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Klaus Moje Spoliation confirmed.
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On March 17 took place the opening of the Senior Center in the Great Castillo de San José de Valderas. This opening was swept Division I of our Museum, a room where works from the permanent collection made with cold-rolled art glass is exposed. The audience at the event, mostly "recruited" by the Association of Residents of San José de Valderas, welcomed the various phases of speech Pérez, our mayor. In that speech, Perez returned to insinuate that the trips we made some representatives of the Board of our Association at different places in our country and abroad to visit artists, workshops and museums related art glass are financed from City Hall. As already reported publicly, Perez is very poorly informed of the operation of our Association. With a budget that reaches 400 € per year, hardly we can subsidize any travel. Moreover, the justification of expenses of our
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budget is perfectly made and none of their games such payments appears. A Pérez, therefore, tell you the wrong way on this issue and also their advisers charge for it with funds that come from our taxes. But the event also had some grotesque, very unfortunate connotations and that clearly demonstrate the antidemocratic mood of the party that supports the government team of our City. These actions include the performance of two bodyguards Pérez who tried to prevent our President would agree to the room where the audience flocked to the event. Given the apparent attitude of these two people, our President was able to overcome this "barrier" and stand, standing at the back of the room. But the two "cupboards" insisted his attitude stepping in front of him to try to prevent vision, so had to sortearles, again and placed next to a chair in the back row. One of these "elements" were all glued to our President act, so that the latter, fearing some kind of aggressive, he asked permission to record with mobile speech Pérez. After the session asked if he was calmer and if he thought he would commit some sort of terrorist
attack during the inauguration. It is truly unfortunate that we do not support personal decision Pérez to turn a room into a space museum for seniors and we have done our disagreement public through various actions, we see "outlaws" and threatened in an act made public in a property of all the people of Alcorcón. To demonstrate that the choice of the Museum for the installation of a leisure for the elderly has not been successful, we must denounce the complaints of several neighbors who have sought to occupy their leisure time reading a book and have not been do so by the continuous passage of school through the spaces of the museum tours and distracting of these readers with their ongoing talks, laughs and the explanation of the guides on the unique work of driving the Museum, Javier Gomez visits, which remains in the living room. Another detail that corroborates this unfortunate choice is the low number of people who come to this room entertainment. As we discussed in previous Newsletters, long and uncomfortable journey to the Museum makes unpalatable going there to spend some time of rest for the elderly. Hopefully soon we can again count on the overall integrity of MAVA.
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Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (XLVI) MAC.
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designed to prevent or restrict acts, in respect of works or BOOK III other subject-matter, which does not have Protection of the rights recognized in the authorization of the holders of the this Act rights of ownership TITLE IV intellectual. Management bodies Technological of the rights measures are recognized in the considered effective Act when use of the work c) Is primarily or other subjectdesigned, produced, matter is controlled by adapted or the rightholders performed for the through application of purpose of enabling an access control or or facilitating the protection process circumvention of such as encryption, protection. scrambling or other transformation of the 3. technological measure means any or work or copy technology, device or control mechanism that achieves the component that, in normal operation, is protection objective.
4. The provisions of the preceding paragraphs does not apply to technological measures used to protect computer programs, which will be subject to its own rules. Article 161 Limits on intellectual property and technological measures 1. Holders of rights protected works or services with effective technological measures must provide recipients of the limits listed below adequate means to enjoy them according to their purpose, provided that such beneficiaries legally have access to the work or service in question.
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The light of the Guzmán
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Roman glass in Museums
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Visit to Mario Sergio
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Julia Ares Exhibition
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Expansion in Corning
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Work of Scott Bisson
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The glass in museums
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Franz Mayer Exhibition
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world. These awards are based on the recommendations and valuable comments TripAdvisor travelers. The winners are in 39 countries around the world, including listings for Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Europe, India, Mexico, Middle East, South America, the South Pacific and the USA. The Travellers' Choice awards attractions were determined based on the quality and quantity of views received by travelers about TripAdvisor today announced the attractions in each the winners of the Travellers' destination. Choice attractions. In its first As for the category of edition, the awards honor Museums, Museum of Glass 1,263 major tourist sites, and Malaga has been parks, museums, amusement awarded nationally in 8th parks and water parks in the place.
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URGENT NEWS tourist interest.
No response from the Department of Culture.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Javier Pérez Blanco.
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The name of Javier Perez Blanco is located closely linked to the Foundation Centre of Glass of Barcelona for being one of the first teachers and therefore exceptional witness to the beginnings of the only training center for artistic glass in Spain, outside School of the National Glass Centre Foundation of La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia.
Taking advantage of his stay in this country also performs several courses: a workshop neon Espace Verre in Montreal and the workshop on design practice and art glass, by Bertil Vallien at Harbourfront, Toronto.
"Blancanives" belongs to the group of facilities that made this conceptual exposure.
The Glass Art Museum of His period as a teacher in Alcorcon invited him to the Centre of Glass perform a solo exhibition: began in 1989 and Interpretation, interpretive continues giving -glass action in 1999, where the various disciplines in artist from various architecture, sculpture, facilities, reflected on the glass, etc. until 1998 with improvement of the art the only interruption of object. the academic year In the sample emphasis 1991/92 attending was placed on the own scholarship from this artistic experience and institution, Sheridan how objects were valid or College of Visual Arts, not according to that Crafts and Design in achieved result that Ontario, Canada. experience in the public.
Artist, designer and creative, Javier Perez Blanco in 1999 opened his own studio, "blanco_studio showroom" in Barcelona, and a few years later he founded the firm of furniture design Glassculture.
The book walks the line of questioning of the author regarding the object as its artistic-experience-the contemplation only be achieved with the active In 1995 finished his participation of the viewer degree in Fine Arts at the and in the case of the University of Barcelona, play "Snow White" with a specializing in Sculpture. kiss.
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Currently reconciles his public and private commissions with the realization of exhibitions.
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Established artists. Klaus Moje.
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Klaus Moje born in 1936 in Germany.
In 1976, he returned to Hamburg after a short time living in Danziger He became a glass cutter hired and Strasse. worked in the store of his family until He became a founding member of he received a scholarship to study the Galerie der Kunsthandwerker art glass in Rheinbach and then and from 1978-1982 was a member Hadamar. He made his first entry of the jury of the into the world of art glass sculptures Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Deutschen carved and polished. Kunsthandwerks. He left the carving work when he discovered a stash of colored glass canes that were used to make buttons for garment industry. Around 1975 he began cutting the rods into thin wafers and merge them into a furnace.
Dale Chihuly, is mainly oriented towards the glassblowing. In 1982 he moved to Australia as head of the glass program at the School of Art, Canberra. The complexity and vibrancy of the work of Wet demonstrates the effect of its close collaboration with Bulseye.
Meanwhile, Moje continued working Moje has continued to expand its with glass rods. The process was aesthetic and conceptual plagued with failures caused by the boundaries. material. Retired from teaching, Moje devotes In 1979, Moje was invited to all his time to the practice of study. Pilchuck School in Stanwood, It has maintained its close Washington. The school, started by relationship with Bulseye.
Emerging artists. Irina Krumova. create compositions that agree with themes. Different elements are structured, through which I try to express the strength, rhythm, harmony, fever of energy, etc. In my opinion the two sculptures have something in common is a constant movement ... "
Krimova Irina was born in Bulgaria in 1986. "The experience that I have, my creative and philosophical concept reflected in the secret of life and movement are the basis of my idea to visualize in the glass composition such interesting and complicated
issues in three dimensions, of course, could be interpreted differently. These are the topics that interest me. In two of my works I used the mixed media. In these sculptures I strive to
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Exhibition Javier Gómez.
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His main inspiration has always been the nature. Need of the peaceful surroundings of his hometown, Pedro Bernardo (Ávila), where he has his studio, to get down to The exhibition will run until July work. 12. His sculpture is in constant The exhibition includes an dialogue with the orographic outstanding selection of artistic beauty of Valle del Tiétar, production Gómez over the landscape and birds of their past 30 years. environment. In this time he has continued It can be defined in to experiment with flat glass, abstraction, albeit with certain using simple superposed organic resonances that sheets, cut, polished and appear to belong to a distant glued. universe created by him. Includes sometimes Javier Gomez has always expressive elements, such as been a man committed to the cracked, etching or promotion of contemporary art sandblasting to small trapped based on this material. air bubbles, plus cold cuts, to His most ambitious project get eroded and degraded areas where light is condensed was the creation in 1997 of the Glass Art Museum of Alcorcon, intentionally causing MAVA, thanks to the legacy of unexpected artistic effects. Japanese collector Takako Self-taught training, Javier Sano and support the local Gómez began its journey in council. the world of glass in 1971, when he began working at the Artistic evolution of his work family workshop, leaving First phase: 1986-1999. shortly after to focus exclusively on artistic creation. Javier Gomez gets in his works the different phases of The Tech Museum of Glass hosts a retrospective of Javier Gomez, one of the leading exponents of contemporary glass sculpture in Spain.
