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Ulrica Hydman-Vallien  Balance.

M. A. Carretero.

We are already in December. We are out of the year and it is a good time to take stock of our activities in 2016 and we will finish in a few days.

"Concerts at the MAVA" in the Auditorium of the Museum because that space was reserved for the holding of civil weddings.

In the face of such an absurdity, I am still trying to With this are eleven convince the Council to Bulletins that we have published monthly except in confirm in writing to our the month of August, as is Association that the holding of civil weddings is the true usual in our publication. cause of the ban on the In connection with our visits performance of our "MAVA to different glassmaking Concerts" program at the workshops in our country, Museum Auditorium. I still we started the year with a can not. visit to La Mediterránea, a In March we attended the factory located in the Valencian town of L'Ollería Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism to the delivery and run by the Abdon of the 2015 National Craft family.

Award, which was Also in January we visited nominated Luesma Vega SL, the Technological Museum a Catalan firm formed by of La Granja to enjoy the glass artists Ester Luesma exhibition of works by the and Xavi Vega.

Finnish Tapio Wirkkala and In April we attended, as in the Portuguese Octavio previous years, the Botas.

Congress of the Spanish At the beginning of the year Federation of Friends of we were able to register in Museums, which this year the National Register of was held in Soria.

Associations of the Ministry Nuestra sede: of the Interior the renewed In May we moved to the Castillo Grande de Statutes of our Association town of Sitges in Barcelona S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n and previously registered in to take part in the meeting of glass artists led by artists the Register of the 28925 ALCORCÓN. Martin Janecky and Ondrej Community of Madrid.

(MADRID) Novotny, which was info@amigosmava.org Last January, the Council of organized along with three "Shows" of our City Council others by the Catalan informed me by telephone Association of Arts of the that we could not continue Vidre (ACAV ). to develop our program In June we visited the Technological Museum of Glass of La Granja to see the exhibition Art Vetrario Muranese.

In August we were in Gibraltar to see the facilities

of the glass workshop "Crystal Gibraltar".

Also in August we were in the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja witnessing the presentation of the novel pieces made in their workshops.

In October we traveled to the town of Vimbodí in Tarragona to attend the events of the Third Festival of Artisan Glass as we had done the previous year.

On the return of Vimbodí we stopped in the town of La Muela in Zaragoza to greet and visit the workshop of the stained glass artist Estrella Alba.

In October we were at the VETECO Fair to visit the stand of Tvitec, a glass company located in the Bercian town of Cubillos del Sil, near Ponferrada.

Also in that month we visited the FARCAMA Fair in Toledo to greet our glassmakers friends who participated in this fair.

Within our "Culture 2016" program we have visited different exhibitions in several museums in Madrid, such as the Prado, Thyssen, Casa de Vacas, Caixaforum, etc.

We have recently held the Ordinary Annual Meeting of our Association in which the accounts have been approved, the activities carried out and those planned to be carried out in the next year.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

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Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LVIII) MAC.

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Exhibition at La Granja

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Silvia Levenson

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Crafts Fair

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Activities on the MAVA

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News

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Our activities

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Glass recycling

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How does

Intellectual Property Law Transitory dispositions.

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Piece of the month

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Established artists

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Young artists

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Exhibition at La Granja

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Silvia Levenson

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Crafts Fair

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Activities Museums

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... of other Member States or third countries, the coproducer, or the transferee, who wishes to grant authorization for communication to the public via satellite shall obtain the prior consent of the holder of the exclusive right, irrespective of whether the latter is a co-producer or Assignee, if the following circumstances occur together:

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a) that the contract

Venetian glass

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Roman glass in Museums

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News

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Culture 2016

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Friends of Glass

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Mario Ramos in London

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The glass in museums

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Recycling

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Cultural visits

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Culture 2016 program

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Congress of Museography

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Other trends

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Hope for Calanda

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Loreto Foeldes

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Experiments with light

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Glass: science and society

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Rosa García Morán

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How do

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Sale of Guardian

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Stained Glass of Navarre

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Vidrala with the Brexit

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Educational innovation

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Glass wool

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Agreement in BA-Glass

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Prize for Vidrala

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New Baztan, BIC

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expressly establishes a system for the division of exploitation rights between coproducers by geographical area for all media to the public without distinguishing between the regime applicable to satellite communication and other media. b) That communication to the public via satellite of the co-production implies prejudice to the exclusivity, in particular for the linguistic exclusivity, of one of the coproducers or their assignees in a given territory.

2. The application of what is foreseen in articles 106 to 108,

115 and 116, 122, and 126 of this Law shall be without prejudice to the agreements entered into and contracts entered into before 14 October 1995.

3. The provisions relating to communication to the public by satellite shall apply to all phonograms, performances, broadcasts and first fixations of audiovisual recordings which on 1 July 1994 were still protected by the laws of the Member States relating to property rights Intellectual property or that on that date meet the criteria necessary for protection under those provisions.

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Promotion 2016.

Students who have completed their studies at El Progreso Glass School in Honduras have recently graduated.

This technical qualification of Studies of the Glass is certified by the Foundation National Center of the Glass, of the Farm.

They are an educational cooperation project, located in El Progreso, a city in the Yoro Region of Honduras, that allows young people at risk of social exclusion to access education and to learn a trade, benefiting their families and communities.

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17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.

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11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.

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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. Ana Thiel.

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instruments and books-with molten glass directly from the furnace, or glass as well as discarded material, such as broken windshields.

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The glass offers a visual and physical coherence to the totality of the work, and the abandoned artifacts give them a new meaning and life.

His artistic activity includes the creation of unique pieces of jewelry and engravings on paper in the technique of colography.

He has exhibited his work extensively - Mexico, USA, Central and South America, Japan, China and Europe.

His sculptures are found in various collections around the world, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, the Museum of Art of Queretaro, the Museum of Glass in Monterrey, the Museum of the National Glass Center Foundation in Spain , The Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark, the Finnish National Glass Museum, the Liberec Art Museum in the Czech Republic, and the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Ana was born in 1958 in Mexico City.

doing a great teaching job, both in Europe and the USA.

The work that is exhibited in our Museum is entitled "Chains of the She is an artist of recognized Observing the works of Ana Thiel Soul" and belongs to a series of books made during the residence prestige, who has exhibited allows us to delve immediately of the artist in the Foundation around the world and whose into the author's expressive National Center of Glass of the sculptures are included in depth, in her spirituality and prestigious collections such as particular delicacy to convey her Farm, and which offer, on the other hand, visual stories More the Glass Museum in Corning, creative audacity. than literary.

New York-USA, the Riihimaki Since 1980, Ana Thiel has Museum of Finland, the Ebeltrof As she said at the conference expressed her sculptural vision Museum in Denmark, the by creating unique artistic forms prior to the inauguration of the Museum Of the Farm, and the exhibition she made at the MAVA with molten glass.

Library of Alexandria in Egypt, from May to September 2011, among others.

In recent years he began to she had a hard time making explore new formal possibilities these pieces, because when they If there is a group of women who through a series of pieces poured the glass in the books, are referents in the world of Latin assembled with found objects they burned because of the high glass, evidently such as industrial waste and temperature. Until he realized Ana Thiel belongs to him, building materials, among that without oxygen there is no Mexican by birth and others. combustion and after an intense international knowledge, Ana process of investigation he was He has combined these shows his work and spreads his materials-rusty metal and wires, able to carry out his works. knowledge throughout the world laced wood, old cords, and recently discarded musical

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Established artists. Ulrica Hydman-Vallien.

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He was born in 1938 in Stockholm (Sweden).

in the United States and Mexico.

Ulrica Hydman-Vallien Throughout her career she certainly can not be accused used a wide range of of being vulgar. expression, and it was not until 1972 when she entered His works have their own as a glass designer at the style and have enjoyed since Kosta Boda factory where the beginning of his artistic her imagination was career. expressed in many and Even when Ulrica was 17, varied forms. she began her studies at the Ulrica's seal has been Stockholm School of the Arts painted glass, which has and continued her education been a phenomenal success for a long time.

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Emerging artists. Madeline Prowd.

Received a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from the National University of Australia in 2009.

He then moved to Adelaide to undertake the two-year Associate Training Program at the Glass Study at JamFactory.

Many people associate it, above all, with colored tulips in the series Tulip that began in the 1990s.

The colorful, clear and intense images are repeated in everything that Ulrica has created for Kosta Boda.

Everything is done by skilled labor in the studio of painting.

Ulrica participates in the efforts to study the new series.

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Pilchuck Glass School.

