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Harry Pollit To Japan.
M. A. Carretero.
That's right, dear readers. I am planning for next year 2018 to visit this great country and, among other things, to enjoy the extraordinary collections of artistic glass that I treasure.
Forum to Japanese and Spanish companies and entities.
The main objective of the Spain-Japan Mayor Forum is to create a permanent communication platform with On February 22, the Spain- organizations of older people, cultural and Japan Mayor Forum, an educational institutions, and initiative of CEATE, the Japanese and Spanish Spanish Confederation of companies, to better Classrooms of the Third understand the culture and Age, of which I am a member, was inaugurated way of life of older people of at the National Museum of both Countries. Anthropology. So everything indicates that there are many possibilities This opening day was attended by the Minister of to travel to Japan, to know the customs of the elders of the Embassy of Japan in Spain, Kenji Irata, and Yuko this exotic country and, in my Morimoto, Director of Asian case, to be able to visit workshops and museums Studies, the Madrid whose main interest is the University Carlos III. elaboration and exhibition of In this act was made the pieces Of artistic glass. presentation of the agenda of activities to be developed Among the workshops of glass artists I can think of during this year. Keji Ito and the Toyama This agenda includes a Glass Art Museum, The round table called "The Glass Museum of NOTO in Elders of Japan and Spain", Ishikawa, The Glass a day to know Japanese Nuestra sede: Museum of Suwa in Nagano, cuisine and a debate to Castillo Grande de Hakone Venetian Glass know "The image of Japan Museum, Niijima S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n and Spain in each country." Contemporary Art Glass 28925 ALCORCÓN. In addition, documentation Museum and The Glass Museum of Ogonzaki in (MADRID) is being prepared for a Shizuoka, among others. info@amigosmava.org future research project on
Authorities estimate that by the year 2030 practically a third of the Japanese population will be old. But Japan is also one of the nations with the highest quality of life - after Sweden and Norway - according to a report published in 2013 by HelpAge International, an international network of organizations promoting the right of the elderly to Dignified, healthy and safe life. Among the curiosities that affect older people in Japan I can cite a measure introduced in Wajima, a city in western Japan, which has just introduced a new automated and free golf car service to help move its older residents. It will also be an opportunity to learn about the traditional Japanese crafts "Edo Kiriko". The Edo Kiriko (戸 切 子 子) is a traditional technique of glass engraving used in Tokyo from the Edo period (the Edo era is a period of Japanese history dating from 1603 to 1868).
In other places there are other techniques of engraving in glass, but they the elderly in Japan, a Japan is the country with the have different names, partly meeting with Japanese highest proportion of elderly by the materials used since Elders for the year 2018 in the world. More than 26% the technique of Tokyo also and the presentation of the of the population is 65 or is characterized by the color of the glasses that are used. older. A very interesting and In 2015 the number of attractive program that people over 80 reached for makes me very excited to the first time 10 million, know. according to the Japanese government announced.
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Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LXI) MAC.
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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
Dust in our eyes
Day in Cadalso
Day in Ávila
MAVA. Rebeca Huerta
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does
Intellectual Property Law Transitory dispositions. Seventeenth Acts concluded and rights acquired before 1 January 1998 in relation to the protection of databases.
CONTENIDO:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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Dust in our eyes
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Day in Cadalso
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Day in Ávila
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Activities Museums
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MAVA. Rebeca Huerta
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Chus Burés in La Granja
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The glass blower
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The factory of Valdemorillo
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Support to MUVI
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2017
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Carlos León in La Granja
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Glass in ARCO 2017
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2017 program
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Glass Jewelery in Russia
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Other trends
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The windows of Auch
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The last of Olocuilta
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Factory to School
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Ibiza - Menorca common
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Obaldía in Panama
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How do
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Security in Eiffel Tower
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Glass dreams
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A fantasy space
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Verallia competition
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They fight Leonese glass
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Window Rufino Tamayo
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"Carroña" in Fine Arts
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The most supportive glass
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The Astro Tower
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Stained Glass in Cuba
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Chapel of Sta. Catalina
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Kandinsky in Malaga
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Begin the course
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Board Of Directors
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URGENT NEWS
FEAM Congress.
As in previous years, we will also participate in the XXV National Congress of the Friends of Museums, to be held in San Sebastián with the Friends of the Museum of San Telmo.