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movement by superimposing sequential shots that unfold in space, driven by centrifugal force projected to the outside lines. Within this concept uses kinetic juxtaposition of layers of glass, industrial and relatively colorless, repetitively stacked and enclosed within a preset order of a modular system composed of different geometrical shapes gestadoras motion. Second phase: 1999 - Present. Since 1999 the work of Javier Gómez away from the dynamic appearance of the first phase to seek new forms of expression, getting closer to a carving block of robust appearance where the glass sheets, now glass "float" of course extra, are collected and the color is incorporated in his works, based on black, red, pink, blue, etc. Works perfectly polished finish and chromatic translucent colored by the light, translucent appearance at edges and more intense in central areas.
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Suppression of baccalaureate arts.
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The 180 students currently enrolled in the Bachelor of plastic arts in the School of Arts and Crafts La Palma, in Madrid, are up in arms following the decision taken by the Ministry of Education to suppress their seats for next year.
Francisco, School of Art and College of Art March 10.
Due to the shortage of places, parents and teachers at the school said many students must find alternatives to this type of baccalaureate or make artistic training cycles, which are inaccessible economically: The measure, which was taken "I have already been looking without consulting those and some centers private affected, provides for the demand more than 300 euros abolition of Bachelor of Arts in per month. It is prohibitive, the center "to enhance FP" "says the mother of a student and following the dictates of of La Palma. the LOMCE, so that students Students and teachers at the of ESO who want to continue school are already preparing a with his artistic studies should series of protest actions. find another school. In the first of which will be "La Palma was the first center enclosed in the center and in the country to impart a hold a meeting. bachelor of arts education. The closure is an impediment to all The Madrid says the school will move to another nearby students of ESO who want to school where all students can engage in the arts. In the community there are very few continue their studies normally, places like this," explains one but in La Palma only offer Vocational Degrees in order to of these students. specialize this center and In the capital there are only enhance the FP in the three schools in the school of Community from Madrid. arts instruction, apart from La In addition, the change will be Palma: the Alcantara
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gradual, and next year only the first year of high school is void, so that students can take second Bachelor of Arts in the center. The Center has posted on its website the following statement: From the General Department of Secondary Education Centers and Special Education System has told us, for now verbally, that as a result of the implementation of LOMCE next year, affecting 1 high school, the Ministry of Education has decided that as from the year 2015/16, no longer this stage of education taught in the School of Art La Palma. For this reason no registration opens for 1 school next year at the Centre, and neither will be possible for students who have to repeat what they can do in school. Students who progress to the 2nd year of high school may continue their studies at the School, including those who have pending matters 1º.
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The colors of the light of Guzmán.
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Relics and heritage conservation can only be understood globally and if what is intended is to return to historical splendor goods, should be done with respect to what exists and its initial appearance.
workshop in the town segoviana but has set up a small workshop in Fuentespina.
When he started this work, he found that the pieces had an important layer of dirt, with spots of paint, plaster, Since September 2013 cement and even silicone opened to the public the result of neglect and some Tower of Guzman, the house bad arrangements made lacked one element: the four around the year 2000. windows that adorned the openings of the windows of "In a hinged panel the second floor, which were intervened because it was broken, and removed all the removed for restoration of the building and because of lead I had and put a new their poor condition, not put one, with silicones and everything, which is back. corrosive to glass and paint, The initiative from a young which in two centuries have craftsman glazier, Rubén ended blackening all Llorente, trained in the "laments Llorente. school of La Granja de San With their knowledge, this Ildefonso in this area, has enabled these pieces regain artisan glass has been used appropriate materials for their original color and can these windows are kept as be admired in the original the first day for many, many holes they occupied. years. "I knew of the existence of "The most complex are the these proposed windows breaks, I have filled with an and restore them to the epoxy resin which is the best Dominicans, one I did for there is right now to restore, free, for who knew how to work and seeing the result I sticks and reviewed with was asked the other three," cold paint. All these processes are reversible so says the artist, who has a
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that if tomorrow is better, which can be removed to make it better, "explains Rubén Llorente. The prior of the convent calerogano, Brother Emilio García, is pleased with the end result. "We respected the rehabilitation work carried out by the Board and have placed the windows in the same order in which they were before but slightly separated from the glass covering the windows," he explains. These works of art glass, recounts the Prior, "feature episodes from the life of Santo Domingo de Guzmán: the first one represents the mother of the saint with their children; another mother with Santo Domingo in front of his uncle, the archpriest of Gumiel of Izán; the third represents the father of Santo Domingo introducing his son to the University of Palencia, and the fourth refers to the dispersion of the monks made by Santo Domingo the day of the Assumption of 1217 ".
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. No Room I.
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On March 17 took place the opening of space for the leisure Alcorcón over what had been until then the hall of MAVA intended to exhibit the works in glass with laminated glass technique cold . So far we do not know the fate that will be given to these
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you could have installed perfectly in another space located in the We must denounce these pages same neighborhood, without complicity in the plundering of the reducing our museum spaces. Association of Residents of San José de Valdez, who have made, Hopefully the upcoming among other things, a campaign municipal elections MAVA to collect signatures for it was returned to its initial installed in the MAVA this room configuration. dedicated to leisure older, when
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Concerts in the MAVA.
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Last March 13 was held in the Auditorium of MAVA a piano concert performed by the author of the performed works, Alberto Barandalla. This is classical music today, or as it would be more correct to say, "Contemporary Instrumental Music". Alberto Barandalla often said to be the style of music that Mozart, Beethoven or any of the famous classical musicians would do if he were alive today.
advertising, movies, and fund a documentary, or a series of TV. What happens is that usually not say who the author nor his interpreter, and therefore it is impossible to buy an album or a concert of this kind of music ... commercial channels do not broadcast as usual. We in the MAVA we always bring something, we want to spread culture, you notice that for that we are.
Ie music to listen in a room like Alberto we played the piano a that of MAVA not to dance in a set of short pieces, for diverse disco or to sing a singer than is this music samples. fashion. Some of them were originally But contrary to what is now composed for a more complex commonly heard in a concert instrumentation, sometimes hall, which is often atonal with electronic sounds, music, for trained ears, ie sometimes acoustic, in order music hard to understand for to give more color and the general public, this is attractive. traditional tonal music in But in piano, or in black and general without dissonance, ie white, as he likes to say, also easier for any audience. can be seen, and sometimes One might think that this music have more nuances and can is today limited distribution, but reach us deeper, which not true. basically is the goal of any art. The constantly hear in
There were some more classic
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atmosphere, more movies, music more popular (eg chotis without going further), and others quite difficult to classify, or need to. What unites them all is their difference with the music played commercially, and so whether you like more like if you like least have the appeal of difference, and to show what is done today in music which is not only POP or dance music. All we hear are original works of Alberto, except for one (Father Ocean) which is a great friend and excellent musician, Jorge Marañón, through which it was possible to hold this event. It seemed logical to include his subject in this concert, because if it were not for him, I never would have taken place. Alberto was giving a brief explanation at the beginning of each subject in order to better understand what is behind each.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (V).
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percent of the mixture.
Fluxes or alkalis.
homogeneity.
Often craftsmen glassmakers They could be formed of soda chose in the manufacturing or potash. process by a high rate of soda Help precipitating glassmaking to obtain a low melting point. and decreasing melting The lime. Is a factor which temperature of the same increases the chemical and facilitating the development. mechanical stability of the glass. Alkalis could have a plant
Oxidizing agents. Consist of substances appearing casually linked with other ingredients or bleaches.
The old glass was made from potash was much brighter.
Colors dependent on the materials used, the cooking time of the melting and oxidation or reduction of the furnace atmosphere.
Intended to cushion the color produced by impurities and reduce its effect by oxidation of these, and conservation of the (soda) mineral origin, derived Represents about five percent oxidized. Manganese and antimony were mainly from the chair, or of the mixture, and was used as bleaching in Roman obtained by the combustion of obtained by adding the certain plants: soda ash plant bathroom limestones baking. times. where appropriate the An excess of lime produced an Coloring agents. They consist of Mediterranean coast and ash opaque and easily different metal oxides, potash plants if it comes from desvitrificable glass; little lime depending on the color to be forested areas . obtained. originated very sensitive to
The first practical to obtain potassium glass correspond around the ninth century BC; will be from the year 1000 A.D. when potassium sodium replace the usual manner.
decomposition glass attack weathering and leaching by water. b) Child elements: The cullet. It consists of all kinds of glass reused in melting ingots and scrap of manufacture.