He also received a 6-week residency at Canberra Glassworks in 2012 and has traveled to the United States to be assistant to artist Ben Edols at Pilchuck Glass School in June 2013.

Madeline is currently employed as an Assistant Technician in the He also devotes significant time each week to attend the wider Glass Study at JamFactory. glass community of Adelaide.

It is heavily influenced by

Madeline was born in Australia in traditional Italian glass blowing 1989. techniques and the technical She is an emerging glass artist competence inherent in the currently working out of Adelaide, manufacturing process.

Australia.

In 2010, Madeline received a He studied under the supervision scholarship to work with Italian of Richard Whiteley and Nadege teacher Davide Salvadore at Desgenetez.

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Madeline is the first assistant to artist Nick Mount and regularly works for other artists such as Andrew Baldwin, Kumiko Nakajima (of MONO) and Kristel Britcher.

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Exhibition at La Granja.

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The Hall of Lights of the Technological Museum of Glass, in the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja (Segovia), hosts an exhibition on the work of engravercutter Joaquín Santiago Calvo (Madrid, 1938-Pinillos de Polendos, 1997).

the handle that had". In his son's opinion that was "the great secret."

A CHESS "VERY SPECIAL"

Among the pieces of the exhibition, Óscar Santiago has pointed out that there is a chess made from glass cylinders of the Royal Crystal Factory of La Granja. It is also a A retrospective exhibition with composition of high sentimental some 70 pieces made by the value, since Joaquin Santiago craftsman, whose inauguration took made a piece of each of the figures place last Thursday, November 10. and Oscar finally completed the Joaquín Santiago has been one of game. Therefore, the minor son of the honoree has defined it as a the most important engravers and sculptors on glass in the country, as "very special" creation. they have pointed out from the At the age of 16, Joaquín Santiago Royal Glass Factory of La Granja, Calvo began his training in an and a "great stranger", as well as engraving workshop that belonged the office to which he dedicated to a Jewish refugee installed in himself, as has been pointed out Spain at the end of World War II. His son, Óscar Santiago.

Years later, his professional career The selection that is offered now includes some of the best elements he has made, according to his son, and within what has been collected, since the work of Santiago Calvo is "very distributed." For this purpose funds have been used from the private family collection and also from some other private individual.

On the figure of his father, Óscar Santiago emphasized the fineness and level of detail that he was able to print on the glass.

According to his words, constancy is one of the keys to a trade in which you have to "put in many hours". He also stressed the importance of "being able to draw very well".

In that sense, the engraverengraver also remarked that Joaquin Santiago "had a great facility" to capture what he wanted "exactly where he had to do it" depending on the piece.

Thus, he was able to select the ideal space to record on a glass or on a champagne, "by the shape or

led him to work as head of engraving workshop in different glass factories. First, in Madrid (Benisca SA and Cristalería Cuesta) and later, in Huesca (Cristalerías Susin).

In 1985, when closing this last factory, Santiago Calvo decides to install his own workshop in the small town Segovia of Pinillos de Polendos, where is his wife, Pilar.

There he found a place where to begin a new vital stage and the most creative of his work.

Generally, this period coincides with a stagnation of the trade and the closure of a number of glass factories.

Joaquín Santiago Calvo contributed to create the National Glass Center Foundation in La Granja de San Ildefonso in the early 90's of the last century.

which was the first promotion of the School Workshop of the Foundation.

Some of them are currently integrated into the production area of the Royal Glass Factory.

Meanwhile, the relay of Joaquín Santiago Calvo is insured with his two children, Joaquín and Óscar, who learned from him this craftsmanship. Joaquín is a master of carving at the Royal Crystal Factory of La Granja and Oscar continues his work at the parental workshop.

EXPLAINEDLY KNOWN The youngest son has assured that "all" carvers and engravers in Spain over 50 years of age know the figure of his father.

And if there is one left to know about her, she has the opportunity to "be astonished" when contemplating the pieces that the exhibition brings together, because "really in Spain there has not been anyone at the level of the engravings I made". Such was the skill of Joaquin Santiago who was able to record on the glass of a light bulb.

The show can be visited until March 15, 2017 and Oscar Santiago has added that it is something that "has not been seen in Spain and will not be seen again", so he has invited to travel to " See closely "what the trade is and thus" value it a little more ".

On November 29, in the afternoon, we traveled to San Ildefonso to enjoy these works but we had not consulted the opening hours of the Museum and we could not visit the exhibition. We will try again during visiting hours.

The main purpose with which this entity was born was to safeguard handicrafts, and Joaquin Santiago Images of our failed visit in the taught classes of carving and engraving to about twenty students, following link.

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Silvia Levenson in Bullseye.

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Bullseye Projects is pleased to present Identidad Desaparecida, an international traveling exhibition by Silvia Levenson that tells the story of hundreds of children who were kidnapped during Argentina's dirty war.

What happened in those years has changed my life like that of most of the Argentines of my generation and has influenced my artistic work. An important part of my work has to do with "revealing" or making visible what normally is hidden or can not be seen On her website, Silvia states, and use glass as material in connection with this that represents that exhibition, that "I was born in metaphor.

Buenos Aires in 1957.

In Identity Disappeared I I was part of a generation inquire about the space left that struggled to change an by these children, adults unjust society in which today, in families of origin military dictatorships and and in society. short civilian governments alternated. In 1976, the The glass dresses tell us military gave the last and about an identity that has not bloodiest military coup. I was yet recovered; The metal 19 years old and in August of chairs show the empty that same year my daughter spaces that are waiting to be Natalia was born. She is the completed. Although the same age as other youths children of the disappeared who have been stolen by the are now adults, in my work I military. With unprecedented speak of children, of infants, cruelty, pregnant prisoners because during that period were murdered after giving they were appropriate and birth to their children and that is the moment that I try newborns were given into to heal. adoption illegally.

Western society offers us a

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univocal model of happiness.

It is usually an allergic model to old age and pain. In this same society the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo introduce an innovative factor to establish the identity of the grandchildren and through their work they try to restore the truth.

I am fascinated that in a society that does not give value to older people, it is just the Grandmothers who try to heal wounds by recovering the stolen identity of the young children of the disappeared.

Some of these works will be exhibited in a personal exhibition that will open on January 24, 2015 at the American University Museum in Washington DC. Silvia Levenson, May 2014. " The bullseye exhibition was inaugurated last November 2 and will be exhibited until February 4, 2017.

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Handicraft Fair in Madrid.

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The Fair-Craft Market of the Community of Madrid is the most important act of promoting regional crafts.

Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura , Galicia, Murcia, Navarre and Basque Country), who This expected event of craftsmanship, due to the place and contribute with their typical trades dates in which it is celebrated, due and with their peculiarities that this obligatory appointment of the craft, to its commercial, cultural and is a reference in our country. tourist relevance, is considered a reference at national level, being In the midst of adapting to new the main sectorial Fair of Spain and consumer trends, the Craft Market one of the main European level Fair is a great example of the among Those that are held in non- cohesion of the values associated permanent premises. with tradition and the avant-garde This Fair, owned by the Community of design, which allows us to appreciate the sensitivity and of Madrid, celebrates this year its exclusivity conferred on its products XXIX edition. Since its by the Craftsmanship. establishment, more than 2,000 workshops have contributed to the consolidation of this exhibition of authentic handicrafts.

The variety of trades, in total 38, is manifested through different sectors such as ceramics, By means of the formalization of an decoration, dry flower, jewelry, wood, metal, paper and cardboard, Agreement, the Community of Madrid has ceded the organization leather, textile or glass, among others, offering us the perfect of this edition to the two most representative Artisan Associations opportunity to Acquire that genuine of the sector in our region, Guild of and special original gift that we all look for in these Christmas dates.

Various Handicrafts and Professional Association of Artisans In this edition stand out the of the Villa. craftsman mounts of glasses in natural wood, that allow In its XXIX edition, 168 handicraft personalization, or articles of workshops from all over Spain are jewelry whose raw material (silver, participating in the fair, which display for their sale products made bronze, gold) comes, for the most by their own authors, in which they part, from sources of recycling. express the secrets of their respective craft trades.

This year's show will feature 145 artisans from our region and will also be attended by 23 artisan workshops from 12 Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Aragon,

The Fair will be open uninterrupted from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., during the days of its celebration, with the exception of December 24 and 31, during which it will remain open until 3:00 p.m. It is closed on 25 December and 1 January 2015.