View program
The academic session will be reduced to the morning of Saturday 25th. As in previous Congresses, we estimate that work sessions are scarce.
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. Joaquín Torres Esteban.
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Sta. María la Real de Nieva, Segovia, Spain, 1919 - Parquelagos, Madrid, 1988. In 1976, the former Advertising Director of El Corte Inglés, left his brilliant professional career to attend a strong artistic concern that would lead him to become the pioneer of Studio Glass in Spain. What aroused in Joaquin Torres the passion for glass was, on the one hand, having won the Second Gold Medal at the First International Biennial of the Showcase in Paris in 1967 with a laminated glass assembly and, on the other hand, the Impressive visit to the famous Czechoslovakian pavilion of the Montreal Expo of the same year. He was aware of opening a new path of artistic
expression in Spain and that city, but it never came therefore his effort to to be. participate in international He promoted Grupo events. Vidrio'83, formed by In 1979 he took part in Pedro García, Miguel the historic international Angel Polo Vereda, José traveling exhibition Fernández Castrillo and organized by the Corning himself, among others. Museum of Glass: New He went to Glass Now in Glass: A Worldwide Japan in 1982 and 1988, Survey. A year later he curated by Takako Sano. traveled with Pedro In the MAVA there are García to New York to some pieces of his, such exhibit at the as the one that today we International Gallery. catalog as "Piece of the VICOINTER'83 month" without a specific Contemporary Glass title, but where there is a International, was the great exhibition of his most important initiative work is in the organized by Joaquin in Technological Museum of Spain to publicize the the Farm, in Segovia. Glass Studio. He had a notable It gathered in Valencia influence in the artistic work of more than one formation of our Honorary hundred artists from all President and promoter of over the world. the MAVA, Javier Gómez. This project was proposed to try to install a Museum of Glass Art in
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Established artists. Harry Pollit.
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Harry Pollitt began his art career with wood sculptures.
Each sculpture begins with a solid block of wax, from which Pollitt gradually and Pollitt has developed a For more than 40 years he technology that allows it to meticulously removes most has shown his work in achieve magnificent results of the wax, thus freeing the shape it is waiting inside. leading galleries in the with sensual flowing USA. And abroad. curves. True to its experience in working with wood, Pollitt Some years ago he began With this aesthetics in mattes each cast to provide his interest in glass and glass, Pollitt has added a a surface texture that is began to wonder how his feeling of lightness and sculptural style would grace that is usually lacking more velvety and smooth translate into colored glass. in the works of other glass than typical satin finishes produced by acid etching or artists working in glazed The result has been an sand blasting. glass. amazing and beautiful 
series of sculptures with fused glass.
Emerging artists. William Ortman.
Ortman has been blowing glass since 2004 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Columbus.
He has studied and worked with a wide variety of artists to cultivate and create his own personal aesthetics.
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His goal as an artist is to create aesthetic forms using very rich colors and textures. Before beginning the glass blowing process, carefully choose your color palette, just as a painter prepares a painting, along with the shape you want to create. Choose colors that are aesthetically pleasing in your opinion, and apply them in a way that is simple yet elegant. Vision is the main source of all your experiences since observing objects in the world the first thing you notice is color. So of course color is the most important factor for him when it comes to creating a piece of glass.
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Dust in our eyes.
Images of our visit
March 2017
in a limbo where their country is being minimized as a vanishing point on the horizon. Galindo challenges the audience not to look away, to commit themselves to the violence that women undergo in patriarchal society. Her work serves to interrogate the normative habit of objectifying the female body, politics of representation and strategies of power, all written on the female body that serves as message and vehicle.
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Sánchez restructures the social history through the immersive sound of this work that lives permanently in the web in commemoration and silent protest, and that placing itself clearly in a perpetual trip breaks the geographical limits. The use of sound compels viewers to listen attentively to this tragic statistic and in doing so transcends physical and political barriers. Sánchez's work connects the digital and geographic landscape with the listener's body, giving him access through the sounds. Fortunata Calabró was born in 1976 in Reggio Calabria (Italy) and is an independent curator and manager of artistic projects.
