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Monthly Newsletter
Anu Penttinen Balance.
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The end of the year 2014 is approaching and also to wish all our readers to spend one Christmas as pleasant as possible, it is time to take stock or stock of the activities of our Association this year we are going.
an extensive report of Craft Fair of Castilla-La our visit in the Bulletin of Mancha, greeting last May. craftsmen glassmakers were at the fair. In this May in Toledo visited the exhibition of In September we moved our partner Pablo Pizarro to Rome and had the in The Caves of pleasure of seeing the Hercules, publishing the collection of glass that is corresponding article in exposed in the Vatican our Newsletter last June. Museums.
Our current project "star", "MAVA Concert" has had nine concerts a month, plus six concerts in the First Cycle Piano & 5 concerts at the First Cycle Classical Guitar, both called "Castle Valderas".
Also in this Bulletin published the report referred to our visit to the Museum of Segovia to attend a conference Paloma Pastor, Director of the Technology Museum of Glass.
On the other hand, it is eleven Bulletins that have published, as in previous years, we reserve the month of August for our summer break. We visited a total of eleven exhibitions, mainly painting, different Madrid Museums.
Also in this issue includes the story of our visit to the exhibition of Silvia Levenson at the Teatro Goya Multiespacio, Madrid, on the occasion of the Congress "Universal Jurisdiction in the XXI Century".
In June we made a first tour of the Romanesque of the province of We drove to Cerdanyola Guadalajara, visiting the to visit the beautiful buildings located in stained glass "Ladies in various towns of the Cercanyola" published province.
In October we visited Aranda de Duero to attend the opening of the exhibition "The beauty of the fragility" of the glass of Segovia and visit The Ages of Man. Here is a report of this event in our newsletter. And just attend the International Congress on World Heritage Cultural Landscapes and held at the Pavilion Cecilio Rodriguez Gardens in Madrid's Retiro. For next year we plan, as most notable exponents, travel to the UK to attend the Biennial of Glass in the town of Stourbridge and in October to make a return visit to the French city of Strasbourg to attend a year the opening of the Biennale of Glass to be held in that city.
In August we visited in Segovia studio-workshop Alba Martin, publishing a report on the visit to our Newsletter. All these visits are announced in advance in Also in August visited the our respective town of Buitrago Madrid. newsletters so that our readers can join at any In October we went to Toledo for a spin by the time.
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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:
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Important issue: the Intellectual Property Law (XLII) M.A.C. Intellectual Property Law
b) To establish general tariffs to Evaristo Bellotti determine the BOOK III Medieval glass in Málaga remuneration payable Protection of the for the use of its 4th Exhibition of Buenos Aires rights recognized repertoire, which shall Activities on the MAVA by this Law include reductions for News TITLE IV cultural bodies without Our activities Management bodies gainful purpose. Glass recycling of the rights c) to enter into How does recognized in the general contracts with Law associations of users Part of the month
of its repertoire whenever such associations request 1. Collecting and are societies are obliged: representative of the sector. a) A contract with anyone who requests 2. While the parties it, unless good do not reach an cause, the grant of agreement, the non-exclusive authorization shall be licenses of rightsdeemed granted if the managed, under applicant pays subject reasonable or legally entered the conditions and low amount demanded by pay. the management Article 157 Other liabilities
CONTENTS:
Part of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Evaristo Bellotti
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Medieval glass in Málaga
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Exhibition of Buenos Aires 7 Activities in Museums
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Activities in the MAVA
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Concert MAVA
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Roman glass in Museums
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Guitar Series I
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Biennial of Glass in UK
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Museum in L'Ollería
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URGENT NEWS
Cristal no, glass yes
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News
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New workshop Igor Obeso.
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Concert at the MAVA
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Ripollés in the Riviera
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The glass museum
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Ampoule essences
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Belgian Glass Biennale
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Viloria visit Vicrila
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Glass recicled
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Olaffur Eliasson
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Cultural tours
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Culture 2014 Programme
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Magical Art Glazier
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Other trends
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Polish Museum
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Jika Kolbe in Madrid
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Robert Micklesen
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Award Cerviglás
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Congress on PC
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How does
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Head Olmeca
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Laminated glass Invention
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Science Week, Jaén
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Dome of the Reichstag
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Saint Gobain Glass creates 39 Corning Announces Gorilla 40 The Tower Bridge
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entity according to the general tariffs. 3. The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall not apply to the management of rights relating to literary, dramatic, dramaticmusical, choreographic or pantomime works, or concerning the singular use of one or more works of any kind required separate authorization from the owner. 4. In addition, the management entities are obliged to enforce the rights to equitable remuneration corresponding to different assumptions under this Act and to exercise the right to authorize cable distribution.
The next day, December 12, excellent glassblower and friend, Igor Obeso, will inaugurate its new facilities in the Industrial Estate Sales in Irun. It also has a new website, Argia Badago, with modern design in which you can navigate very easily and get a lot of custom work, both artistic and technical. We hope and wish that still has much more successful in their management and good work in their new facility, which, as we may, we will not see, as we did in its previous location.
Writings unanswered by the Department.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of parts that make up the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Chance 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 Madrid social services to install the MAVA.
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Part of de month. Miloslava Nieveldová.
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Miloslava Nieveldová graduated in 1976 at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University in Prague, after attending the School of Applied Arts in this city.
his works, Miloslava Nieveldová is glass. It is introduced in this world without technical knowledge than glass requires, but from the beginning obtained excellent results carried away by his intuition and working on his own.
beauty, mixed with organic elements such as gastropods or legs that support the piece. A single color pervades the work.
It is the light that It began as a painter and produces changes and graphic designer, initially, tonal variations to pass within a fairly traditional more or less dense aesthetics. Following the principles surfaces, discovering his However, from the midof the Czech School, living passage contrasts 80s, there was a fracture whose middle generation and textures. in orientation, thereafter is integrated choose to "Laid" was one of the leaning toward perform his works with works with which postmodernism under the glass casting mold. Miloslava Nievaldová influence of Czech art This technique has the participated with Eva group The Stubborn. property of resulting Vlckova, Lenka As a painter declares that works bodied, fully Cermáková, Anna tries to fill the white sculptural. Matoušková, Dana surface of the canvas Zámečníková, Jirina Within the abstract and using colors to create Zertová and Dana symbolic universe works harmony. Vachtová in the exhibition Miloslava Nieveldová, the Sensitive Touch (MAVA In the early 90s, looking surfaces are worked with 2002) sponsored by The for the third dimension in natural forms and Studio Glass Gallery references of great London. www.amigosmava.org
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Established artists. Anu Penttinen.
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She also has her own shop, Nounou, in the district of central Helsinki, Punavuori, but lives in Nuutajärvi, a town located 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest of the capital and known for its factories and glass artists.
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"I like the process of glassblowing," she says. "It is immediate, and you have to make quick decisions. I like how the hot glass behaves, has its own personality. However, it is not easy at all material and that is why it keeps me interested." The most important design element today is the color.
Anu Penttinen knows his glass, as it is their medium of choice as an artist and she has a studio at the Nuutajärvi Glass Village. He graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and his art reflects his interest in the phenomena and details of the urban environment. Maps, city streets and transport -the move from one place to another and from one location to another-has always been fascinated: "How I filter my visual world of concrete places and human activity, which may
end up as abstracts for my pieces of glass. "
For nearly a decade, using only black and white. Then he began to incorporate more color.
His preference is for strong colors and clarity of form.
"It's really hard," he says. "But at the same time, it is It is one of the most unique and interesting to get to most successful Finnish glass combinations that work well with patterns that I use is never artists. just one or the other -. Is the Live in a quaint little town, but color model". she finds inspiration in street maps, artificial environments, "Today, it is increasingly landscapes and urban details, common for glass artists do their own work," says not the usual ingredients of Penttinen. Finnish glass design. Penttinen has exhibited his art "In the old days, none of glass artists in Finland really knew in striking glass worldwide, how to blow glass. And, again, including the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, there are many industrial glass designers today who know not Britain and Australia. how to use glass".
