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Monthly Newsletter
Marta Klonowska Newsletter
Increasingly less.
M. A. Carretero.
Each time we have less pouring salt into the exhibition space in our open wound above. MAVA. Chamber I of the Museum, there is a right It all started at the of entry facilities, will be beginning of this year converted into a meeting that we just left. place for seniors can The offices on the take our little game of second floor of the museum, including the cards or dominoes, or library, and a good part read the newspaper if we of the exhibition space want . were donated by our City to Madrid to set up a family meeting point. The enormous impact that produced us that news was mitigated in part by the denial of staff of the private company that would develop the service, given the absence of minimum conditions for the proper performance of their work.
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In the end everything was reduced to the installation of a Family Counseling developed by the NGO Association Trama Center, but the museum was left without offices or library. If that was the ominous beginning of the year, the end was like
the MAVA is so great; our desire to spread the culture of art glass have them so ingrained; strong is our belief that this Museum is a nationally and internationally; as we think it is an assault on one of our municipal properties, we are using everything in our power But the sculptures that to expose this abuse of now exist in that space power by our Mayor and will sleep the sleep of the has no other purpose just in the store. U take than to serve as election the place of others who propaganda in the face enjoy a dark deposit. of next municipal elections. As we stated in our appeal to our Mayor For this we use the through the virtual space advantages dump that Change.org, I think we we provide social media deserve the greatest to disseminate and spaces to enjoy leisure publicize the current time and entertainment, situation of our Museum. either solitary or enjoying the company of friends. Through Change.org we are collecting signatures Sure. in support of our just But for this we must demands, so we leave adequate space encourage all our and without so tortuous, readers to also include we assigned a place your signature, share which was already with friends our initiative occupied by a cultural and rolling upgrades to sphere as that of one of know that we are the Museum of Glass adding . Art. Cadena Ser echoed this Moreover, what more will request and I recorded come to this room in the an interview in which I harsh winter or summer stated my opinion about haze having to go the nonsense which is through a long, bleak, the measure taken by dark and abandoned our Mayor regarding the land? MAVA and my skepticism about the possibility that For our part, it is true we get to present him that our financial firms that support our resources are very request. limited, but our love for
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P UN TO S DE INT E R ÉS E S P ECI AL : Piece of the month Change.org petition Moroccan blowers Alchemist air Activities on the MAVA News
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Our activities Glass recycling How do CONTENIDO:
Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (XLIII) MAC.
Intellectual Property Law
hereby created in the Ministry of Culture.
Commerce.
3. It is up to the First 2. The Commission Section exercising the BOOK III shall act through two functions of mediation Protection of the and arbitration in sections. rights recognized in The First Section shall accordance with the this Act act as mediation and following rules: TITLE IV arbitration assigned 1.º In his mediation: Management bodies by this Act. a) to collaborate in of the rights The Second Section negotiations, following recognized in the shall, within the scope submission of the Act of the powers of the parties, if not succeeMinistry of Culture, for ded in concluding a Article 158 Commicontract with respect to ssion on Intellectual the protection of intellectual property matters directly related Property rights against infrinto the collective mana1. Intellectual gement by the servigement of copyright, Property Commission ces responsible for and for the autorizaas a body of national the information tion of cable distribution scope for the exerci- society in the terms of a broadcast, for lack se of the functions of provided in Articles 8 of agreement between mediation and arbiand concordant Law the holders of tration, and safeguar- 34/2002, of July 11, intellectual property ding intellectual Services Information rights and cable property rights assig- Society and Electronic distribution companies. ned to this Act is
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Change.org petition
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Moroccan blowers
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Alchemist air
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Concert MAVA
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Roman glass in Museums
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Craft Fair
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URGENT NEWS
Glass art adapted
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CNV controls its debt
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Coin with glass
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News
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Culture 2014
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Concert MAVA
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Ntra. Sra. De Atocha
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The glass in museums
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Ornaments under the sea
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Currency € 125,000
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Czech glass in Saxony
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Recycling
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Isabel de Obaldía
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2015 program
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Delayed CRAM
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Other trends
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Lobmeyr issued collection
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Exhibition of wonders
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Glass jewelry bargains
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Investment in window
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Collaborate with La Granja
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How do
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Find in Denmark
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Duralex survives
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The glass in Segovia
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Ana Yabar in Bilbao
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Workshop Igor Obeso
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“I acknowledge”
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New Year in New York
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Board Of Directors
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Glass Harmonica.
On December 31, surely just the night (or started the next day) surrounded by music. This curious instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin American politician in 1762, after seeing in Cambridge (England) concert wine glasses filled with water touched by the English Edward Delaval (1729-1814). Harmonic glass consists of a series of glass plates or bowls of different sizes stacked horizontally aligned and crossed
by a shaft connected to a pedal belt that rotates while playing, in the manner of an old sewing machine. She touches his fingers dipping slightly and touching the dishes while rotating, producing crystal clear sound. Currently has a record of four octaves. Composers such as Mozart or Beethoven have written pieces for this instrument.
No response from the Department of Culture.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Yumiko Noda.
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Yumiko Noda is one of the main representatives of the New Glass in your country. His name is essential when discussing contemporary glass in Japan, so that his work is represented in all the best specialized museums. In fact, in 1987, the Corning Museum of Glass acquired his work. He studied art at the University of Tama, Tokyo (1979) and soon traveled to the United States to further his education. Thus, between 1981 and 1983, Yumiko Noda made study trips to Illinois State University, and at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, assisted in both cases by grants.
A year later, back at home, he opened his own studio in Asagaya, Tokyo.
mention Honor-, various editions of the exhibition Glass Worl Now promoted by the Museum of Modern Art in Since then there have Hokkaido, Sapporo, and been traveling to and New Glass in Japan staying in different conducted by the countries of the world, Kunstmusum of named instructor courses Düsseldorf (1993). and workshops: Toyama City Institute of Glass Art More recently participated (1992), at the same in the exhibition University Tama Art Contemporary Studio where he studied (1992), Glass from Japan in the Pilchuck Glass School Finnish Glass Musum of (1993) and the Canberra Finland (1998) and Institute of Arts, within the organized by the Museum National University of of Taipei (2000). Australia (1995). In Spain was shown his He has served on all work in Japan shows. major events that have Contemporary Glassware taken place in relation to (JAPAN 1995) held at the contemporary glass in National Glass Centre Japan, either at home or Foundation of La Granja outside it as: Glass Art in 1995. '90, an exhibition Currently working on organized by the Open Niijima Glass Art Center Air Museum Hakoneas Associate Director. where he earned a
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Established artists. Marta Klonowska.
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create my own artificial world. The fact that they are animals suggests a farce: they hide a special charm, a mystery, an intriguing dynamic or static aesthetic.
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For us humans, animals are less intelligible than members of our own species.
Klonowska Marta was born in To the themes of his work, Warsaw in 1964. the artist finds inspiration in the paintings of the great He currently lives and works masters, in which pets in Düsseldorf. (mostly dogs), appear Already during his studies at alongside their masters, the Academy of Fine Arts in acting almost as prestige Wroclaw (Poland), and objects displayed as followed later in Düsseldorf, synonymous with wealth and glass became his favorite power. artistic medium. To build these works, begins Today it is known for its with a metal skeleton that is numerous sculptures of dogs being carefully covered with representing four-legged sharp shards of glass ... companions important "... My topics (I select historical figures, capturing between accessory animal their natural poses in colored figures, often partially hidden glass. found in paints) allow me to
While it may seem a divertimento, these animals are to me abstract metaphors designed to express certain emotions, to generate a particular mood. At the same time, they are less transparent than they might be human representations. ... ". Marta has received important awards in Paris, Sweden and London. He has exhibited regularly in successive samples in Lorch + Seidl Gallery in Berlin, and since 2011 one of his works are on display at the Corning Museum of Glass. You can enjoy images of his sculptures and installations on the website of Lorch + Seidl.
Emerging artists. Robyn Townsend. Mi trabajo se centra en las áreas de la psicología, la biología y la filosofía, pero el tema clave de mi trabajo es la condición humana, estoy fascinada por el estudio de la Humanidad, la forma en la que pensamos, nuestra forma de actuar y la forma en que sentimos. Quiero mostrar a la gente sus similitudes en lugar de sus diferencias, sus www.amigosmava.org
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cualidades universales que son consistentes sin importar la raza, cultura, género u origen político. Mi estudio voyeurista del ser humano como un organismo me ha llevado a utilizar partes íntimas del cuerpo dentro de mi trabajo para reflejar los componentes de la naturaleza humana, así como su existencia filosófica en el mundo de hoy.