As in previous editions, the booth number 1 of the Fair will be devoted to the exhibition of a selection of artisan products given by the exhibitors at the request of the pupils of the top cycle window dressing of the Art School number ten, Artediez (www.artediez. Es) of Madrid, who have accepted the challenge of designing and preparing the stand for commission by the Community of Madrid.

This showcase acts as an indicator for the visitor, who can find in his visit to the 168 stands of the Fair, craftsman objects of the quality displayed in it.

The XXIX edition of the FairHandicraft Market invites citizens from Madrid and visitors to approach an exhibition that, although consolidated after twentyeight editions, offers every year new offerings.

As for the glazing sector, Ana Yabar, Llue Vidrieros, Vidarte, Juan Carlos Alba, Pineda de Luelmo, Olga, Fulkolor, Vitreus Ignis and Malva y Gris de Murano have announced their participation in the fair.

Coinciding its inauguration with the weekend that begins the Christmas period, the XXIX edition will take place in the enclave of the Plaza de In our next Bulletin we will include España in Madrid from Saturday 10 an extensive report of our visit to December 2016 until Thursday 5 this Fair Craft Market.

January 2017.

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Activities Museums I.

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Activities Museums III.

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Activities on the MAVA. New exhibition.

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glass created its own trend followed throughout the world in spite of the political barriers in the decades of the The entire tradition of Czech 50, 60 and 70. glass art from the mid-20th This phenomenon, which century to the present is arose in a non-casual way in exhibited in this new the areas famous for the exhibition of MAVA. manufacture of Bohemia Czech authors have always "glass", created numerous been among the most collections of these works of admired since they showed art abroad and many their innovative works at the students were guided by this Universal Expositions of style.

Brussels in 1958 or Montreal Among the founders of this in 1967. school were names such as Some of these pioneering Stanislav Libenský, works, such as those of his Jaroslava Brychtová, René students and the youngest Roubíček or Vladimír creators of today are those Kopecký, of which in that make up the exhibition Alcorcón can be found 'No limits'. various works, which in The Czech school of artistic addition to creating, On November 30 the "No limits" exhibition was inaugurated at the MAVA.

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dedicated their life to the teaching and training of new Artists.

The exhibition 'No limits' shows this own vision of the art of Czech glass and its evolution to the present.

This exhibition, which was curated by Petr Nový and organized by the Czech Center of Madrid, would not be possible without the collaboration of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Madrid, the MAVA and the Museum of Glass and Jewelery Jablonec nad Nisou.

We have included images of this excellent exhibition on our Facebook page and you can see through this link.

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Tvitec expands facilities.

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The company Tvitec berciana does not raise its foot of the accelerator in its attempt to leave behind its competitors inside the sector of the transformed glass.

This was verified by the Minister of Economy and Finance of the Junta de Castilla y León who went to the Bayo polygon to attend the 'set -up' of the last 25,000 square meters put up to increase production, and where he knew firsthand The plans of more immediate growth that has on the table the direction of the company of Cubillos del Sil. Some plans that, in the medium term, will materialize in the 45,000 square meters acquired from ADE Castilla y León - with the purchase of three new plots in the Bay and where the glass company wants to embark on a new adventure: launch into the curved glass sector . "What we are going to do with curved glass is very, very new. We have no experience. We do not

have a market, ... It is still in the embryonic stage, and it is not the time to announce it, "said Tvitec CEO Javier Prado, who believes that once the project has grown, it could lead to the creation Of half a hundred jobs.

products are in the five continents ».

Del Olmo said that Cubillos del Sil "because it is competitive, innovative and committed to this process of internationalization, has not only overcome the crisis stage, While waiting for the project to but has been able to exploit and expand its facilities". be completed in 2017, Tvitec Likewise, thanked the intends to prioritize in the coming year the consolidation counselor, that through this bet of the enlarged area, "evolving "has generated employment, 270 jobs specifically, in a to be more effective". mining area like this.

And that with the aim of overcoming the barrier of one For its part, the commercial director of Tvitec, Alberto Sutil, hundred million euros of turnover in the next fiscal year stressed as a challenge for 2017 «to fully strengthen the R - will close 2016 over 90& D & I process we have With these numbers, the today. In addition to Minister of Economy and consolidating the expansion Finance did not hesitate to that the director is describe Tvitec as "the brand inaugurating, we believe that of Spain" within the this commitment will guarantee architectural glass sector in the us the presence in the whole world, not in vain "9 out of 10 world market where it is very of the projects carried out are necessary to analyze very well with glass of These factories, all the projects, their behaviors while 20% of the glass that is and to find the right solutions ". handled in the national territory is through Tvitec, and its

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After the beauty of Venetian glass (V).

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Alejandro Ipiña.

Pérez created for the Glasstress of 2009 his work He also had problems with Carroña, a bombazo, perhaps teachers. It was delayed in the work that has spread more payments. When she was in despair Peggy appeared in her widely in the media of all editions of the Glasstress, a life and behind her came work away from the delicate Rockefeller and some other Scarpian or Finnish forms.

American collectors.

That way he was able to return to the activity. He had a long life: he died in 2007 at the age of 95.

Adriano Berengo was giving way to the idea of enhancing this know-how of the master glassmakers of Murano. She looked at how Peggy Guggenheim had supported Costantini, and if Peggy, who had an incredible clinical eye in detecting the best of contemporary art, made the decision.

Berengo thought that was the way to go. That's almost thirty years ago. Since then more than three hundred artists have gone through their workshop-studio in Murano and have materialized in glass their ideas thanks to the skill of the masters.

Among them two Spaniards, Jaume Plensa and Javier Pérez.

face: the artist and master glassmaker.

But in Murano we are lucky: a master glassmaker lends itself to materialize the ideas of an artist.

In the United States that is almost impossible, teachers Authentic first figures like consider themselves artists and Erwin Wurm, Elmar do not like to discount Trenkwalder or Joana themselves to other artists. But Vasconcelos have contributed you have to be in the middle their creations to this soothing the moods. That's my company. job".

The cast that Berengo has Risk is very present. assembled is imposing, Approximately twenty percent of although as all the collections the work that is attempted is have better and worse pieces, broken in the process of and although the purists, those elaboration. who watch over the essences Another five percent is broken of the glass, look at it with on transfers. The material is reticence. delicate. Fragile, but hypnotic.

According to Adriano Berengo The glass attracts. It is liquid in it is not easy to transfer to a solid state, like ice. glass what artists bring in the The most difficult work to do, head. Sometimes the teachers says Berengo, has been one of say no, they say it is the German artist Thomas impossible to carry it out.

Schütte. The failure haunted So when I asked Berengo them. Schütte wanted a what he considered himself, hyperrealistic finish, something publisher or producer perhaps, very difficult to obtain in glass. In he did not hesitate for a the end he gave the okay. It has second: "I am a mediator of been the work that has achieved conflicts! A mediator between a higher price in the market. two great Daffodils face to

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Ethics in conservation-restoration (V).

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By Fernando CortĂŠs Pizano.

It is the responsibility of each The ambiguity of heritage laws, national professional body to charters and documents ensure that its members comply with the spirit and the Despite the absence of regulation of our profession, we letter of the code, and to act in are still waiting for us to follow case of proven noncompliance. some ethical considerations, which have been expressed in This article establishes the different documents, such as responsibility to enforce these letters, guidelines or standards principles in the numerous of conduct. existing organizations related The list of these documents is to heritage, knowing that none of them is legally empowered as varied as the institutions, countries or areas of work that to enforce or prosecute, much less those who are not may exist. members of such One of the most recent organizations . documents in this sense is the aforementioned Code of Ethics All these articles, norms and principles reflected in different for the Profession of the letters are full of good Conservator-Restorer, prepared by E.C.C.O. In 2003. intentions, but they are still somewhat vague and This document expresses the imprecise. main obligations of the Its function is simply to act as Conservator-Restorer with a reference for conservativerespect to cultural heritage, which are well known by most restorers, as mere recommendations. of us.

The problem is that these But what I believe most interesting in the context of our recommendations are not binding or binding by law, and professional responsibility is we, legally, are not really what is said in Article 4 of the required to comply with them.

Code: Failure to respect the principles, obligations and prohibitions of the Code is an unprofessional practice and will bring stigma to the profession.

In spite of all the good advice and recommendations, it seems that their fulfillment is based, to a large extent, on something as abstract as our

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good intentions or our professional ethics.

Understanding and discernment between what might be "right" or "wrong" during the exercise of the profession is generally left to the good will of the conservator -restorer.

This absence of norms has repercussions on the fact that we can all have an opinion of what we believe is right or wrong and how we believe we could or should do our work.