Young artists. Karen Nyholm. In much of the work of Karen Nyholm was worried about the combination of glass with different materials to accentuate the inherent qualities of the glass.
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or its origin but by its colors, design and a first impression. When I rediscovered also rediscovered had been a hunch.
I used these figures to "One day, while cleaning create a series of objects that illustrate the in the basement, found some porcelain figurines. associated emotions that I have for each They were figures who had collected as a child. I individual figure. The series is also an had selected each exploration of childhood carefully. fears, ambitions and Not in relation to how it insecurities ". was made, nor its price
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Evaristo Bellotti in the MAVA.
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The MAVA inaugurated on the 10th of this month of November, the exhibition 'fractions' of the sculptor, painter, draftsman and writer Andalusian Evaristo Bellotti, which presents objects of different materials at different times: whole, broken or even reduced to a lots of dust.
reduced to powder, expresses three moments of their identity. But there is a fourth possibility, that is the 'Fractions' experience try Bellotti.
"When the restorer reconstructs broken bottle glass and repositions each The show aims to bring the part into place, looking viewer a direct experience back to its original shape. of the shape of objects, not If successful, it may be said that restoring the only glass but also of bottle has recovered, paper, plastic, egg shells, largely, if not entirely, its ceramic or cardboard. true way. not so in A glass bottle found on the Fractions ". beach serves paradigmatic Thus, the Andalusian object of this experience. sculptor proceeds in an The object, says the artist, alternative way, appears with a clear and reclassifying first and then distinct when it preserves manipulating the pieces of glass bottle with other its integrity. criteria. When it breaks, its original form survives or Thus, when the artist disappears completely otherwise proceeds to broken parts, according to reconstruct the remaining the degree of disintegration parts of the original bottle, of the fragments. the form that emerges is not duplicated in the same The same glass bottle, way, but the report. whole, in pieces or
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This new form, new, is one among many possible, radically different from the original and of itself. the artist Born in Algeciras in 1955, Bellotti moved to Madrid to complete his training. From the 80, emerged among the most outstanding sculptors of the time. His work from classical antiquity through the use of the fragment and motifs inspired by mythology and Mediterranean essence. Enrolled in Post-Modernity, has endeavored to renew the languages of sculpture. His work has toured many cities in Spain, Europe and North America. This exhibition was visited in the Technological Museum Farm in October 2013 and last year we published an article about it in our Bulletin of November of that year, with a large photo report.
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Glass and ceramic medieval in Málaga.
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The City of Malaga, the Malaga Foundation, the University of Nottingham and the Museum of Glass collaborating on a project of scientific interest that analyzes the production in Málaga glass and ceramics glazed medieval times. Málaga, as noted historian alMaqqari, was one of the main centers of production of glassware in Caliphate and Taifa kingdoms during the Nasrid era and became a benchmark in the production of Mediterranean blue tiles luxury and golden.
Muslim and Christian territories.
condition and with reliable material 'The al-Andalus Glass Project' is a from the archaeological point of multidisciplinary research project to view, to which they have contributed date, involving researchers from the interventions carried out by the teams and companies that have Universities of Nottingham and Leicester (UK) and the University of made Malaga studies archeology. Cordoba in Spain. In this phase of the project has taken 19 samples of glass dating For this, the project has already conducted two rounds of analysis of from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. archaeological material from the
These samples were analyzed by microprobe. The results indicate that these glasses were produced by using several different recipes, some characteristics of the medieval period and others that This made Málaga in the natural order of the next step in the appear to be of Roman origin. Some According to the agreement, research already undertaken by the Section of Archaeology at GMU has of the samples had an intermediate 'The al-Andalus Glass Project' in the made a search on your database composition, suggesting that for city of Córdoba, as reported in the manufacturing recycled glass with and proceeded to the review of presentation. reports for selected samples of the Roman Islamic glass were used. Section of Archaeology of the greater reliability and stratigraphic These results suggest that the Malaga craftsmen made their own Municipal Planning Department acts isolation. as depository institution of heritage We have chosen a sample with glass, with oriental recipes but with items on the study and its chronological criteria interest, since raw materials (sand and plant ash) contextual information is developed; it includes all production from of local origin. while Málaga Foundation acts as emirales time periods and Some of Malaga's oldest glasses funding and institution responsible throughout the centuries analyzed (X-XI centuries) also have for distributing the study and its Andalusian domain, including a slightly different composition, results among the lay public. possessing an intermediate moments of contact with the date Andalusian cities of Córdoba and Málaga, whose results are being integrated into the overall picture of glassmaking in the Mediterranean in the First Millennium AD.
Meanwhile, the Museum of Glass and Malaga is the advisory institution specializing in the subject about which deals with the study and "The al-Andalus Glass Project" is the researcher and institution dealing disseminating the study and results in specialist.
Christian population after the conquest, in order to assess the technical changes and if possible verify their origin.
The terms of collaboration have been aimed at verifying the chemical analysis of archaeological material, particularly glass and glazed ceramics Medieval, excavated in Málaga, with the overall aim of increasing knowledge about these archaeological materials and their importance in economic life city and study ways of reproduction and transmission technology and contacts between
From the technical point of view, seems to be a city with a notable presence of the glass industry and, above all, of glazed ceramics, and is in fact the place of origin of a type known as Golden Pottery productions that Malagueña became very popular throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Málaga offers ideal conditions for studying this material for a number of technical and administrative issues.
It was possible to recover production workshops in good
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chemical signature between own compositions Roman and Islamic times. Recycling practices would widespread glass: glass old Roman would be mixed with new date Islamic produced, resulting in an intermediate composition. The project objectives are mediumterm to extend the number of samples analyzed and connecting the results with the general picture of the Mediterranean, especially in North Africa; and develop the implications of technological transmission between al-Andalus and neighboring regions in the Middle Ages.
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4th Exhibition of Glass in Buenos Aires.
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On Thursday November 13, 2014 the 4th National and International Exhibition of Glass City of Buenos Aires was inaugurated. The jury was composed of: Liliana Waisman - Miguel Diez Edgardo De Bortoli - Claudio Dagna - Damian Abramowitz.
Veahcolor 1st Prize: Lucia Selser Cortabotellas 2nd Prize: Carlos Riva 2nd Prize Gala: Gabriela Franco Veahcolor 3rd Prize: Eduardo Veahcolor 3rd Prize: Elisa Lavorato Demaestri mentions: mentions A Technique: Lorena Riga A Technique (Stained Glass): Sofia Villamarin A Creativity: Rubén Pire
With over 50 participants, the winners were:
A Technique (Mosaic): Norma Panighetti
Honor Award Veahcolor: Ma.Eugenia Alvarez Herrero.
Categories works B (Works Merger)
Winners Category A (Stained
Veahcolor 1st Prize: Natalia
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Design: Lidia Godfrid mentions: Graciela Nadur - María de los Santos - Monica Sampedro
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Activities in Museums I.
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Activities in Museums II.
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Activities in Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. XIV Science Week.
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Some 1,400 people have passed through the facilities of the Glass Art Museum of Alcorcon (MAVA), on the Castillos de San José de Valdez, on the occasion of the celebration of the Fourteenth Science Week of the Community of Madrid, between students and adults. From Tuesday, November 11, until Friday 15, have
passed through these facilities 1,015 students from 17 primary schools and secondary schools in various localities of the Community of Madrid, with a specific program for elementary students and other different for high school. To these must be added the participants in the workshops for families.
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During these four days, nearly 1,400 people have participated in all activities have attended exhibitions blown glass and glass torch, guided tours and a screening of the film "Giant Crystals". Partners and sponsors of this activity have been Pobel, SL, ECOVIDRIO and the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Concert MAVA.
