass since Lausanne . the Olympics to one of the winage 19, when for granted for the dows of Gothic church , which Technical Architecture career His works are in public buildings was blinded . went to work at a company that from different countries in Europe The window contains an allegory about the Olympic flame and Santa Eulalia , who according to legend was crucified in the place of the Angel of Barcelona and is named the chapel of the

made stained glass liturgical art .

and America, using almost exclusively the vitrografía technique .

"I commissioned a project to El Escorial to which the company had already submitted two papers that had rejected them .

In the MAVA 's also one of his works .

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Ancient procedures.

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The glass has been known for 4000 years . Egyptian vessels are preserved , modeled in glass , before 1500 a. C. In the Middle East , by the procedure known as crown glass, small pieces were made of flat glass before 600 .

techniques , is known as the method of blown glass cylinder , perfectly described by a German monk in the middle of the twelfth century and used since before 1000 .

Was to get a glass bubble of a reasonably large size turned around to get a vessel longish This system , known in Europe as ' ends were removed leaving a Norman crown ' , was to rotate perfect cylinder . a glass bubble blown until a glass disk of a few millimeters It was cut longitudinally after thick . heating it , following a generatrix , and stretched on a flat surThis glass had too much quality face . Glasses obtained were as its thickness was not uniform larger than those obtained by and appeared wreath body rotating disc manufacturing , crossed by concentric circles but its surface was less bright produced by the rotation. and more irregular faces .

Besides the pieces thus obtained were always small in size , never glass discs were manufactured more than two meters in diameter and this already in the nineteenth century .

By 1830 the size of the cylinder did not exceed 180 cm long and 50 cm in diameter and could not get more than 1.5 glasses m2.

Around 1670 in France develoAnother procedure which is able ped a revolutionary method to to produce larger crystals , also make sheets was achieved higusing blowing and spinning

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her ( 75 cm x 24'5 cm ) , reasonably thick , perhaps too heavy, very flat surfaces , although a little less bright than those of the glass obtained by rotation.

The process followed was to melt glass, pour it over a mold and crush with a rolling metal .

Then reheated again in an oven, cooled for twenty four hours and then polished with a rotating wheel which had adhered small pieces of glass , using quartz sand abrasive progressively finer grains .

During the nineteenth century, especially refined polishing techniques , to mechanize this procedure.

The beginning of the twentieth century the mechanization of the process involves making glass cylinders devised by J. Lubber in 1896 , with which they could obtain cylinders of about 9 m long and 60 cm in diameter.

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Factory New Baztan (I).

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GLASS FACTORY NEW BAZTAN Privilege of Philip V in favor of Don Juan de Goyeneche The year was 1720 and the Spanish Empire was no sunset.

But things were no longer as before, in the fertile though controversial reigns of Charles V , Philip II and other successors .

Missing the Habsburg dynasty , reigned in Spain Felipe V , the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty , of French origin , who, throughout his tenure , he tried to print some signs of modernity and its management efficiency , without losing of view , as stated by various historians coincidentally , that of Philip V was a reign that was marked by the subjugation of national interests to those of his personal ambition .

Can not speak of a threat of Development Plan , or anything, but some of the decisions of Felipe V - how curious we are today, they came to know , with undeniable tics protectionist , a flash of concern for the Spanish , to the extent that it may be this , which then deepened , one of the first times in our history which is reflected in what today would be called a policy of "quota " or , rather, and language to use of "positive discrimination " in favor of national workers.

on two previous occasions , by those who enjoyed the same royal favor and failed to take forward the commitment , leaving abandoned.

For this reason, and in order to not return to their countries of origin than twenty manufacturers , teachers and officers, set to be provided for this purpose to remain in the houses that had been granted and the ovens and office , materials and instruments that were equipped facilities , although Don Juan de Goyeneche running all costs .

What continues to draw attention in a structure that was dragAdd the actual document , " ging more than half a century of bearing in mind the great vitality decline . which my realms follow the estaThe document reproduced beblishment of the factory expreslow , and whose original is in the sed , and the like , so it is my inarchives of the Historical Herita- tention promote them and assist ge Association of New Batzan , them as far as possible , by Royal where it can be consulted by order mine (from 13 January However, this line of conduct scholars and historians , Philip V 1720 ) , I decided to give the said permeated all the real decigranted to Don Juan de GoyeDon Juan de Goyeneche (and sions . neche - Treasurer of Her Majesty their heirs ) Privilege for thirty yeBecause there were some occa- Reina - the appropriate authori- ars time , so you can freely sell and styling crystals and glasses, sions where their efforts was evi- zation to establish , "on the Site called New Batzan " a glass fac- with the same favorable condident by the labor welfare of his tory , given the failure obtained tions ( ... ) " . subjects.

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N E W S (I).

 Jiri Harcuba dies.

The July 26, 2013 died on Glass Grandmaster Jiri Harcuba (19282013).

We left an important legacy, not only for the wonderful works he has done in his life, but also for his teaching and

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his human qualities.

Our Newsletter number 56, corresponding to last June, was devoted to her figure.

On our recent trip to the Czech Republic we saw many of his works in various museums we visited.

The website of the School of Glass in La Granja notifies this loss in your pa-

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ge.

Cultura 2013.

This past August we visited the exhibition of works by Pissarro in the Thyssen Museum in Madrid.

Pissarro worked on the inside so that Impressionism took root in the history of art as a 'community' of complementary creators.

He was the first editor of the 'laws' of what became the movement.

Participated in the eight exhibitions of the group (the only one that was in all) of 1874-1886.

It was, in short, a generous guy.

But time slowly sent to a sort of second division impressionist.

uniqueness of their work within the group.

Much of his work is founded in landscapes 'plen air', of course.

But landscapes that have to do with the area you chose and where he settled, nomadic alien to fellow travelers.

A limbo that began to emerge until the 80s of the last century and now claims Thyssen again And thus vindicating as an artist until next September 15 in an exof 'genius loci'. That is, an impreshibition of 79 works by artists in all sionist inland. their shining itinerary painter and

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N E W S (II).

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Musical Art on glass.

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Creation Glassical Instruments is a small company based in Denver (Colorado), created by guitarist and glassblower Nick Eggert, who has had the good sense to combine their skills to create musical instruments borosilicate glass.

extreme chemical resistance, low coefficient of thermal expansion, high strength and relatively low refractive indices.

Boron is the element characterizing the manufacture of this type of glass, making it more difficult to make than traditional siliThis material is commonly used in con compound, sodium carbochemical and engineering appli- nate and calcium carbonate. cations, for its

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Nick uses a glass body mounted on a pine body, using molds to make a mold base on which other elements are added.

So far it has made guitars, basses and banjos, which sells between 4,000 and $ 8,000, depending on the style, options or complexity involving.