In this sense, we must never forget that there are different ways of achieving the same goal, and all of them can be equally valid.

Even if our decisions are guided by the best intentions, when it comes to controversial interventions, our opinions will not always be shared with other professionals within our field; Much less our actions will have general approval.

In spite of all this, most of us still believe that we need certain rules, and these principles, when followed sensibly and with all our good will and in the best interest of the cultural heritage, are without a doubt a necessary tool in our profession.

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Maumejean in Pizarra.

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Amalia CR, from the Malaga town of Pizarra, writes the following entry on Facebook and, for her interest, we reproduce in this Bulletin:

Saint Matthew with the angel, Saint Mark with the lion, Saint Luke with the bull and Saint John with the eagle, then Saint Peter with the key and Saint Paul with the sword, on them an arch of "Hello I would like to share with almost half a point with a you these photos of the Stained geometric background and in Glass of the Church of San one the cross of the order of Pedro Apóstol in Pizarra, signed Santiago, in another the papal

by SA Maumejean, Pedro Egaña symbol and in another the cross 8, San Sebastián, we still do not of the order of Calatrava. know the exact date since the documentation was lost in the On the altar inside a lobulated archives Due to the civil war, we arc The virgin of Carmen are in it, the four evangelists are accompanied by the letters alpha represented with their symbolism, and omega symbolize early

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finals and San Fernando in similar characteristics, we think that in honor of the donors of the stained glass since we thought that were the counts of Puerto Carmen Carmen And Fernando, an ox-eye that is in the chorus with the initials JHS and three other small ones that accompany doors in wood ark, a sun and a lilies, the faces are impressive and the practice of the perspective is remarkable since the Floors where the saints step on are in an inclined plane, great house the Maumejean. I hope you like it."

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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXII).

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The wooden glasses are called pseudo glasses because they are not perforated inside, that is, they can not be used.

there is a constancy in both the forms and the number within a certain tomb that leads us to think of a possible religious meaning.

It is believed that probably Terracotta vessels if they are immitant vessels and usable and are called pseudo vessels had the immitants. symbolic value of representing the containers The element they have in of the Seven Sacred Oils. common is the painted decoration, imitating in This idea is derived from the particular the stone, and less location of groups of six or often the glass on the seven vessels of this type in stuccoed surface. one tomb, and from the comparison with the shape They originate at the same time as the vessels in glass, of the imitated vessels, and the forms they possess designed to contain oils and correspond almost entirely to ointments frequently. those of the production of vessels in stone.

The Egyptian production of luxury vessels inclines to imitation, and will culminate with the 18th Dynasty.

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of crucibles, frit, pieces of rough glass, bars etc., that have offered us information on the manufacture of the same as on the election Raw materials, the type of committee and the technology applied.

Glass workshops are identified from the time of Amenofis III, but we have no news of the existence of furnaces, except that found by Petrie in Tell El Amarna.

The workshop of Malqata occupies a space located inside the royal palace built by Amenofis III, but also occupies an area close to the palace, and would constitute the oldest factory of which until now we have news.

In the excavation conducted by the Metropolitan Museum were found two places where it is believed the material was made.

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The Cave-Museum of Ceramics and Glass of Valdemorillo. CUMVAL is located in the old town, very close to the Medical Center and one of the main bus stops.

It was inaugurated in 2007 and it can be seen over 100 pieces of porcelain, fine earthenware and glass made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the old ceramic factory.

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It is located in an old cave of kaolin or kaolinite, very pure white clay used for the manufacture of porcelain and refractories. This cave belonged to the old factory that closed its doors in 1937.

To visit the Cave Museum you have to request an appointment in the House of Culture of Valdemorillo.

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Culture 2016.

This past November we visited the exhibition on Renoir at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid.

The filmmaker Jean Renoir wrote that his father "looked at the flowers, the women, the clouds of the sky like other men touch and caress."

Contrary to the usual conception that reduces the impressionism to the "pure visuality", the exhibition highlights the central role that the tactile sensations in

the canvases of Pierre-Auguste Renoir occupy, and that can be perceived in the different stages of its trajectory and in a Wide variety of genres, both in group scenes, portraits and nudes as in still lifes and landscapes.

A tour of more than 70 works by the French artist, from museums and collections from around the world, reveals how he used tactile suggestions of volume, matter or textures as a vehicle to

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capture intimacy in its various forms - social, friendly , Familiar or erotic - and how that imaginary links work and spectator with the sensuality of brushstroke and pictorial surface.

The exhibition, curated by Guillermo Solana, artistic director of the Thyssen Museum, is sponsored by Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao from 7 February to 15 May 2017 .

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Friends of Glass.

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Under the 'hastagh' #Yoelijovidrio seeks to give visibility to the presence of the container at present and that diffuses the benefits of glass as a healthy and ecological packaging that is made with natural raw material, being inert does not yield anything or the content or the environment And also is 

100 per cent recyclable infinite times.

and our environment.

"Glass has nothing to hide, it is transparent and pure," he said.

Friends of Glass representative, Karen Davies, believes that it is The spot can be seen at: time to act, to invite https://www.youtube.com/ consumers to analyze their watch?v=m33UJX1HmZA habits, replacing them with a healthy routine or perpetuating those uses that always take care of us

Mario Ramos in London.

Established in 1985, the Kensington Dollshouse Festival has become the most important event for craftsmen and miniature fans who come together to enjoy their obsession.

For more than 30 years, this Festival has been searching around the world for the best craftsmen who can perfectly replicate daily life in miniature.

More than 170 artists from all corners of the world attend this event in London. Among them is our partner Mario Sergio Ramos.

These manufacturers specialize in every aspect of a large miniature mansion, fully decorated with a humble tweezers for clothes and everything in between.

This is not just a day for collectors and enthusiasts, it is a fascinating event for everyone of any age.

You can see an impressive array of doll houses and their contents, as well as a selection of specialized high-level suppliers who can provide all the tools and materials that are needed to perform these beautiful works.

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The glass in Museums: Sklářské Nový Bor.

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The largest space in the catalogs of museum exhibition corresponds to exhibitions and specialized painted glass, the museum literature on glass. gave a whole plant.

From the history of the This is a typical processing house: two-storey building In the exhibition the glass technique in Novy Bor, with loft and opulent late is within the range of time within a number of Baroque entrance door. It from the baroque period to techniques that have been was built in 1804 by the present day. invented here.

Johann Christophrem Socher, a glass trader, who Not only are the new For example, it is a unique had thirteen years of additions to the collection collection in the world of success in selling Czech exhibited, but also the art nouveau stained glass, glass in Mexico. objects that were hidden the largest and best in the from the public in the world.

About 1820, Socher sold warehouses. the house to Stephan The exhibition is Rautenstrauch, members Visitors can traverse complemented by of a larger family of glass through the entire modern temporary exhibitions export businessmen in graphic design exhibition dedicated to the important Novy Bor, was home to the that contributes to overall stages in the manufacture Rautenstrauch until 1939. rationalization. of glass, history, artists, glass companies and In 1952, the City Council Also available is the vocational schools. decided to take its history basement space with into account and put its exhibitions of In the museum you can glass museum here. contemporary art from the buy copies of historical, main Czech glass artists. modern glass and traditional glass jewelry,

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Recycling. Ecologism at the Moroccan.

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After many years of awareness campaigns in schools, the media, in all areas, still have a long way to go in the field of waste reduction.

glass, surely much government has banned progress would be made. them.

Having to pay for plastic bags is a significant step.

Little by little we are getting used to wearing the reusable ones.

It is said by the children of the advertisement that Many stores have also they scold us for not been opened in bulk, making more efforts to which minimize their use. recycle.

But the process is slow That we have no more and it costs us a lot to time, they express change the customs, angrily. And it is true, but especially since all this it is also true that in this requires a very scarce matter it is as important material, which is time. to recycle as not to In Morocco plastic bags generate new waste. were a serious problem.

A greater effort on the Its use was no greater part of companies to here than here, but the reduce the packaging of systems of garbage their products would not collection - collected, not go amiss, and if recycling recycled - are very is encouraged by deficient, so that the returning the amount of landscape was endowed the packaging to the with black points waving consumer, as is done in in the wind. some countries or as it happened here until the Well, this is over, because the Moroccan end of the 80 with the

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Neither information campaigns nor environmental education nor awareness spending.

Prohibition and period.

Now Moroccans go shopping for paper envelopes, lunch boxes for traditional and fresh produce.

There are bags, but very dosed. Asked a grocer of Nador if he did not bring them from Melilla said that would be illegal smuggling, since it is also forbidden to import them.