Twin Gallery hosts until March 10 Powder in our eyes, a collective exhibition curated by Fortunata Calabrò in which the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, with the video "The pain in a handkerchief" and the poetry Nobody keeps me silent; The Mexican Luz María Sánchez, who presents a version of the sound installation "2487"; The Palestinian artist Bashar Alhroub shows the installation "The land of diamond" and Ali Cherri, Lebanese artist, exhibits the video "Un Cercle autour du Soleil". The exhibition analyzes how art responds to contemporary events and presents a dialogue between the artistic practices of the Arab world and Latin America, as an exploration of various aesthetics. This exhibition investigates the representation of two areas of the south of the globe in the international contemporary art scene. Focusing on the history of these regions, he explores the differences between them, as well as the way in which each of them constructs its own social imaginary. It proposes an invitation: crossing the boundaries along new paths, a search for knowledge not mitigated by the sensationalism of the global media. The theme is approached through a look that starts from the local to reach the global, considering different historical and geographical perspectives referring to the two territories.
In this sense, the sample introduces a reflection not only in the context of aesthetics, but also in the context of politics and sociology. The artists do not try to describe situations or provoke the public, but rather, encourage the development of innovative strategies to narrate the need for a "social responsibility", and thus incite a dialogue about the reality that surrounds us by drawing connections between the senses Of consciousness and its representations in the world. Cherri fights against the prevailing image of what it is to live a war; Impossible to describe as it is experienced in daily routine, in everyday happiness and sadness, thus becoming a part of their personal stories. The artist reinvents his city and his life after the war, finding a place for traumatic and violent memories, reflecting the trembling present and looking at the city struggling to recover.
He has completed research residencies with the Wallace Collection in London and the Queens Museum in New York. She was associate curator at the Biennial of the End of the World (Argentina and Chile 2014 - 2015) and exhibition manager for La Bienal de Las Fronteras (Mexico, 2014-2015). He works as a production manager for international fairs such as Pinta (Latin American Art Show London / New York), ArtMarbella (Spain) and CROSSROADS (London). He earned a master's degree in art history at Birkbeck College (London), and was a columnist for The International Museum of Women (San Francisco). Fortunata is constantly involved in international conferences and has published his essays in various online and printed publications. All of his curatorial projects address social and political issues; For Fortunata the art of healing, which in its most basic expression is simply the fact of connecting cultures, is to make unions, to allow different elements to approach.
Twin Gallery is a space of possibility, an approach to contemporary artistic creation that brings a young, unprejudiced and rigorous vision of Alhroub, on the other hand, explores contemporary art. It is a physical territoriality as a constituent part not space, but above all a way of doing, of only of national identity but also of relating to the aesthetic proposals of personal identity. The work is then our time. In parallel with the gallery's composed as a requiem dedicated to intense program of exhibitions, Twin the home, to the place that manifests works with its artists to produce and itself as such; And is transformed into communicate their works and projects, a tribute, that shaped in the dream designing specific strategies for the where the national state is viable. development of their professional careers, and establishing connections evealing in this mutation the between creators, critics, curators , Palestinian identity as an entity eroded Collectors and other cultural agents day by day, not only for political and linked to the art market. cultural reasons, but also geographical. In this sense, the work reflects the fact that Palestinians live
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Glass day in Cadalso.
Interview
March 2017
the elaboration of pieces, followed by a lecture given by Ángel Sánchez on the glass that was realized in Cadalso and his extensive investigations on this subject, all of them compiled in his book "Vidrios de Cadalso".
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Next, Ana Sibert informed us about the different alternatives that exist for academic training in the Spanish educational landscape in relation to the world of glass. In the room of the Casa de la Cultura Cadalseña different samples of the local glass were prepared through the pieces that Ángel Sánchez keeps in his home and a special corner in which some pieces were shown elaborated in the Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón. The images we take of this Last Saturday February 18 glass elements of Cadalso in event can be seen through was held in the Madrid city of which many residents of the this link. Cadalso Vidrios the first village ceded the pieces they The success of the day was Glass Day. preserve In their respective resounding as many people Our partner Ángel Sánchez, homes as a reminder of the attended, both in the morning dubbed "Canillo" in the town, local glass activity between session and in the afternoon. does not fail in his efforts to the fifteenth and twentieth The idea that motivates our centuries. revive his glass tradition and, partner Ángel Sánchez to above all, the young people, From this exhibition we take develop these events in his feel that for some five some images that we hometown is to awaken the hundred years the town had publish on our Facebook interest of his countrymen for an important focus in the page. the glass history of Cadalso glass industry. Boost for the This past Glass Day was and to be able to restart a economy. held in morning and glass workshop in the town. So, with the participation of afternoon sessions. We hope and hope that the David Duque, monitor of the In the morning, David Duque local authorities will support Museum of Glass Art of made some demonstrations this idea, that the young Alcorcón, and Ana Sibert, of the realization of glass people of the town feel an teacher and great fan of beads with the technique of interest in its history and to glass, has mounted this first the torch, accompanied by resume the activity of glass day that, in fact, can be explanations about the and that soon we can enjoy considered as the second, nature of the glass and the the contemplation of pieces and That on the first different techniques with elaborated by this future weekend of June last year which the pieces can be workshop. 2016 was held in the House made. of Savages, today's Office of In the afternoon session, Tourism, an exhibition of David Duque continued with
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Day in Avila.