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performers, the description of the circumstances surrounding Mozart in This time it was played by composition and the group 100 Notes, His execution was superb characteristics of the which consists of five and the audience who Quintet, as we usually do, students from Madrid attended this concert this time we begin a Royal Conservatory. rewarded them with welljourney through the deserved applause. Its members are: history of the classical As in all our educational music, which will go Jaime González, clarinet, concerts at the end of her reeling through Abel Cruz Lezama, violin performance we had an successive chapters in I, interesting discussion the upcoming concert. between the audience Gonzalo de la Lastra, Thank you very special and the artists and so we violin II, group 100 Notes learned, among other Marta Gómez, viola, and participating in our things, that his name was "Concert MAVA" and Nathan Giorgetti, I cello. suggested to them by a Miguel Angel Colmenero chain of catering They performed "Quintet Foundation for its support establishments. for clarinet and strings in program for us to do this A major" by Mozart. In this concert, in addition contribution to musical to reporting the culture possible. This complex work curriculum of its On November 28, enjoyed a new concert in the Auditorium of MAVA.
consists of four movements: Allegro, Larghetto, Minuet and Finale (Allegretto).
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (I).
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the craftsman who makes This study titled "The Roman the socio-economic and cultural context in which they Glass Museum in Madrid", appear and their relationship tries to give an overview of with other manifestations the pieces of Roman glass craft or artistic. found in the Community. Eduardo Alonso Cereza.
The research was carried out in different museums of the capital: Archaeological Museum, Museo Cerralbo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Cabinet of Antiquities of the Real Academia de la Historia, Museo San Isidro, Sorolla Museum and Museum of Decorative Arts.
The Roman glass will be of great importance for the revolution that led to the blowing technique, as already stated professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid Ángel Fuentes, through which prices became cheaper and was carried out faster .
collective unconscious different aspects to consider using the new material. Quickly articles for the personal use extend, tableware and storage etc. It is noteworthy that the normalization of the matter in everyday life to this day. From the Roman period are still using the technique of glass blowing.
During the Middle Ages its composition is characterized by the widespread substitution of sodium for The number of parts is vast, But I think that the most important was the addition to potassium, being the poorest rich and varied, typological and decorative predominantly ointment and the daily life of a type of art to which the vast majority of repertoire, especially with glasses belonging to tableware or storage, and to the population was not used, regard to domestic use, without abandoning interest because its use was a lesser extent those most most important pieces, in sophisticated and luxurious, restricted to a minority; the some cases, reflect the as are those in mosaic glass glass has become popular or carved, and those devoted perception of a new material luxury through imitation as happened with pasta glass which is introduced in to personal adornment. embedded in Visigothic everyday use by extending In general they are very votive crowns, or used as to a larger population functional, but this quality means for transmitting a concepts and fragility, does not diminish their religious or philosophical transparency, translucency, importance when analyzing thought: God is light, light light effects, and others them and to draw therefrom relating to the desirability that penetrate through the important information about Gothic windows. use; ie introduced into the www.amigosmava.org
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I Cycle Guitar "Castle Valderas".
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In last November the last three concerts I Cycle Classical Guitar "Castle Valderas" took place in the Auditorium of MAVA.
Sandra Diaz Barrios, meanwhile, performed "Studio" op. 60 # 7 of Matteo Carcassi and Allegro (Partita XV) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello.
Galliard" by John Dowland and "Take two" of Reinhard Kaisers.
Barrios Medina Molero, performed "Drei Märchenbilder aus der Oper" Pollicino "by Hans Werner Henze.
The Soul-Tasto duo formed by Celia Exposito Otero and Laura Salazar Ramirez played "Morenita do Brazil" by Giuseppe Farrauto, "My Lord Chamberlain, His
has been a success, both for interpretation and public who have expressed to us their joy at being able to enjoy these great performances.
On 21 intervened Guitar Ensemble Conservatory of Music "Teresa Berganza" The 7th participated which began operating with guitarists Amandine Savary Daniel Medina Molero interpreted Study No. VI of individual performances by and Fernando Alonso. Leo Brouwer and "Teardrop" Tony Munoz, Almudena Amandine performed by Francisco Tarrega. Cano, José Emilio Navarro, "Prelude and Fugue" by JS Rocío Cruz, Lucia Ruz, Bach, the first movement of Carter played Marta Viloria Elena de Blas, Mario the Sonata AJ Martinez and Study op. 60 No. 25 Fernando Sor, Histoire vraie Deleyto, Alberto Lara and "November Day" by Leo Nikita Dorokhin, concluding # 2 of Jeannine Richer, Brouwer. Prelude No. 1 by Manuel M. with the implementation by Fernando Alonso played Ponce and Study No. XIV of all Guitar Ensemble, works "Meulan" by N. Coste, the "Joropo" by A. Forrest and first movement of the Sonata Leo Brouwer. "The bare necesities" T. Laura Salazar Ramirez of Fernando Sor and various Gilkyson, arranged by Ana played Appunti op. 210 No. Januarius, Professor of set movements of "Suite III of Mario CastelnuovoCompostelana" of F. and consists of Ziro Tedesco and Marieta Mompou. Sánchez, Ciro Fernández, (Mazurka) by Francisco On 14 scholarship students Jara Torres, Alba Arcos, Tarrega. participated in the Second Lucia Ruz, Elena de Blas, Villoslada Marta Duran International Guitar Course Nikita Dorokhin, Tony Muñoz, Ex Corde held in the town of played Prelude op 46 # 1 of Mario Deleyto, Rocío Cruz, Molina de Aragón of 6 to 13 Emilia Giuliani, Study No. 25 Almudena Cano, Alberto Dionisio Aguado and last July. Lara, J.Emilio Navarro and Prelude No. 3 of Heitor Villa- the Ana Jenaro own. The GUITART duo formed Lobos. by Sandra Diaz and Daniel The Cycle of Classical Guitar
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Biennial of Glass in UK.
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As published in our newsletter last September and on our Facebook page last day November 9, we visit in the month of May next Biennale of Glass to be held in the British town of Stourbridge 25 year to May 30, 2015.
Each British Glass Biennale has a new jury. Jurors see all pictures anonymously, to judge each piece on its own merit. The goal is to give each artist participating the same opportunity to have a selected job and create the same rules for all artists.
hosted. The Ruskin Glass Centre Ltd is a subsidiary of the Ruskin Mill Educational Trust, a charity pioneered specialized for young people with learning difficulties education.
The Foundation promotes culture, arts and special Each British Glass Biennale education in the context of is an exhibition of The Biennial is not intended social regeneration and is contemporary glass artists to establish a historical study inspired by the ideas of John who work and live in the UK Ruskin, William Morris and but to take the pulse of the and working the glass. Rudolf Steiner. scene of the British glass Since the opening of the today; to observe and reflect Our journey of five days will exhibition in 2004 nearly 500 on emerging trends and be held in Madrid Ryanair glass works have been flight to London, to travel by influences every year. exhibited by the British Glass train to the city of It also aims to put the UK Biennale thousands of Birmingham, where we stay artists on an international visitors. platform and to value what is at one of the hotels in the Ibis chain is in this city. The artists present work for being achieved in this the selection you have made country with glass. Every day we will travel by in the past two years and are The Ruskin Glass Centre is train from Birmingham to available for purchase. Stourbridge and return half located in the historic an hour. The authors of the works neighborhood of have to be living and working Stourbridge, located in the The budget for our trip will be in the UK for the past two around 400 € 130 € for industrial heart of the West years, ie, showing the Midlands; on the site of the flights, € 80 for travel by commitment to be based in train, € 170 for former glassworks Webb Britain. accommodation with Corbett / Royal Doulton. Each jury is composed of five It is also where the exhibition breakfast and € 20 for tickets members selected from a of the Biennale of Glass and to the Festival. range of specialists. the International Festival is
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The Glass Museum in L'Ollería.
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We borrow, given the interest of its content, an article of Jesus Redondo Martínez including on his Facebook page. The text is as follows: "Readme PLEASE More activities in the House Santonja not related to the use that was initially promised the people of L'Olleria. In the 90s the Palace of the Marau, House Santonja, was purchased in order to create there the glass museum of the Valencian community. Many years later and with a huge investment in various actions, still empty even being announced as a museum in all tourist routes. The various local authorities who have gone over the years, promised to finish the museum supplementing it with a permanent exhibition
of ancient glass, tools, materials etc, etc ... Possibly not run the best times to spend money on other things than social issues such as food do not miss anyone's plate, but we have to take into account that part of the history of glass is ending in L'Olleria chatarreros without anyone doing anything about it.
nothing to do with the original commitment we so desire and what we have waited so long.
Lest anyone think I want to politicize the issue, I mean if it's true that we worked on related to the glass activities, which have not been implemented for lack of funds, that does not mean they have fallen on deaf ears but such once policymakers Do not want to blame need a little pressure from anyone or point the finger, or the residents of L'Olleria. despise any achievement as the extension of the If you agree with me please University. share this state to revive the dream of the long-awaited Personally I think both can Museum of Glass House coexist in the same location, Valencia Palau dels Santonja but as a master craftsman, Macau ". president of the Association of Friends of Glass Route For our part, only wish the and treasurer of Aviva Glass Museum project association glassmakers of comes to fruition in the the Valencian community, I shortest time possible. The must protest have bypassed memory of glassmaking in the product Local and prevail L'Ollería deserves it. other matters that have
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Cristal no, glass yes.
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The term "crystal" is used quite often as synonymous with glass, but he is wrong in science because the glass is an amorphous solid (its molecules are arranged irregularly) and not a crystalline solid.
viscosity liquids which often has been applied.
Well, even though it has already been said many times that the glass has nothing to do with the glass, we are still seeing on the information provided by the highest If the stability of its form levels of our cultural glasses could be landscape cataloging as assimilated to solid, from "crystal" items which are the point of view of their glass. structural disorder Thus, in our visit to the similarities with fluids are exhibition of Luciano much more pronounced. Fabro in the Palacio de This fact constitutes a VelĂĄzquez del Retiro, limitation to include under the Reina Sofia glasses between solids, Museum, we saw how, is nevertheless on several occasions, insufficient to authorize and referring to the accept as liquids, materials that are created although can justify the some of the works, designation of infinite reported that they are "crystal" when it is
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obvious that they are made of glass. Indeed, in the press release included on the website of the Museum, where it is reported the opening of this exhibition, indicated "... and includes some of his early work in crystal, mirror or fabric ...". We believe that given the category that holds the Reina Sofia Museum in the global art scene should be more careful to include information about the works exhibited, and should not collaborate in expanding the undoubted confusion in our country about the nature of glass and crystal.
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Fire in the glass factory of La Granja. The stated in the glass factory fire SGD La Granja has originated in one of the ovens available to his property and that has affected part of the roof. The fire started about 16.40 pm last day 2 without more data have been provided on the extent of damage from the flames, which are controlled through the work of six firefighters Park Segovia helped with two fire according to the information of the body and central government representatives gathered by Europa Press.
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Culture 2014. The Italian artist (Turin Milan 1936- 2007), one of the main creators of arte povera, arrives at the Palacio de Velázquez in the first exhibition of his work is done without their direct involvement. This anthology, composed mainly of sculptures and installations, gathers around 60 works in marble, silk, mirrors, glass, bronze, brass, reindeer hair, pasta, acetate, ... and takes us through his more than forty years creation. The birth of an artist Luciano Fabro occurs in Milan in the first half of the sixties, a little before I saw the light Italian Arte Povera movement. In 1967, precisely in an exhibition called so, "povera" exposes Fabro Paolini, Kounellis and Pino Pascali. Overall, still according to the critical Celant, their common cause is a stripped art images and objects, rhetoric and symbolism.
We have been in the Palacio de Velázquez, located in Madrid's Retiro, visiting the
exhibition of works by Luciano Fabro.
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In addition, leans to maintain an empirical relationship with reality, based on a commitment of all the senses, with emphasis on craftsmanship and the use of ordinary materials.
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Concerts in the MAVA.
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The next day December 19 performance of child choir soprano Marta del Barrio is planned.
program to full occupation of their capacity.
composed of five concerts.
We believe it is an With this concert we said excellent contribution to The concert will be held, goodbye 2014 which will musical culture to our like all the "Concerts in have made nine concerts, town and we thank the MAVA" of our the Piano Cycle I, Miguel Angel Colmenero Association in the composed of six Foundation support for Museum Auditorium at 19 concerts, and I Cycle the realization of our pm and entry is free Classical Guitar program.
Ripollés in the Riviera. works from different artistic disciplines. In this large sample Ripollés presented in Cannes five large sculptures of fiberglass coated glass bead, located outside the Grand Hotel in Cannes.
CANNES.- art Ripollés the inauguration of a has returned to France for complete exhibition of
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Along with an exhibition at the Terre des Arts Gallery, which displays paintings, prints and sculptures.
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The glass in Museums: Casa Lis.
Our web
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The glass we see in Europe in decades preceding repeated shapes and decorations Venetian models or Bohemia with a growing interest in the use of color. Authors such as Émile Gallé, formed in areas in which the repetition of models was the general trend, managed to revolutionize with his genius and creativity decorative art glass. To do this, Gallé opened a path of research and recovery techniques sometimes forgotten that led to one of the most fruitful periods in the history of glass. Émile Gallé, promoter and ideologue of the School of Nancy, is a key figure in the development of Art Nouveau. The popularity reached its creations, thanks to its artistic talent and his successful business acumen, raised the status
of the glass piece to the category of artistic work: Gallé caused a real transformation to apply to your designs the language of his time in an original way. Using glass as a painter, handles pigments and manages to give an unprecedented expressive production capacity. The commercial success of Gallé glasses made his style was quickly copied inside and outside France. Firms like D'Argental or Daum brothers used the same techniques and similar models made famous production. The Loetz glass, iridescent look with shades of metallic reflections were popular around 1900 and reflected great skill in technique and design. Other holiday as Kralik or Pallme-König used this decorative effect in inkwells or vases. René Lalique is a prominent figure in the
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history of glass Art Deco. Unlike the works of Gallé, where nature is as we perceive it, Lalique takes in his work an exercise in abstraction taking an element styling and systematically repeated. In the 20s and 30s, the opalescent effect obtained by adding arsenic to the vitreous mass was a very common decorative appeal. Although, the most famous author in these pieces of milky appearance was Lalique, Marius Ernest Sabino also exploited the decorative possibilities of this technique in many shapes. The collection of glasses Museum Art Nouveau and Art Deco consists of over 200 pieces signed by the most representative authors of the time. Vases, perfume bottles, sculptures, lamps or table games are some of the wonders that visitors can admire the Casa Lis.
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Glass ampoule essences.
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Promise to the faithful of "a perfumed paradise with large rivers, trees and gardens and beautiful houris of black eyes, made of pure musk" appears.
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That desire to discover new scents and enjoy is what will lead to a tireless search for the most remote places and countries. A 'spice route ", from East to West was created for it; specifically the Mediterranean.
Part of the month that was chosen by the Patronato de la Alhambra in November, is a glass ampoule which was used for essences in Granada Nazari.
Are very similar to those Hispano essences such as ginger, cinnamon, scented woods or Indian sandalwood today. Lemon, violet, rose and amber scents were most commonly used.
Through this blister, you can know the importance Depended on the Hispano culture reached season, the occasion and in the use of perfumes, even the mood. ointments or oils. So important was the Today as then, a huge perfume, which is variety of aromas flooded included in the treaties of public, religious or private hygiene, food and spaces. medicine. The perfumes were used In the Qur'an even the as today, both by women passion that Muhammad as by men of any social had to perfumes is clear. status. The theme is repeated many times.
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Because of the importance that reached perfumes, arose special containers to contain them. Perfumers, esencieros or blisters that were made in glass. Even was so precious, that the container was more or less elaborate depending on the person. They could even go carved figurations vegetable or inlaid geometric motifs. All details about the glass, and socio-cultural aspects of Nazari Granada surrounding aspects were exposed Morillas Montserrat Moreno at the conference of the Piece of the Month.
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Glass Biennale in Belgium.
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Objects with Glass blog.
International Glass Art Biennale 2014 (IGB) The next December 5 the second edition of the International Glass Art Biennale 2014 (IGB) in Belgium was inaugurated. This is an exhibition that brings together artists from different countries facilitating contact between them and the public and serves as a platform for exchange between artists, galleries, museums, collectors and people passionate about art glass. A second edition of this event 43 works by various artists of contemporary glass in all aspects, which makes it more attractive will be presented individually. Argentina participates representing the artist Dina Priess Dos Santos
Van der Speeten Maurice (President. "In some jobs, surprised by the results of the use of new types as borosilicate glass, dichroic glass iridescent glass or intense colors In other works, artists achieve innovative results, adding a touch of traditional glass .
With established and emerging artists, the International Glass Art Biennal 2014 helps us understanding and appreciation of contemporary glass art by accessing learn important artistic innovations.
paradoxical combination of fragility and hardness makes it a fitting metaphor for the complexity of the bodies, structures, society, or even the fleeting nature of life itself.
From 5 to December 14, 2014
This exhibition provides a forum for the creation of new Glass is rich in metaphorical works, will mark an important potential, can be step in the development of transparent, opaque, flashy contemporary glass or unfathomable; can be manufacturing "milestone. molded, cast, cut and Facts: polished, or fractured, the same term used to describe International Glass Art Biennale 2014 (IGB) people and their http://www.artksp.be/ personalities. The glass also embodies the glassart.html
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José Luis Viloria visit Vicrila.
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In 1966 he directed the film 'Forges de Cristal', shot in Stained Glass and glassware Lamiaco (current VICRILA) and other Group companies Glassware Spanish. Lasting 28 minutes, this film won first prize in the National Industrial Film Contest.
generation of young directors, forged in the Official Film School (Madrid). This school counted among its professors professionals like Carlos Fernández-Cuenca, Carlos Serrano de Osma, Florentino Soria, Enrique Alarcón or Luis García Berlanga.
A year later, he directed the documentary NO-DO Throughout his career, he 'Forges Glass' repeating has received numerous the same locations. awards for his work, which include the Golden Under the locution Matias Spike (Valladolid, 1961), Prats father, for about 11 by 'Zamora, land summit', minutes explains the the First National Prize of discovery and creation of Industrial Cinema glass. (Valencia, 1966 ) for Born in Zamora, Jose 'Living a dream', the Luis Viloria belongs to a National Award for
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Industrial Film (Valencia, 1966), by 'Forges de cristal', and the Second National Industrial Film Award (Málaga, 1968), by 'Firestone Hispania 67'. Since the foundation want to show their sincere thanks to a filmmaker who knew faithfully capture the industrial reality of an era and certainly part of the story VICRILA. To see 'Forges de Cristal': https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_tDkiOEgOis To View Forges Glass': https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=72uJnkpzU6A
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Recycling. Recycled glass bricks.
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An international consortium with extensive Spanish participation proof "successfully" LIFE ClayGlass the European project, which involves replacing part of clay recycled glass as a fluxing agent in the manufacture of ceramic bricks, as reported by the project managers.
If the feasibility is confirmed it be possible to reduce the cooking temperature because begins to melt at lower temperatures, achieving energy savings of between 10 and 15%.
Commission and composed Aitemin (Association for Research and Industrial Development of Natural Resources) as lead partner of the consortium for Ceramics Mora, Restart Association, This CO2 emissions Aristotle University of greenhouse also reduce Thessaloniki (Greece) (around 2,000 tonnes per and Reciclajes Pozo year in a medium-sized Cañada. Currently, the initiative is factory). being tested at laboratory It is one of 59 Spanish Also reduce the tests for subsequent projects approved in 2012 exploitation of virgin raw industrial scale. call, in the category of materials such as clay Environmental Policy and Specifically, the proposed and give output is a type Governance. LIFE ClayGlass replaced of recycled glass as a the clay used for medium-sized factory The total aid by the manufacturing ceramic could use 30 tons per European Commission brick for glass recycling day of this residue. LIFE projects in this call, as flux. in all categories, has been LIFE ClayGlass is funded of 276.71 million euros. by the European
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Olaffur Eliasson exhibited in Germany.
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From 21 November 2014 to 15 February 2015, the Kunsthalle Mannheim exhibits "Your trust," a selection of recent work by DanishIcelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, one of the most important international contemporary artists. Facilities focus on the experience of space: explores ways of human perception and our spatial experience of light, color and movement.
activated by the visitor. Your confidence titled, Your instinct, Your intuition, Your compassion and Your optimism, they function as a small "machines of perception."
Brancusi form the artistic heart of the museum.
So the exhibition "Your trust" is an extension, in terms of content and form, of Starbrick an installation that consists of 35 modules with star light, The effect depends not only light, but organized into a structure that also the position and movement of the resembles a honeycomb and hanging viewer. roof.
The installation consists of six With Starbrick, Eliasson makes glasses, lined up one behind the other fundamental questions: "how light His body of work includes installations in a metal frame. defines the space, how it affects the and sculpture as well as photography way we perceive the world ... The light Each disc is of a different color and and cinema. open undefined spaces and challenges each has a hole going from a narrow us to define our perception again. It oval to a circle. Eliasson is known for his sculptures has a special expressiveness; and large-scale installations in Looking at these layers of color, transience evokes personal feelings employing elemental materials such as shapes and reflections, we realize and stories that often develop in a light, water and air temperature to how much our perception is influenced social context. " enhance the perceptual experience of by space and materials. the viewer. The complex optical phenomena Olafur The visitor is able to see this play in Eliasson creates, are made with such Exposing the artifice of illusion, changing from many angles and simple devices such as light, mirrors, Eliasson points to the relationship perspectives. light bulbs, among others. between reality, perception and representation. It is the first time these five sculptures The simplicity and the experimental are exhibited in a museum. nature of their work, Eliasson has built The exhibition highlights, once again, him a reputation as one of the most the fundamental role that the viewer at They are complemented by a series of interesting and accessible all jobs created by Eliasson, are five watercolors, a book of great contemporary artists. installations, sculptures, photographs format made of glass (A View and architectural projects, because it Becomes a Window, 2013) and a Its facilities produce such is only through the reception, the floater (Navigation star, 2011). overwhelming effect that sometimes concepts are fully effective . seems to leave us spellbound. The works in the exhibition are It is the encounter between the viewer displayed in two rooms of Jugendstil As often happens with his works, and his works, and how works propel building of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, human experience emerges as both a the viewer involved and engaged whose roundabout was installed last deeply individual, unique, intimate and critically. year Starbrick, a work of Olafur human, as universal process. Elliason which was acquired by the The centerpieces of "Your Trust" are museum, and along with "Big Fish" five new glass sculptures that are
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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 2014.
Cultural Tours. This December will visit the XXVII edition of the Craft Fair of Madrid to greet the glass artisans who have attended this fair, which is gaining more momentum with each passing after his transfer from Paseo edition de Recoletos.
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Our activities.
Also, at the end of this December will spend a few days in Ibiza and exploit our stay to visit any glass workshops on the island. It will also be interesting to
visit the Archaeological Museum to see the accounts of pre-Roman glass that is exposed there. This island was visited by the Phoenicians in their travels throughout the Mediterranean basin and conducted trade in their scales. Also visit the Christmas Market Craft Ibiza to try to locate a stand where handicrafts made of glass is offered.
Culture 2014 Programme. was nearing thirty, had proved their worth in Zaragoza and traveled, as they should, to Italy-. Also corresponds to the time of its consolidation as a painter at the court of Charles III and IV. Traditionally held by utilitarian means to an end (as a model for weaving a tapestry), the cartons leave their "servile status", in the words of director Miguel Zugaza, to emerge stronger from the exhibition as full "autonomous masterpieces" of shades . This December will visit the exhibition "Goya in Madrid" which opened late last November in the Museo del Prado.
the virtuous enhancement of the series, whose production ranges occupied nearly two decades of the artist's life.
To achieve this, the curators Manuela Mena and Gudrun Maurer, Department of eighteenthcentury painting and Goya museum, grouped into 15 A necessary work of A perhaps less epic than meeting series (which are improving communications inaugurate the calamities between the central gallery (deafness, illness, death of incomplete, lacking, for example, the famous The of the Museum and the children and war), but upper floor where the terribly crucial time; are the puppet and The Injured Mason, loaned to Boston cartons are exposed days of his landing in tapestry painter, has led to Madrid, when the artist and and Barcelona).
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The magical art glassmaker.
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Ballari Nino is an artist who is defined as glazier, but develops a universe of unique pieces of jewelery and objects in glass and Murano glass, accompanied by his wife Florence Chamorro. Together these days exhibit shows "Murano in La Pampa" - Jewelry Contemporánea-, at the headquarters of Arts Own Santa Rosa. Curtain Pampeano Nino spoke with this new experience in La Pampa and the process of developing these unique and attractive creations.
I took a workshop in Buenos Aires with pampeana based artist named Mariana beyond Folz, I made two different seminars that much variety within the accounts. And the rest of the training was developed to investigate, through books, videos and much practice, breaking many windows. Ever worked with glass and crystal, or you explored other materials such as stones, enamel?
perhaps the use of oxygen that can lift more temperature torch to melt, but it's basically worked as do many years. Do you also use the lost wax method? Is another technique, sculpture block, similar to the technique of bronze sculptures, but instead of melting metal, glass pieces we use a high temperature mold and melted and then copy the shape of the mold.
What inspires you to I started with ceramics, after create? I went to the glass, and does Sometimes things that I see a recently did a workshop of in books, other, I get to work, carved stones, which is and I am driven by the closely related to carving challenge of the material glass. How do you define? itself, which is pretty How the pieces are made? haphazard. And we try to Glazier. We work with create pieces that are various techniques of glass, What determines the shape, texture and design unique, it is more difficult but which is what we like. We of the same? cuter. stained glass, fused glass, glass sculpture, and jewelry. Buy glasses on the outside Does it hurt to let go of a because there is this type of piece you have sold? What was your first contact with the glass and glass in Argentina. They are Sometimes yes. I have some rods, a blowtorch is used, jewelery? saved in my own collection. and is basically melt, melt I was making pottery, which I Currently the work can be the glass, and manually like a lot, but now I quit do going through modeling tools seen in the sample, but so, when my wife, Florence, when done where can we and shaping it. began with a workshop see them? Does the job has changed vitrofusión with Susana in www.facebook.com/ with new technologies? Machado. Caught this arteniba discipline, and so we started; It is a technique that comes curiosity emerged after start from thousands of years learning other techniques. ago. Not if it has changed,
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Other trends. Ruins Calatalifa.
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The Islamic population Calatalifa (a fortified city of the ninth century, according to research) had to wait 35 years for the Community of Madrid, bringing together the skills of heritage, decided to study it.
section remains uncovered settle. The general direction of Heritage explains that, for now, research is only a preliminary study.
but precise in that it is "in the hands of the Community".
The Consistory is conducting an economic study of the project, but for now its performance has been This will be divided into two limited to perimetrar and phases: in the coming weeks mark the area with danger of In 1980 the first excavations, will take place a historical collapse. quizzes and tastings in the and geological terrain For the study -cuentan land situated on a hill near analysis, and in early 2015 a owner-Madrid has hired a the Guadarrama river at the deeper study of the area will private company. end of Villaviciosa (26,700 be. Manuel Twist, archaeologist inhabitants) were performed. "Then decide what is best for who made the first tasting in That campaign unveiled conservation," says the 1980 and has participated in what could be the fourth Department of Culture. It is excavations of Islamic cities Arab city in the region. not certain, therefore, that as Calatayud or AlcalĂĄ la But Calatalifa has not been the ruins are to be removed Vieja, has been left out. investigated since. Pressure to surface. He pointed to that could from neighbors and the poor "What we fear is that this will have Visigoths under the state of the site (which come to nothing," says Arab population remains, suffered a collapse in May) Martin, also a member of the whose extent is not yet have made the Community newly formed association known. No one will find out. decides to undertake a Calatalifa-Rahman III, which The landowners meet preliminary study of the seeks to vindicate the ruins. Thursday with Heritage to ruins. "We already gave reach a collaboration "On Wednesday came about permission to excavate 30 agreement whose terms still ten technicians and were years, we are more than unknown. walking around," says willing to do anything," he "I would like it to go ahead a Encarna Martin, owner of the says. museum," says Martin. land on which part of the wall Villaviciosa City Council also The only value of this rustic and the cisterns of the insists he is "very interested" land, once fertile, waiting population, the reservoir in investigating Calatalifa, underground.
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Polish Museum Lahdelma & Mahlamäki.
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Work of Helsinki study led by Ilmari Lahdelma and Rainer Mahlamäki, designed in collaboration with the signing of Warsaw Kuryłowicz & Associates, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is located in the Willy Brandt park. The location of the new museum building was not accidental.
outer skin is made up of copper and glass panels printed with texts in Hebrew and Latin. The museum is designed as a multipurpose center for research and exhibition of Jewish culture in a total area of 18,300 square meters, 5,000 of which are intended for the permanent exhibition, which opened last October.
Between 1941 and 1943 the The shape of the building ghetto was the center of contains a rich symbolic Polish capital. content. In April 1948, to mark the fifth anniversary of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto Monument was discovered to the Heroes of the Ghetto Uprising, when included already in the history books by the famous "Kneel Warsaw" gesture of humility and penance performed by the German Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1970.
Your homogeneous glass facade is crossed by a space as a cave.
are a major area of 4000 m² for the permanent exhibition, a conference room with capacity for 480 persons, two smaller meeting rooms and staff offices . The program includes an auditorium, a library, a cafeteria, a restaurant and officiate, highlighting the cavernous lobby of curved walls. Recently, the museum has won the Award for Architecture Finland, which first gives the association of architects in the country.
Museum the outer skin is composed of two materials: The concrete walls 20 glass panels and copper meters high that shape the vertical length of 170 cm, space were defined as gentle waves that references were placed on a metal the Biblical crossing the Red substructure, which describes the horizontal Sea by the Israelites. plane in a zigzag line. In the glass panels were Depending on the position of printed Latin and Hebrew letters that make up a frame the observer changes the character of the building. where you can read the word "polin" meaning If viewed from the front, The main entrance to the Poland. printed glass skin reflects museum is located in front of light and semitransparent In Hebrew, "polin" also this monument. means "Here you can rest." shown. The simple and compact Copper perforated panels, The museum building has rectangular volume presents however, allow the view of four high and two a double façade, whose the interior space. underground floors, which www.amigosmava.org
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Jika Kolbe in Madrid.
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Germany), The International Exhibition of Glass (Yamaha Corp. Japan), Gallery Roselare Verstraete (Belgium), Czech Contemporary Design (Beijing, China), Designblok (Prague, Czech Republic), Salone Mobile (Milan, Italy), etc. It currently specializes in the design of products for limited collections of original design copyright, such as wine glasses, pitchers, cups, plates, etc.
Jitka Kolbe The Czech designer specializes in Bohemian glass and porcelain. Lives and works in the Czech Republic, a country famous for its production of high quality glass. The artistic trajectory of Jitka Kolbe began in 1980 with his studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Czech Republic), a recognized center of world-class art. He studied in the studio of famous Professor Stanislav Libenský.
success and quickly began to exhibit and present their works in major fairs and galleries around the world. After his studies, Jitka Kolbe is especially dedicated to the sculptures of blown glass, where he took the combination of colors and transparency of glass. With its glass sculptures have been featured in several major galleries and design fairs around the world, among which are:
Young creators (Munich, Germany), The International Exhibition of In 1987 he began his Glass (Kanazawa, collaboration with the Japan), Gallery Invetro company of designers (Hannover, Germany), and architects ATIKA, Gallery L-Heine Haus where he devoted himself (Hamburg, Germany), to the production of glass Chelsea Gallery (Zurich, sculptures illuminated as Switzerland), Gallery decoration for Hoffmann (Bad architectural spaces. Griesbach, Germany), Gallery Vetro (Frankfurt, With its illuminated sculptures earned much www.amigosmava.org
It also designs art glass large, such as vases and sculptures. All products are manufactured by skilled glass blowers in factories in Bohemia, located in the northern Czech Republic. So are born original and unique fine handmade glass that uses the properties of glass of Bohemia forms. Some pieces show its raw beauty and others use gold or sand for decoration. As product is handmade, each piece is original and is labeled with the mark of the KOLBE designer. In 2005 came the first collection of porcelain Jitka Kolbe. Since then offers its collections, or individual original porcelain cups also with the KOLBE brand. In Madrid we can find their products in Kolbe Design, Road Carpetana, 139.