Roman glasses were mostly of Accelerator element acts as sodium base, and this the glass-forming reactions represented about twenty and helps improve
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Often the color is not intentional; arises from the presence of impurities in the raw materials used, or the dissolution of substances in containers used.
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The Glass Factory takes care.
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The project to restore the environment of the west facade of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja is scheduled to conclude in late May, it advanced the Government Sub, Pilar Sanz, during a visit to these works including the construction of two squares, green area of 8,700 square meters and a pond of 410.
Specifically, the overall budget established for the project with the signing of that agreement was 912,068 euros, and that 25% is paid by the granjeno Consistory, whose mayor, José Luis Vázquez, also participated in the visit to the Subdelegate well as technical Hall and Tragsa, which is responsible for the works.
building and bring important benefits to both residents and visitors of the Royal Site" said Sanz. The Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja de San Ildefonso is a reference of European industrial architecture of the eighteenth century.
The complex, which houses all the activity and production Be the endpoint of a The plot located off the west sectors, it follows the model performance sponsored by facade has an area of of sumptuary industry driven the City of San Ildefonso and 23,000 square meters and by the Bourbon state and funded 75 percent by the the allocations occupy half; today, after a process of Ministry of Development, each square is located on restoration and which granted 684,000 euros one side (North and South) enhancement, houses the through then one percent and between, the green area museum, school and Cultural (now 1.5 percent with pond. research center and Cultural) with the signing of Also, a service road for historical documentation of an agreement in December access and parking of buses the glass / Ical 2010, although the total cost and cars are also projected. In the photo, the mayor of exceeds 900,000. "The works will enhance the San Ildefonso (left) talks with monumentality of the the Government Sub.
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Visit the workshop Mario Sergio Ramos.
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On March 25 we visited the workshop of Mario Sergio Ramos and Mariana Grande, in the Madrid village of Valdemaqueda.
we are making to try to defend the integrity of MAVA and return to dispose of all spaces I had at the end of 2013, since, in early 2014, damages We had the opportunity to resulting from the removal inform us of the important of spaces by the international projects in the government team of our portfolio to expose the City were started, first with wonderful miniatures Mario the assignment to the takes in highlights fairs Community of Madrid three USA (Chicago), England quarters parts of the (London) and Germany. second floor and later with Also participating in the the conversion Chamber I Craft Fair to be held in of the Museum into a Madrid Paseo de Recoletos space for Older from May 29 to June 28 neighborhood of San JosĂŠ next. de Valderas. During the visit we had the opportunity to discuss many topics related to the current situation of art and crafts related to the world of glass in our country.
Both Mario and Mariana are very hopeful about the prospects that are open to their participation in international fairs dedicated to the world of miniatures, where the figures made of glass occupy a very important place.
Given his interest in the vicissitudes which is going through our museum, they we were informed of the current situation in which it Both the Chicago Fair in is located and the efforts London and will be the
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second time participating and their first experience was very positive, both in terms of sales and in terms of interest of collectors by the works of Mario. Besides being an expert in the use of the torch for the realization of his works in glass, Mario also overlooks some of the disciplines of martial arts and teaches lessons on these matters in sports centers around his home / workshop. A visit that has served us very nice and very instructive, especially for our President, who dared to start making a piece under the watchful eye of the great master who is Sergio. We thank this extraordinary couple all the attention they had with us on our visit and wish them every success in all appointments that attend both nationally and internationally.
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Julia Ares in the Palace of Fonseca.
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In the exhibition hall of the Palace of Fonseca USC exposure coruñesa artist Julia Ares, which makes a retrospective of his work called "Miscela Vitrea" a title that pays homage to the description of Pliny 'Old' on opened history of glass.
color density, profile, becoming delete it, beyond the physical thick, carnal, and even in an oil and functional the matter. slick. As Cuixart said, his work are "Black Death" shows two fish liquid poems. on a very dark sea and She is an artist that might have drowned. belonged to the English "I wanted to reflect the oil spill movement of arts and crafts, we had a few years ago," he as has been applied arts to fine says Julia. arts with a naturalness and This is a work curated by disposal of distances that lead All parts have been made Mercedes Rozas and José us to remember times of Gallé using two techniques; Luis Rey consisting of about or Tiffanny's, time the artisan thermofused glass, which mix 30 pieces of this material tradition, outside hierarchies the material with elements bases sustained light or light are elevated to art, as in their metal structures hanging from such as pigments, copper jewelry and their trophies as strands, fabrics, nets ... and the ceiling, as "My Week". well as sculptures indoor or thermoformed glass, where A wonderful large sculpture in outdoor space. the only protagonist is the which a multitude of seagulls glass increasingly claimed by It is no coincidence that the flying over a choppy, deep sea contemporary artists. artist belongs to the fourth scattered and divided into generation of a family Still, all of them have been seven parts, in which the dedicated to La Coruña in the author wants to show how are subjected to 830 degrees in its glass sector. preparation, sample of the the seven days of the week. great complexity of the Needless to take that stuff "It is the welter of my day to process. working for over thirty years. day" says rotunda. If the heterotopia is a multiNeedless to international Most parts are if not all, related site, off site, Julia Ares parts recognition and awards from to the sea. are that; his place is on fire, spreading to countries like And that resemble glasses light, color and water, which Japan, whose tradition was would be reached gallery are not all, quite different from precisely recovered in Europe directly from the seabed with common usage, a challenge to by the best English and French bands of fish through concave the rest of the use of glass to artisans. spaces, sometimes lonely fire compensate, neutralize it, A real gem worthy to see and fish or fish transparented in admire.
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Extending the Corning Museum of Glass.
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Designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, the new wing provides visitors an inspiring atmosphere daylight in which to experience art and contemporary glass design.
Incorporated, has nearly 10,000 additional m², including 2,500 m² of galleries and 500 places for demonstrations on glass.
The exhibited works include some never before seen belonging to the permanent collection of the Museum, including large-scale sculptures, The new wing provides an installations, "paintings" glass unprecedented opportunity for The inaugural installation of the visitors to see the wide and deep and vases. new wing features 117 works creativity of the artists who have They are exposed well known from the permanent collection of pushed the glass to his artistic artists for their work in glass as the Museum. More than 30 of boundaries for the past 25 years. Dale Chihuly, Roni Horn, Karen these works had not been LaMonte, Josiah McElheny, Beth The new building of galleries exposed publicly ever before. Lipman, Liza Lou and Klaus about 2,500 m² is intended to Moje, as well as other less known On March 20 The Corning design contemporary glass art for his work in glass as Robert Museum of Glass opened the from 1990 to the present. Rauschenberg, Tony Bragg or doors of the new Contemporary Galleries five different sizes Kiki Smith. Art + Design Wing, the largest containing various building space in the world dedicated to A gallery devoted entirely to glass works, which are curated samples and creations of design of the last 25 years which thematically and extends contemporary art and design in contains work by artists and likewise shows the porch a glass designed by Thomas Phifer space surrounding the whole designers of international prestige as James Carpenter, and Partners. galleries. Christophe Côme, Dan Dailey, The extension of $ 64 million, Studio Job, Tejo Remy and funded entirely by Corning Stephen Burks.
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N O T I C I A S (I).
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Castle of Peralada.
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Last February, the Peralada Castle Museum has made a new acquisition will become part of the collection of existing glass and crystal. It is a glass with Masonic decoration, theme very rare, yet he recorded with some of the elements that define this organization. From the point of view of manufacturing probably the case of a work Bohemia first half of the nineteenth century.
Culture 2015. artist who inspires and nourishes travel both landscapes that look like the people you know. At 21, in 1989, he first visited Mali, and gave him such a fascination with light and color that has gone back more than 14 times. However, travel to India were later and with them came another change in color.
In March last visited the collection of works exhibited at the Casa de Vacas Cultural Centre in Madrid Retiro and entitled "From Niger to the Ganges," the artist Irene Lopez de Castro, one of the most prominent representatives of figurative painting African theme and current Spanish India.
A subtle exposure where the landscape of both continents, Africa and Asia, have their focus prominence around the great rivers of life, Niger and the Ganges, being the protagonist of the work population.
Traveling for it is not just seek inspiration in faraway places, it is also an inner journey, a personal quest, and also a way to contact people who inhabit them, build a relationship. He says he has always felt nostalgic Light south "of an already past.