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The Research Group on Material Culture and Heritage (CERVITRUM) of the Institute of History (CSIC) will participate with the presentation of several papers in the day organized by the School of Art and Superior of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property of Avila (EAA ) Along with the Spanish Society of Ceramics and Glass (SECV) through the Section of Art, Archeometry and Heritage, on "NEW RESEARCH AND PERSPECTIVES IN CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY". The day will be held at the headquarters of the School of Art and Superior of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property of Avila on March 14, 2017. Information about this day can
be obtained through this link.
from the Institute of History (CCHS-CSIC), Doctor of The Conservation and Chemical Sciences and Art and Restoration of Cultural Property is a discipline open to responsible for the research group CERVITRUM. Author of constant research in the knowledge of materials and in numerous publications and coauthor, among others, of the the development of new book "History of Glass". His methodologies that allow to paper is entitled "Conserving preserve the historical and Stained Glass". cultural testimonies of our ancestors and, therefore, to In relation to glass, also advance in the rigor and highlights the "THEORETICALrespect with To deal with such PRACTICAL WORKSHOP ON interventions. CONSOLIDANTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICALThis Technical Day at the HISTORICAL GLASS", given School of Art and Higher by Fernando Agua Martínez School of Avila will focus on and Juan Félix Conde Moreno, the research carried out by both of the Institute of History members of the Institute of (CCHS-CSIC). History (CCHS-CSIC) on two of the most abundant materials in the cultural legacies of primitive societies: Ceramics and glass. Among the speakers will be Mª Angeles Villegas Broncano,
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Our Association will participate in this event with the presence of our President and our Secretary.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities on the MAVA. Rebeca Huerta.
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On February 21, the Mexican artist Rebeca Huerta gave a lecture at the MAVA "Learning to be glass. History of a Mexican sculptor in the Czech Republic"
the tomb of a Mayan ruler. Infinite Spring is her last sculpture made with transparent pink glass. With it he concluded his learning of abstract sculpture.
The conference was supported by video images and was plagued by metaphors and poetic language.
He points out that a piece of art is the evidence of the conscience of its creator who is embedded in the criteria with which his environment He began by counting his initial impressions of his arrival in Prague. has forged.
can not be clearly seen if the eye is not trained. In the Czech Republic has used the glass of Rudolf Banas to make a second foundry. In the modeling it can be used for two or three weeks and in the molding phase a week or two, in total about four or five months at least for the execution of a work.
It is Mexican and we can imagine He performs the polishing of his that the sensation of the color takes works by hand, because he it to flower of skin. considers it as more sensitive to the one realized with machine. He has been making sculptures since the age of 13 or 14 and as a He was an apprentice in Lhotsky's teenager he made plaster molds workshop and informed us of the that were later painted with recent history of this workshop, watercolors, temperas and other especially the stage of influence of He can not specify when he Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová. became a fan of glass and over the pictorial materials. years discovered his metaphysical His university degree was made He is preparing a new collection power. with a thesis on the physical inspired by the symbols, and now he is doing sketches, color studies, In his opinion, light is not perceived behavior of ceramics. etc. So that in the autumn of next until his shadow is perceived and he As he says, living different year 2018 can make an exhibition in does not know that it is light until experiences to those we are Madrid with works of medium format that moment when he perceives his accustomed opens many doors to that will be entitled "Twelve moons shadow, but in the glass his shadow ourselves and if you do not know and a spring." is luminous. how to do things you can imagine It explains the history of the Toltec wonders but it is difficult to translate Like other artists, Peter Bremers, for them to the physical plane. example, performs the casting of his myth Quetzalcoatl in which pieces in workshops in the Czech obsidian, the best known natural She is grateful to have learned from Republic. glass. the wellspring of tradition and from After the lecture, Rebeca Huerta He made a sculpture thinking of this all the people who taught her. went through the exhibition "No story with five concave volumes. You do not learn well, well without Limits" of works by Czech artists The origin of this sculpture remains making mistakes and so you think and explained to the audience their an enigma for her. you have learned very well. impressions about the techniques used in the realization of the works. He thinks that a good sculpture can In her Czech apprenticeship she The images we take from this dispense with color to convey its was forced to work with transparent conference can be viewed through essence. glass because the eye had to be this link. His sculpture Ek Balam is made of trained to see the result of the transparent glass and is inspired by incisions, which in the colored glass He took Czech classes before the trip but without planning. His arrival at Zelezny Brod was at the invitation of Jaroslava Brychtová, the companion of the great master of glass Stanislav Libenský.
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Chus Burés in La Granja.
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The cutting-edge design of Chus Burés adds to the "craftsmanship" and quality of Segovian glass, which was born with the intention of serving the elite of the society of the XVIII and now in the XXI the Royal Crystal Factory of La Granja ( Segovia) resurges paving the way for "high-end, luxury" jewelry. An objective that has been set Blanca García Agulló, manager of the Royal Factory, for which has had the talent of the most international Spanish jewelry designer, the Catalan Chus Burés, with a collection of museum pieces that takes a new leap in His career to experiment with a new material, glass. This change of course to update its image does not mean an abandonment in the traditional manufacture that has sustained the history of the Royal Factory, but a way of betting on the "Spanish artisan product of excellent quality, extolling it and framing it", explains García Agulló. "We must not forget that it is a product elaborated with the Spanish cultural heritage", says the manager, looking at potential consumers. "There is a niche market that
requests it," hitherto far removed from its proposals, which will now see the light at the Milan Furniture Fair and later in New York. Satisfied with the result and expectant to the repercussion of "The Bubbles Glass Collection. Joyería en Vidrio ", Burés confesses that he has come close to this project, which has also collaborated the good work of Talleres Granda, with a lot of" respect ". "I am not a goldsmith, nor a craftsman: I am a designer," he says, praising the work of the glass craftsmen of the Royal Factory, who have made available all their knowledge to work this delicate material in a different way. Creator and craftsmen have combined their experience articulating as a Rubik's cube each of the gears necessary to carry out a quality collection with "affordable costs", Burés explains. In this project, the designer has found a team willing to work in another way and to contribute their knowledge to the construction of their designs, "because one thing is what I wanted to do and another, what I
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could actually do", comments this Avant-garde transformer of matter, while looking with pride at the collection. Hand-molded, hand-molded, blown-glass parts with 24-karat gold and hot-colored applications. Pendants, rings and bracelets made from spider-lamp arms reconverted through complex techniques, from which are born like coiled bracelets, typical of an Egyptian princess. Jewels with organic shapes, games of colors and transparencies that are put together to compose a fantasy world. A process of "experimentation" for both parties that has served to "play with color" and carry the glass to the extreme, matter that "has enriched the spirit of my kitchen, because I learn from each experience," says Burés. A way too, according to Garcia Agulló, to "give grease to the engine" with which the Royal Factory is activated and that is ready to modernize with this collection, that will not have an unlimited production to endow it with "consistency and quality" . Prices of parts ranging from a few hundred euros to a necklace of 1,500, for example.
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The glass blower (I).
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Justina Rodríguez García.
generations, especially in SUMMARY the most important artistic It analyzes, firstly, the figure glass producing centers, of the Murano glass artist such as Venice and during the XV-XVII centuries Bohemia. and the importance and The technical difficulties repercussion of his work implicit in the task of the throughout Europe, and then glazier, one of whose main to study the activity of goals was the investigation Catalan and Spanish of new formulas that glaziers, highly conditioned contributed a constant by the Fashion from Venice, creativity and, consequently, as well as the different way a greater prestige to its to deal with this tough production, determined the competition on the part of transmission of the trade the artisans of both zones of from parents to children, with Spain. the special commitment to The art of glass, which was guard jealously the technical so highly esteemed in the findings reached - so-called European courts of modern "secrets", of which even times, because of its today the most important importance as an factories continue to boast. indispensable sumptuary I am referring, of course, to element in the furnishings the glazier dedicated to the and decoration of the manufacture of sumptuary palaces of the social elites, glass, in whose work there had as its creators was a clear artistic intention, characters Common, were since the person in charge of part of known families blowing the so-called dedicated to the trade for
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common glass was a craftsman of little social importance, who attended a demand of First need. I am going to focus, firstly, on the Murano glazier, as this Italian island was the most important glass-producing center of glass during the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it exerted enormous influence on the rest of Europe. Then, and on this comparative basis, I will refer to the Spanish glassmaker, and more specifically to Catalan and Castilian, who during these same centuries saw their professional activity very mediatized by the muraneses competition. This diffusion of the production of Murano furnaces outside the borders of the Republic of Venice is the phenomenon known by glass historians as Façon de Venise.
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The factory of Valdemorillo (I).
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L.F. Mazadiego y o. Puche.
These are the books Introduction "Valdemonllo and its ceramic The present element may well activity" (Giralt, 1995) and "Valdemonllo loaves (1845serve to exemplify a correct 1915)" (Sierra and Tuda, defense of the Industrial Heritage, at least as regards a 1996), which provide the part of the whole, in this case, reader with an approximation to the origins of this industrial the chimneys of the three ceramic kilns of the old factory activity , Stopping in the vicissitudes that suffered until of earthenware, which have been restored and integrated In their final closure. the whole urban. History Anyone who approaches this villa will be able to contemplate those great "chimneys", as they are usually called by the locals, sheltered of the modern House of Culture of the City council.
It is thought that there was always ceramic activity in the vicinity of the river Aulencia, near Valdemorillo, as ceramic remains of the Visigothic era have been discovered.
heiress, the Royal Factory of La Moncloa, which also received the Valdemorillo. In 1818 the exploitation of the so-called "Mina del Pantano" began under the facultative direction of D. Antonio Forni, so that three years later, on June 9, 1821, D. BartolomĂŠ Sureda, director of La Moncloa, received Real authorization to agree with Galapagar City Council "on the most equitable means of securing the clays needed for said Royal Factory" (Sierra y Tuda, 1996).
However, it will be from the middle of the nineteenth Even in the second third of the century when it reaches its greatest peak, a time identified In addition, the project to eighteenth century, several with the installation of the inaugurate a Museum of pots had been used to take Ceramics and the interesting advantage of the good clays of Society of Aulencia, which would manufacture some of the articles and books that have the river (Sierra and Tuda, best quality tiles in Spain. been published on the subject 1996), and perhaps to in recent years, further continue the pottery tradition of It must be remembered that underscore the interest shown the neighboring Galapagar, of "the term loza derives from the by the authorities of this town. which Pascual Madoz speaks, Portuguese lora, a voice with stating that " A factory of fine which they designated in the The approach that has been earthenware, which is in neighboring country the decided to give to the development of this element is decline "(Madoz, 1845-1850), porcelain that their navigators brought from China" (Giralt, based on what was collected in perhaps unable to cope with the boom that Valdemorillo 1995) two publications, both recent, was beginning to live. and which complement each In the mid-eighteenth century, other while offering a It was from the clay lands of this industry is already quoted comprehensive historical Galapagar from which the raw as saying "(In Valdemorillo) overview of the old factory of material used for the there is a factory of upper class earthenware. productions of the Royal ware" (Madoz, 1845-1850). Factory of Buen Retiro and its
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Support to MUVI.
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The Mayor of Cartagena, José López, presided last February 1, in the administrative building of San Miguel, the meeting between municipal representatives and those responsible for the Santa Lucía Glass Museum to analyze the current situation of this exhibition space and discuss measures For its revaluation as a tourist element more of the city.
and Technicians of other councils of the City council. After the meeting, López explained that a new collaboration agreement will be signed with the Glass Museum through which the Consistory will be in charge of maintaining the premises and the expenses generated by it.
Likewise, new measures have been studied for its value and approach to both The meeting was also the citizens of Cartagena attended by Councilor for and tourists, for which visits Culture and Heritage, will be organized for groups Ricardo Segado, Councilor in schools of the municipality for Tourism, Obdulia Gómez, and tourist packages. Councilor for Education and Equality, David Martinez and To put in value, other actions Finance Minister, Isabel will be carried out such as García, as well as leaders cleaning and signaling the
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Museum, a task that will be commissioned by the Department of Infrastructure, led by José López. On the other hand, Segado has exposed that the Museum of the Glass will be able to accede to the subsidies of the Department of Culture through competitive concurrence. Likewise, the mayor has indicated that they will continue to maintain collaboration for the organization of courses and workshops integrated in the T -LA (Alternative Free Time) program carried out by Youth, as well as their participation in the Museum Night.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXV).