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Our petition on Change.org.
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This is the petition on Change.org have opened our Mayor to request that no
further reduce the exhibition spaces of our Museum.
solidarity towards the work of our museum for the culture of You ask, dear reader, to sign glass art. this petition to show
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Rescuing Moroccan blowers.
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Glassblowers working tirelessly to rescue Marrakech mythical tea cups that for decades have been on the tables of many cafĂŠs in Morocco and were about to disappear.
months ago the factory within the field of his own hotel, located six kilometers from Marrakech and overlooking the Atlas Mountains.
Account businessman who bought the glasses "beldi" to a With a long pipette, glass factory that produced in the blowers shape liquid after city of Casablanca, but in June passing through the furnace 2013 the workshop, the last of and breath to breath, much or its kind remaining in Morocco, little, in perspective, bubble closed its doors and glass is transformed into glass. disappeared not only the vessels, but also the Its fast and rhythmic knowledge of a handful of movements reflect the great professionals skilled in this art. skill of these "glass artists" than a few pieces of this "We studied the possibility of material create different cutting buying the company but had patterns, cooked, cooled and, many debts and felt it was too if required, also varnished. dangerous, so we decided to open the factory here (in Two tons of recycled glass Marrakech) with more modern each day merge into a huge materials and facilities in line furnace, with an average with current safety standards," temperature of 1,800 degrees, says Leymarie. no rest day nor night. The new factory vessels "You can not stop because the "beldi" employs a total of 60 oven takes ten days on and off people, including 35 blowers ten in. Because the economic rescued workshop cost would be enormous," Casablanca, producing 15,000 says French businessman glasses a day, and who are Jean-Dominique Leymarie, can be seen through a window owner of the only factory of avidrioada built for tourists. glassblowers of vessels called "beldi "(traditional local dialect) Workshop nearby shop sells remaining in Morocco. glasses at prices ranging between 100 and 160 dirhams Leymarie opened just three
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(about 9 and 15 euros) per dozen. The main idea is to export 70% abroad and sell the rest on the Moroccan market. "Our goal is to give this popular glass a touch more elegant and direct it to a clientele that appreciates the symbol" said the French businessman. Ultimately it comes to mold traditional to modern times, and provide a more contemporary to these vessels touch that is characterized by its translucent structure (and not transparent, as the industrial glass), irregular texture and bubbles seen within the glass. In the past, factories glassblowers had to adjust to the changes brought by the arrival of electricity to homes, and producing oil lamps started to manufacture vessels. Most shops closed in the 80s, but the glass "beldi" continued to resist. And in the same way, today, this Moroccan vessel, which curiously never penetrate hard at home, remains the right for a national delicacies container: tea with mint. In glass blower.
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The last alchemist air.
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Two thousand years of Syrian handicrafts are about to disappear with the last glass blower. Just outside the Christian quarter of Bab Sharki and fully clearing the Beit el Azaz (glass house in Arabic) factory stands between military posts. It is the last country in which this ancient craft occurs.
dozen years. In 1800 Mohamed's grandfather wore only white glass and only produced lamps and jugs. For two centuries, three generations have experimented with new forms and colors forging the seal of Azaz family. Every twenty days, a different dye is used.
glass await their turn to be melted and formed Jalil give them air base. With the tip of a long iron pipe blower removes a piece of glass mass softened by heat molding delicate rotations based on a metal base. Before the mass to cool, Jalil blown through the glass tube and inflating rapidly reshaping the edges to obtain the desired shape.
The turquoise is the traditional Damascus, but also have added other colors like olive green, dark Despite the repetitive process, green or hazel. each piece is produced in Beit el Beit two decades ago, Azaz was Azaz is unique and unrepeatable. all bustle. "The secret is to control the "Do not be fourth generation of intensity and duration of glass blowers in the family," he Six glass blowers sitting around breathing" he explains. laments. a huge clay oven lungs were working 24 hours a day. "If the breath is soft and long, thin "None of my three children work glass achievement and the on this. It is a very thankless job In turn, three were responsible with long hours and little income. for dyeing and shaping the thick internal cavity of the workpiece is greater. If the breath is short and And in wartime is not for sale, mass of broken glass melted in abrupt thicker glass and a lower "says this Damascene 55 who the flames. cavity is achieved ". has chosen to send their Today, the traditional oven is offspring to college to make a With the help of tweezers with deprecated by the lack of both career advantage. excessive iron and Jalil achieved Syrian and foreign customers The art of glass blowing was and has been replaced by more fluency shaping the neck of a jar or a lamp-like tear. born in Syria in the last century modern and a small one. before Christ, and when the Just Bachar Jalil, 34, works with Before leaving, Mohamed looks great-grandchildren of Salim el Mohamed blowing glass molding back, aware that when you retire, Azaz become economists or turn off the oven and let it vases, lamps, vases, ashtrays lawyers a transmitted in the disappear blowing the last and other crafts. family experience that has alchemist air. survived decades of change will Several bowls full of broken vanish and the last four mortars The family business that sat in Damascus Salim the early 1800s Azaz die with her grandson Mohamed el Jalak and with him twenty centuries of tradition.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. Evaristo Bellotti.
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Evaristo Bellotti presented in the exhibition Fractions MAVA 2012/2014, a set of works grouped in series, usual work of the artist. María Antonia de Castro, art critic and connoisseur of the work of Bellotti in a beautiful text entitled: he loses sculpture, accompanying the exhibition says: "... the number of Fractions develops an exercise in deconstruction and construction result unknown to encounter unexpected results which are coming after risking to sculpture to explore their horizon between chance and necessity, variables and constants forms. The work of preparing these works is offered as a trial without project and each of the pieces like a plastic possibility of sculpture when it is subjected to the pressure of randomness and accident. In them, the time, the constant that appears throughout the production Bellotti, materializes with
extreme sharpness. So it could be said of them, in my opinion, they are the plastic form of clearer future of the built so far by Evaristo ... ... Bellotti has started from the idea of -a fraction mathematical term and has chosen as working material broken pieces of glass, ceramics, paper, cardboard, etc .. That means focusing towards a certain type of fragments, not towards any kind of fragment. The work material is then formed for the fractions resulting from the breakage of materials such as glass, are susceptible to break at random. (The glass is resulting from the high temperature fusion of silica sand, soda ash and limestone solid amorphous character. The crystal has an opposite molecular composition to the glass, the atoms and ions are arranged symmetrically in elementary networks forming a crystal structure, a crystal has the same crystal structure so that it forms, so that, when
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failure, retain the same fractions geometric regularity of the crystal structure ... " The first time I was exposed to the public these beautiful sculptures was at the Tech Museum of Glass in La Granja in 2013. The exhibition is completed with Fractions creative artist workshops held in the month of January 2015 to groups of students of Fine Arts in the Complutense and Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, as well as high school students from IES Artistic Ithaca Alcorcón and the School of Art in Palma de Madrid. Evaristo Bellotti, (Algeciras 1955) is a great sculptor with a long and successful career. Among his most important exhibitions highlights an individual entitled Sculpture 2008, at the Palacio de Cristal, space belonging to the exhibition program of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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Concerts in the MAVA.
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On December 19 we celebrate in the Auditorium of MAVA our concert corresponding to our "Concert MAVA" Christmas program.
Christmas
Siyahamba
Jingle Bell Rock
And Marta del Barrio delighted us with:
This time we had the pleasure of welcoming the Children's Choir of the Public School Fine Dining, in our town, led by soprano Marta del Barrio.
The first part of this concert was occupied by the Choir and the second part by Marta del Barrio. The choir sang songs:
If you celebrate Christmas
When is Christmas day
The magic of
Nella Fantasia Les anges dans campagnes us Mary had a baby Vergine degli angeli The Ave Maria - Bach / Gounod Silent Night
Finally, they performed together the song "I'm dreaming of home". The auditorium was completely full of people, as relatives of the
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schoolchildren were eager to see them perform and rewarded, both they and Marta, with enthusiastic applause. This concert was not, as is usual in our program in teaching any way, because we consider it as a Christmas party for both the boys and their families, to spend with music. The staging by the choir was very original and quite spectacular, because in the darkness that prevailed when the stage lights off very attractively highlighted the twinkling little lights rods agitated by the members of the choir.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (II).