From a young age I was attracted to exotic countriesand in the same proportion said Irene Lopez de Castro This is a project designed by travel journals African specifically for this space. painters of the nineteenth A sample of large format century, those notes Pictures, living environments increased my desire to draw paintings and travel books that accompany the artist in and a message of solidarity and to travel in search of that in the focus of the birth of his travels to Mali in Africa timeless beauty in some and populations as Varanasi civilizations. places still perceive ". in India. Irene Lopez de Castro (Madrid, 1967) is a figurative Pictures, living environments. Following his passion, his wandering soul and responsibility with the essence of the earth and its inhabitants.
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N O T I C I A S (II).
Concerts in the MAVA.
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Next Friday 17 will give a concert in the auditorium of our Museum Choir Cantoblanco and Coral Accents, the Torroja Institute (CSIC), both directed by Beatriz Arenas. Beatriz is lyrical-light and natural soprano of Mendoza (Argentina).
It is also superior singing School of Music de teacher from the University Guadarrama. of UNCuyo (Argentina). Also, the following Friday, In 2004 he was awarded a the 24th, we offer the grant from the Carolina concert a string quartet Foundation for further formed by students of the studies in Madrid (Spain). Conservatory Teresa Berganza, Madrid. She is currently Professor of Music and Movement and Voice in the Municipal
The work of Scott Bisson. with which it works. Bisson's career began as a glass blower in high school, when he bent a glass tube using a bunsen burner. This experience has made him a path where professional tutors years and have seen him become an expert at shaping and twisting the molten glass.
Scott Bisson is passionate glassblower who lives in Oregon and wonderful creatures creates hand-blown glass made in beautiful and
subtle colors.
Is proud to continue looking for his limits as he writes on his website: "If I lose a piece a day trying to create what round my head is that I'm not trying hard enough.
Often choose to prepare aquatic or amphibious animals whose natural forms are related to floating molten glass qualities
Knowledge is the raw material for a great work, and energy and momentum make it take shape. "
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The glass in Museums: Bükkszentkereszt.
Our web
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In the early eighteenth century began the manufacture of glass, first Huta (Bükkszentlászló), Hungary, and then, after it failed to provide enough wood for the smelter was built in 1755 in Újhután (Bükkszentkereszt) the new plant.
In the room you can see the glass factory founder, a handwritten by Count Antal Grassalkovits and a photocopy of the Labour letter.
glasses, display around 110 pieces of molten glass and decorative glass. Three versions of the bottle fly, covered with gold bottle of wine.
Many photos, especially of the town's history and sights of Bükk.
The site will also feature a variety of glass bottles.
In the exhibition, the owners of Other photographs show the the glass factories, villages, lease of the glass factory, the memories of the notable families, founders of the factory, graves, objects, photographs, victims of cholera, monuments manuscripts, documents, Millennium Hotel Palace, view including sample cloth and Avas church and drum local porcelain bowl of Schusselka In the late eighteenth century family, birds of paradise, shield preacher. came to an end in foundry The Aula Magna of glass making weapons and memorabilia of the operations, the population was church (the statues of the Virgin raw materials, tools housed in employed in big factories, Mary, sacred images, stamp glass melting, original pots, especially in working out church, prayer books, rosaries, a pipes blown glass, wooden massively in the twentieth Protestant pastor wrote a letter to forms where the liquid glass century. Today the town is a Santa Teresa). blowing, commodity pattern haven for healing climate. glass vessels Some documents provides an The glass museum plomo.Gyertyánvölgyi hutából 5 overview of ancient village life, commemorates the production of kg of green glass blocks in the administrative and public life, and glass, wherein the composition pots. engravings of ancient people, the of the population that development of municipal Here you can also see local representation, nightclub, records participated was mainly Slovaks. historical artifacts and The museum was inaugurated in documents. Neolithic stone axes, the names of the first inhabitants, July 1989 by the mayor of the among other things, excavations the wages of 1864, household items, kitchen items every day town, all the more because the unearthed lime kiln. (porcelain teapot, antique industrial history of the material The house of the owner of the silverware, grinders, mortars, collected from employees and glass factory, the basement, the roller, respectively. other residents of the office of mayor of cemetery. documents (workbooks) and the town. even ornamentation (bead) and Regional maps indicating the The collection was placed in the names of the owners of the land, old money. stone house of 1780 that was respectively. maps of the four Exhibitions of Sandor Balogh, a intended to serve housing and Smelting in 1870. researcher in the village, retired cowshed. And in this environment are part employees. Wooden beamed ceilings, tile of the manufacture of glass The inventory of all these objects roof, three windows. manufacturing Bükk with a has about 340 pieces. variety of beer, champagne In addition to local professional factory glass blowers, auxiliary worker cutting wood, Slovaks came, in part, the current central and western Slovakia, Moravia and Poland.
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Castrelos adds value to their parts.
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The Museum Quiñones de León, in Castrelos, final preparations for his next exhibition. Late last March a sample which offers us the works of decorative art treasures the museum opened. It will be the first installation of its kind to be organized in step with the collection of equity. The only similar backgrounds are displaying clocks after its restoration in 2005 and the temporary exhibition of goldsmiths Hernandez, assigned in 2006. The museum has about 1,500 pieces, classified as decorative arts, where German and French furniture
of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, mostly belonging to the legacy of Policarpo Sanz from his Paris home, but also around 60 carpets included Royal Tapestry Factory and armor, acquired a craftsman in Toledo in the 80s.
The exotic finishing touch: Chinese parts of the legacy of Policarpo Sanz.
In the section of glass and glass stands the only piece remaining from the time of the Marquis: Murano lamp, rock crystal, which usually looks in the noble hall.
Schools Galician folk pottery are also present through 125 objects Buño, Mondoñedo, Bonxe and Gundivós, Portomourisco, Niñodaguia, Tioira, Loñoa das Olas, Ramirás ou Lobios, among others.
But without doubt, the ceramic which provides more pieces heritage museum. Are represented porcelain and earthenware major European factories Sevres, Paris, Limoges and Saxony.
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With galego seal examples of Sargadelos as a model crockery "roses" and parts of the series "real view", "fantastic views" and "peasant" is.
Finally, it will be an opportunity to see an important selection Alvarez Collection, consisting of 554 works.
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Franz Mayer, among glassbubbles.
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The man in an effort to recreate the various forms of nature, found in the art of glassblowing which represented a revolution in the manufacture of objects that have come to be considered pieces of art that we enjoy today in the Museo Franz Mayer with the exhibition "Nimanis. Latvian voice in glass. "
of prestigious awards in this area.
Originally from Latvia, Artis Nimanis belongs to the new generation of artists glass blowing his country, being a creditor
The exhibition shows both artistic and utilitarian pieces, some with optical illusions that trick the viewer's mind.
The component parts of the room were designed in various significant stages of the artist. At the back of the room is a collection of plates and cups with mirror funds, which were the result of the combination of glass and stainless steel.
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The artist is betting on materials that resemble mirrors, giving a touch of elegance to the pieces that speak of "liquid mercury". One of the pieces that stand in the exhibition is a bike made of blown glass. In each piece, magic and effects arising from light and glass play a key role. "Nimanis. Latvian voice in glass "will remain in the Franz Mayer Museum until April 12.
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Pompidou Centre Malaga.
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"What a beautiful symbol to elect this great Andalusian city that gave birth to Picasso for the first inauguration of the Centre Pompidou abroad!" Says the current ambassador to Spain, Jérôme Bonnafont. And is that a cycle is closed, the most universal Malaga artist returns to his hometown to hand the country that welcomed him and who died two years before Franco unable to step over their land-where from 2003 is a Picasso Museum at the express wish of the genius of the twentieth century. "Picasso is somehow the leitmotiv of everything that is happening in Malaga. The Picasso Museum Birthplace Foundation 27 years ago opened a trail of important work. And that relationship Málaga opened with the recovery of the memory of Picasso is actually doing these days, "says José María Luna, also responsible for the newly opened Russian Museum and the Centre Pompidou Málaga. And the father of Cubism opens the path for the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries raised in the permanent exhibition can be seen in the building of the 'Cube' at Pier One of the Port of Málaga, and comprising a total of 90 varied works and representative collections of the Pompidou Paris matrix. The Pompidou, which, interestingly, also becomes the
third exhibition space in Malaga presence of the painter, in addition, three works by Picasso (Head of a Woman, 1932, Couple, 1971 The flower hat, 1940) will be exhibited the Birthplace Foundation and the Museo Picasso Málaga.
weeks ago, a review of the installation Ghost (Ghost) by French artist of Algerian origin Kadier Attia, executed by students the Faculty of Fine Arts in Malaga.