It is what a government has that does not depend on the citizens' satisfaction to be renewed at the polls, which can make unilateral decisions like this. Here such a radical measure would be unthinkable.

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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 2016.

 Cultural visits.

This December we will visit the workshop of Ismael Cerezo Ramírez "Flippy" in Murcia.

According to reports on his website, Ismael knew the glass through the Mallorcan Pere Ignasi, when he had a long experience with iron.

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In Palma de Mallorca he spent two years 1992 and 1993 - in his workshop in S'Hostalot where they began to mix iron and glass in joint creations.

On his return to Murcia, Ismael opened workshop and continued working with glass.

 CULTURE 2016 program. national terms but rather a much broader concept of the idea of art, a universal language that knew no frontiers.

Proof of this are the works of Spanish, Italian and Flemish painters in which explicit tribute is paid to Tiziano and can be seen in the exhibition.

On the other hand, through the presence of Jovellanos and the first modern Spanish writings on the history of art in the exhibition, visitors can understand how at the end of the 18th century a modern conception of the history of art linked to national history .

This December we will visit the "Metapintura" exhibition in the Prado Museum.

An exhibition that tries to make the visitor reflect on two complementary

phenomena.

On the one hand, the fact that during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was no conception of history in

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The course set out in this exhibition is contextualized in two of the pillars most closely linked to the Prado and that constitute its backbone: the Royal Collections and Spanish art, two inseparable terms since the development of Spanish art was intimately conditioned by the existence of the Real collections.

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International Congress of Museography.

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The Congress has been directed by José María Luzón Nogué, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Alicia Herrero Delavenay, the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Carmen Sanz Diaz, the Cerralbo Museum.

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid hosted the International Conference of Museography organized by the League of Nations in 1934.

The Museum of Glass Art of Alcorcón (MAVA) has participated last November in the International Congress of Museography organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Culture, ICOM-Spain and with The SU + MA University + Museum of the Complutense University.

In addition, it has had institutional support from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation

Taking this conference as a point of reference, the Congress has provided a stage for the debate for Development among professionals and (AECID). to make known their Directed to professionals considerations on the of museums, architects evolution of museums and managers, it has had and future perspectives. the international The meeting of 1934 presence of the main marked a turning point in institutions of European the museological debate museums and artists of in the first half of the 20th different disciplines of the century. first level, among them Now, this Congress was has been present the Museum of Art in Glass of looking for a current look to recover that Alcorcón- MAVA, The international reflection only museum, together with the Technological of and show the achievements currently the Farm, dedicated to contemporary glass art in achieved and the problems that persist in Spain. the management of museums.

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Other trends. Mahler's manuscript.

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Originally, it was ceded by the widow of the composer, Alma, to a friend, the conductor of orchestra Willem Mengelberg in 1920, and later acquired by Gilbert Kaplan in 1984.

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The Second Symphony in C minor is a choral melody, known for the musicalization of the ode of the same name of Klopstock, composed between 1888 and 1894 and with a choral ending.

In addition to two singers and the choir, the score requires the intervention of the organ in the fifth and final movement, and a gigantic orchestra with 10 horns, wide percussion that includes two gongs, one sharp and one serious, and two harps.

Resurrection, premiered in Berlin in 1895, has an extension of 90 minutes and addresses universal themes of life and death.

Kaplan, an entrepreneur and economist, was shocked after hearing her at Carnegie Hall in The manuscript of the Second symphony, which sold for 1, EUR New York in 1965, saying she left Symphony of the composer 7 million in 1994. the room as "a different person."

Gustav Mahler, known as In his day, he commented that he Mahler's piece was offered for Resurrection and considered one felt that Mahler's piece had sale by the heirs of American of the greatest symphonic works, embraced him. businessman and economist reached a record for a musical Gilbert Kaplan (1941-2016), who With the help of leading drivers parchment exceeding 5 million dedicated his life to realizing his from around the world, Kaplan euros at an auction of Sotheby's dream of conducting the work worked tirelessly to learn from House in London. before the most important scratch how to drive music, so he The batch, sold in a bid for orchestras in the world. spent three decades representing documents and music books, "No complete Mahler symphony, the work numerous times around exceeded the estimated price of the world, according to Sotheby's. handwritten by the composer, between 4 and 5.2 million euros has been offered for auction, and The auction house pointed out when selling for 5.3 million it is likely that none will be that the purchase of the euros. offered again. It is an opportunity manuscript was the culmination The manuscript, composed of in life to acquire a manuscript of of the economist's obsession with 232 folios and handwritten by exceptional historical the symphony.

Mahler (1860-1911), is the most importance," said the specialist.

At the beginning of century XX, outstanding musical work that In books and manuscripts of Mahler was one of the most has come on the market at such Sotheby's, Simon Maguire. important conductors of orchestra a high price, according to the The manuscript is completely and of opera. auction house. unaltered, with blue pencil After graduating from the Vienna The only sonatas sold so far at markings and retains the way Conservatory in 1878, he was auction have been one of nine Mahler left it, allowing to reveal successively director of several Mozart symphonies, priced at € its composition process, as the orchestras in various European 2.9 million in 1987, and one from auction house said in a opera houses, arriving in 1897 at Robert Schumann's second statement. what was then considered the most notable: the Vienna Opera House.

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Hope for Calanda.

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The City of Calanda will award the 94,000 square meters reserved for the failed project of Puerto Calanda to the company Sevasa Technologics SA, a company that will be dedicated in the polygon La Fuensalada to the manufacture of glass for electronic devices.

municipality when he discovered that the promoter of the fake vegetable company Puerto Calanda, José Luis García, had been imprisoned as alleged responsible for a dedicated criminal organization Money laundering.

Now the Prosecutor's Office According to the 2015 call of is requesting more than six the Miner for which the years in prison and Ministry of Industry, Energy substantial fines for him for and Tourism awarded 1.3 diverting money from the million euros - it was the Reindus program of the most valued Aragonese Ministry of Industry for project of all that were personal purposes. The trial presented - the company has is pending in the Provincial planned an investment of 5.2 Court. million Euros and the Precisely, the credit program creation of 15 jobs that from of the Ministry of Industry the City Council think they has allowed unclogging the can be more. financing needed by Sevasa, The mayor, Jose Ramon which according to Ibanez Ibanez, was excited, will put 25% of its own funds. although he did not want to If the company fulfills its launch the bells on the flight. commitment of employment, "Chilled, cold-watered cat the City Council will reward 6 flees," he said of the of the 9 euros that costs the disappointment in the

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industrial square meter in Calanda.

"If we see the construction movement in mid-2017 and the citizens are being trained to work, we will believe in everything," said a cautious Ibanez, who on the other hand stressed the high component of I + D + i of entrepreneurship.

The company would come to the province to invest in a new machine with which to be competitive in a booming sector. "This is a family business based in Barcelona that founded an Italian in the 80's. Fundamentally they have dedicated themselves to glass in architecture and furniture, but long ago they saw that there was a niche market with the theme of touch screens. Point to change the machine and have decided to come here, "explained Ibanez when published the call for aid Miner.

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Loreto Foeldes presents "Pairs".

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Exhibition "Pairs" of Loreto Foeldes.

In Santiago, Chile.

Hotel Cumbres Lastarria, José Victorino Lastarria 299, Metro Bellas Artes.

From November 17 to December 17.

Free entry.

On Thursday, November 17, the Chilean sculptor Loreto Foeldes inaugurated at the Hotel Cumbres Lastarria her new exhibition called "Pairs", composed of nine unique works, made in vitrotermomoldeado, a technique that is achieved thanks to the glass and pigments foundry Allow you to create different shapes, textures and colors.

Loreto Foeldes is an artist with a long history who, after working in different areas of design, brings her knowledge to the creation of works through the exploration of different techniques.

First it began with clay and then developed in vitrofusion and vitromodelado.

Then he experimented with different techniques of working in glass to get to the vitrotermomoldeado, the one that works with metals and pigments.

"Working the glass produces wonderful sensations. The dedication and emotion in the work and the expectation in the result

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make me feel and vibrate with each piece in which I am incorporating feelings and experiences that finally translate into a unique and unrepeatable piece. Glass is fragile but firm at the same time. I go this way always looking for new techniques with tireless effort to learn and discover the secrets of this material that has given me so much satisfaction", explains Foeldes.

The works will remain exposed until December 17 on the terrace of the first floor of Hotel Cumbres Lastarria and prices vary between $ 400,000 and $ 700,000.

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Experiments with light.