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Eduardo Alonso Cereza
work quickly agreed; the first The transformation of Roman steps proposed to me, quite glass in a handmade product rightly, to tackle this study were to limit the subject mass will reply in the because it was very spacious, contemporary art of the and make an assessment of twentieth century. both bibliographic sources and As an art historian I want to volume of parts that could be analyze the different modes of treated. expression and the period in We finally decided that the title which they occur. of the thesis would be "The One day, deepen the artistic Roman Glass in collections expressions of the Roman and museums in Madrid". period, I noticed that the work After an initial literature review, of the glass was treated very I discovered that the literature brief and succinct by most textbooks on the history of the on Roman glass in Spain were scarce, except for D. Pascual art form; this fact began to Vigil who boarded the Roman arouse my interest in the subject, and finally decided to glass in antique dealing pieces from Spanish minerals, D. investigate. Angel Fuentes, specializing in To do this he had to resort to a Roman glass, which delves teacher who could address the into the glass of the Plateau work, and decided that that establishing a personal person could be D. Fernando typology and bringing light to De Olaguer-Feliu, Professor in the local production of glass, different subjects both my such as the Cadiz workshop undergraduate and my studies Barrios, Jennifer Price with his in the Doctoral Program. thesis on several deposits: When I told my intention to Italica, Carmona, Mérida etc., investigate the Roman glass and Ms. M.P. Caldera de and asked him his address at
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Castro, in his study on the emeritense VIRIO, among others. Currently the subject arouses more interest, highlighting the work carried out by Ms. Ortiz and D. Angel Palomar sources that address the matter and give a different vision in sight so far, along with the work being published by Mrs. . MJ Almagro Gorbea on the pre-Roman and Roman at the National Museum of Decorative Arts glass. Foreign literature has shown great interest in the matter coming to be his study a tradition. The study of ancient glass enjoyed great interest after World War II, and especially in the early sixties with the creation of Glass Studies Journal with the initiative of Corning museum, and l'association Internationale du Verre pour l'Historie . Subsequently l'association l'Archèologie Française pour du Verre was formed.
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Craft Fair of Madrid.
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On December 13 opened in Madrid's Plaza de Spain's Market Craft Fair Madrid as usual a few years ago.
Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Aragón, Murcia, Navarra and the Basque Country, who contribute their traditional trades and their peculiarities This is the 27th edition of the to this must-attend event of Fair and is the ninth time that craftsmanship is a national is installed in this location, as benchmark. earlier, since 1988, they were in the Paseo de Recoletos. In the process of adaptation to new consumer trends, the This year there are 169's Fair Market is a good stand has the Fair and example of combination of labeled as glass artisans tradition and design, which include thirteen. reveals the sensitivity and On our visit to this edition of exclusivity conferred the Fair greet our friends craftsmanship. Fulkolor, vitreus Ignis, Ana The variety of trades Yabar, Lume Glass, present, a total of 38, is MalvayGris, Talismania by manifested through various Xana, Arantxa Garcia and sectors such as glass, Juan Paya. ceramic, decoration, dried In this new edition will have flowers, jewelry, toys, wood, 46 artisans quote metal, paper and cardboard, municipalities throughout our leather or textiles, among region and also has the others, offering the presence of artisan opportunity perfect for workshops of 13 autonomous acquiring the genuine and communities of Andalusia, original special gift we all Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, seek in past holiday season Castilla y León, Catalonia, as Christmas present. Valencia, Extremadura,
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To boost the show in this new edition, taking place demonstration workshops. Also designed by students of Window School of Art 10 of the Community of Madrid, the show features a showcase of products representative of the exhibiting offer. Place and date of event Coinciding with its opening weekend at its start the Christmas period, the XXVII Ttiene place until January 5th. The Fair will be open continuously from eleven to twenty-one hours during the days of its conclusion, with the exception of 24 and 31 December, during which remained open until fifteen hours, days being closed December 25 and January 1 2015. View photos
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The art of glass adapted to the XXI century.
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Older windows are preserved in the cathedral of the German city of Augsburg and are dated between 1050 and 1150.
NicolĂn, Industrial former engineer, is able to transform ordinary glass into works of art of different sizes and volumes through a method called However they lived their period fusing, consisting of molding of splendor between the twelfth objects in an electric oven at and sixteenth centuries when 800 degrees. they became an essential element of the Gothic "I get elaborate handmade cathedrals of Spain, France, pieces, unique in the world, Germany and England. and adapt to consumer tastes as if the oven is intended for Today, almost five centuries creation of 85 120 centimeters later, the stained-glass artist in size, always joining can Fabrice Nicolin (Dijon, France, increase the bottom line," 1971) continues to work as did summed up the French the first craftsmen but glassmaker . transforming their creations to the demands of the times. However, their main task is based on the development of Having learned 15 years ago in stained glass, both for Argentina hand prestigious churches and for private artist Carlos Herzberg, now homes. Nicolin, become one of the major figures of the artistic The ancient craftsmen used work of the glass, has moved a these pieces to cover a space few months ago his workshop on the wall, making creations Sant Josep. with small pieces of colored glass reproduced all kinds of "My relationship with the scenes and joined together wonderful world of light crystal with lead strips forming what is began by chance when I began known as leaded. attending classes as a hobby workshop Herzberg and In this sense, Fabrice Nicolin gradually caught me so much remains true to tradition but that ended up being an has adapted to changing obsession and finally a times. profession," explains the French artist.
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"Usually people associate the name of the sacred art stained glass but I think it's something that goes far beyond so I am determined to prove that it is a contemporary art and with small colored glass can get virtually any shape and any color you propose, 'said Nicolin own. Restoration of stained glass It is this idea that is intended to convey to students participating in individual courses run throughout the island. Furthermore, the French artist working in the restoration of various church buildings in the diocese of Eivissa. For now, in a few days will begin work on the basis of a circular window of 1 meter in diameter, the church of the Virgin of Roser and Sant Ciriac in Vila, and is pending start doing some of the windows of Eivissa Cathedral that are in very poor condition. Something that will keeping with the tradition but "applying the progress of the XXI century".
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The CNV controls its debt.
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A year and a half after the School of Industrial Organization (EOI) assumed management Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja the situation has gone from poor to control. In this regard, the Secretary of Board of Trustees of the National Glass Centre (CNV), José Ramón Álvarez, explained that the liability of the entity, which in February this year amounted to 3.8 million euros, "is controlled ". Although I wanted to give specific figures on the current situation, he noted that the CNV "has regained financial credibility." "Everything is flowing, although the deadlines for meeting objectives are getting longer. Everything goes, but more slowly, and the sensations are good, "said José Ramón Álvarez, who noted that the employment status of the staff of the Royal Glass Factory has normalized. Payrolls are gaining and the future looks peaceful. During the Board of Trustees of the CNV, it was found that one of the problems that arise in the daily life of the institution is that the contributions of public bodies are made later, which also involves a delay in the development of strategic plan projected a year ago,
"but the situation is calmer and balanced" insisted José Ramón Álvarez. The CNV has an annual budget of 1.9 million euros, and among the planned projects being worked on selling products online, to achieve increased production and sales within a specified period of about four years. In relation to sales, ahead of the upcoming holiday season the SEC plans to establish three points outside sales, Madrid and Segovia, like last year, and in Valladolid, a proposal from the Junta de Castilla y León. Last year in Segovia was in the Casa de los Picos. Commercial activities have intensified in recent months, with the aim of spreading the existence and work of the Royal Glass Factory. José Ramón Álvarez says the Royal Palace of La Granja receives about 200,000 visitors a year, while the Glass Factory hosts about 60,000. "The goal is for those people who go to the Palace also come to the Royal Factory". This has been increased promotional efforts, such as dramatized visits to the Centre.
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In addition to national media, also working in international development, collaborations with other glassworks in the world, such as Murano, Venice and Finland. Heading into 2015, expectations are good. "We're a little late, but well," reiterated Alvarez. Remodeling of the Museum. It is one of the main objectives of the Foundation. At the moment, are being undertaken rehabilitation work covers the Royal Glass Factory, which is expected the Centre will be completed this month. The main objective of this work is to restore the conditions of tightness of the roof of the building that are in poor condition, basically replacing covers West Wing, East Wing and Nave Woodshed, and also improving the South module. Additionally, they are also undertaking refurbishment in the so called Patio de Carlos III, which are to remove the glass panels of the existing steel structure, waterproof side decks, and proceed to closing of the arches of the courtyard . After the museum renovation project will come face to 2015. "The idea is to give more life to the museum, the visitor not only know what is done in the National Glass Centre, but also part of this, it an interactive museum".
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Coin with Venetian glass.
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This 2014 Christmas in Canada have been very prolific in terms of special issues devoted to so endearing parties (See "Canadian Christmas began in November"). One such example is the new currency of 20 Canadian silver dollars made with beautifully designed and exquisitely engraved featuring original winter scene that includes a snowman color in three dimensions made of Venetian glass inserted on the back, created by master glass makers in Murano, Italy, saw Col Vetro. The circulation is 10,000 copies, minted by the Royal Canadian Mint (Mint Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa), 9999 silver thousandths, proof quality, weighing 31'39 gr., Diameter of 38 mm. and reeded edge.
Artist Susanna Blunt is the designer of the traditional front reproducing the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, surrounded by the inscription "Elizabeth II DG Regina "(Queen Elizabeth II by the Grace of God).
A pair of skates past fashion is at the base of the tree. In front of snowman and trees, a path of ice with a smooth curve leads back to a wooden hut covered with snow with fire going in the right side of the image.
The coin depicts on the reverse, designed by Julius Csotonyi, a festive scene that takes all the key features of the holiday season Canadian winter.
Across the road from the snowman, the corner of a wooden bench is visible under a pile of snow with a red cup of cocoa.
This night scene outdoors is centered around a snowman white, adorable glass with an orange carrot nose, red buttons, a black top hat and green scarf.
The scene, which seems uphill into the night sky beyond the horizon is dotted with deciduous trees bare and shining crystal snowflakes falling from the sky.
The snowman sitting on a snow covered patio gentle slope. To the left of the snowman a beautiful evergreen tree decorated with multicolored ornaments, white garland, and bright lights.
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The legend with the name of the issuing country "Canada", the year of issue "2014" and the face value "20 Dollars" (20 Canadian dollars) complete the design.
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N O T I C I A S (I).
Nativity glass. This artist created sculptural studies in Germany, Georg Kolbe workshops and Arno Brecker, in Berlin, and in those of Joseph Thorak in Munich.
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But this is an example of the Birth of author which can be seen at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid.
The famous and versatile Catalan artist Santiago Padrós i
Elias, this set is made of glass in 1945.
The exhibition will be open until the 11th of this month of January.
Culture 2014. the artist and was nearing thirty, had proved their worth in Zaragoza and traveled, as they should, to Italy-. Also corresponds to the time of its consolidation as a painter at the court of Charles III and IV.
Last December we visited the exhibition "Goya in Madrid" which opened in late November at the Museo del Prado. A necessary work of improving communications between the central gallery of the Museum and the upper floor where the cartons are exposed
tapestry painter, has led to the virtuous enhancement of the series, whose production ranges occupied nearly two decades of the artist's life.
Traditionally held by utilitarian means to an end (as a model for weaving a tapestry), the cartons leave their "servile status", in the words of director Miguel Zugaza, to emerge stronger from the exhibition as full "autonomous masterpieces" of shades .
To achieve this, the curators Manuela Mena and Gudrun Maurer, Department of eighteenth-century painting and Goya museum, grouped A perhaps less epic than into 15 meeting series (which inaugurate the calamities are incomplete, lacking, for (deafness, illness, death of example, the famous The children and war), but terribly puppet and The Injured crucial time; are the days of Mason, loaned to Boston his landing in Madrid, when and Barcelona).
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N O T I C I A S (II).
Concerts in the MAVA.
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On the 23rd we will have a consists of five concerts, new concert corresponding which brought us some to our "Concert MAVA" remarkable performances. program. This year we also have in Last year 2014 was a very mind to program another prolific period in concert two cycles, one in spring programming highlighting and one in fall. two cycles, one piano with The Miguel Angel a total of six concerts and Colmenero Foundation other classical guitar remains an extraordinary
support for the realization of our program, along with the Conservatory of Madrid, which make possible the participation of groups of exceptional camera, so their quality and their desire for disclosure of classical music. All Happy 2015 !
Glass factory Ntra. Sra. De Atocha, Madrid.
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The glass in Museums: Rosenau.
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Since 2008, the European Museum of Modern Glass is located in a new building in front of the Orangerie of Schloss Rosenau in Rödental, thanks primarily to the Coburg businessman and patron Otto Waldrich.
the study of Murano on the first floor. Here in the gallery, visitors can also find out more about how glass is made and how to work with different techniques.
Since April 2012, the This building has 1,260 m² of basement of the museum exhibition space. houses the collection studio The permanent exhibition on pottery. the ground floor shows the With over 500 exhibits over development of studio glass 250 international ceramic from 1960 to the present. artists, this is the largest Besides glassware and exhibition of modern functional objects in creative ceramics in southern design, visitors can also see Germany. the glass sculptures and The European Museum of installations. Modern Glass offers The core of the exhibition workshops equipped with consists of works presented the latest technology torch during the three Coburg with five jobs. Glass Prize competitions in Located in the museum the years 1977, 1985 and gallery, is attractive to 2006. participate in the exhibition A glass staircase leads to of contemporary glass. special exhibition room and
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Artists torch not only find a high quality technical work in an inspiring environment. They also have an interested audience who observes espectante. Sales opportunities offered by the museum shop. EQUIPMENT The studio work is supplied through a loop Medienbunker propane, oxygen and compressed air and equipped with burners Arnold Zenit table. The main work has snaps on the pipe so that it is possible the articulation of the hand torch and effortlessly. Each workstation is equipped with a wide range of tools (carbon plates, clips, clamps, reamers, etc.). Nor missing glasses glassblower. The ventilation and lighting studies workstations meet modern requirements.
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Christmas ornaments 'under the sea'.
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With the streets of Vigo decked and local trade hoping the Christmas season yield the expected results, the Museo do Mar de Galicia inaugurates sample Sopros Nadal in which more than 400 ornaments made of glass are collected using traditional techniques blown .
region since in previous editions was held at the Museum of Pontevedra without losing the spirit that characterizes it.
pirate ships among more than traditional Santa Claus or peculiar balls decorate Christmas trees. The exhibition also becomes a journey through the history and the most traditional glass working techniques.
As a novelty, this time, new parts are included because the objects displayed belong to a private collection "is alive The first Christmas glass and growing." ornaments were born in Among the new the mid-nineteenth Until next January 11, the additions, sea-related century in Germany and building of Aldo Rossi figures add up and that fit have since lived Arabian and Cesar Portela the theme of the museum transformations, reaching Christmas dresses to that blanket. even banned at various celebrate the holidays. times in history. Thus, they may be The exhibition Sopros divers, fish and even Nadal is not new in the
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If you have 125,000 euros, this is your currency.
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Without going into political controversy, now that as our leaders the crisis is a thing of the past, I will recommend a coin to give in Reyes, suitable for most of you sure you count with minimal and insignificant budget of 125,000 euros, with whom do or make you a Christmas present.
Now a little more seriously, we are going to present this coin issued by the Monnaie de Paris which corresponds to a series called Excellency the French and dedicated to famous Baccarat glass. In addition to the image of the coin we show a nice video about it.
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Although this coin was minted in different metals, gold and silver, and different face values, 10, 50, 200 and 5,000 euros we will focus on the latter which is made with a kilo of pure gold where teams from the Monnaie de Paris and Baccarat glass artisans worked together in creating the currency and the accompanying glass.
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El vidrio checo en el castillo alemán de Moritzburg.
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The Saxon Palace Moritzburg currently hosting a collection of Czech Christmas decorations made up over a thousand pieces.
enormous amount of work for all employees, says the director of the palace, Ingrid Möbius.
not forgetting the Christmas tree present in one of the rooms, Mobius said.
"It is especially beautiful and "In all parts of the sample, romantic evening, after dark. Entitled 'The Shining of which are over a thousand, We light this four-meter fir Czech Christmas' offers we had to put an explanatory decorated with figures and glass beads, figures, stars card as from private Christmas balls. You must and even life-size collections. Then we had to have insurance over a representations of St. hang them one by one. It hundred. " Nicholas from the nineteenth has been a tremendously The Czech decor has and early twentieth hard work. " attracted moment the palace centuries. At the exhibition visitors can to 10,000 people, fascinated Traditional Czech Christmas mainly see glass beads and by the beauty and distinctive decorations, although they other materials, figurines, features of the Christmas share characteristics with nativity scenes, and decorations across the other Central European generally everything that border. countries, have their own was manufactured in the "What we have we are these peculiarities that make also Czech lands to celebrate beautiful and delicate interesting for the German Christmas between the ornaments made of pearls. public. nineteenth and early They are an impressive twentieth century. The baroque palace of display of fantasy, and also Moritzburg, in the state of The oldest piece is a incredibly varied. I can not Saxony, has thus become cardboard crib made in 1780 imagine how much time and the scene of the exhibition and painted in oil, and also patience I had to reverse the "The Glow of Czech includes the procession of craftsman. His creativity Christmas'. pastors to worship the baby fascinates me. " Jesus. Over a thousand original The Czechs ornaments Czech ornaments Christmas The most curious may be the continue to transmit their atmosphere now fill the halls set of three figures of St. magic in the palace of and rooms of the building, Nicholas, the Devil and the Moritzburg until January 4th. which has been an Angel, who have actual size,
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Recycling. Fifth European seat.
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Anfevi collects impressions consumer platform Friends of Glass and nonprofit association Ecovidrio, the most active in awareness campaigns, when drawing the crisis as "a determining factor" Thus, Spain is a to "instill the value social European level just a few responsibility and steps behind Germany, understand that France, Italy and England resources are limited and and contributes almost can not be wasted. " 10% of total recycling of Karen Davies, head of the continent, reaching more than 42,630 million communications at Anfevi, said "the Spanish jars and bottles reused glass industry is ready to year. recycle as many According to statistics, containers can be citizens who recycle more recovered" and that kilos of glass are annually "Spain is a net exporter Valencian and Catalan, of containers, empty or helped in part by the fact full, of domestic that the communities with products". the greatest number of Note the contribution to green bins. the environment posed by the recycling of glass Spain ranks as the fifth European put in glass recycling, according to information provided by the National Association of Manufacturers of Glass Containers (Anfevi).
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containers: a saving of 23.12 million megawatts of energy that otherwise would be used to manufacture new parts, and a reduction of 7.95 million tonnes of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Anfevi recalls that "all packaging (returnable both as single use or colored glasses) are recyclable" and can go from being "worthless object again become raw material". It also notes that the campaigns to date have contributed to "promote an infinite circle, in which glass containers are constantly recycled and reused, an opposite process to the linear cycle throwaway".
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Isabel de Obaldía, the tamer of the glass.
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Box aggressive force during the 1970s and early 1980s, Isabel De Obaldía then passes make sculptures of a beauty between calm and enigmatic. In more recent years, his eye is on the benefits of glass, transparent material that attracts a lot because it is solid and fragile at the same time. A new chapter of his adventure with glass sculptures can be seen in their individual "Recent Work" which opened last December in the gallery Mateo Sariel (Coco del Mar, 79th Street, east, Panama). This sample, consisting of a dozen pieces, is for the Panamanian artist the end of his stage metates theme of inspiration and exploration.
CREATIONS AND PROCESSES In the late 1980s, just before the peak of the military dictatorship in oils thinking, curiosity Isabel de Obaldía passes textures of the sculptures.
kind of proposals. While it does appear no chance to be invited.
The sculptor is a profession governed by precise sequences and stages. In his case, his sculptures, the most recent can be seen in the gallery Mateo Sariel, start from Then, an uncle advised him to take sketches plasma in a blank sheet summer courses at the Pilchuck and then moved to a model in clay Glass Studio in Washington (United or plaster. States). She listens, makes suitcases and going beyond. Then make the prototype in wax, as is done when working in bronze. In one of the rooms of this Build separate body and other parts academic institution finds its of their animals and then assemble destination. Watch a German a whole. student carving on glass and is shocked. Makes another mold with glass that will be expiring in the oven for days Among signs, because the guy or weeks, according to their size does not know English, this teaches and complexity. the basics, and that likes both the Isthmus, that on more than one With glass, controlling the technical occasion in his next vacation, his side is not enough. Hand randomly preference was to go for three striking out ways you did not expect weeks to study carved in glass and or plan, or go to the new colors from little gradually learns the entering surface silver, copper or demanding technique. aluminum.
In December 2003 we could admire his works at the MAVA, in his presentation "Transfiguration". In 2011 he had a retrospective, "Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture" at the Museum of Art PATIENCE AND CHANCE Fort Lauderdale (Florida) and in 2013 held an exhibition at the Mary- The sculptures of Isabel De Anne Martin Fine Art in New York. Obaldía counted the viewer's senses something out, but if you Both events in the United States have the curiosity to look into them, require you search your memory and remember is when young had you see other ways, other worlds, already addressed mainly from the other stories.
He then released with care and love the part from the mold. A first cleaning which will be followed by others, not forgetting polish and polish up when necessary is done.
The last result leads to the conclusion that it is worth the wait, follow the steps, and the physical drawing, grinding stones, objects Each piece yours, composed of ant and emotional efforts. whose forms and ancient Indian fascinating, alligators, panthers and heritage would have conquered his crocodiles, has its own personality, This year, Isabel De Obaldía wants imagination, his wit and his efforts life and character. to go further. It has begun to focus until the 2014. more on the bronze, an earring that The end result is exquisite, had for years and now promises This process makes it clear that all although few should know how herself fulfill. creative evolves, grows and complicated them. Is that to be a advances, but always, sooner or sculptor requires a special Although it has already done some later, somehow looks to the past, personality. tests, his idea in the near future is to which incorporates and reinvents it. deepen his desire to unite glass with His is an art of patience and risks. bronze sculptures. What is on the The word easy has no room in this agenda and promises to do in the short term. www.amigosmava.org
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In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2015.
Cultural visits.
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Our activities.
This January we arranged a visit to the workshop of stained glass Fabrice Nicolin, whose work we collect on page 15 of this Bulletin.
Takes little time residing in our country, as it was previously based in Argentina, where he acquired all the knowledge we now have about working in glass.
Fabrice, of French origin, has his workshop in the Ibizan town of San Josep de sa Talaia, a town which is located southwest of the island.
Fundamentally, it is specialized in stained glass, currently undergoing some restoration.
CULTURE 2015 program. Born in Ibiza in 1988, María José Perete began studying piano at age 5 ½ years with the Czech professor Vera Sykora. It starts to music theory and musical notation with Miguel San Miguel, and perfect harmony, counterpoint and composition with the Belgian maestro Raymond Andrew. From 1996 to 2004 he was organist at the church of "Our Lady of Lourdes" and "Puig de Missa" Santa Eulalia del Río, Ibiza. In 2002 accesses the Professional Conservatory of Music and Dance in Ibiza and Formentera, where she completed with honors Professional Title of Music in 2006, obtaining the extraordinary prize for piano.
On 3rd attend a concert piano played by María José Perete in the Parish Center
of Sant Carles, in the Ibizan town of Santa Eulalia del Rio.
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Currently combines the instrumental practice teaching, teaching piano lessons at Allegro Musique, l'École de Musique du CEP and the Conservatory of Poitiers.
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Delayed opening of CRAM.
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Because the company responsible for the work has not collected the debris and cleaned the windows, delayed the opening of the Crystal Gallery located within the Regional Center for the Arts of Michoacán (CRAM), which was scheduled for last day December 19, Correa said Diana Sandoval, director of CRAM.
noticed that the windows were warped. But the work was delayed since the procedures were late and was a month and a half when they resumed the project.
He said the investment for these jobs was 900 thousand pesos resource that managed to get through the House of He added that the work of Representatives of the State, rectifying this Gallery the same as was referred to Crystals are ready. the direction of Sites and However ileostomy is Monuments of National required to occupy the space Council for Culture and Arts, with paintings, sculpture, unit in charge of construction theater, etc. "We want projects everything good is delivered He said "It depends on the and in order." company that was awarded He noted that the works the work to concretemos were paralyzed from a year While opening date. We in which the gallery was expect that once so open cordoned off by the danger with a group exhibition of involved ago, this was during sculpture and painting, the administration of Luis where art talented women Esteban Murgía, when they across the country as part of the Hall of Plastic Mexican,
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who moves to the city by the Ministry of Culture involved, and will be on display for a month. " He added that previously want to make some adjustments to the Gallery, since removed the pellones and thereby promotes that it penetrates more excess light from sunlight. "We will seek to put vinyl (plastic) to dim the light, and will post some screens, for this we are already seeing the possibility that the CONACULTA support us in museology and lighting equipment, so that the works are not damaged ·. Finally commented that continue to manage resources for the maintenance of Casona Pardo and CRAM, properties require improvements.
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Other trends. Again with the Alhambra.
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The Alhambra and Albaicín have completed 20 and 30 years respectively since they were declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
the "anger" on account of the Alhambra and ask you to "manage" the money it collects and invest in the area to fight "the degradation and And speaking of that event, the deterioration suffered" in the mayor of Granada, José Torres words of Councillor IU, Paco Hurtado (PP), has returned to Puentedura. claim money from the Nasrid The socialist municipal group monument to manage the has now criticized the mayor's Moorish quarter. efforts to "load the Alhambra" with its own "ineptitude". As it did a year ago, when it launched the idea for the first time, the popular requests the patronage governing the monument up the price of general admission two euros for that money is spent on maintenance and recovery. The director of the Board, María del Mar Villafranca, insists that "it is legally impossible" and invited the mayor to seek mode. The negative evidence, according to the mayor, both Villafranca as the Andalusian, which the autonomous body depends, are "enemies" of the city, since he did not agree to this request "Granada lost 17,000 euros a day" according to his calculations, which disagrees with the patronage since not all visitors entering the enclosure with general admission. The municipal government with absolute majority of the PP, is almost alone in this proposal. The opposition parties complain that makes use of
Councilwoman UPyD, Mayte Olalla, complains to the City that does not meet their "responsibility" to the neighborhood, since there are resources in the city. The confrontation occurred this time following a UNESCO report, based on selfassessment prepared by the Albaicín Agency, which depends on the City Council. That document found, among other requirements, the need for greater investment in the neighborhood, to be depopulated, and review the development plan as the current is two decades. The report finds that the City allocates an "adequate" budget but generally requires more funding for specific strategic policies.
bickering" criticizes Puentedura. "The Alhambra must address what is posing Unesco in the sense of providing more investment to the Albaicín," said the alderman, who insisted on the suitability of the monument "decided to use part of the proceeds from tickets for performances improvement and conservation of the historic district. " The Alhambra, meanwhile, defends the collaboration but otherwise and urged the mayor to seek funding. And the criticism has poured Torres Hurtado for "business" that, in his opinion, does the Alhambra with its official stores, Villafranca announced that it will open a third store. Try Granada prolong the stay of tourists it attracts the monument area is one of its lines of collaboration and it works with the possibility of acquiring combined tickets featuring the palatial city one day and another the Moorish quarter with attached entry monuments this as the Bañuelo or the Palace of Dar Al -horra.
The district, however, suffered decades by the lack of The content of this document commitment, desire or interest is what helped the mayor to relaunch the claim, which has Administrations reciprocally deterioration suffering without attracted criticism from opposition parties, "The mayor putting agreed remedy reproach. has lied again and used to Unesco for its partisan
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Lobmeyr reissued collection of Josef Hoffmann.
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Joseff Hoffmann (Moravia, 1870) was an architect and designer whose style highlighted by functionality, sobriety and abstract purity.
produced by the legendary Lobmeyr window.
A marvel of glass with exceptional design and development, and realize that He liked to merge the austerity Hoffmann was ahead of its of handmade production with a time. refined aesthetic ornament. Originally, The Series 'B' Above all, his last works were Glasses collection was key to position it as an presented on a high in 1914 at important precursor of the Werkbund Exhibition modernism. (Cologne, Germany), and was a great success. A great example of aesthetic principles governing the work Now Lobmeyr has decided to of Hoffmann's glasses Series re-edit, celebrating 100 years 'B', which at the time were of life.
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The game was up wine glasses, decanters, glasses and glasses of champagne coupe, elegantly decorated with black lines forming sober shapes. Of course, making this reissue has remade the traditional way, blowing glass into molds beechwood. The complete collection The Series 'B' Glasses of Josef Hoffmann for Lobmeyr is available in Crest & Co and its price ranges from $ 1320-1990.
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Exhibition Wonders of suspended glass.
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The National Museum of Cultures presents over 600 Christmas designs made by artisans of Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, which make up the exhibition "Wonders of suspended glass. Tradition of the field. "
fragment of the breath of a craftsman and the creative efforts of a decorator.
"Michoacán, you do have to boast: Tlalpujahua": The opening day documentary "Home-made Christmas spheres", "production areas The aim of the exhibition is DTodo" projected, "Spheres in that the public know and Tlalpujahua" and "Wonders of appreciate these creations, not glass suspended ". only for its artistic decoration The museum also taught on or ritual significance, but by Saturdays 13 and 20 history that has developed December the workshop through them in Tlalpujahua "Tradition, art and talent", in said curator of the exhibition, which participants learned María del Lettuce Carmen about the origin, artistic and Garcia. significant value of the Not only a wide and varied processing techniques of the collection of spheres spheres. developed in the Michoacan The town of Tlalpujahua town known as the "Christmas devoted to mining until the Village" is displayed also will 1950s, but the closure of the resume techniques and "Two Stars" mine caused reasons for their manufacture, many families to migrate to the museum said in a other places in search of statement. economic opportunities. The exhibition, which was The pairing of Joaquín Muñoz curated by Maria del Carmen and Maria Elena Ruiz worked Garcia Lettuce and director of in a factory of Christmas trees the museum complex, Carlos in Chicago, United States until Vázquez, aims to bring visitors 1964, when they returned to to a cultural object, product of Mexico City where they contemporary dynamics of the established a workshop of this globalized world. decembrinas decorated. The curators explained that the In this activity the idea of fields are objects that must be developing blown glass understood as a small
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spheres handcrafted emerged, for which, Joaquín Muñoz again Tlalpujahua, where years later more workshops that mimicked the rotation is set, the statement said. This piece of Christmas, is made with different techniques and materials, through production that begins with the work of master glass blower gives shape to the area, after intervening platers, decorators and finally encasquilladores. Tlalpujahua artisans made over 200 shapes and sizes of spheres, which can be done through two types of silver, the craft and the industrialized semi, and then are painted with different paints and varnishes. The decoration of these pieces are performed manually, and currently, the artisans of this people have invented more than 200 thousand decorative designs in the fields, whose last step of its creation is jammed. For 15 years, "the creators of the magic of Christmas" performed between October and December Fair Sphere, an activity that allows them to insert a variety of ornaments in the international market.
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Glass jewelry bargain.
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Since 1770, the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja has maintained a tradition of craftsmanship that makes his pieces priceless jewels alive. More than two centuries later, his twenty workers blown into the furnace, cold working, cutting, polishing, carving, engraving or decoration hand immemorial still employ techniques that make each object a real treasure without equal. And this Christmas, give us the opportunity to acquire a bargain, as they say. From bowls, vases, pitchers, vases garrafillas or even chandeliers, all the pieces will be on sale at the Fashion Mall Shopping (Paseo de la Castellana, corner of Avenida del General Perón) with discounts ranging up to 70 percent until next January 5th. This is a great opportunity to take over parts of all types, ideal for personal use or for gifts. Parts definitely worth more than they cost, because in each of them the handiwork of the artisans of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, applying ancient
techniques to a noble material such as glass, discovered synthesized by the West over 5,000 years ago, and it reaches the look with which today we know from the seventeenth century.
reorganization of spaces in the workshops of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, forcing to empty their warehouses carrying out a major operation of destocking, which will involve the sale of the 15,000 objects in its forms incorporating the Quality guaranteed spirit of traditional The quality of each of the craftsmanship and luxury pieces offered for sale at this memory of the past, now time is supported by the makes available to all. National Glass Centre As an example of prices, Foundation, to which is attached the Real Fábrica de glassware 24 units Burgundy glasses with size can be Cristales de La Granja, found for around 225 euros, located in Segovia saw. or 48 pieces of glassware The Foundation guarantees traditional glasses of La the purity of each of the Granja for just 500 euros handcrafted pieces, since when the official price is the Royal Glass Factory has approaching 2,000. maintained since the You can also find precious eighteenth century glass boxes for gifts, games pitcher production at its facilities, and 6 glasses for 70 euros, with the use of traditional carved for less than 40 artistic techniques such as euros, exquisite chandeliers blow molding, carving and by 15 glasses of wine or gin decoration. and tonic, completely The Foundation is not handmade by just over 10 currently a factory, but the euros candy boxes, pitchers national benchmark for carved by less than 30 or craftsmanship and culture of glasses carved by between 6 glass, which is undergoing a and 8 euros, or spectacular process of reorganization pieces like a big hand carved and modernization of its fruit bowl, whose official price facilities. exceeds 300 euros, for only Hence they are undertaking 100. major rehabilitation and
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They will invest US $ 4 million in glass factory.
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The company will supply glasses to future solar panel factory. As noted by Mayor Allende Walberto the project will require about 120 workers.
manufacture of solar panels. Walberto Allende, mayor of July 9, last week confirmed that the decree in which an area of 4 hectares is allocated and a half a glass factory was signed.
require about $ 4 million and would need a permanent staff of 120 people, labor that would largely be in" admitted the village head.
"The idea of them, besides The factory installation of supplying panels factory is to solar panels on July 9, manufacture laminated The land awarded by the whose cornerstone was laid safety glass and the whole municipality is glued to the in October, has generated region of Cuyo, La Rioja and surface of 47 hectares where interest from multiple CĂłrdoba, and in the future, the solar panel factory will companies to settle in the meet demand in Chile," said rise. Industrial Park of the Allende. The idea of Assistance department. The mayor also said Cristal is to start building the One of the first firms showed nuevejulino won a 1-hectare shed to house the company willingness to settle in the to San Juan Energy during the first months of industrial enclave was Company, in which a next year, for that reason Assistance Cristal SA, a processing plant will be had contact with four local group of three companies of installed to provide power companies. Buenos Aires who joined for not only to the solar panel the purpose of supplying the "Definitely installed, with factory, but also the rest of glass necessary with all the machines that come from the companies installed in necessary processes for the China, the project would the Industrial Park July 9.
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IED DESIGN collaborates with La Granja.
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At school IED Design support the combination of traditional manufacturing methods and contemporary design.
workshop on the own Royal Glass Factory of La Granja de San Ildefonso where they learned basic manufacturing tools and ways of working glass blowing.
(Habitare, Interni, Blue Print, Elle Decor, Spoon, International Design Yearbook).
Marre Moerel has its own studio Marre Moerel Design Some of the pieces Studio where he works on his designed by the students will own line of ceramics, various be produced by the Royal projects and curated. Glass Factory of La Granja 4th year students of Bachelor de San Ildefonso. Degree in Product Design
During the 2014-2015 course, students of 4th of Bachelor Degree in Product Design are working with the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja de San Ildefonso, one of the three factories in For now, we advance an Europe which still has the image of projects. original technique of blowing Marre Moerel the century XVIII. Internationally renowned Led by the Dutch designer designer, has worked for Marre Moerel as a teacher, companies such as students have designed Cappellini, Celda, Covo, pieces unrestricted as to the Offecct, Ozone or type of object can be WILSONART Int. functional (tableware, His work has appeared in lighting ...), decorative or numerous international sculptural. exhibitions and has To design the glassware, published extensively students staged a two-day
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who participated: Luis Alves, Maria Von Bernard, Carlos Delgado, Nacho Fernandez, Joaquin Garcia, Sergio González, Leonardo Weevil, Patricia Gutierrez, Eduardo Lizarazo, Francisco Martínez, Luis Muñoz-Vargas Gonzalo Pinelo, Pablo Rocha, Rodrigo Sanchez, Juan Fernando Vela, Carlos Velasco, Jaime de la Villa, Valentina Villa-Gomez, Heiko Vivas and Wang Xiaowan.
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Marta Klonowska.
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A glass of 3400 years, found in Denmark.
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Analysis of a glass bead blue found in the tomb of a rich woman Bronze Age, buried in Denmark, surprised archaeologists. It turned out that the colored insert "originates from the same workshop in Egypt that supplied the glass cup of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and took with him to the grave in the year 1323 BC" described Jeannet Varbeeg Aahus University, Flemming Kaul National Museum of Denmark and Bernanrd Gratuze University of Orleans in France, authors of the study, the Nordic Science December 8.
skirt jingling chain, which shone through small tubes of bronze, and a bracelet on her arm made of amber beads, with one account blue glass," says the document. Using a plasma spectrometry analysis, they compared the chemical composition of the elements with a reference material Amarna in Egypt, and Nippur in Mesopotamia, about 50 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
"The glass bead proved to be Egyptian. This is the first time the cobalt typical Egyptian glass was It is a "sensational over trade discovered outside the routes from Denmark and Mediterranean area, "noted the ancient civilizations of archaeologists. Egypt and Mesopotamia in Another interesting fact the Bronze Age 3400 years mentioned, and that reveals ago" discovery, they said. trade between the two In a hollowed trunk of oak, countries is the presence of was buried a rich woman amber beads. Olby, a place about 40 This material, which kilometers south of captures the sun's rays like Copenhagen. glass, exported in the "The woman had been Bronze Age from the buried in a very bizarre way," northern regions to the noted archaeologists. south. "He wore a belt with a beautiful drive, an ingenious
Tutankhamun and other Egyptian pharaohs had large
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chains amber boxes in their burial chambers, and Varbeeg, Kaul and Gratuze mention that, apparently, glass beads and amber found together in several places in the Middle East, Turkey, Greece Italy and Germany to northern latitudes. They think that worship the Norse sun and the Egyptian sun worship are somehow linked and it shows this cultural exchange. In both realms is prayed to death for the deceased reconvened with divinity del Sol. The Archaeology organization, referring to the use of accounts, explains on its website that "the desire for personal adornment, especially in the form of beads, has been with us for a long time-- and the Neanderthal era ago, about 75,000 years or maybe even more. " To do this, the use of grains was common, however accounts in Egypt were found mostly in the tombs of elite.
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Duralex, vessels that survive.
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The Duralex crockery spent decades present in the cabinets of millions of families worldwide.
Then passes to 550 and cooled by blowing at room temperature.
One of the experiments to which Most Spaniards born in the he subjected the material seventies and eighties took ever involved dropping a steel ball of a Cola Cao or coffee in one of its a kilo from a height of five feet vessels amber. on a sheet of this glass. Today the company's products are sold in over 100 countries. It was, however, the brink of closure in 2008. The brothers Franco-British Ioannides they saved from disappearing. The brand advertising takes years boasting: "Use it as a hammer, drop it, kick it, run it through the ice to the boiling water," he announced.
This resisted the shock, while a power glass broke into pieces.
Therefore, in the sixties opened a second factory in the town of Rive-de-Gier. In its apogee in the sixties and seventies, employed 1,500 people; of these, 1,300 were workers employed directly in the production of glasses, plates and trays.
The start of the Second World War gave birth to a visionary idea: the production of resistant dinnerware that would help combat the shortage of French families.
They needed many hands. In 1964 they had reached a production of 133 million cups, plates and trays.
In 1945, the French Industrial records Duralex brand, for the manufacture of glassware for culinary use.
Begins to run outdated for consumers and has to cope with the competition, resulting from the beginnings of a globalized world.
And if broken, there is no danger. The name originated in a verbal game based on its duration and It will do in a cloud of chips. the hard latin quote lex sed lex The lower risks of cut also worked as a marketing strategy. (the law is harsh, but it is the law). Saint-Gobain, the founder of Duralex, did not dream of selling A year later, the company launches its first vessel, the household items. Gigogne -barrigĂłn and a line in His project was another quite the mid- stripe, it still sold today. different when in 1934 he bought In 1954 will be released his besta china shop in the town of La known brother, Picardie, tighter Chapelle-Saint Mesmin. and beveled line model. Moons wanted to manufacture Thus initiating the thirty glorious cars. years of the brand, which flood It has therefore developed a the tempered glass which still Gauls and other lands with shapes at a temperature of 700 different varieties of household degrees. items.
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In the late seventies, however, the company goes into decline.
Duralex not recover from it and the company goes into freefall. Saint-Gobain's sold in 1997 to the Italian group Bormioli Rocco & Figlio, which fails to overcome it. In 2002 recorded the red. Wholesale Turkish Sinan Solmaz then appears. Its management was disastrous. In 2007 the factory closed Rivede-Gier and a year later the company goes into liquidation phase. Up until the Ionnides brothers.
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The glass in Segovia. The Craft Guild segoviano pays tribute to the great masters of the trades and boasts the teachings who have transmitted their hands, in an exhibition at the Palace of the Marquis de Lozoya with the title 'The last dinosaurs crafts'.
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The masterful exhibition is part of a set of proposals under the name R Christmas Fair Crafts and seal Made in Spain, which includes an area for exhibition and sale, with tent included, and several participatory and demonstration workshops. These activities are open to the public until January 5th. Especially moving was the encounter between Segovia craftsmen who often no longer attend fairs and this time have accepted the challenge of launching a series of exhibitions dedicated to the most "pure and authentic that we" craft, as Jesus said Cross announcing the continuation of this event with more artisans in future editions. Jesus Cross explained that 'The last dinosaurs crafts' is dedicated "to retired or deceased comrades" who "with his office have made the Guild has come here to defend the name of craftsmanship". "We want to put public view their jobs so they will not forget and feel recognized" referring to Joaquin Santiago Calvo (glass cutter) among other masters. On the first floor of the Palace of the Marquis are also rooms where participatory workshops where Alba Martín help participants, torch in hand, to create their own glass figurine develop. The workshops will be held on weekends and prior registration is required. On the second floor of the palace, "eighteen artisans throughout Spain present their works to the public to buy their Christmas presents."
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Ana Yabar, also in Bilbao.
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Colorful wooden toys, hand painted leggings, jewelry made from tree trunks, tables recreate landscapes from dry leaves, precious colored stones earrings ...
admitted several days to go to the fair; Councillor for Health and Consumption, Mariano Gómez, and the president of Arbaso, Bernat Vidal, could not resist to buy two beautiful wooden brooches shaped Eguzkilore.
Olentzero and the Three Kings are already looking for the perfect gift for leave under the tree and the craft "The craft is an important fair installed in El Arenal is part of our traditions and an option first to find that cultures," Gomez said. perfect detail. The representative of the Gabonart this year artisans, for his part, celebrates its second expressed confidence that edition and gathers until the public is encouraged to January 5, forty glass flock to this fair. artisans, jewelry, ceramics, "Expectations are good," wood, leather, cosmetics, he admitted. and paper and cardboard. Worth it, because in each "It's a very special show, stand, the products have with exclusive products their particular history. made by hand," said The window Ana writes Izaskun Artetxe, Head of poems Joseba Yabar Business Promotion Sarrionaindia in their Service of the Council. lamps; Nela surface design The very Izaskun Artetxe using drawings made their
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daughters to design small umbrellas and raincoats; the jeweler Alex Redondo learned everything he knows about the crimp gemstone with the natives of Mexico; El TRASTOLILLO monstrous precious bags manufactured from plastic bags ... Even innovation and collaboration has reached such traditional crafts sector. In the jewelry workshop Milimetroan used balls felt that performs Soledad Santisteban to design earrings dream. The fair also organizes live demonstrations and workshops candy, ceramics, wood carving and weaving.
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Igor Obeso, new glass blowing workshop.
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Igor Obeso says that to live in his office "must be very stubborn. You have to like a lot. It is a laborious gigs, very physical and very hot pass ". But it also has its good side. "You keep direct contact with the customer, never stop learning and you're always creating and recreating".
from him. I said yes and started the next day. " When I saw that was handled in the office enough to settle on their own, he opened a workshop in Hondarribia, in Semisarga.
"There I put my first furnace blowing and I worked for five years. Then I went to Irura, Coping with an artisan where I have been nine or ten workshop "takes years of years and now I have settled office. Gradually, people will in Irun. Last week we opened know, you receive the workshop and I am very commissions, do some regular happy because many people customers ... I can not came to see him and celebrate complain". the opening. " Igor takes 17 years working glass blowing and just opened his new shop on the street Gabiria, 54, Industrial Estate Sales, where he also installed a permanent exhibition with models manufactured parts. Lamps, perfume bottles, vases, bottles, plates, candle holders, decorative items and trophies are some of the unique and unrepeatable creations that exposes the craftsman in his new workplace.
This artisan's workshop is divided into three areas: "one is blowing; other is fussing or thermoforming, which is the art of making stained glass and the third is the assembly area. The core of the workshop is the area of blown glass, which is where I spend most of the time. "
The first furnace
The technique is very old, but no longer spectacular. The melting furnace is about 1,100 degrees, and the glass is heated by blowing a beer and very basic tools will be given the desired shape.
The fans of Igor Obeso by the craft of glass goes back to his early youth. "I started making tiffany lamps with art. But one day, during a trip to Ainhoa, I visited a glass blowing workshop and I was fascinated. I asked the craftsman if he could learn
"You can not stop the process, because if the material is cooled, and can not work with him. Neither offers many errors, because everything is
reflected in the glass. The technique remains the same for a lot of years. The only thing that has changed is the fuel that was before firing and now the gas is used to power the oven. " In addition to mold pieces of glass, Igor Obeso has started making "ovens for other glassmakers, who are having great success in France. There are many workshops and glassblowing greatly enhance quality craftsmanship. People demand and values, which not much happens here. " Visits for schools To disclose his office, Igor usually go to craft fairs "with a small toaster oven for demonstrations. When people see what is the technique of glass, more assessing this office. " With the same aim, the artisan hondarribiarra wants to launch visits to his workshop for school.
"Last year I visited a group of Txingudi Ikastola and the experience was very nice. Also from Artiola, which is an association for the "It is a technique very fast and dissemination of very intense work" Igor craftsmanship, they are explains. interested in doing tours. "
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Who can not attend the workshop and is interested in the craft of glass blowing or work of Igor can check the website of this artisan.
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"I recognize myself" exhibition of Annie Flores.
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Passport to an Artist, organized by the Embassy of France in Peru and travels to France where he studied Bachelor of Arts, graduating from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2005.
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Subsequently, concludes a Master of Visual Arts at the University of Strasbourg in 2008.
After a stay of ten years in Europe, Annie Flores presents his latest solo show in Lima entitled "I acknowledge" that proposes to close the circle of a long personal and professional journey.
way to make your world an intimate experience but visually communicable .
Also, its attachment to the drawing, that most of the time line is simple and complex load, sexual and violent moments, allowing The artist combines different the construction of a fiction media and techniques to whose plot is dark but provide a broad overview of seductive. the different stages of his And finally, the mercuric work throughout his travels temperament, a mix of lively, and experiences in Peru and sparkling zigzag and Europe, which have helped components, which are to strengthen the recognition separated and disintegrate of their creativity and selfbut also meet and assertion as an artist. recompose to affirm the So that the public will be part continuity of self. " of a personal journey that The exhibition will open on Annie Flores in four themes: Thursday, January 8th at family; evasion and travel; Gallery ICPNA Miraflores the couple; and the sea and (Av. Angamos 120 west). the volcano. And will be open until The body of this work February 15 Tuesday includes works created using through Sunday from 11 am mixed media and materials to 8 pm such as porcelain and glass About the Artist sculpture, drawing, collages of organic and industrial Annie Francis Flores Ramos materials. (Lima, 1974) is a graduate of the National Superior School On the work of Annie Flores, of Fine Arts of Peru, art critic Jorge Villarcota specializing in Printmaking notes that the artist presents (Lima, 1997). three key in its field of creation: "First, the trend In 2003, he won the towards miniaturization as a competition
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His work has won several awards, including the First Honorable Mention the V National Fine Arts Competition organized by the Fundación Telefónica in Lima (2001); First Honorable Mention of the XXIV National Salon of Engraving ICPNA in Lima (1993); and has been recognized as "Distinguished Artist" by an international jury in the last five years, in 1998. He has made four solo exhibitions: "I go" in rea emerging artists from across the world, in Perugia (Italy, 2012); "Travel" in Gallaria Punt in Samedan-St. Moritz (Switzerland, 2006); "Let Planes" in Science Centre di Città della Scienza, Naples (Italy, 2004) and "The Passenger" in the Gallery Cecilia Gonzalez in Lima (Peru, 2002). He has participated in several group exhibitions in Peru and abroad, including "Rencontres insolites" in the Musée de l'Oeuvre NotreDame, Strasbourg (France, 2007) and "FuoriOrario" in Antiquares, Palazzo Gregori, Foligno (Italy , 2012). Currently, Annie Flores lives and works in Lima, after a long stay in Strasbourg, where in addition to continuing his personal artistic journey, continuing his graduate studies in art history at the Université de Strasbourg.
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The New Year in New York.
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The Waterford crystal sphere was ready to appear in the New Year. The glittering sphere of 5,390 kilograms (11,875 pounds) was tested on Tuesday in preparation for the celebration of New Year's Eve in Times Square in New York City, where tens of thousands of revelers announced the arrival of 2015.
Ryan Seacrest will host the show Countdown with Taylor Swift, Idina Menzel, Florida Georgia Line and Magic! among the musical guests. When the clock struck midnight and down the field, fell while one ton of confetti with good wishes for the coming year.
Martin Walsh Mayor and Police Chief William Evans suggested that the family event is not appropriate meeting to discuss the recent deaths of a man and two young black men by police.
No planned demonstrations in the city of New York, where the police department is still mourning The idea of the sphere the murder of two officers in descends resumed in other a patrol on December 20 Workers huge coiled cities: Las Cruces, New had. But anyway there was cables while the dial up Mexico, was performed for tight security. and down on the pole the first time the descent of located at the top of tower a chilli. Atlanta, Georgia, Each year, this police 1 Times Square. and Nashville, Tennessee, department assigned to the brought down a peach and festivities thousands of "It was so difficult that 2014 musical notes. additional agents to control will be a big celebration to the crowd and be alert to announce the new year," In Boston, the mayor and any sign of trouble. Visitors said Jeffrey Straus, police commissioner urged could see heavily armed president of the Times activists to postpone anti-terrorism equipment Square Alliance, which during New Year festivities and explosive detection operates the event. "This is a planned protest rally dogs. our opportunity to come against police violence. together to celebrate the future." www.amigosmava.org
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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
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Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
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Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos
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Bellotti. Images (II).
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Craft Fair. Images.
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Talismania by Xana
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