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Sculptures by Robert Mickelsen.
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Robert Mickelsen is one of the most renowned glass artists of the world.
prestigious collections, such as the Renwick Gallery of American Crafts at the Smithsonian Institution, the His creations are revered as Museum of Glass in Corning, revolutionary in the world of the Toledo Museum of Art, glass art, and has integrated Carnegie Museum of Art, the his figure as he has Museo Casa de la Moneda, discovered torch as an art the Cleveland Museum of form. Art, the Museum of American The year 1989 was marked Glass at Wheaton Village, as a new beginning for and the Pilchuck Glass Robert Mickelsen they School. stopped doing craft shows Robert's work is heavily that year and began focused on the shape, size, marketing his work to color and texture. galleries, which proved to be a success in his career. Creates glass sculptures great detail, paying homage His work is now part of to traditional forms of
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utilitarian glass. Some of his works include literal motifs found in nature, in human, animal and plant forms. These figurative motifs are juxtaposed with abstract shapes creating fantastic and mysterious sculptures. Robert says that his works are narratives, representing the internal process of thought. The colors you choose are bright and bold, and textures of his works invite the viewer to touch them.
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Award Cerviglás.
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The company Cerviglás won the award for Best Solution in Glass in the first round in Spain of Glass Architecture Awards organized by the French multinational Saint -Gobain Glass with the cooperation and participation of the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE ). The company gets recognition by the Administrative City of Valencia October 9 Project. The event, held in Madrid, was chaired by the Director General of SaintGobain Glass, D. Javier Colmenares Martinez, and was attended by nearly one hundred professional architects, façade and glazed accompanied the rewarded. Along with Cerviglas was also awarded to the study
of Alberto Campo Baeza, Roland and Berengué and businesses Riventi and Glass Cobo. It is about recognizing those projects that maximize the benefits of glass and its technical characteristics and that achieve unique designs integrating the building into its environment. The company shares the award and "greatly appreciates the cooperation of AIC Equip architectural firm headed by Juan Anon, because without them there would have been undertaken this flagship project of the city of Valencia," say sources of direction. The project combines different technical solutions integrating the facades and domes. While using the dichroic film is very clear and innovative, not least is
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the use of glass layer solar control, low emissivity and serigraphs. Complex combinations which together reach a high level of performance in formal and energy terms. The high complexity and automation of the glass transformation is valued. The president, Vicente Cervera, and the manager, José Cervera, were responsible for receiving the award on behalf of this company that has over thirty years working glass in all its variants. Just last year the sector also recognized his career granting the glass cube of the Union of Manufacturers and Warehouse Mirrors Glass (UNFEAC) as Partner of the Year Award 2013.
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International Congress on PC.
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of citizens, aware of the value of heritage and who appreciate visitors to our city, which increasingly number enjoy, especially the cultural attractions that Madrid offers" .
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The Congress, organized by the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage and Quality Cityscape City of Madrid, is divided into two parts.
We responding to the invitation we received from the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage and Quality Cityscape, the Government Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism of Madrid, we went on day 1 and 2 to the meetings of the International Congress.
Indicative List of World Heritage, last November 18, at the meeting of the Council of Historical Heritage in Lanzarote.
The Congress was opened by Fernando Morales Carrión, Director General of Historical Heritage of the Community of Madrid and Madrid has become for five the delegate of Arts, Sport days world leader in and Tourism of the City, cultural landscapes, Pedro Mª Corral. bringing together a Accompanied by powerful panel of institutional international experts in the representatives of the field, from Japan, Mexico, Ministry of Culture, the Argentina, United States, Community of Madrid, the Colombia, Italy and Spain, City of Madrid and the as well as an large number Spanish National of specialists members of Committee of ICOMOS, Spanish National the delegate highlighted Committee of ICOMOS the active policy in the (International Council on conservation and Monuments and Sites) restoration of monuments from 1 to 5 December. and historic buildings and This conference is the first heritage environments activity that triggers the city from the city of Madrid is since it was announced the carried out. inclusion of "Site Retiro "A priority area, which also and Prado" in Spanish includes the participation
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First, open to invited audience, was held on 1 and 2 in the Pavilion Cecilio Rodriguez Gardens in the Parque del Retiro, and featured presentations by international experts plus a visit to this park special tour. On 3 and 4 December will be the second part, reserved for speakers and experts from ICOMOS, where specialists will visit the Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez. Participants met in detail the proposed World Heritage Madrid. Also during this part will be discussed in working groups the issues discussed earlier days, in order to produce a final document to be presented publicly on Day 5 in the Municipal Library Eugenio Trias, and will allow a better understanding of the meaning, the peculiarities and methodology of cultural landscapes in the context of World Heritage.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Anu Penttinen.
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The Olmec head with glasses.
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Head Olmeca no longer seen in the same way.
park was open to the public, after spending six months closed due to maintenance at 17 million 647 thousand pesos were invested.
and sound yes shall be suspended until the works are supervised performed Since early November by INAH and to be held kicked off work to from November 6 to "protect" the monument December 15, "he said in of the colossal figure, an interview coordinator emblematic of the state of Now, again access to the Parque-Museo Ruben Tabasco, and forced Museum will be restricted Vera. photograph of visitors to to the public due to the this tropical land. work of dredging of the Asked about the project to health network, cleaning the "urn", the president of The work includes the the pond where dwelt the Mexican Council for placement of a bench 60 Papillon, as well as the Citizen Development, inches to support a clear "protection" of the Olmec historian Gabriel Angulo glass wall 15 millimeters head where a million 192 Pineda said that are thick and one meter 20 thousand 023 pesos important strategies for centimeters high; the apply. the preservation and care work will take place over of the colossal figures, a period of 40 days, ie six "From today protection "though it would be through December 15. jobs Head were initiated, unfortunate not to have so tours are limited to the Again closed the main attraction open zoo area and part of the to the public" park. Work tear after eight archaeological area, months and 21 days the however the light show
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Invention of laminated glass.
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This casual invention was what is commonly known as a "Serendipity".
How could it be? this was just fascinating, therefore, that the mind of the inventor You know, those unexpected began to implement gears discoveries where scientific, wit looking for some practical without really knowing how, applicability to that event. given a finding when actually Although, of course, the first meant something very was to understand how it different. happened.
witnessed a serious car accident when he was light and realized how it could use its unbreakable glass.
This was what happened to Edouard Benedictus, a French chemist who in 1903 brought a must in our daily lives: the laminated glass.
He had to do something, something useful with his unbreakable glass.
He did a little mental decline and recalled that the flask was covered inside by a solution of nitrocellulose, a material within seconds had vanished without a trace, but Edouard Benedictus, was, like every day, working in his yet was sufficient to apply a protective coating to glass laboratory. preventing its fragmented. He was a chemist and Wonderful, definitely inventor, a French inventor Perhaps surprisingly, but it who was this morning experimenting with cellulose took many years before Edouard Benedictus give his nitrate. glass applicability we all Which will hit the ground a know. glass flask was nothing new Shortly after the outbreak of or unusual, but our French World War I, and his chemist gasped to see that invention was infinitely despite having broken the flask had not been shattered. practical eye glasses gas masks. Ie had not evolved a single Thus, serious injury is crystal piece of the original avoided in this sensitive part shape of the container. of the face. Was perfectly bonded. The truth is it was not until the French inventor
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In that accident a girl had suffered serious facial injuries after the car windshield exploded against her, disfiguring.
His later invention was to join two sheets of glass with the same solution nitrocellulose forever. Thus, the automotive world would avoid one of the most common risks at that time. In the early twentieth century, half of those killed in traffic accidents was precisely because the impact of the front glasses over their bodies. Something really tragic. In 1939 laminated glass was already widely used. They called him "safety glass indestructible" and was the Ford Motor Company in Dagenham, England, the first to market it.
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Science Week in Jaén.
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A group of seventy-five students from Secondary School Christ the King and the IES San Juan Bosco have closed the Science Week in Jaén two activities, first viewing of the documentary 'The mystery of the giant crystals' which has been accompanied by a discussion with two experts in crystallography, and on the other an observation of the Sun made from the observatory of the UJA, followed by a scientific talk on energy phenomena occurring on the surface and inside of this star.
"We glass everywhere and everyday," said the scientist at the UJA Mª Isabel Abad, adding that "a crystal is a material that has an ordered structure of atoms, as is the case with many medicines, minerals , vitamins, proteins and even many materials used in technology precisely for its regular and ordered structures. "
discipline is a way of ensuring the continuity of his scientific activity" and stressed the importance of holding informative events such as Science Week to keep society informed on progress in research and scientific figure closer to citizens.
With these two activities Jaén ve closed its program Science Week, one of the biggest events Students also learned in European scientific from this activity what communication, although being a crystalline object, Campus Linares still held and that exactly what we the following Saturday a recognize as glass, ie guided tour of the mining glass windows or glass heritage of the region of lenses are no crystal Linares and La Carolina. structures. The Unity of Scientific Regarding the The expert in Culture and Innovation is documentary 'The crystallography UJA, responsible for all mystery of the giant Africa Ivy, noted for his activities included in the crystals' has ensured that part that "disclose the program of the UJA attendees learn how achievements of this department. crystallography studies. www.amigosmava.org
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Dome of the Reichstag.
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The Reichstag dome is made of glass, with a 360 degree view of the surrounding cityscape.
make it a unique landmark that symbolizes an attempt to divert to Berlin from his past in Nazi Germany and The debating chamber of communism to the German parliament, emphasize the future of a the Bundestag, can be democratic and united seen below the dome. Germany. A reflector cone in the On February 27, 1933, center of the dome both the dome and the directs sunlight into the rest of the building were building. seriously damaged in the The dome is open to the fire at the Reichstag, public and can be which were blamed reached by several spiral communists, despite the ramps made of steel that lack of evidence showing recall the shape of a authorship. double helix. The remains of the Foster's dome is building and the dome designed to be were again damaged environmentally friendly. during the bombing of Berlin during the Second The design involves the World War and the battle use of sunlight shining occurred in the same city through mirrors cone in 1945. dome, in order to reduce carbon emissions from The Reichstag was the building. partially rebuilt during the 1960s as a conference The futuristic design of center, but not the dome the Reichstag dome
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was rebuilt. Much of the dome and the ornamentation of it had been removed. With German reunification and the decision to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin, it was decided that the Reichstag building was rebuilt with a new dome that is identified with a united Germany. The architect Norman Foster won a competition for the design and reconstruction of the dome in 1993. Foster wanted the dome was a cylinder, after its original design of a parasol, which was rejected because of its cost. The design of the dome was the controversial first but has become one of the biggest attractions of Berlin.
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Saint Gobain Sekurit creates a unique glass.
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If something manufacturers are clear market leaders automotive glasses is that differentiation away from producing medium or aftermarket is in the use of technology to deliver differentiated products. Saint Gobain Sekurit has taken a step forward in this direction and will become the first manufacturer to design and produce a single glass in the model Renault Eolab. In search of an ever thinner and lighter windshield has made it to create a moon only 3mm over standard 4.5mm. This moon will have a 30% less weight and is emerging as the windshield of the medium -term future, as manufacturers seek to lighten the maximum
vehicle weight. To achieve this thickness requires a high investment in technology and very few manufacturers can match it. The features of this moon light weight and almost minimum thickness will make the aftermarket recambistas not reach these standards and are unable to copy its features without investing huge amounts of money to upgrade their technology. "It has reduced the thickness EOLAB crystals to 3 mm (4.5 mm compared to the current standard), representing the thickness of a pencil stroke. The thinner glass windshield with a particular aerodynamic shape, a first in the
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automotive sector, the technology adopted side glass of the laminated glass (no annealing) and several non-slip glass turn to the polymers that although have generalized for prescription glasses, are still rare in the car. " "The rear window varnished uses polymeric materials (replacing tempered glass): This technology has enabled a one-piece component polymer coating material also integrates the taillights. Example of integration of functions that contributes to both lightening and the aerodynamic performance of EOLAB ". "The integration of these technologies has reduced to 21 kg weight EOLAB glasses kg versus 28 to an actual vehicle, ie a gain of 9 kg (25%)".
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Corning Gorilla Glass 4 announced.
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Corning has announced a new iteration of its technology reinforced glass Gorilla Glass 4, which seeks to end broken screens of smartphones from falls.
remain a major cause of breakage.
Gorilla Glass 4 is even tougher, and Corning laboratory has evaluated its resistance to falls of up to one meter, with 80 Gorilla Glass 3 is present percent efficiency. in a wide range of However, Corning now modern smartphones and must also face other has proven to be quite products such as sturdy, but still falls sapphire crystal that has
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been adopted more frequently, as well as other cheaper alternatives explored by manufacturers to lower production costs. And by the way, an interesting video of the Mythbusters explaining the properties of Gorilla Glass.
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Glass on Tower Bridge.
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The iconic Tower Bridge in London opened the first of two glass walkways that will enjoy spectacular views of the Thames from its 42 meters high. The new glass floor, composed of six panels of about 530 kilos of weight and eleven meters long by 1.8 wide in total, gives Londoners and tourists the chance to see the drawbridge, traffic that crosses the Thames and craft in a way never seen before. This glass walkway opened on the west side of Tower Bridge, one of the most recognizable landmarks in London and one of the most famous bridges in the world. It is anticipated that a similar gateway opens, also of glass with the same dimensions, the December 1 in the east.
The bridge, designed by architect Horace Jones and engineer John Wolfe Barry, was inaugurated on June 30, 1894 by future kings Edward VII and Alexandra, when they were still princes of Wales. The glass walkways are financed, among others, by the City Council of the City of London (financial district) and had a cost of a million pounds (more than one million two hundred fifty thousand euros). Its opening coincides with the 120th anniversary of Tower Bridge, which annually receives nearly 600,000 visitors. But the first incident has taken a while to arrive. It happened at night, and technicians have worked for a whole weekend to replace the piece of glass shattered.
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Apparently, it all happened when a member of staff working in the catering service dropped a bottle of beer. Fortunately, the gateway is composed of five layers of glass in each panel so that the engineers need only replace the top layer of the panel. At no time was there a risk that some tourist fell off the cliff, since, according to spokesmen of attraction is only one of those five layers damaged. A similar incident occurred recently in the gazebo glass Willis Tower (Chicago), one of the tallest skyscraper in the United States (442 meters). Then He cracked one of the panels of attraction, without anyone getting hurt.
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La Asociación de Amigos del MAVA fue
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Nuestro objetivo es desarrollar actividades y colaborar con otras entidades públicas o privadas en la promoción, defensa y difusión del Arte y la Cultura. Nuestros socios pueden ser honorarios, benefactores, numerarios y 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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Congress. Images (I).
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Fernando Carrión, Community of Madrid
Pedro Mª Corral, the City of Madrid
Kunie Sugio, of Japan
Mabel Contín, of Argentina
Juan Luis Isaza Londoño, of Colombia
Mª Rosa Suárez-Inclán, President of ICOMOS
Ignacio Gómez Arriola, of México
Robin Karson, of EEUU
María Linarejos Cruz, of Spain
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Congress. Images (II).
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Mónica Luengo Añón, of Spain
Wataru Ono, of Japan
María Chiara Pozzana, of Italy
Víctor Fernández Salinas, of Spain
Carmen Añón, of Spain
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Luciano Fabro. Images.