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The lack of innovation in glass processes forces Orfeo to breathe new life into the world of glass by implementing several revolutionary techniques that are exposed through the studio's collections.

Place: Temporary exhibitions, ground floor Museo de la Luz, Mexico.

November 10, 2016 to January 31, 2017.

Experiments with light shows new designs of Narcissus and Orpheus Quagliata based on experimentation with the projection of light refracted through their glass pieces.

Narcissus Quagliata is considered one of the most important contemporary glass artists.

He has defined a new path for the art of glass

"There are optical effects that deceive the brain, things that seem like magic or illusions and can one play with them to bring the visitor to the understanding of this phenomenon, not only enjoy it or play with it, but bring it to science," he emphasizes The researcher of the Institute of Physics of the UNAM.

and is best known for his spectacular works of art A similar pretension in public spaces that have attracted worldwide encourages the temporary exhibition, valid attention. until January, Born in San Francisco in Experiments of Light, part 1972, Orfeo Quagliata is of the International an industrial designer Festival of Lights (Filux), and founder of the Orfeo which also celebrates the Quagliata Studio.

20th anniversary of the He brings more than two museum with the works of Narcissus and Orpheus decades of experience Quagliata, American glass with glass to Studio, incorporating the design artists, Material that allows them to create with the dedication and luminous bursts, like skill of a craftsman. galaxies.

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Glass: science and society.

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The Platform for Packaging and Society (PES), in collaboration with the National Association of Glass Manufacturers (ANFEVI) and the Institute of Ceramics and Glass of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (ICVCSIC) organized last November a radio talk entitled "Glass: science and society", within the framework of Science Week.

The talk, broadcast live on the program Primera Hora de Gestiona Radio was conducted by journalist Javier Garcia Mateo and can be heard again through the following access, corresponding to the day November 21 between 10:00 and 11:30 .

inaugurating it putting value in research in this field.

Alicia Durán, researcher at ICV-CSIC, shared her knowledge and experience of glass with the audience and listeners of the chain, making clear all the possibilities of this material.

"What differentiates glass from glass is its ordered structure and lead content, glass is a type of glass," he said.

Karen Davis, Communication Officer of ANFEVI, explained the great advances that are being made in the field of glass packaging, making these packages are becoming lighter and more resistant.

Laura García, Technical Subdirector of operations at Ecovidrio, reminded those present of the possibilities of this material that is one hundred percent recyclable, so it is impossible to distinguish, both visually and Fausto Rubio, Director of the in terms of quality, which ICV-CSIC, was in charge of Held at the headquarters of the Institute of Ceramics and Glass, the gathering was attended by various specialists who debated the various facets of this material.

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glass comes directly from raw materials or from Recycled material.

Blanca García Agulló, Director of the Royal Glass Factory of the Farm, invited all the listeners of the gathering to visit them and discover how they work the glass in a completely handmade way, very different from the one used today to Manufacture containers.

For its part, Juan Graña, CEO of Neurologyca, shared the results of the neuromarketing study they have done to know what impact the glass containers have on other materials.

Juan Quintana, General Secretary of PES, stressed the importance of all materials, because "each package is adapted to its content and specific consumption needs. A container is more than a container. "

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Rosa García Morán’ exposition.

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Among the multitude of materials that are used in the different arts, there is one that is especially complicated to work: glass.

"I've been with glass for many years," he says. I started at the School of Art, then at La Granja de San Ildefonso I took specialization courses.

That is why the exhibition that Leon García Morán artist Leon inaugurated last November at the Cinabrio art gallery is particularly relevant.

I think the glass has a lot of magic, is very ductile and versatile and allows its mixture with many materials.

Among the works of the García Morán has an old exhibition highlights a farm house in the village series of mirrors that are of Palacio de Torio, and in mixed with geometric it a large oven to melt the figures of stained glass and handmade strings of glass. various colors.

The magical material can only be mastered through "It is," says the author, "to show the other side of fire and that is what this singular artisan does with the mirror. To create through color a universe mastery. that we do not normally Transparencies, color grasp, but that exists and and complementary behind which a different materials, such as old reality is hidden ». woods or scrap irons, are Rosa García Morán the elements that stand presents in the exhibition out in their creations.

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space an installation in which rocks, covered by a network of fishermen, represent a coast in which the sea is depositing diverse objects, among them jewels created by the stained glass.

"I started making stained glass, but I soon realized the possibilities that glass, coupled with copper and painted silk fabrics, had in the world of jewelry. And all my creations are unique models. " There are many more things in the show. There are seraphic angels of color waiting impatiently to figure in any Christmas tree.

And birds that can make their nest in any corner. A wonderful world of transparent colors.

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How does it.

This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Ulrica Hydmann.

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Sale of Guardian Llodio.

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The US group Koch Industries has closed an agreement to take over 100% of the company's flat glass manufacturer Guardian, owner of the Basque plants of Laudio (the old Villosa) and Tudela after confirming the option to get 55.5 % Of the capital that was not yet in the hands of the Kansas firm.

authorities and will be materialized, according to Koch forecasts, in the first quarter of 2017.

reduction of 3 days in the annual work day.

At that time the possibility of exercising an option to transfer up to the total of the capital was traded.

and Guardian Navarra in Tudela.

founded in Detroit (United States) in 1932.

In the same works, according to union sources of ELA, about 400 people in Araba and just over 300 in Navarre lands.

They are legally independent companies, each with its own collective agreement.

Guardian Navarra was founded in 1993 and in 2010 also received an important investment of 30 million for a new furnace to develop a range of glass of very sophisticated construction.

The same sources said that the Alava plant has a first-class Industry sources point out that facilities after the investment of Koch's decision to take 100% 40 million euros approved in of Guardian and cash the 2010 to install a float glass stock package is a good sign oven of the most modern in the of the confidence of the North world and which guarantees American group in the the future of the Laudio factory evolution of the market for at Less the next 15 years.

The transaction actually began automotive glass and building The firm, heiress of Vidrierías in 2012 with the entry into the facades . de Llodio (Villosa) created by shareholding of Guardian of The Guardian group has two the Delclaux family along with the Koch group after buying important industrial plants in Vidrala, has been part of 44.5% for about 1.5 billion Euskal Herria, Guardian Guardian Industries since dollars.

Llodio, in that town of Bizkaia, 1985, a multinational company

This week Guardian shareholders have agreed to sell the 55.5% they still control to KGIC Merger Corporation, of the Koch group.

Guardian president Ron Vaupel said at the end of the deal that the glassmaker "had benefited" from the entry of a group like Koch in recent years.

Dave Robertson, president of Koch, said the combination of the capabilities of both companies "will enable us to better serve the needs of our customers."

The operation has to be approved by the competition

The same union sources said that the decision was not surprising because Koch was already a reference shareholder so they do not expect changes in management.

Guardian Industries has about 16,000 employees and is now a subsidiary of Koch, based in Wichita-Kansas, one of the largest private groups in the United States with estimated annual revenues of $ 100 In the case of the Laudio plant, billion. representatives of ELA It has a diverse group of recalled that the collective companies with plants in 60 agreement, with a duration of countries, with 100,000 three years, 2016-2018, which employees, involved in refining, includes wage increases of the chemistry, fertilizers and CPI plus 0.5%, Pluses and electronic components.

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Stained glass with the official shield of Navarre.

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eyeglass in which it was placed The Laureate Cross was broken and its interior had been filled with cement and massive.

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This has meant an extension of the tasks necessary for its reconstruction and a delay in the execution times.

Simultaneously, in order to inform the public about the process, panels with information about the intervention, the objectives and reasons for the removal of the group were placed on the fences surrounding the scaffolding.

The removal of the sculpture and recovery of the oculus A window with the official Laureate Cross of San shield of Navarre will occupy Fernando of the main façade are already finished, and the tympanum of the main of the Palace of Navarre, in these days the scaffold will be removed, finishing the first facade of the Palace of compliance with the Navarre, as informed by the provincial laws Of symbols phase of the work.

Minister of Citizen and and of reparation of the It is pending the closure of Institutional Relations, Ana victims of the military coup of the window with the stained Ollo, and the director general 1936, that they urge to the glass, whose installation is of Peace, Coexistence and retirement and substitution planned, as mentioned for Human Rights, who of the own symbology of the next January. explained the Complete pro-Franco regime.

BACKGROUND process of the withdrawal of WITHDRAWAL PROCESS Laureate Cross of San the Laureate Cross of San In August, the work was Fernando was granted to Fernando as well as the commissioned to the Navarre in 1937 by the solution adopted on the company 'Construcciones dictator Francisco Franco space occupied by the Zubillaga', with an important and placed in his shield as a sculptural ensemble. experience in actions related tribute and recognition to the The glass, which is being to heritage.