Although the building that houses the Malaga Pompidou "is Along with Picasso, works by not that typical model so artists like Alberto Giacometti, characteristic of the last Max Ernst, Raoul Dufy, Francis museums", it does have the Picabia, Fernand Léger, René glass cube as "defining element," Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Yoko Ono, the coordinator of space, Marc Chagall, Willem de designed by the architects Javier Kooning and the Spanish Perez de Malaga Source and Eduardo Arroyo, Julio González, Juan Antonio Marin Malavé. Ferran Garcia Sevilla, Antonio But for a more distinctive and Saura, Joan Miró and Antoni personal touch, has Tàpies serve to reflect on the commissioned 'tune' that bucket evolution of the representation of French conceptual artist Daniel the human body. Buren, a world leader of the Thus, the works will be famous contemporary art for his distributed in five sections that work on buildings, which visually address the portrait as relates to its context -the facade metamorphosis (from Picasso to of Neus Museum Nuremberg or Rineke Dijkstra), the human the Red Bows Salve Bridge body "in pieces" -around the idea Guggenheim Bilbao are two of of how Cubism dismantled the his destacados- work. myth of academic beauty, from The Centre Pompidou Málaga Picasso Tony Oursler) - using the has 2,000 square meters of body as a political force by exhibition space in a total of women artists (Orlan to Sigalit 6,300 square meters and with Landau), the self-portrait of the ceilings of up to nine meters high artist (from Self Neptune (1922), that President Pompidou matrix, Van Dongen, the Self Portrait Alain Seba, seemed very (1971) by Francis Bacon ) and suitable for, say, hang works faceless and anonymous figures large that can not be exposed in (such as Léger, Chirico or Li Paris. Yong Bin). The annual estimate is 250,000 Chronologically, this journey expected visitors who believe through the art of the twentieth that "cover to spare" and that the and twenty concludes with a visit "will not leave anyone work "done in Málaga" Just three indifferent."
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Recycling. “Ecowoman”.
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According to a study Ecovidrio on the uses and attitudes of the population to recycling, 75% of women always recycles waste glass containers and 80% believe that recycling contributes to social and economic development of the country. In the week of International Women's Day, Ecovidrio has launched 'Ecowoman' a tribute to women engaged in glass recycling campaign. The bill proposes adherence to the 'Manifesto Ecowoman', a call to action that thousands of women socially aware the importance of protecting the environment.
-34, of which 68% reported always recycle.
The action, conveyed through the site www.ecowoman. has The women of 18-24 years are received support from various the segment less committed to digital influencers and familiar characters who have helped to recycling glass, only 50% mobilize the call from their always recycled. profiles on social networks. The study also reveals figures for impediments and excuses Ecovidrio has generated the for people to not recycle glass. concept of 'Ecowoman' profiles from four different women who 80% of women believe that share their commitment to 'who does not separate the recycling glass. waste is not willing'. As barriers to recycle, half of the 1. Sonia is 26 and likes long weekends, starting the women interviewed believed "juernes" and who enjoys beer that the lack of available and friends, which involves the homes is one of the main task of recycling glass drawbacks. 2. Cristina could not stop 'The female population is a looking at her newborn great prescriber of absorbed that for this new environmentally responsible mother is a new reason to save habits. For this reason, we the environment by recycling wanted to thank you for your cooperation and contribute our glass
The research, conducted on a sample of women managers or stewards of household management, found a greater bit to global pays homage this awareness among older week, "explained Borja women. Martiarena, marketing director Thus, 82% of women between Ecovidrio. 55 and 64 states always The campaign also a recycle glass containers. recognition of all women who
3. Carolina is a quiet, fond of yoga, woman who has discovered that if recycled glass protects the environment and the world around him is what "returns"
recycle glass, supports women entrepreneurs through collaboration between Red Cross Ecovidrio and will result The trend continues to decline in training seminars on slightly among women aged 25 entrepreneurship.
4. Angela is unemployed and working at home. Married with three children, always takes time out of his busy day to recycle glass jars your small vice, honey.
The percentage decreases slightly to 79% in the 45-54 group and 71% lower in the range of 35 to 44 years.
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José Dávila, primitivism and modernity.
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A jury awarded collectors ARCO José Dávila (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974) NH Collection Contemporary Art Award.
from Josef Albers Brazilian and US neoconcretism minimal.
Dávila has made three versions of this work abduction Childhood photographs of art, of which the Other ideas and procedures that last two are shown: covering squeezes. them with gold, with red paint Earlier in Art Basel Miami Beach, What we now see is actually two ("red Altamira" he says) and won the granting EFG Bank and cropping, this technique which exhibitions: one installation of the magazine ArtNexus. three large sculptures and works has been used in numerous series on the history of art and on the book The Childhood of It is striking that the artist has recent architecture. Art. had more tour the gallery and exhibition area in the The first continues the series of Extends the project with two institutional. "balance" plate glass and stone canvases in areas overlaying tied with straps, which is referred paint paths playback pages of the The active galleries represent to as tectonic Acts of doubt and book are geometric one and pay internationally as OMR, Max homage to neoconcrete artist Wigram, Figge von Rosen, Sam desire. Willys de Castro, is another Kelly and Crossing 4 itself, which They can be read as a small report. celebrates and his fourth sample of possibilities of exhibition in Madrid, but it seems transparency and vision in glass Interesting paradoxes between that their continuing review of the adjectival descriptions (white, tinted mirrors) and as a certain moments of artistic captions and what we actually small demonstration of modernity has not attracted "empirical" structural calculation see, touch and chromatic much interest in the place that suggestions that are triggered in of weights. might make more sense: the the mind, facing the hollow occur. museum. If you want, you can sense a scenic eco and matérica inquiry: Can we equate empty or blinded We must appreciate, however, its with glasses forming rectangles the glass is stone, quartz, and interventions in the Camden Arts found here three different types or even imagine a relationship Centre in London (repeated at between the rocks and cave of rocks ... but for the artist are Casa de America for Madrid walls? primarily exercises "ThreeOpen), MARCO of Vigo and the dimensional graphic" and refer to Bass Museum in Miami, which is Dávila proposes, in both parts of the utopia of modern glass evident his training as an the sample, intersections architecture. architect. between primitivism and modernism that can not qualify The other sub-exposure plays One has the impression, before with the pages of an old book of surface but does not show the the works of Dávila, if any seen HG Spearing, published in 1913 conceptual development that before. with a profusion of illustrations of could have strengthened their merit. "progress" (then fashionable Sometimes it is because artists concept) art and humanity from reinterpret reference for Crossing Gallery Four. San conceptual geometric Genealogy prehistory to ancient Greece. Mateo, 16. Madrid. Until April 30.
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Our activities.
Cultural visits. In this April we will make a visit to several villages in Toledo, among which is Consuegra. We will use the trip to visit the workshop Vitrale, artistic glass artisans of La Mancha.
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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 2015.
They work all decorative techniques in glass, its specialty the "fusing" the "hot melt", leaded stained glass, tiffany stained glass and glasses decorated with resins.
CULTURE 2015 program.
In this month will visit the exhibition of Rogier van der Weyden in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Never may be explained definitively and in all its complexity works as the Deposition, the Triptych of Miraflores or the great
Calvary works that rise far above the circumstances of everyday life, or as the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, in which the figures, dressed in the fashion of the time, occupy the space of an equally contemporary church.
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Above them as high cross that borders the vault of the nave and in which there is a daunting Christ stands. Of very different sizes, none of the other characters Triptych keeps the scale of the building.
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La Granja smells better than ever.
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Son and brother of glassmakers, mayor of San Ildefonso (Segovia), José Luis Vázquez, can not hide his happiness to see how the presence of SGDLa Granja factory in this town of 5,500 inhabitants is consolidated, 80 kilometers from the Spanish capital.
glass insulators used in electrical packaging for perfumery and transmission and distribution pharmacy, invoice € 330 million a year in their division linked to the lines. cosmetics industry, 50% of the A few meters away, already total business, which also integrated in the municipality where Carlos III tested urbanism includes bottles of liquor, with four factories in Europe, two in that applied in Madrid, maintaining the old Real Fábrica America and one in Brazil.
He was about to close its doors for good in 2011, which would put paid to more than five hundred permanent jobs, around 10% qualified, mainly engineers-and some 200 contracts for work and service, without indirect activities.
It knew its peak in the Enlightenment and, having been the germ of this industrial activity to the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama, has a museum and study center of the glass.
A plan launched in 2009 supported by SGD, international group that owns the plant and led by investment fund Oaktree Capital, has consolidated the glassmaking tradition of La Granja, dating back to the eighteenth century, and King Philip V. The plan has guaranteed jobs with real overtones of increasing them. Last year profit of 2.6 million euros were recorded pre-tax and after five years of losses, while investments of 30-35000000 euros are planned until 2020. In the last five years the company has invested 40 million in modernizing facilities and the production of perfume bottles and glass electrical insulators. With an area of 77,000 square meters, the glassworks of SGD, who left the Saint Gobain group in 2009, produces more than 190 million bottles per year, for brands like Puig, Loewe, Channel, Coty, Carolina Herrera, L ' Oreal and Avon. It has an annual capacity to produce more than five million
de Cristales de La Granja.
The CEO of SGD La Granja, Mario Lopez, argues that the factory has produced a remarkable turnaround.
He joined the factory of La Granja in Excellence Program of the "Top 2015", closing the production block was not profitable continuity and renegotiating a collective agreement with a new model of labor relations based on common interests above conflict -the wage increases linked to EBITDA, which also depends on the annual bonus, apart from strengthening the market presence insulators power lines and regain customers of perfume and cosmetics.
The crisis overtook them unprepared and shading the end became a reality. They even listen to their bosses, with pain, phrases like "La Granja is as old It was very hard when, in 2012, and poorly maintained factory the business of glass block was not worth investing in it." closed, recognizes Mario Lopez, because it seemed the beginning The key was that management and employees align your energy of the end: restructure and dismantle machinery. Not so for with one goal: to become "a the next year and worked in more modern, safe and profitable than 80 projects to improve the company," he stresses. European project structured in With the inauguration in 2015, presented "full of work and February of a new machine opportunities." capable lacquered paint 12 Lopez does not hide his love who million bottles a year, avoiding external subcontracting, CEO of is known in the company as SGD group Perfumery, Thomas "French" that came with the Saint Riou, acknowledged that seeing Gobain Group in 1917, then in the building of the Royal Glass the motivation of the management team the will of the Factory, supporting the manufacture of electrical social partners, the affection of insulators, for converting the each employee by the factory factory in "the oldest and most and the friendly support and prestigious in the world in this seamless village of La Granja activity," says the director, knew that together they could building the current premises in move mountains. 1957, and starting in the perfume The SGD multinational, world business in 1981. leader in the manufacture of
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Other trends. Mosque of Cordoba.
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Until now it was a social and political controversy. But inmatriculaciones of goods by the Church are and judicial matters in Cordoba.
The council has restored 12 times the Triumph of San Rafael
"We believe that has usurped a good of Córdoba" said Anguita the day the letter was presented Several inscriptions of goods that in court. have made the Cabildo and the "The Council has not kept pace Diocese in the Land Registry and has not defended the have been denounced in court. heritage of all Cordoba" he The most emblematic case is lamented. Therefore, the former that of the mosque of the city, mayor Anguita believes that the cathedral since 1239 and main municipal corporation is monument of Córdoba was "passively collaborating" in the matriculated in 2006. commission of a possible crime. "Therefore, we denounce the But there are more examples. Bishop of Córdoba and the And among the complainants, mayor. At first robbery and and ordinary citizens, councilors second by express or implied are active, as Carlos Baquerín, consent, "he added. Cordovan Union; or former mayors like Julio Anguita, The complaint relates that space Herminio Trigo, or Andrés is now known as Plaza del Manuel Pérez Ocaña. Triunfo de San Rafael "was ceded by the City Council at its The four aldermen, who ruled meeting of March 3, 1735 the under the banner of PCE or IU rector and College of St. although wheat is now member Pelagius [institution belonging to of PSOE, claiming the judges the bishopric] to build stables. legal liability for inmatriculación namely: the Triumph of San This project was not carried out Rafael. and space reverted to the City. " A year later, a group of residents This baroque palace, next to the asked the Consistory license to Mosque, was always considered build a monument to San Rafael a public space until it was in the same place and asked her learned that he had been to help with expenses. registered as belonging to the Diocese of Córdoba. The City agreed and delivered money and stones to contribute Although a report of the Legal to the survey. Department of the City Council concludes that there were no "In 1850, the state of documents to demonstrate that conservation of the monument undertaking that the monument was not good, so the City was municipally owned, the Council wrote to the bishop to complainants point to the current give him back the rights they had mayor of Córdoba, José Antonio on the Triumph, to take charge of Nieto (PP), and the Bishop of the their maintenance. Diocese, Demetrio Fernandez, The bishop said he had no rights as ultimately responsible for two or title on it, accepted the possible crimes. municipal decision and provided compliance, "says the letter.
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From 1850 until today there have been 12 performances maintenance and restoration of the monument, including the closure of the square, made in 1867, continues the complaint. "All these actions have been made by the City Council with public funds, no one involved the Diocese of Córdoba" he concludes. The complaint of the four former mayors is being processed by the Magistrate's Court 3 of Córdoba. But who supports more workload owns the magistrate 6 having on the table eight cases of inmatriculaciones collected unadenuncia Councilman Carlos Cordoba Baquerín Union. In principle, the mayor cited in its four specific inmatriculaciones: the Mosque-Cathedral, the Triumph of San Rafael de la Puerta del Puente, Plaza del Pocito Fuensanta and the hermitage of Socorro, next to Plaza de la Corredera. However, it has expanded its complaint more inmatriculaciones that have transcending in recent months. Thus, included the church of St. Augustine, inmatriculada after the building was restored with public funds; the chapel of the cemetery of Health (registered after an assignment of previous municipal government, led by IU), the chapel of the Holy Martyrs or the Church of St. Hippolytus, who entered in the register with a public space included. The City of Córdoba has sent the judge reports on all these goods inmatriculaciones developed by the Diocese of Córdoba in recent years.
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Obsidian, volcanic glass.
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From the geological point of view, military dignitaries were obsidian is a volcanic glass decorated at that time . formed by the sudden clash of The prehispanic conception of rich volcanic lava silicon oxide. obsidian It is classified as "glass" because Using data from the XVI century, its atomic structure is disordered John Clark conducted a thorough and chemically unstable, why its analysis on the original surface has an opaque covering conception of Nahuatl varieties called cortex. of obsidian. In physical appearance, and With this study we now know according to their degree of purity some information that allows us and chemical composition, to classify it according to its obsidian can be transparent, technical, aesthetic and ritual translucent, shiny and reflective, attributes: "White Obsidian" gray presenting colors ranging from and transparent color; "Obsidian black to gray, depending on the teachers" otoltecaiztli, green-blue thickness of the piece and the with varying degrees of reservoir from which comes . transparency and luster and Thus, we can find in shades of sometimes presents golden green, brown, violet and tones (for its resemblance to the sometimes bluish, as well as a chalchihuitl was used for making variety known as "obsidian ornaments and ritual objects); mecca", characterized by its Itzcuinnitztli, obsidian mottled, reddish-brown color due to yellow-brown-red, commonly oxidation of certain metal called Mecca or stained, with components. which projectile points were made; Black and opaque The people of ancient Mexico "common obsidian" which served obsidian turned into an excellent to develop scrapers and bifacial material for making tools and tools; , Bright and with different weapons such as knives, knives degrees of translucency and and projectile points. transparency "black obsidian". When polishing, pre-Columbian Medicinal use of obsidian artists managed reflective surfaces that developed mirrors, For the inhabitants of ancient sculptures and scepters and Mexico, obsidian was earrings, labrets, bills and remarkable medicinal badges with images of the gods applications. were decorated and high civil and
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Regardless of its biological effectiveness, its medicinal use was due largely to the burden of their rituals attributes and their particular physical properties, as happened with the ochalchihuitl green stone, commonly called jade. As an example of this magical and curative ideological conception of obsidian, says Father Duran: "They came from everywhere to the dignities of this temple Texcatlipoca ... that aplicasen them the divine medicine, and so we embijaban with it the part where felt pain, and felt noticeable relief ... seemed to them heavenly thing. " For its part, also referring to the medicinal benefits of this natural glass, Sahagún recorded in his monumental Florentine Codex: "They also said that if a pregnant woman saw the sun or the moon when eclipsed, the creature that was in the womb to be born nicked the bezos (cleft lip) ... so, pregnant dare not watch the eclipse, poníanle one razor clams black stone in the breast, he touched the flesh. " In this case, it is notable that obsidian was used to fashion protective amulet against the designs of the gods sponsoring this celestial battle ……...
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Obsidian, volcanic glass (Cont.).
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….. There was a belief also that because of their resemblance to some organs such as the kidney or liver, river pebbles obsidian had the power to heal those parts of the body. Francisco Hernández recorded in his Natural History some technical and medicinal mineral with healing properties respects. The knives, swords and daggers worn by the Indians, as well as almost all sharp instruments were of obsidian stone called by the indigenous siztli. Dust it well in their blue and black translucent shades, white, mixed with powdered glass equally, clouds and glaucoma removed by rinsing the eye. The toltecaiztli, or stone knife black mottled russet, had similar properties; the iztehuilotl was a brilliant black crystal and stone brought from the Mixteca Alta belonging undoubtedly wings deiztli varieties. It was said that chased away the demons away snakes and all that was poisonous and also conciliated the favor of princes. Over the sound of obsidian
fragments hit each other, their sound is very peculiar. For Indians had a special meaning and comparing precursor noise storms with a stream of rushing water.
dead", a space without smoke hole called Itzmictlan apochcalocan.