Glass furnace Socastro. the past performances, revealing very unique data.

Thus, according to Ignacio Crespo explains, Labor camp director and member of the company Argos Archaeology, we can say that Socastro offers two very distinct phase of occupation, one clearly Roman, and other indigenous castrexa.

In the work carried out over two weeks, the team's field work has uncovered a coción structure ceramic furnace and evidence of a glass furnace, which reveal that this activity was Socastro.

"We would be talking about this Campaign to campaign, the fort The archaeological surveys con- type of construction correspond to a more social and elite techof Socastro, located in the muni- ducted this year as part of the cipality of Rois, is revealing delabor camp, which ends today, nical and occupation level Romanized". tails about its history. have done more to delve into

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The glass in Museums: Smalands.

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For eighty years, Swedish Glass Museum have collected glass and archival glass factory in Sweden, which led to one of the largest and most complete collections.

A recent survey shows that the collection consists of almost 35,000 objects of 105 Swedish glassworks made between 1580 and 2011.

Glass objects may be more than 400 different designers, designers and linked.

The collection consists of glass outside approximately 1,000 objects from 35 different countries from 400 BC to 2009, and the tools for the production of glass from a total of 33 works of the years 1700-2005.

The extensive archive of Swedish Glass Museum includes thousands of pictures of the glass factory and production that took place in and around the hut.

The file also includes a written clips and full files and hundreds of price

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lists and glassware 63 companies of different processing.

The Swedish Glass Museum is not just a local landmark, also has national and international significance because of its collection, the production of exhibitions around the glass, documentation glassmakers work, life and products, research on glass, glass handling and industrial history and participation in the context of the special skills of the glassmakers center employees.

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Wubben en La Granja.

September 2013

His glass sculptures are usually based on a combination of mixed materials .

His artistic training began at the Free Academy in The Hague.

Wubben received recognition with the master construction

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Geert Gouda Art Prize in 1977 , which she could exhibit regularly at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Wood , metal and glass are put together in buildings , creating a total way .

Fredy Wubben , bent metal , wood and glass pieces create elemental forms that arise in relating the presentation of sculpture to its environment .

Simple forms Wubben sculptures represent complex issues , which are field -wide association possibilities .

The water can be represented by the rain , and rain can portray raindrops.

A drop of water may reflect a This past August we visited the To understand it better , the

complete cosmos .

exhibition of the works of Fre-

Similarly water with this exam-

artist takes hold of a scene

dy E. Wubben at the Tech Mu- from " The Tempest " by Sha-

ple , you can create the sculp-

seum of Glass in La Granja

ture that speaks to the simplici-

kespeare to remind us " we

are of the same stuff that dre- ty of the cosmos or the ceiling of the sky , as in the sculpture " This artist 's sculptures are scat- ams are made of ... " . tered through different parts Through a meticulous techni- Noet above Geb " . ( Segovia ) .

of the world but is in L'Alfas del que but amazing results , Fre-

The polarity above and be-

Pi , municipality in the provin-

dy E. Wubben shows small

low , day and night , heaven

ce of Alicante , where he set-

pieces where glass fused with

and earth, is set in a sculpture.

tled for years this Belgian ar-

other materials such as brass ,

tist , attracted by the climate

steel or wood.

We have taken some pictures

and the character of its peo-

The result is spectacular and

on page 43 .

can be seen at the Museum

The exhibition is open to the

ple .

His personality is reflected in

of Glass Technology in La

each of his works as you can

Granja , until 22 September.

see in this collection entitled " Eternal Procreation " .

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of his work and you can see

public until the 22th of this month.

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 The stained glass of the Cartuja de Miraflores (Burgos) (II).

Del Boletín de la SECV.

over time , due to their own

could be carried out partially

destructive or destructive , The physicochemical charac- characteristics and the enviterization and diagnosis of the ronmental conditions to which while in the sample M-9 could state of conservation and grisaille glass , colored enamels with transition metal ions employed in historical stained glass , creates a type of infor-

have been exposed , in order

only determine its absorption

to meet current conservation

spectrum visible because its

status and factors that can in- location must be replenished fluence negatively to preserve them in the future.

mation indispensable and de- Two . EXPERIMENTAL cisive in making decisions re2.1. Samples studied quiring restoration type and

in the original panel.

Grouped in photographs in Fig 1 shows the general appearance presenting the selected samples in which , especially in

the measures to be taken to

For this study were selected

its future preservation .

the outer faces , were clearly

from a total of nine samples

visible signs of corrosion ad-

This article presents the results

representing different coloring vanced. glass : clear, colorless to ye2.2 . Analysis techniques used llow a thin layer of silver on

of a study of this kind, made from a representative sample of glass and grisaille from five

the outside , mass blue , violet The physicochemical characmass colorless with a light -

terization and diagnosis of the

green red layer or bent glass

state of preservation of the

plated on the inner and gre-

samples was performed using

raflores , which were detec-

en mass (Table I).

the following techniques com-

ted signs of very advanced

In two of these samples might

corrosion .

also study their grisaille that

The main objective of this stu-

were located on the inner si-

of the windows on the north side of the church of the Monastery of the Cartuja de Mi-

plementary optical microscopy (OM ) spectroscopy, UV / Vis absorption , X -ray fluores-

cence (XRF ) , scanning elecde and had a dark brown cody was , therefore, in determitron microscopy emission field lor . ning the mechanisms and ( FESEM ) and conventional causes of significant degrada- Samples M- 1 to M-8 fragtion and alteration processes ments corresponded to deshave suffered these materials

ubicados where analysis

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(SEM) and energy dispersive microanalysis X-ray ( EDX ) .

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Recycling. On the Feast of the Cider.

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The recycled art marina rea-

der , with a starting price of

" then go to the tree ,

ches the occasion of the XXII

30,000 euros.

"commented this Gijon .

There were many bystanders

But this statue of recycling and

who came to see what was

getting carried some detrac-

Gijón Cider Festival held from August 27 to September 1 .

Emulsa operators created a tree thirty feet high , composed of more than two thousand bottles of cider, which is located at the beginning of the street Alvaro Gonzalez Claudio .

With it , plus an original monument erected to the party cider , is to educate the public about recycling .

This tree as Spaniard includes lighting, and next to it is placed an information board claiming the need to engage in recycling glass.

taking shape this original idea. tors . "It seems silly, not how "At last they make a nice statue in Oviedo, yet I have not seen done, but I think a very striking and original ," commented Aurelio Fernandez.

Marina Suarez, for his part, felt that a lot of people will like to take a picture by the tree.

think there are more interesting things you spend money ," confessed Peter Gutierrez.