Navarrese volunteers who made by a specialist in glass The order is made taking supported him in the military work, is scheduled to be into account two possible coup of 1936 and throughout installed at the end of next the Civil War. scenarios: that it could be January, and will represent withdrawn without damage, In 1951 a sculptural set of the official Navarre shield, or that there were not Fructuoso Orduna was consisting of gold chains on enough guarantees for it. placed in the pediment of the a red background, with an Palace of Navarre, in its main emerald in the center Union In this case, the option façade, modifying the original contemplated was to cover of its eight link arms and, tympanum, that contained a the Laureate Cross with above them, the Royal elements of heraldry. simple oculus.

Crown, symbol of the Old Kingdom of Navarre.

In this sculpture the official The process began on shield of Navarre was September 26, and after During the appearance the verification that the removal represented during the chronology of the process of the sculpture was possible Francoism with the Laureate was explained, beginning Cross between two without causing damage, it with the agreement of the was dismantled in its original masculine personages with Government of the 29th of six blocks, after which it was classic attire.

June for the removal of the found that the original sculptural group with the

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Vidrala seeks to minimize the 'Brexit'.

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"Forget about mourning and getting organized." The message that many citizens made after the victory of Donald Trump in the US was also applied to the companies before the Brexit months Vidrala was one of them.

The Alava company, which produces 6 billion bottles and glass jars a year, had bought in January 2015, for 408.6 million, Encirc Limited, a manufacturer of packaging with two factories (and with most of its market) in the Kingdom United. Bad luck, they might have thought.

But the results presented in September by the group confirm that the storm has not been so strong, despite the fact that the currency has depreciated 13% against the euro. Sales reached 592 million euros, with a slight drop of 1.8%, but Ebitda rose 6.6% to 129 million. The company also reduced its debt by 21% and increased its earnings per share by 16%.

concern about "the slowdown in volumes and uncertainty" around Brexit.

scratched only 1.8%) and now concentrate 82% (Spain has 11.5%, after Verallia, OI and Ardagh Glass).

"In addition, we see that the market is reflecting a recovery of prices slower than expected," they said.

Indeed, glass prices, which are generally traded at the end of the year for the following year - and which have two essential components, inflation and the price of crude oil, due to the intensive energy consumption of the furnaces - are the key To understand what is happening in that sector in Europe.

Growth on the basis of buying other companies has been constant, both in the Spanish case and in the other players: in the last two years, 40% of the world market has changed hands.

In the last three years, price declines have exceeded 5%.

Nonetheless, the UK is the only European market to have experienced positive growth in packaging sales since 2008. Partly because more and more bulk wine is imported from South America, South Africa and Australia to be packaged in the British Isles.

"In our factory in Elton Encirc did not look like a bad buy.

(Manchester), the plant with the With two factories in Northern largest capacity of the sector in Ireland and England, it offers a Europe, include product filling range of services including, in facilities. We offer the logistics for addition to glass production, the transport of the product in bulk, packaging processes and logistics its preservation, the manufacture of services. the container, the filling and the final transport to the customer ", That makes a good part of the 803 million in sales (2015) of the Vidrala points the company. group originate in pounds sterling. stable group "Everything has its positive aspect. Vidrala, born in 1965, is a company We are moderately satisfied and in with a stable shareholder, whose a business situation that is under core is the Delclaux family along control despite the outcome of the with other historical shareholders, referendum. The decline of the followed by investment funds of the pound affects us, albeit in a partial retail sector. way, to the extent that In the Stock Exchange, it has approximately 20% of the group's around 50% of the capital, most of Ebitda is originally obtained in this them in the hands of institutional currency. In any case, we have decided to enter the UK with a long- investors and, in part, foreigners. term industrial vocation ", believe in For two decades she has been in Vidrala, presided over by Carlos the race for concentration that the Delclaux. sector is experiencing, which has not stopped accelerating in the last Analysts are not so optimistic.

Norbolsa, while acknowledging the quarter of a century. In 1990, the first four European companies had company's efforts, expressed in its 41% of the market (Vidrala last comment on the company its

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On the other hand, customers are also in that race to concentrate their purchasing power. The most recent case is the merger of Ab InBev and SabMiller, the beer giants.

37% of Vidrala's production is wine bottles, and 24% for beer, with customers such as Diageo, Heineken, Carlsberg or Mahou.

"We see this concentration as an opportunity, insofar as it will consolidate commercial relations of great volume of sale on customers who bet on the premium product.

It's true that larger customers will have a greater ability to consolidate competitive long-term business relationships, and that's partly what we're looking for. " On the side of the threats is the rise of other types of products in plastic, cardboard or metal. This week, the Plastic Technological Institute (Aimplas) pointed out that the production of food containers in this material has increased 30% in six years.

In favor of glass plays a variable: preserves food, is a recyclable material infinite times (60% of the bottles are reused in Spain) and reduces the losses. In addition, it is not easy for new rivals to emerge because they need a long maturation period and the initial investment in ovens is high (between 15 and 30 million, and have a life of between 10 and 12 years). Although the glass has drawbacks: the high energy consumption and the weight of the bottles, which makes transportation expensive.

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Educational innovation.

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The project 'Research and design: Kitchenware for the new kitchen' of the School of Art and Superior 'Casa de los Picos' has won the first prize of the call of the Ministry of Education that distinguishes the best projects of educational innovation.

anniversary of its publication.

From there, and working in different subjects in the higher artistic teachings and in the professionals, it was established what kind of products were going to be proposed so that on them a series of gastronomic The winning project, proposals will be presented by coordinated by the teacher of the teachers and students of the Victoria Sevilla center, has the teachings Of Cuisine and been developed jointly with the Gastronomy of the CIFP Superior Glass School of La Felipe VI. Granja and the FP Felipe VI The Department of Projects Integrated Center with the and Research of the School specific collaboration of the designed a series of trays or Learning Community of CEIP supports on which to present La Pradera, Of the Segovian different gastronomic town of Valsaín. proposals based on vegetal As explained by the center on its website, on 12 May, the development of a project began with the start of the course. That was when it was presented through the socalled 'Creative Gastronomic Event'.

From the School of Art and Design Superior 'Casa de los Picos' the stage of ideation and planning was developed, with the proposal that the theme that would give the argument to the whole project was to be the work of Lewis Carroll' The Adventures Of Alice in Wonderland ', coinciding with the 150th

another one based on screenprinting.

The Department of Wall Coverings also collaborated in the development of elements such as a frame with an image made with the technique of sgraffito, as well as the realization of ornamental vegetal elements that were part of the final decoration.

Within different subjects of Product Design, also percheros were designed based on the own iconography of the work of Lewis Carroll.

The project culminated with the celebration of a gastronomiccreative event, an experience in which concluded the work of elements that, after the different professionals in a creation of the molds in the common goal of innovative School of Art, were transferred design. to the Glass Factory of The Farm, where they were made This event was considered as an act of a playful, open and in glass. innovative character based on The textile element is also an research and analysis of new aspect that should be taken ways of eating and trends that care of in a gastronomic event, surround everything that has to not only to dress the tables, do with gastronomy. but also in the decoration "It is about designing to create around them. exquisite and innovative The Department of Tapestry products for the current and Carpets of the School of consumer, who seeks new Art considered different sensations linked to the act of techniques of stamping on cooking and eating; We are fabrics, one of them for the looking for gastronomic tablecloth by means of experiences, "they say from the stamping technique and center.

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Glass wool.

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Communities near the Masaya Volcano, located in Nicaragua, reported that the colossus ejects "Cabello de Pelé", which is a volcanic glass filament, quite common in volcanoes with activity, very similar to the one currently in the giant mentioned.

named "Hair of Pele" due to the goddess of volcanoes in the mythology of Hawaii.

As long as the lava lake in Masaya volcano crater is active and the winds are blowing with enough force, this phenomenon will continue.

The authorities make the The inhabitants are very following recommendations careful to collect the crops regarding this phenomenon: where the glass strands of that 1) To cover the sources of volcano fall. water and food for human Experts from the Nicaraguan consumption and domestic Institute of Territorial Studies animals.

(Ineter) explained that the flu is

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2) Do not touch them with the bare hand (skin) as it is a glass, it is sharp and easily inserted into the skin.