The popular belief that Obsidian has some of the qualities attributed to him in the pre-Hispanic world, so it is still Among the literary testimonies considered a magical and about is the poem Itzapan sacred stone persists today. nonatzcayan ("where creak in water obsidian stones"). Also, being a mineral of volcanic origin he is associated "Itzapan nantzcaya the terrible with the fire element and is abode of the dead, which considered a stone of self with wields the scepter therapeutic nature, ie, a "stone Mictlantecutli majestic. It is the that acts like a mirror whose latter end mansion humans, light hurts the eyes of the ego there dwells the moon phase that no Want to see your own and the enlightens dead reflection. " melancholy: the region obsidian stones with great Because of its beauty, obsidian rumor on water creak and attributed esoteric qualities, squeak and thunder and which, now that witnessed the storms push and are fearful. " beginning of a new millennium, worryingly proliferate. Based on the analysis of the Latino and Florentino Vatican And what of its extensive use codices, the researcher in the manufacture of all types Alfredo López-Austin of obsidian souvenirs are sold concluded that, according to in the archaeological sites and Aztec mythology, the eighth of tourist flea! the levels that make up the In sum, we conclude that celestial space has obsidian obsidian, for their peculiar slab corners. physical and aesthetic For its part, the fourth level of characteristic forms, remains a the path of the deceased utilitarian and attractive towards the Mictlan was a material, such as it was for the spectacular "hill of obsidian", various cultures that inhabited while in the fifth "predominant our country in past times, when obsidian wind". it was considered the mirror mythical shield generator and Finally, the ninth level was the holder of the images reflected. "place of obsidian from the
When obsidian breaks and
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Market in the Royal Factory of La Granja.
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We offer our readers the Easter holidays a visit to Segovia and, specifically, the Palace of La Granja and the Royal Glass Factory because, from 1 to 5 April, you can purchase at a great price glassware manufactured by artisans in the manner of the eighteenth century and enjoy the retrospective of the artist Javier Gomez at the Tech Museum of Glass.
handmade by craftsmen in the Tech Museum of who still practice Glass in La Granja. traditional own eighteenth Today, artisans as century techniques. blowers, sculptors and There are, cups, vases, decorators continue to put lamps and decorative their expertise and talents elements in general. to the Royal Factory to create pieces that, The Real Fábrica de "thanks to initiatives like Cristales de La Granja this, not only are to the was founded in 1727 to royal halls". A unique supply the Palace of La opportunity to visit one of Granja de windows and the best examples of mirrors. industrial architecture of Shortly after its the eighteenth century, production to other As is usual for some declared of Cultural decorative objects such years, the Real Fábrica Interest, and its 26,000 de Cristales de La Granja as lamps and vases, and square the museum also expanded use as celebrates its traditional offers visitors the market Semana Santa 1 glassware for the table of opportunity to see live to 5 April where you can kings. work of master craftsmen buy unique and and at the same time He soon became a handcrafted items reference center of glass purchase jewelry or art discounted up to 70 made of glass, resulting in crafts, manufacturing percent. a bid to maintain a craft or gems preserved in artistic activity with National Heritage and The pieces are made of centuries of tradition. high quality glass and are some of them are shown
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Paradores and Foundation National Glass Centre.
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Paradores de Turismo and the National Glass Centre Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement for the promotion and dissemination of industrial tourism and domestic tourism of the Parador de La Granja (Segovia) environment.
former Royal Glass Factory and Glass of La Granja and its aims are focused on the promotion, development, teaching, research and The package is completed dissemination of with the services of craftsmanship and history of breakfast, lunch or dinner glass manufacturing and and VAT. other artistic activities By the Foundation, special cultural and scientific prices for Parador customers activities related to the art Besides hosting packages at wishing to visit the museum and the art of glass. Parador de La Granja and the possibility to including tour of the National The Real Sitio de La Granja organize exclusive visits Glass Centre Foundation is a small town garden seven outside the opening hours of and the gift of a selected miles from Segovia, at the the museum guide piece of glass, check the foot of the mountains of accompanying the group or agreement includes the Central System, where a customers Parador is. display of goods in shop Parador composed of the Children's workshops Parador as well as an Casa de los Infantes, built in exhibition historical molds of engraving and a glass the eighteenth century by the Foundation in the public painting for children are Carlos III is located to inhabit some of the proposals that areas of Segovia property. Princes Gabriel and Antonio complete the planned infants, and the Also, according to Paradores activities between the two headquarters of the Guard in a statement, the Parador institutions. Corps, which contains a have a special package in modern Congress and The National Glass Centre Single Room, one of the Convention Center. upper rooms of the Parador Foundation was born in 1982 to recover the building of the including an experimental furnace blowing workshop lasting half an hour for groups of up to six people and only for over 12 years.
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The glass in the Palace Aguirre, Cartagena.
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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities exposed on the main floor of Aguirre Cartagena Palace, seat of the Regional Museum of Modern Art, more than fifty pieces of china and glass through which visitors may hover to life , art and industry Cartagena mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century with the exhibition titled 'From china and crystal. Life, art and industry in the Aguirre Palace '. Care objects were created in some of the factories that opened in Cartagena midnineteenth century and, driven by the great technological changes and the economic boom in the area thanks to mining, joined art and industry to manufacture parts, faience glass of high artistic quality. It was produced objects but especially those tending their design and manufacture, and trying to meet the growing demand of the burgeoning bourgeoisie and the urban middle class. The Director General of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, said "the opportunity to have the citizens of the region to provide for exclusive pieces made in Cartagena in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century and so, moreover, such a significant space as the Palacio Aguirre. A set that will allow us to travel to a time and a past society, "according to sources from the regional government in a statement. Some parts Visitors can admire some of the objects arranged in reconstructions of environment, in order to appreciate its role as service table in a dining room or in a cabinet, for example. Other pieces will be exhibited in glass cases, where its characteristics, uses, or decorations techniques are explained. Specifically, 36 pieces of pottery among which are a plate with a hand-painted in blue, yellow and black bird exhibit; a jug with reeds also hand painted; a bowl with decoration in black stands out for having an engraving of the painting "The meeting in the park Watteau 'and unusual objects also elaborately decorated as a tracker-a vessel for the infirm or hand spittoon. Among the twenty pieces of glass stand, meanwhile, hand carved glasses, a bottle
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shaped pineapple yellow-green color and several blown glass objects as a type jar Canet, bottles or cups. Powerful industry The main architect of this industry of china and glass Cartagena born in the midnineteenth century was Thomas Valarino Gattorno, Conde de Santa LucĂa, who created the company La Amistad (1842-1893), located in the Borricen. In the manufacture of parts highlighted VIRIO Factory Glass and St. Lucia (18341955), located in the district of the same name; a company that since 1908 form part of the Window Union Spain SA As for crockery, also existed in the area another company, La Cartagenera Industrial Ceramics (1880-1883), in Media League. The exhibition 'From china and crystal. Life, art and industry in the Aguirre Palace 'will be open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11.00 to 14.00 and from 17.00 to 20.00 hours and on Sundays and holidays from 11.00 to 14.00. To carry out school visits and other reserves 968 501 607 phone call.
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Klaus Moje.
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Verónica Amoroso in Ecuador.
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Mother of two children: Maria Paula, 16; and Luis Guillermo, 14, Veronica Amoros that art has learned it in decorative ceramics factory owned by his mother and now takes twenty years to shape and design the glass; shares that her children and husband like art and work. Account that initially began making pottery, then introduced into the glass within the branch of glass fusing and the desire to find something new, conducted tests where it was improving his technique, but required some specialized courses too. Glass and Art The term refers to the merger, falling glass and other processes that take place at temperatures between 600 and about 950. Glass fusion process is the use of an oven to join pieces of glass. If heat is applied to the glass, these are softened. If continuous application of heat, the glasses will become more fluid to "stick". When glass is heated and then cooled properly, resulting molten glass piece is solid and unwavering. Many people also use the word "fusion" to include bending and shaping glass with the heat of an oven. This manipulation can take many forms, but the most common is "drop" where a mold is used to produce molten glass and to
achieve the shape of a bowl, a plate or similar object.
Secrets and work
Virtually any shape can be achieved in clay or wax can also be made into glass. This branch carries more complex casting processes.
Veronica Amoroso said that in its production process is used even the smallest piece, because even the tiniest can stick and draw very beautiful decorative pieces.
Glass is a very friendly material to work with, we start from the common plane window glass of different thickness, cut into the shape you want to work, once you have the desired working with paint, depending on the model that will make: either something abstract or something artistic.
Costs
The glass cutter has to be good to Another type of manipulation done work well, pigments, glazes, glass with fusion techniques is "hairstyle", can be provided to work with many which involves the use of a tool to dry and light metals is the furnace to distort the shape of the glass while burn the piece then leaves as a it is hot and "polishing fire" which work of art. Glass burning may take uses a furnace to heat the glass so about 8 to 10 hours, depending on enough to make it shiny and soft. load and size of the furnace. She has three: a large, medium and Another branch of vitrofusión small, are electric. involves the use of glass molds to form more complex shapes. Recycling
The artist can do for baptisms and first communions from $ 3 to paintings worth about $ 150, but there are intermediate costs as plates, depending on their shape, design and colors.
He added that at the moment does not worry the safeguards applied by It is drawn, filled with colors and the government to nearly 2,800 then goes to the oven where it products for imports, still has raw takes shape. Depending on what you want to do is put on a mold and material; She believes that the benefits as people acquire products glass takes its shape, no retouching the piece is cleaned and made in Ecuador is ready to display, describe Aspiration Veronica. Like any good entrepreneur For the designs are used from Veronica expected to produce large freehand drawings where raw chains, at this time that he is creativity and imagination when working to Colineal and is in talks working in series, where you can with Sukaza chain, all locally. use templates. But it would be nicer to reach an international market, while maintaining the artisan touch.
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Latest news Ripollés in glass.
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oven Berengo Studio in Murano, Venice, art gallery more internationally recognized glass, with which Ripollés has worked many years in the design and implementation of these delicate and yet huge pieces, whose large size is a challenge of constant development. Sizes and even the pigments with working Ripollés glass are not the usual for this type of work, of great complexity in the process of manual production. "Being in Murano, in the workshop, is like being in hell, parts vibrate, born and grow at temperatures unparalleled that confers a magic and unrepeatable color," says Juan Ripollés, who
always supervises and works side side with technicians whose hands flowed new works up to 2.5 meters high. The works performed by Ripollés come Murano
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In fact parts of Ripollés Murano are the best paid in as selective as the glass art market.
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The CSIC creates smart windows.
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Researchers from the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) have developed a novel technique saving at home.
between a transparent state and an opaque.
As David Levy, CSIC researcher, "although there are already other models, Within seconds, using a one of the advantages of switch, you can enable this the developed technology technology that causes a is cost explains. chemical and physical Its production is simple reactions that make a and inexpensive because transparent window glass the materials used are less becomes opaque. expensive ". Unlike other existing, For example, producing a drivers need glasses or use square meter of other of liquid crystal technology models costing thousands patented by the CSIC and of euros. developed by a team from "Whereas in our case it is the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid employs only several cents. This will allow a wide 'smart thin films of highly porous windows' reasonably material coated. priced and therefore By exposure to wet or dry greater savings, "he air these films change their explains. optical transmission, achieving switching
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According to the CSIC, the applications of these 'smart windows' are numerous. Levy details that can be used on flexible, flat, curved, glass or polymeric surfaces allowing you to use these glasses in different types of windows, doors, wall panels in meeting rooms or skylights. Moreover, they are not only useful in protecting against solar radiation but also serve as a decoration and privacy protection both inside and outside of buildings. In recent years the trend in the construction sector is the use of glass facades, says this team of scientists, but is mindful that are energy sustainable buildings.
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Exhibition in Alcorcón.
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Bohemia Crystal tradition.
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eighteenth century Bohemian crystal achieved a definite individuality characterized by the colored and colorless glass with an unusual perspective and realism, imposing a taste for this new glass in Europe.
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In the nineteenth century the variety of color is what impresses: red wrought, imitation agate, yellowgreen, ruby red and accented opaline glass decorative possibilities of the time. In the twentieth century Bohemia became the largest glass manufacturing company to lead the world, expanding its popularity and winning numerous international awards. Bohemian crystal, one of the most famous and appreciated until today, bases its success not only in the design and beauty but also its functionality. The vast work culture and the secular tradition of In 1967 the National sixteenth century, when whole families of Museum of Decorative Arts entire families of artisans glassmakers, the company in Havana received a settled permanently in the is responsible for magnificent exhibition of country, producing transmitting, have left us Bohemian crystal with Waldglas (forest glass). until today its flagship words to catalog and Throughout the decorations etched with lectures by Pavel Hlava, seventeenth century these deer in the woods or one of the most important factories continued the landscapes, deep carvings Czech glassmakers of all tradition of medieval forms, depicting snow crystals, its time. coexisting with the most colors, its transparency and Nearly half a century later, elegant and graceful luminosity that make the this institution is preparing shapes of glass. Bohemian crystal is within to present its collection of the top rated world. It is then that the crystals made in this great Bohemian glass very hard This exhibition, which production center, consistency, appropriate opens to the public from paradigmatic not only for the size is known. April 2 to July 17, is also a innovative building great opportunity to show techniques and decoration, This industry reached such the pieces created in Moser but also by elegant types perfection both decorative Glassware with lead-free conceived by these motifs and the way that glass and novel designs factories. such a bombastic style, as applied in both tableware was the Baroque, where it The Bohemian glass and decorative pieces. finds its full expression. production received its first major boost in the late At the end of the
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The enigma of the Virgin of Glass.
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confirmed the dreaded failure to certify that they had also desecrated the closet that hid the Virgin. The archpriest of the area also gave his trail.
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The nun and the priest forged their friendship a quarter century ago, when she worked as a social worker and he lent a hand to people in need. Lately and before ear problems suffered by the man, even accompanied him to and fro, to crafts, funerals and all kinds of events. Although Don Adolfo never alerted of any problems, some relatives explain that, for some time, was "distressed" because the phone constantly ringing and ringing. Who called it both? "Strange people asking for money," they reply.
Nobody knows the whereabouts of the Virxe do Crystal, one of the world's smallest Marian sizes. The shadows surrounding the crime of Adolfo Enriquez, the priest of Vilanova dos Infantes (Celanova, Ourense) beaten to death without anyone hear or saw anything, also wrap this tiny capsule blown glass seventeenth century and only five centimeters, the priest kept in his house. I was afraid that was stolen from the sanctuary erected on the site where a farmer found in 1630. In this temple, except the days of worship, there is a replica. Earlier in Vilanova was already stolen a valuable ciborium which was never heard. When a few days ago, the
brother of the priest, his sister and a neighbor entered the house, they found the dog locked, the corpse in a haystack and chaos.
Neighbors report that was too confident: "The front door was always open to anyone. At night, even leaning left the entrance courtyard to let in the dog. "
In the village, everyone knew who kept the crystal size at Everything was messed up. home and a few days before, They had even removed the showed it to tourists. sheets. With research under judice, Don Adolfo used to take the the investigation has just picture above but, that day, emerged that the man was the researchers did not find beaten to death and that either his body or on first crime is linked to theft. inspection. The bishopric and formally Besides him, a nun of denounced the Celanova knew exactly disappearance of the Virgin, where or places of the analyzed repeatedly. rectory used to hide the And, as related by the figure. religious community, the At death, then added experts concluded the same uncertainty that consumed thing: leaving aside the the faith of devotees during economic value, its day and a half. uniqueness lies in the milagrosa complicated for The judicial police vetoed developing believers size the entrance to the house, with the technical means 400 still sealed and guarded. years. When religious availed,
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Design in the glass factory Verallia.
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Again, the brand of glass containers of Saint-Gobain Group has invited students of containers and packaging of the School of Design of La Rioja (ESDIR) to participate in the Second Edition Contest Glass and Building Verallia . This time I intend to design packaging that reflects the Mediterranean character using glass as innovative material.
To familiarize them with the nature of the material and the glassmaker process, students and teachers of 3rd year Product visited the March 4 factory Burgos.
limitations in creating a package.
Beside the ESDIR the Elisava, IED Barcelona, ESD San Pablo CEU Valencia and Universidad Europea de There they received them its Madrid schools also director, technicians and participate. marketing, and after a Students thank the team explanation of the production Verallia this visit and how system, market and trend well attended them and hope report, went to visit the plant, to make good projects and, to know the possibilities and hopefully, wishing them like last year.
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Our Newsletter is worded in:
The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with current management.
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The purpose of this Association is to
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promote, encourage and support many
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When glass culture
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Our goal is to develop and collaborate with other public or private entities in the promotion, protection and dissemination of art and culture. Our members may be fees, benefactors, Full and juveniles.
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Presidente honorario
Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
Vicepresidente
José María Gallardo Breña
Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
Vocales
Javier Gómez Gómez
Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos
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Mario Sergio Ramos.