Rosario Fernandez was another Gijón are not much sense to the initiative : " If what you want is that people recycle

was, or what it was, but if you

ners in a tree with recycled

have a particular goal such

bottles ."

as recycling and on top is nice and will decorate our villa ,

To create this structure orna-

tic of our land , I think it's a

mental the Municipal Urban

great decision.

sa ) tendered a public ten-

put all this infrastructure , but I

" I think it can be very original , more , let them spend their the truth was not sure what it money and get more contai-

with a product so characteris-

Environmental Services ( Emul-

much money will be spent to

I am convinced that all tou-

Despite the many comments that this glass tree has already taken , will have to wait to see if he can take the role of the great success of " letronas ".

For now , it will be the first par-

rists in the photo are " letronas ty pumar cider. Although recycling.

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Elegance in glass.

September 2013

Each piece, from more than 60 cm high and 4 kilos in weight, has a full rotational motion form, and in this special edition of the Tour also has a layer of opal glass, creating a decorative geometric pattern that can not be removing your eyes and it is the main innovation in the de-

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sign of the trophy given the four winners of the yellow jersey (the first classified), white (the best young), green (regular) and red dots (mountain).

The production method is demanding and alternates the traditional technique of blowing cutting precision.

Not being able to correct the slightest mistake, the process should be carried out with care and skill.

Lasvit founder, Leon Jakimic, explains the pride of being part of the centenary of the famous race noting that "the same way that cyclists in Nový Bor compaLaunched as the Tour of Spain, a the direction of chief designer of ny tries to overcome the limits that exist and do work of the higglass lovers, design and cycling Škoda Auto, Jozef Kaban. can not get out of your head the spectacular design by Czech company Lasvit for Centennial Tour winner Chris Froome

Made of glass, are produced in one piece and through the blo-

The designer Peter Olah added

wing technique at hand.

"Working on the design of the

and received by last July in the

The designer was inspired to the

Champs Elysees.

sinuous silhouette in the dyna-

It is the third time that Peter Olah makes this elegant trophy, under

hest quality possible. "

mics and atmosphere of the most prestigious cycling races.

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trophy for this fantastic amazing race is a challenge. This year I wanted to pay homage to the masters of Bohemian crystal, since last year was a great success.

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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 2013.

 Cultural Tours.

In this September we will visit the town of New Madrid Batzan.

In 1718, King Philip V ordered Juan de Goyeneche that you installed in this municipality a glass factory fine to alleviate the excessive cost involved for the royal coffers importing products from other countries.

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The factory did not last long. In 1728 he had to close by the difficulties involved in the collection of fuel for their furnaces.

Sit Buenaventura, master of the factory, installed a new one in La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia), which is the current

home of the National Glass Centre.

In addition to the glass factory, Goyeneche John settled in the village other textile mills, hats and furs.

The New Interpretation Centre Batzan aims to publicize the importance of the industrial project of Juan de Goyeneche which would result in the creation of this municipality and present use that in the future will have the palace complex Ethnographic Museum Community Madrid.

 Culture 2013 Programme. and characteristics special technical wealth, preciousness, color and refinement of hidden details that invite close observation of these cabinet boxes, preparatory sketches, small portraits, sculptures and reliefs.

Half of the works have not been exhibited regularly at the Prado in recent years.

Preserved in the stores or deposited in other institutions, have given way to more humbly famous and popular that have shone his light never losing in the permanent collection, though no less interesting or less beautiful.

The uniqueness of the museum is the high quality of its collections, in surprisingly good condition of his works and the variety of it accumulated over the centuries by successive monarchs and acquisitions achieved by those who took over artistic enrichment of the institution since the nineteenth century.

In this September visit the exhibition "The beauty locked. From Fra Angelico to Fortuny "in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The exhibition brings together 281 works from the collections of the Museo del Prado, which have in common their small size

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The exhibits are arranged along seventeen rooms in which priority is given to the chronology, through an intense journey that begins in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century in Italy, France and the Netherlands, and culminates late nineteenth century in Spain.

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Book of Olafur Eliasson.

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Ivorypress presented on September 19 artist 's book Becomes a window A view of Olafur Eliasson .

In a way, the book on each extension is present the full copy , "says Eliasson . " This depth and texture combined with the environment , space and the reader An edition of nine individual pieis reflected in the deep glass surces in which the author propofaces in which, finally , the reases a new experience between der reads the book ." the book and its observer .

Some of the glass plates have a So , until September 28 , Ivoryshaped cut ellipses or circles frapress host - Space as part of the ming the face of the reader as it next edition of the OPEN event passes the sheets. in Madrid- exposure , which shows several volumes of this bo- The pages are made of handok published by Ivorypress . blown glass by artisans German Glashütte Lamberts center , one The glass and light are the main of the few glass factories capaelements of the work. ble of producing high-quality Instead of paper pages, the bosheets of this material. ok is made up of sheets of glass of different colors , qualities and Because they are handmade , degrees of opacity . the edges of the leaves are irregular and each copy has the Each issue - bound in leather imperfections of their output , rests on a stand to be observed which makes them unique. in detail and thus experience the abstract narrative game A Becomes a window view is the that invites the artist. eleventh book artist Ivorypress edited since its founding in " A view Becomes a window is a 1996 . tribute to the book as a space in which we find ourselves. Through Olafur Eliasson joins the artists a page you can see the prewith whom Elena Ochoa Foster , vious page and the next , so you founder and CEO of Ivorypress , never get to read only a single has previously worked as Eduarpage . do Chillida , Richard Long, Anthony Caro , Anish Kapoor, Fran-

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cis Bacon, Isamu Noguchi , Cai Guo- Qiang , Richard Tuttle , Ai Weiwei and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina .

Several examples of these artists' books in collections of institutions like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid , the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , the Museum of Modern Art in New York , the Serralves Foundation in Porto and in private collections.

Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967 ) studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen from 1989 to 1995 .

He represented Denmark at the 2003 Venice Biennale and has exhibited his work in numerous international museums.

His work is included in public and private collections such as the Solomon R. Museum Guggenheim New York , The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA ) in Los Angeles or the Tate Modern in London, where he exhibited one of his most important works The weather project .

Eliasson currently lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen .

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Seniors at MAVA.

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A larger group of geriatric

have projected , have disco-

keeping the materials it was

center Coslada Amma , Am-

vered a new world for them .

built in its origins.

The greatest have come to

The Museum , after years of

know all this history and have

restoration, was opened in the

also had the opportunity to

90s , in order to rescue , pre-

ma managed by the Group and agreed with the Community of Madrid , made a trip to the Castle Grande de San José de Valdez, in Madrid, to visit the Glass Museum which is located there .

The older , accompanied by a guide , have done a chronological journey through the different stages of the history

become teachers for a day at serve and disseminate the hisglass engravers worked as all

tory of glass , and to promote

one piece professional tool

a culture of appreciation to

displaying a great skill in such

the glass and encourage artis-

delicate work .

tic production with this mate-

They also learned how to work

rial.

with glass blowing and how to It is noteworthy that the Mucombine the techniques of

seum was formed from Taka-

glass with other materials to

ko Sano donations (more than

rom the earliest examples of

give contemporary master-

60 works from his private co-

the American continent

pieces of the size of the dis-

llection ) and the generosity

through the traditional Euro-

play.

of several artists , led by Javier

of glass ,

pean glass from the sixteenth to the nineteenth and uses today .

Moreover, during the tour ol-

Gomez.

der also have been enjoying

This visit to the Museum of

the beauty of the castle in

Glass is part of the set of acti-

The participants have been

which is located the Museum , vities abroad undertaken by

delighted with this tour be-

a building that was restored in the residence to promote ac-

cause , thanks to the tour and 1989 respecting the architec-

tive aging residents and their

the video explaining that they tural patterns of the time and

relationship with their closest environment .

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Other trends. Caracena.

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If you look good some stones from the walls of the gallery will be presenting strange and deep grooves , the explanation ( of Santiago , of course) is that as in the arcaded galleries celebrating the council ( meeting villagers ) some men took advantage of the time to sharpen their knives on the stones of the walls.

Inside the church there are some other treasures , like a precious polychrome Romanesque carving of the Virgin and Child, a magnificent Gothic Christ and an oil painting of Palomino.

In Soria 's many villages , small towns and villages, virtually unknown today , which once were important centers of life in the Castilla mesetaria . Caracena is the case , that in the early twelfth century became the administrative center of a vast territory with a score of villages dependent . Discover this villa forgotten traveler turns out to be a plan rather than stimulating.

The River Road To reach Caracena can be accessed either by the N - II through Atienza Tarancueña reaching either the NI , Ayllon and San Felices . In the first case , only accessible to people on foot, crossing the river gorge Adante (or Caracena ) .

If you have time , is the most interesting because it browses the entire canyon , enjoying , as the chronicler of the area Inocente García de Andrés , " an exceptional ride for the ages of the earth and the ages of man " .

Throughout the nearly two-hour walk may see vultures , eagles and abantos flying over the huge cliffs of the ravine. Towards the middle of the canyon appear Tolmos imposing the two huge blocks of limestone, beneath which is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age .

Crossing a gorgeous and evocative medieval bridge finally accede to the town of Caracena . If you do not have much time , you can also reach the village by road from San Felices and visit the most beautiful part of the canyon to reach the Tolmos .

A roll , two churches

Although the most obvious remnants of this imposing quadrangular castle dating from the late Gothic and early Renaissance ( 1491 ) , there is evidence of an ancient walled Romanesque twelfth or thirteenth centuries .

Enter Caracena is how deep into the Middle Ages. The village is perched on a rocky promontory defended by two steep ravines .

The impressive castle seen from any angle, but especially if it is viewed from the opposite side of the ravine to the west limiting .

It has an important roll sixteenth century , which attests to the importance that once had the villa. The rolls were stone columns that were placed in the streets of major towns of the time and served as a pillory and to inflict public punishment on criminals .

Though little known , Caracena also retains a magnificent forest of oaks and oak , with some specimens of several centuries old and colossal scale which is a natural monument.

Caracena also has two churches. The Santa Maria , with tower defense , a nice window in the apse with archivolts and capitals finely crafted and striking stone openwork lattice in its western facade .

The attractions of Caracena are many, but , without a doubt , one of the reasons to visit this forgotten town is meet Santiago Pacheco.

The other real gem Romanesque church is San Pedro , which , according to Luis Maria de Lojendio , has what is possibly the most complete portico del Duero region .

This gallery has seven arches with double shafts , except for From that point , the canyon two of the door, which are quawalls seem to choke the river, while the walker is forced to ford druple and twisted . the stream on more than one If one is guided by Santiago Paoccasion. checo , will see , among other After passing two or three turns, the gorge widens to a fresh poplar and adorned by a ruinous old shrine .

Caracena , plus remains of the wall , has an impressive castle hung on two cliffs.

things , curious details that would otherwise go unnoticed .

A striking example is the legs "moving" a horse that appears in Across the river, 150 meters abo- one of the capitals and rarity is ve us and confused with rocks , a striking contrast to the traditiowe'll poke the Romanesque ap- nal Romanesque figures statism . se of the church of Santa Maria.

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Castilian tough

Santiago is everything in Caracena : the pastor , the bartender , the chronicler verbal place , a defender of communal rights of the villa , a Castilian stout , short, physical firmness , easy and personal determination verb .

No one better than him to recount in detail all about Caracena . He has the keys of the churches and the best explanations of the mysteries and secrets of the site.

He is the one who can best guide the visitor to discover the boat up oak forest and castle. From the food can also be ordered Santiago and his wife in the tiny and charming dining room of his small bar.

Potato with mushrooms or the ingredient of the day, lamb chops , fried eggs , salad from the garden ... One taste.

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The glass in Costa Rica.

September 2013

human figures in small pieces .

No glass ceiling

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The market is large in the country , although in Costa Rica scarce opportunities to purchase raw materials and tools required to blow .

Marco Ramos , known in the trade as Silly Cat , specializes in making jewelry , pipes and glass marbles .

The latter product has its market niche on Facebook , where you will find pages of collectors around the world willing to pay large sums of money for small and resistant glass spheres .

"Whoever said the phrase ' is as easy as sitting down to blow bottles ' never sat to make ," says Alessandro Tassara , one of the few Costa Rican artists dedicated to this art that revolves around the heat and sharps materials .

Maybe it's a skill that everyone can learn , but to master it is not a simple task .

The flame burns strong as the artist turns transparent glass tube changes shape with the complicity of the heat and blowing . The claims against oxy-propane torch and not rotating it, while watching through glasses semifuturistas .

The simple rod becomes a drink in just over 20 minutes. The mutation includes colorful lines ornaments cast in the cup , a while later, along the stem , will be glued to the base because everything that happens to more than 1,800 ° C. In English, this field is known as flameworking or lampworking , while in Spanish , adopted the name " glass blowing " , which is one of the most important parts of the process.

The blowing action is minimal but indispensable. Each puff must be accurate , timely and perfect . The art of this, indeed , is to know how to blow .

The first local blowers say the practice came to these shores between 1999 and 2000. A pair of Japanese artists " landed " in ancient Fercori and shared the first tips on this ancient art .

Zoltan Duran, 36, whose brand is known as Mushroom & Zoltan , was one of those who fell in love at first sight of the wonders that were made with the help of the torch.

"The field of work is very broad . In my case , I always look to figures in my works to achieve threedimensionality with frosted iridescent colors and lines , "says the artist tibaseño .

" In this, you become your own boss , publisher and seller ," says Marco, who left her three years ago working in a call center to become Tassara apprentice , who was selftaught and now works under the name High Art .

Ramos says find inspiration in the forms present in nature and in the imagination of his nephews , who have asked him to do from cats to galaxies in a small marble. "It's a very free art in which one can set the rules for the final design ," he says .

Meanwhile Alessandro , 32 , said : " The glass has many purposes. Each object can be a trip or an atmosphere of light and color. Glass continues to amaze me every day more.

Alessandro think like and says: "The " style of your work comes from your They use borosilicate , which begins mood , your concentration or your to be malleable to 1,800 ° C or environment . One has to be creati3,330 ° F. This material allows you to ve to make your art have a purpose work in sections , so that some parts and express something other than are kept hot and cold ones . Requi- single points, lines and curls " . res baking the piece, but you can However, so much creative freealso rest and resume dejársele dom and artistic beauty are not witdays , months or years later, somethout risks. The three artists consulted hing that does not allow soda lime agree that anyone seeking to beglass used by other blowers . come a teacher in the lampwork The process starts with a rod or a should get used to suffer daily cuts filled hollow tube. At home, you and burns . The fire and the glass can purchase this raw material in can be his best friends but , with just laboratories, but with a limited sup- an oversight, could become quite ply of diameters. The thin colored a scourge. rods themselves are imported oxiTherefore, the shop each of these dant toned colors crayons. artisans should be ventilated with Already facing the torch , the color the gases and vapors properly insupalette may be changing to the lated . Must wear special glasses to pleasure of the artist and the atprevent eye problems as a result of mosphere depending on the flame being constantly exposed to ultrachemistry employed. This is pure violet rays. metal oxides such as gold (allows In what appear to be good times pink , orange) , silver ( giving blue , for glass, Zoltan intends to continue white, yellow ) , and cobalt , receiving pupils , plan your micro among others. start making products from recyStill simmering, decorated technicled glass and wants to expand its ques (also called implosion ) allow production facilities plus size . him unique beauty to each piece. Marco Ramos says he is dedicated With transparent , colors can form to perfecting your technique for spirals, wig- wag (like curls ) , batuto marbles and Alessandro argues ( cold cut ) , reticello ( opposing spi- that "we must continue to share the rals ) , filiacellos ( reticello but as a flame " for art to grow in Costa Rifiller ) or freeform able to draw ani- ca . mals , mandalas , flowers and even

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Bormioli Layoffs. won a lawsuit for harassment.

Another has been forced to go to work, under threat , only be operated from the Gallbladder removed his points when he spent several days working " .

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" So far this year , just a month and a half, there have already been seven accidents involving a department - the packaging , which they call " chosen " - which employs around fifty people and which should not occur in a single claim or labor . It requires each person to work at 120 per cent and layoffs happen ' for poor performance ' , that bosses used to punish anyone and to intimidate others. "

The template tableware manufacturer Bormioli Azuqueca de Henares (Guadalajara ) has started last July 30, to mobilize against the claim of the Italian multinational to dismiss before the end of the year to 120 of its workers and the factory closed in 2015.

Thursday in August, between 13.00 and 15.30.

In its notice of strike , the Committee denounced " the breach In September, begin two-hour of the collective agreement restoppages shift two days a wepetitive in Articles 13 and 49 theek , that will be four days a wereof , the general social plight ek in October and to five days a factory, unworthy abuse they reweek in November. ceive many workers and lack of As of December 9 , and, in prin- respect for different Department Responsible to his subordinates , ciple , until January 31, 2014 , a As reported by the chairman of the way in which management is the committee, Eduardo Boga , strike has been called permacutting jobs , the repeated refunent , 24 hours a day, seven in a statement , the company sal of the Department of Bormioli began last July 25 the processing days a week . to meet with representatives of of Redundancy Employment Bormioli Italian multinational the workers failing to meet even ( ERE ) of extinction of jobs for the company dedicated to the ma- the agreement ratified by the first 120 layoffs. nufacture of glass tableware , Company in the Act Mediation has about 330 workers in Azuin principle served to call off a The closure would be gradual , queca , of which approximately strike planned for the month of first with the dismissal of 120 wor60 percent are included in rotaJune , which is JAL-P/HU-GUkers this year and the closing of tion to a record of temporary 26/11 file reference , and repetitiFurnace 2 , Transparent Glass , employment regulation , Erte , ve failure , the carelessness and and closing the oven 1 Glass ending on 31 December. neglect to comply with the WorWhite and the dismissal of the kers' agreements are causing serest of the squad before the end In February of last year 2012 , rious problems for a significant of 2015 . the works council and complainumber of these. " ned : "In the eight hours of each The council has called today shift , or not allowed to go to the Unfortunate situation that seems from concentrations of the facservice, except for the minutes to lead to the closure of the factory doors every Tuesday and of the sandwich . A worker just tory.

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Glass art.

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ta of Vetrai , a street that accumulates windows with classic designs gondolas , cups and vases of glass melted.

This initiative follows a consolidated and artisans who contact with artists and architects such as Carlo Scarpa , who served as ar-

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tistic director for the brand Venini , designing new versions more sophisticated elements of the craft of glass .

Many vessels , vases and small sculptures of this material make up the collection of the Stanza del Vetro : This is a craft museum , which has also opened new rooms on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore , which you can access a substantial part of the five million visitors who come each year regularly Murano .

Many of these experimental artisPeggy Guggenheim was one of

them in their blast furnaces , ot-

the great collectors of establis-

her small Venetians have also

hed twentieth century art in Ve-

begun to make works of art ex-

nice , who said that the Glass is

ploring the possibilities of glass

too important to leave in the

material .

hands of craftsmen .

Like sculptors working with foun-

Following that advice some

dries to generate sculptures, the

workshops on the island of Mura- use of glass as a base material is no have transformed their business to produce unique glass sculptures by contemporary artists recognized as Jaume Plensa , Tracey Amin and Joseph Kosuth .

White Heat" , which takes its title

presented their proposals glass

tain amount of technological

there .

This year, the British artist Tracey Emin has prepared for this meeting a remembrance of her cat

As an example , two heads glass Docket dimensional recently disappeared. generated in the workshop Berengo German artist Thomas Schütte have recently sold for

Faced with competition down-

more than € 200,000 to a collec-

ward Chinese glassmakers , Mu-

tor of contemporary art.

therefore added value.

pieces entitled "White Light /

creative and incorporate cer-

figurines sold in town channels .

ducing high quality parts and

The exhibition of stunning glass

60 artists from many countries

netian glass face of strong com-

rano workshops have been pro-

zo Cavalli Franchetti .

production of unique , highly

much higher than the traditional

cantly lower .

rrently taking place in the Palaz-

end of next October . More than

traditional craftsmanship of Ve-

and sell them at prices signifi-

now in its third edition and is cu-

A smart strategy that leads to

research. And thus margins

who have copied their designs

the sample Glasstress which is

from the album of famous New also an interesting possibility that York rock group The Velvet Unhas begun well to explore. derground - will be open until the

This idea is an evolution of the

petition from Asian producers

tic products occur each year in

It also presents the work of Jaume Plensa , entitled " Frozen Dream Cristina " , a huge translucent and elongated head is sold for €

In Venice , Murano is an island

100,000 , with other pieces of the

traditionally visited by all those

same material .

who want to admire the craft of

Or as the winged dowsing entiLed by Adriano Berengo - a busi- glassblowing . For more than 700 tled " Il dowser " to the Italian nessman who spent several yeyears , numerous workshops that painter Mimo Palladino been ars designing models commissio- handle casting silica material ning visual artists to perform

has swirled over the Fondamen-

placed in a prominent location in the spectacular setting of the palace.

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New products from Saint-Gobain .

September 2013

with the performance of a laminated safety glass , SGG STADIP PLANILAQUE opens the door to a host of new applications for glass coating .

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Presented at the hall bathroom and downstairs , SGG STADIP PLANILAQUE offers elegance to the space through the duality of staged deep colors symmetrically in both bathrooms .

From Ultra - white side and the other Ultra - black to highlight their contrast , the public will be seduced by the quality and aesthetics of the new SGG STADIP PLANILAQUE .

On the other hand with the new SGG PIXARENA , Saint Gobain Glass has made the Saint - Gobain Glass has used in the former British Embassy in challenge of modernizing the world of printed glass develoHOME DECOR Madrid , one of Madrid. ping a modern , elegant and Europe's most prestigious exThe modern building , circular extremely shiny entirely approhibitions to present the decoin this edition has hosted more priate with the latest trends . rators and the general public than 80 interior designers, arhis two latest innovations in chitects , landscapers and ar- It presents the unique design of the market for interior glass . tists with innovative projects . SGG PIXARENA , offering privacy with light playing in one of - SGG PLANILAQUE STADIP , A 3,500 sqm surface around the most shocking of the exthe new bi - laminate lacque52 spaces converted into hibition space and shower red glass that combines the confluence creativity , profes- TOUR handled with automaaesthetic side of a glass coasionalism and design. tion . ting and performance of a laminated safety glass For the launch of two new Finally , because the mirrors in products in its range of interior an exhibition of decoration are - SGG PIXARENA , printed glass , Saint - Gobain Glass essential , SGG MIRALITE resubglass that has a unique, mohas decided to invest in the mitted REVOLUTION , the new dern design according to cutalent of the most prestigious generation mirror combines rrent trends in interior decoradecorators Spain , leaving ecological patterns , quality tion. them to play with the material and durability ensuring the As in previous years for more and highlight its aesthetic quality of the air. than 15 years , Saint - Gobain qualities .

The only mirror manufactured Glass leverages one of the PLANILAQUE SGG STADIP , the in Spain , totally ecological , lemost prestigious European exnew bi - lacquered laminated ad-free and copper. REVOLUhibition to present their proglass face, latest innovation TION MIRALITE SGG spaces exducts . from Saint - Gobain Glass. In- pands offering optimum brightThis year , CASA DECOR took novative product that allows ness . place from May 17 to June 23 you to associate aesthetics and gloss lacquered glass

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Glass Road, the art of glass.

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Glass Road is the new game from Uwe Rosenberg author to be published in Germany

by Feuerland Spiele.

Z-Man Games has announced to publish an English version shortly after its presentation at the fair in Essen in October.

Should cut trees, to keep the These skills allow us to obtain furnaces burning, and find the resources, place chips of land supplies they need. or construct buildings.

The specialists have fifteen players to achieve their goals.

Each player has fifteen specialists with two skills.

The game consists of four periods of construction.

Specialists management is critical.

The Glass Key Road is the flexibility to play specialists and find the best combination of structures.

Designed by Uwe Rosenberg, creator including Agricola, Glass Road commemorates Ora & Labora or Babel, will go the 700th anniversary of the on sale after its presentation at traditional glassmaking in the the fair in Essen 2013 in three If two or more players put into Bavarian Forest. languages, each version distriplay the same specialist may buted by a different compaPlayers must direct the proonly use one of your abilities. ny; Feuerland Spiele in Gerduction of bricks and glass to If the specialist is the one plaman, Z -Man Games in English build the correct buildings to yed on the table, you can use and French Édition Philosophy. help them maintain their busi- both. ness.

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How does.

This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by William Gudenrath.

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Verallia invest 30 million euros .

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Verallia Company , a subsidiary of Saint - Gobain group leader in the production of glass containers for food and beverages, has prepared a plan to modernize and flexibility of its plant in Alcalá de Guadaira ( Sevilla ) to optimally serve wine markets , oils , spirits and food in Andalucia and Southern Spain with an investment of 30 million euros.

In addition , improvements have been prepared environmental impact by utilizing renewable energy for the production of fuel with the goal of making this plant a benchmark in the field of sustainability.

According to the company , a significant number of customers , the Andalusian Government , local authorities and factory workers have expressed their support for the project .

This investment has ensured Also, another part of the inno- the viability of the plant in the vative project has focussed long term , said industrial jobs on increasing the flexibility of and a presence in Andalusia the plant, ie , improve the abi- glass company adapted to loIn a note, Verallia explained lity to manufacture a larger cal needs , a key element of that the company has plans number of products simultaits industrial , Verallia has deto improve energy efficiency neously , produce increasingly tailed . and reduce the environmensmall series , perform develop- Finally , investment of 30 million tal impact of the plant by mo- ment of innovative new moeuros has marked the group's re than 20 percent in the sadels very short period of time trust Verallia , world player of me capacity. and provide a greater diversi- the glass container , on the Thus, the conversion will focus ty of shapes and colors to me- development of its customers on a new larger and more ef- et the demands raised both in southern Spain , which can traditional Spanish market as ficient furnace that will increabe supported in "one of the the demanding export marse the use of cullet (recycled most modern factories and ket , reports . glass households) for the maflexible Europe " . nufacture of new containers .

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Life experiences.

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In his work, Doreen Garner consistently returns to the theme of the body . The sample foreign bodies , not the exception, in an interview said that his art comes from personal experience and life .

The Gallery hosts Gorilla is the work in glass works , both prints and drawings.

The artist said he is interested in addressing issues of identity , race , women, " I try to convey all that experience ."

Doreen Garner for his work is very personal and reflects a line of life experiences .

The creative glass liked because it is a universal material , has many facets and can be used in sculpture or painting over it , "can be applied in various disciplines , working on it one always learns something. It is complicated but it is rich in elements " .

ted States are few artists who use it in art.

the skin, so that it looks down meat ," he explained .

" There are universities in the United States that have programs like what raises Gorilla Gallery , where they invite artists who have no experience in glass to explore the material and can apply in their art ," he explained .

The exhibition is a part that has to do with the human body but focused on tumors and diseases, is a glass piece with tips that represent the body's self-defense anti-tumor .

This is the first time that Doreen Garner leaves his country .

Currently studying at the Rhode Island School of Design , which is one of the most famous schools of conceptual art.

During the nine days he was working on the Gorilla Glass Workshop created a series of works which addresses traditional scarification practiced in Africa.

What the artist did was fuse two layers of glass , and then removing the top layer and the bottom give the impression that it is the skin , but is actually red glass .

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The prints are self-portraits . The artist in the process discovered what the recorded ghost that comes after the first picture, " to me it represented shadows or memories but also the ability to disappear."

Attendees will also admire drawings on paper and one that drew on a glass , these came from that was in a museum which is an old medical school, where he had human bodies and deformed fetuses . " I made a home for two weeks , hence make drawings of all these medical specimens , of corpses and what I show here is a continuation of this work."

One pattern corresponds to the intestines of a bird , and other human organs that changed colors only .

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Glass Ranamok Award 2013.

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The Adelaide -based artist Tom Moore has been awarded the 2013 Glass Ranamok its whimsical glass sculpture nature "Massive Microscopic Bud. " Awarded annually , the award of $ 15,000 Ranamok glass , which recognizes the creativity , skill and innovation in contemporary glass in Australia and New Zealand.

Part of plant and part animal , the capricious monster mutant is encapsulated by a transparent glass shaped like a human head , on top of which is another strange creature that at first glance appears to be part of squid and some zucchini.

words , " everything is alive and is very curious ."

Tom Moore has won several awards for his glass sculptures , including Tom Malone Prize 2013 .

It was the subject of a 2009 documentary produced by ABC and has work in several The award was judged by a important collections, inclujury of Anne Flanagan , depuding the National Gallery of ty director of the Art Gallery of Australia and the Museum of New South Wales, Gill Minervi"Massive Microscopic Bud" is American Glass . ni , creative director of events the larger-than- Moore has for the City of Sydney , Brian Moore is represented by Helen done and is a testament to his Parkes , director / president of Melbourne and Sydney Galeskill and creative vision. the Jam Factory in Adelaide , rie Gorie the Ray Hughes Gaand the Brisbane-based cura- llery.

Constructed of solid and tor Frank McBride . blown glass , creating the Glass Ranamok Prize is an anMoore complex combines a nual award for glass artists purAccording to the judges , the series of issues that have tachasing who are resident in artistic brilliance of Moore ken their creative practice Australia and New Zealand. confidently lets you express from the beginning. your unique and peculiar arThe Award was founded in " I like to invent new creatures tistic vision.

1994 by Andy Plummer and combining plants, animals Maureen Cahill as a way to This new piece , impressive in and machines, imagining that promote glass as an art form scale , captured the imaginaeverything is alive and is very to the public. tion of the judges through curious ," says Moore . their layers of witty stories and It is expected that the work references to museums and At the center of "Massive Mipresented for Ranamok Glass collecting. croscopic Bud" is a feature Award is a major effort in the Moore hybrid creatures abopersonal body of the artist's It offers an insight into the arve a glass car . work . tist's mind in which, in his

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Expressing a medical (I). at Kew Gardens showed a video of how the artist did his work .

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Back to School

And there was born a love at first sight " . He was looking for something to express and this fit the bill: "It is with hands , I like working with your hands. It works with fire.

I have no fear . I'm not afraid of new materials . ' Why not ? ' I thought ... Then I fell in love with it, " he says.

Its aim was to approach what he had seen in London , but no one in Chile taught the technique of glass blowing .

It's about creating objects fusing glass tubes with a torch to oxygen.

Once melted glass, the artist gives you the way you want , aided by air and by the force of gravity and the ability of your hands that manipulate special tools.

Dr. Saitua wanted to learn the technique and began his search . Wrote , sent emails to artists and artisans in glass. The first thing to know the course material was Vitro Fusion . " I got bored Because for him , as he says, "it is quickly. I knew it was a phase. essential to express myself One step for glass. And had the However, an artist hiding for ye- through creation." limitation -also- the drawing. I'm ars is expressed through their London and Dale Chihuly not good at drawing . If you ask glass .

London, early 2006 : Dr. Francis- me to draw a duck, do not Dr. Francisco Saitua moves com- co Saitua stroll through Kew Gar- know . Obviously it was not my fortably in the corridors of Gerthing. It relies heavily on the bedens and meets the stunning man Clinic , as head of the PeDale Chihuly American exposu- auty of what the artist draws , diatric Surgery Unit . that's what usually is reflected in re .

Also at the Luis Calvo Mackenna In the Botanical Gardens are dis- the glass. What follows is an ornament , an ashtray , a necklaHospital , where he is head of played in glass the magnificent ce, a picture. There wonders. I the General Surgery Unit . works of the contemporary arknow that's a limitation of mine A few years ago she decided to tist . and I could not do , "he says . learn and develop artistic and His sculptures of trees, plants He made another course to lecreative work with their hands. and figures , as well as its faciliarn how to make glass beads to I needed to express and becaties are deployed on roads and create necklaces and bracelets. me glass artist . Artist amateur, ponds .

There he learned to melt glass. as defined .

The physician now recalls: " TheHe laughs recalling that period : " Before starting the glass flamere was, for example, three natuThe students were all women . I work or torch - as known this ral trees and a tree beside glass ; was the 'tata ' the course until branch of sculpture - , Dr. Saitua saw pink roses and glass side . A the teacher was younger . This always liked to do things with my beautiful lagoon was filled with gentleman came to study medifloating glass spheres , fifty centihands and so built furniture. cal glass, looked at me like sameters to one meter in diameFor some fifteen years made ying 'who is this gentleman ' . ter, and had boats with colored wooden furniture. He reached I made friends with the sisters an advanced level , but the oc- spheres . There were thousands of objects integrated to nature , and teachers , and well, I was currence of accidents in this which is characteristic of this ar- taught that technique. But it was area led him to ponder: could also clear that mine was not the tist. " not risk his working instrument , jewelry. Dale Chihuly : that was He thought that the work of Dahis hands . my goal . The goal was to use le Chihuly was wonderful .

"They An error in the handling of some that technique . " were floating and transparent of the tools would have meant real sculptures . In this exhibition at least lose a finger .

The name of Dr. Francisco Saitua relates to the successful chief surgeon of the interventions that have drawn attention in Chile in recent years : the operation succeeded in separating and wean the twins Maite and Montserrat.

Tendinitis , which was unable to operate for almost two months , convinced him that it was best to leave furniture and find another form of artistic expression .

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Scientific Glass Blowers.

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High temperature flames are necessary for the raw material becomes crystalline in order to work with ease, it would not be possible if the glass is liquid or viscous .

For the cast , blow molding and pipe cutting (from three millimeters to 140 millimeters ) , the experts have a special lathe , where they make big pieces , or do it manually once the glass has softened with the torch , especially if it comes to repairs .

The scientific glass blowing is an art that has endured for nearly a century in Mexico . Beyond require complicated tools to mold , it is necessary that the experts have manual dexterity , good lungs and visual acuity. This specialty is responsible for manufacturing and repair equipment and glassware often used in teaching laboratories and research .

Becoming a blower requires not only years of experience but also contact with various fields of science. You should at least spend a decade in that environment for someone to be considered masters .

Although European countries have only educational programs that prepare professionals in the field, in Mexico , particularly in the Faculty of Chemistry (CF ) of this university , it has expert technicians , trained in the daily work in the workshop Glass Blowing .

There are elaborate pieces of quality comparable to those produced by outside companies , even the most prestigious in the world. Flasks are manufactured and repaired , coolants , pipettes , test tubes, burettes , beakers , lines and high vacuum distillation , among other instruments , and equipment often used in laboratory.

Also, those that are manufactured by highly specialized be unavailable in the market, so it is necessary to design prototypes .

The professional work performed by the staff of that space has led him to be a complementary part of the research activities of the CF. Provide service to scholars and students of the same , but also to

other university authorities , the health sector and outside companies .

Decades of experience

In addition to blowing lathe , disc cutting , tempering oven and burners with different nozzles and sizes, operated industrial oxygen gas, the university used selfmade tools useful in their work.

Experts Workshop

To provide the services , there Over 43 years of experience are two technical glassblowing : behind their work , whose raw Marco Antonio Cruz and Victor material is borosilicate 3.3 glass Badillo Diaz Javier Vazquez. Also, tube , which is characterized by collaborate Olivia Torres Moreits high resistance to thermal no , generic technical support shock , that makes it the ideal and Maria del Socorro Mora material for use in the laboratory García , administrative officer . and in large industrial plants, The workshop members reported Zarco said Antonio Resendiz , that this area was founded unhead of the area and one of the best scientists in Mexico blo- der the administration of José Francisco Herran Arellano (1970wers .

1978) , who brought a Swiss speEach year in the basement of cialist , whom everyone knew as the building B of CF the shop Frey , that set in motion this techprocesses on average 900 to nique. thousand applications , ranging With the exception of the manafrom repairing or making a piece, up to 30 or 40 instruments on ger, the other technicians have "done" with practice. " Here I lerequest. Each is treated at a maximum of 20 days , should be arned is transmitted by generation. Since the late 60's specialists complex . have formed through knowledge Regarding instrumental repair , of those who know the craft and most can recover. "Of the total , in accordance with the needs of 95 percent have a solution if it the faculty , "they said . satisfies the characteristics of it," Zarco said Resendiz , with 34 ye- Although manufacturing a part may take a little over 10 minutes, ars of experience in the field , the learning process is over. " Afincluding five in the School - , skill he learned in private industry ter seven years of working on this site , just learn to manipulate the and now shares with fellow glass, but you can take up to a area . decade to consider yourself a Unlike traditional glassblowing glass blower ," stated Marco Ancraft which uses a tube through tonio Badillo . which is blown to shape ornaIt's a complicated technique mental elements , scientific and in Mexico there are few technique requires heating torch at temperatures of 260 de- scientific glassblowers . "You can count on the fingers , it is sad grees Celsius thousand or more that in the country there is no ( as in the case of quartz , reaching two thousand 100 degre- school to train professionals in the area , some glassmakers to es) to shape tubes , glass capitell us to disregard the features of llaries or rods of various diameters , from the United States and our work ," he said .

Europe.

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Pain vitrified.

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The irreparable loss of his daughter , the same day he was born , was the inspiration of Christian Thornton parts to make encounters , looking for you. The new exhibition , mounted in the chalet Arts Center of St. Augustine ( CaSa ), brings together a dozen glass works which witnessed the mastery of one of the founders of Studio Xaquixe .

After months of waiting, only caught a glimpse of the creature as expected, which had already figured face, look and name.

The painful memory of Ina , the daughter of Thornton , materializes in blown glass sculptures and thermoforming , intervened with other material and images on screen . A range of colors that seem ethereal floating in the transparency of glass , where bellies and babies figures evoke

a nostalgic truncated maternity .

The artist relates the loss of a loved one with another pain experienced since arriving in Oaxaca for more than a decade : deforestation .

The destruction of the natural environment is, in itself , the destruction of the world and its inhabitants , including man. The speed and aggressiveness with which the plants are stripped of life unable to defend themselves can relate easily to the fragility of human life , especially that of a newborn.

So in the exhibition can be seen pieces with names like " Pregnant " , concerning the issue of deceased daughter , and "Seeds ", which refers to the trees. In addition , Thornton wood parts used and the development of some . This was obtained in the ecocide that cause

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much discomfort to the creator.

It also highlights the use of clean energy and recycled materials in accordance with a tone of regret for the damage to the environment.

Highlights include pieces like " Ina " , where a vulva is the starting point for heads seem conjugated vertebrate where the formation of a being and death.

The same applies to other works which relate to backbones anatomy or pregnancy. Some bright colors such as " Bark " reflect the joy of life , while some darker remember his imminent end , distant or premature .

In encounters , looking for you, Thornton shares one of the most intimate events of his life. Converted into enigmatic sculptures, the artist invites the public to be part of this experience dunk in art.

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Nuestro Boletín tiene su redacción en: Castillo de San José de Valderas.

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 28925 ALCORCÓN MADRID

Al vidrio por la cultura

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Presidente honorario

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Vocales

Javier Gómez Gómez

Rosa García Montemayor

Presidente

Evangelina del Poyo

Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez

Diego Martín García

Vicepresidente

Francisco Martín García

Pablo Bravo García

José María Gallardo Breña

Secretaria Teresa Fernández Romojaro

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The purpose of this Association is to promote, encourage and support many cultural activities in the broadest terms, are related to the mission and activities of the Glass Art Museum of Alcorcon.

Our goal is to develop and collaborate with other public or private entities to promote, protect and promote the art and culture.

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The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with existing management.

Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos

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Line of research. Images.

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Stained glass in Miraflores. Imágenes.

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Fredy E. Wubben.