3) Do not remain prolonged periods exposed to strong winds in communities to the northwest, west, southwest and south of the Santiago crater (Ticuantepe, La Borgoña, Los Ortíces, Catarina, San Juan de Oriente, Nandasmo, San Juan de la Concepción, La Concepción, Masatepe, among others) without protecting the eyes and respiratory tract.

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Agreement in BA-Glass.

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The staff of the company BA Vidrio, based in Villafranca de los Barros (Badajoz) and one of the most important industries in the region, has approved by majority the pre agreement for the collective agreement that guarantees the maintenance of its purchasing power and affects To about 290 workers.

The pre-agreement was approved in assembly after the agreement reached by the works council and the management of the factory in the negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement 2016-2018, according to CCOO.

This union stresses that the agreement will guarantee the purchasing power of plant personnel because the company is committed to wage increases of one percent at least for the next two years and the annual CPI if it exceeds this increase.

correct one of the repeated demands of the workforce as it is the wage inequality that occurred within the company to exist a double salary scale.

Thus, from the beginning of January, the professional groups of those who were hired between 2014 and CCOO, the majority union in 2015 were updated to match jobs and wages. the company committee, remembers that this is one CCOO also emphasizes that of the main industries of through the agreement the Extremadura, with one of the company undertakes to most stable stencils, introduce improvements in dedicated to the the Equality Plan, which in manufacture of glass some chapters had been containers for the first delayed. brands of beer.

The agreement will also

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Prize for Vidrala.

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ElEconomista has been awarded, among other firms, Vidrala, as the best company of the year and Ismael Clemente, CEO of Merlin Propierties, as the most important entrepreneur in the economic-financial field.

These awards, which are celebrating this year's sixth edition, have been announced in La Noche de la EconomĂ­a, an institutional meeting organized by the Economist with which it recognizes the professionalism, prestige, support and promotion of the economic activity of the sector Business.

The prize for the company that has best developed its Corporate Social Responsibility has been Grupo Norte for its commitment to hiring policies to groups at risk of exclusion, since it employs 547 people with disabilities and is a pioneer in the continuous incorporation of victims of Gender violence against its staff.

a reference for thousands of users.

The award for Best Business Operation has been awarded to Criteria and Repsol for their joint operation of selling 20 percent of Gas Natural to the US fund Global Infraestructure Partners (GIP).

The most relevant Personality Award of the year in the economic and financial The Gestamp Award for Best field was for Ismael Training Initiative has been Clemente, CEO of Merlin awarded by Gestamp for its Propierties, for its impetus to global training center a new model of real estate Gestamp Tecnology Institute company in a difficult context (GTI) - located in Vizcaya, for the sector and for having where training in new converted it, with The technologies of the company integration of Metrovacesa, The Internationalization is centralized, with high in the largest real estate Award has been for the training programs and with company quoted on the glass manufacturer Vidrala, The focus on innovation Spanish Stock Exchange. which after the acquisition in related to the automotive 2015 of the Irish Encirc has The winners have received sector. become one of the leading as a prize a reproduction of glass manufacturers in The Digital Innovation Prize the first framed cover of the Europe for the food and was awarded to Wallapop, newspaper El Economista of beverage sector, with a the second-hand startup of the year 1886. production of more Of 17 second-hand objects, million bottles and jars per created in 2013, and whose day. business model has become www.amigosmava.org

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Nuevo Baztán, BIC.

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Located 50 kilometers east of Madrid and framed in the Henares Basin, Nuevo Baztán has been marked throughout its history by its beginnings.

sector of the molten glass.

Juan de Goyeneche and Gastón created a factory dedicated to the molten glass ex nov, from there, they began to build houses to give residence to the workers of the factory.

The problem arose when European producers decided to lower the price of the product compared to the one offered by the Goyeneche factory.

The main source of energy for the operation of the factory were the holly, since they were very existent by this zone.

For this reason, Goyeneche had to slow down the production and store all the products in the warehouse of glasses that had Alcála Street, nowadays the Real Academia de San Fernando. Until competition, together with the scarcity of raw materials and energy sources, Nuevo Baztán is very considered led to the bankruptcy of the among designers and architects factory and consequently the for a particularity in its urban decline of the population of the model. municipality.

These constructions were made from the contiguous municipality called Villa de la Olmeda, but Juan de Goyeneche, owner and founder of the factory, decided to baptize this small set of houses as the town where he was born: Baztán in Navarra.

It is designed in orthogonal reticulum, that is, the streets form right angles creating rectangular apples.

One of the most famous architects, Fernando Chueca Goitia, dedicated in his book "Example of baroque urbanism castizo" a few pages to the municipality as far as the outline of the city.

Traces like the one of San Fernando de Henares are copies made of the one of New Baztán, that served as example for more municipalities of the Community of Madrid.

At present, Nuevo Baztán is formed by the old part that agglutinates the majority of its Artistic and Cultural Patrimony and by neighboring urbanizations like Eurovillas or the Mirador del Baztán that provided a greater number of neighbors and greater economic and commercial activity to the Madrilenian municipality.

complex formed between the Palace and the Church was declared of Cultural Interest.

So it is a must stop for all tourists.

In addition, Nuevo Baztán consists of the Plaza de la Iglesia which is also part of the binomial formed of Palace and Church as a Property of Cultural Interest.

As curiosity, in the center of the square is located the Source of Tritones, so named for having as decoration three centaurs.

It also has the Plaza de las Fiestas, popularly known as the Plaza de Toros because it celebrates bullfights. And the Market Square or as they call it Plaza del Secreto, perhaps one of the most picturesque in the municipality.

In its beginnings it houses the market that supplied to the city and was the main commercial nucleus.

Between its celebrations it emphasizes considerably the celebrations dedicated to the Foundation of New Baztán in honor to Juan de Goyeneche that are celebrated the 9 of October.

But, undoubtedly, the key party of Nuevo Baztán is 'La Javierada' which is celebrated on the second Sunday of March in honor of Navarre, as it owes its name to that region.

Among its Heritage, the Palace of Juan de Goyeneche stands out. It was the house of the founder of the factory, is built with limestone and is attached to Like the 3 of December is celebrated San Francisco Javier, the Church of San Francisco day of the Pattern of New Baztan.

Javier.

During the heyday of the factory, It is an ideal municipality to know Of the Church stands the main Nuevo Baztán was a very its history and to enter in its altar, work of José de prosperous industrial town Churriguera, built mainly with red wonderful old town. centering all its economy in the marble. In 2000, the architectural www.amigosmava.org

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Visit to “Ópalo”.

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The Director General of Trade and Consumer Protection, Francisca Cabrera is visiting the artisans of the Region of Murcia, to learn personally about their facilities, as well as "the entire process of traceability that have the craft trades that are developed in the region, from Its beginning, going through its elaboration and finishing of the piece, and until it reaches the final consumer, "he says.

the degree of quality presented by each of them, as an added value to the final product, "since each of these works become unique pieces".

The counselor was able to check firsthand the process of elaboration of the pieces that work and

guarantees the authenticity, quality and origin of artisan products

made in the Region of Murcia.

The head of the regional department of Commerce says that artisans "are obliged to place this label In this workshop they are which reflects the made from artistic stained characteristics of each of glass interiors, which the pieces that are put on collect all kinds of motifs, sale, so that the consumer passing through a wide has the guarantee of the range of decorative piece artisanal Is acquiring. objects, jewelry, boxes and " pictures.

The director general of

Carmen Martínez opened her workshop in 1994 and Cabrera visited in Yecla the in 2012 obtained the Ópalo handicraft recognition of the workshop, by the Autonomous Community of craftsman Carmen the Region of Murcia, the Martínez Azorín, which has Master Craftsperson's the support of the Letter, the highest level craftsman Barti Alonso. acquired in the exercise of her "glass" craft.

For more than 20 years they have been dedicated The process is to the production of artistic indispensable to identify stained glass and cast the pieces with the glass. corresponding label that

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Trade and Consumer Protection, Francisca Cabrera, points out that this sector groups 600 artisans in the Region, with a significant contribution in employment, so the regional administration offers them outstanding support, with a series of aid Established for the acquisition of tools, assistance to competitions and fairs in which they can promote their work and also, among others, there are aid to obtain the intellectual property of their products.

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Our Newsletter is worded in:

The Association of Friends of MAVA

December 2016

was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with current management.

Castillo de San José de Valderas.

The purpose of this Association is to

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 28925 ALCORCÓN

promote, encourage and support many

MADRID

cultural activities, in the broadest terms, are related to the mission and activities

When glass culture

of the Museum of Glass Art Alcorcon.

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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

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Vocales

Javier Gómez Gómez

Pablo Bravo García 

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Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos