Volume II — Number 106
January 2018
Monthly Newsletter
Newsletter
NANCY CALLAN Happy New Year.
The first and for me the most important, is the technique of realization of the work "Palette" that is exhibited in the And we do it starting with a visit to the artist permanent collection of glassmaker Pere Ignasi our MAVA. taking advantage of our In all the guided tours I do with groups that come trip to Palma de to our Museum there is Mallorca to celebrate always someone who the departure of the year that we left and the asks me how the metal pallet went up until the entry of the new one work cooled down if, as I that is born in our said in previous calendar. moments, all the He had always had a great interest to visit the sculptures made with the workshop of Pere Ignasi hot techniques have and enjoy the works he been to introduce in an annealing furnace to has exhibited in his avoid that tensions are particular Museum of created that can break the Mallorcan town of the work in its cooling Consell. process. All his works are made And I do not know how with the technique of blown glass in the air, a to answer them. So I will take advantage of the technique that visit so that I can clear dominates like few the doubt and inform the others in the glazier visitors knowingly of their panorama in general. interest in the method of So the time has come realization of "Paleta". to fulfill that desire and Another of my doubts clear some of the arose when reading an unknowns that have arisen in relation to his article in the Diario de Mallorca in its digital work. edition and in which he reported that, despite being a complex process, Pere Ignasi has developed a technique in which none of his pieces exceeds fifteen minutes of realization and that, otherwise, the strip and start again. It is your goal, to do it fast. We begin a new year with renewed illusions in relation to our stained glass activities.
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of the Gordiola Museum and the glass factories Menestralia and Lafiore. In 2008 we paid a visit to both the Museum and the factories and we will enjoy the live performances of these three emblematic Mallorcan glass places and the magnificent collection of historic glass of the Gordiola Museum. A place that I think is not visited enough by the large number of groups of tourists who are limited to observe and acquire some of the products that are displayed in the store located on the ground floor of the building. As for the Balearic glass story, it is believed that it was the Phoenicians who introduced the art of glassmaking on the island of Mallorca in the 2nd century BC, although the oldest oven known to date dates back to 1327. In our next Bulletin we will give information about these visits, although the images collected in them will be reproduced on our Facebook page in advance.
And without further ado, wish you, our readers, that the year that we began will be as pleasant as possible and that all Several complementary your expectations will be visits to this will be those fulfilled.