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plebeian families, the head CRAFTS AND GLASS IN of the family transmits to his GREECE children a certain way of thinking and a technique; The Greeks maintained no and the mothers transmit to difference between the artist the daughters the obligations (according to the that come from belonging to consideration we give him a family. today) and the craftsman. The gods and goddesses In the Homeric poems the apply the same ideology. artist mixes the fantasy, the skill and the technique, and The manual capacities all this reflects it in the possessed to a high degree matter in order to achieve could increase the standard results that were of personal of living compared to those or domestic use, and also who had them to a lesser instruments of work. extent, but what does not exist is a different valuation This work is carried out by between the different both the gods and men; The specializations. use of this type of activity is something that exalts. Demiurgos also enjoy the same social value, even if This pride is not a they develop a manual consequence of the activity at the service of importance given to different others. manufactures, but of the manual activity understood The pre-political society in its ethical aspect. considered that ending a manual labor of prime In both aristocratic and www.amigosmava.org
necessity came to mean an undifferentiated activity. When the quantity or quality of the products required certain skills required the participation of specialists, free men who obtained an economic benefit. Esiodo (8th century BC) continues to establish manual labor as an ethical model to follow: "Work has never disgraced anyone, it is laziness and leisure that causes dishonor." Around the 6th century BC, in the cultural and geographical area belonging to the Ionic Confederation, the most important thinkers of his time were able to develop both intellectual and manual work and were participants in a great social consideration. In the fifth century BC Aeschylus, in his "Prometheus", catalogs all the arts that the Titan taught men.
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N E W S (I).
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Tourist development in Hungary. spending of foreign tourists. This was said by the head of the Hungarian Tourism Agency, Zoltán Güller.
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Among other projects, in northern Hungary, more than 90 billion guilders, or 300 million euros, will go to the development of the Tokaj Hegyalja region.
Hungary as one of the five Important tourist best destinations in Europe in developments are in the pipeline for the constitution of two years and to double the
In this region, the 700meter glass bridge of Sátoraljaújhely will be the longest structure of its kind in the world.
Culture 2017. conception of history in national terms but rather a much broader concept of the idea of art, a universal language that knew no frontiers. Proof of this are the works of Spanish, Italian and Flemish painters in which explicit tribute is paid to Tiziano and can be seen in the exhibition. On the other hand, through the presence of Jovellanos and the first modern Spanish writings on the history of art in the exhibition, the visitor will be able to understand how at the end of the 18th century a modern conception of the history of art linked to national history.
Last February we visited the two complementary "Metapintura" exhibition in phenomena. the Prado Museum. On the one hand, the fact An exhibition that tries to that during the sixteenth, make the visitor reflect on seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was no
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The course set out in this exhibition is contextualized in two of the pillars most linked to the Prado and that constitute its backbone: the Royal Collections and Spanish art, two inseparable terms since the development of Spanish art was intimately conditioned by the existence of the Real collections.
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N E W S (II).
Carlos León in La Granja.
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The creative universe of Carlos León unfolds through the halls of the Museum of Contemporary Art Esteban Vicente, Segovia, and reaches the Technological Museum of Glass, the Real Sitio de
San Ildefonso, thus premiering a novel exhibition format.
exhibition dedicated to the Ceuta artist, based in Torrecaballeros, which allows to contemplate all Both institutions have the facets of the work of collaborated to offer until one of the most relevant the 4th of June 'Estancias', national cultural figures of a complete monographic the Recent times.
Glass in ARCO 2017. At first glance it is practically impossible to discern whether the interior of the cylinder contains water or glass, since the artist takes advantage of the ambiguous properties of the material to confuse the viewer. Maybe in that game is its value.
The most surprising work among this elite exposed in the last edition of ARCO is the work Untitled by the New York
artist Roni Horn. A colorless glass cylinder that plays with the viewer and can be purchased for a million euros.
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It is expected that the contemporary art fair will generate an economic impact of 100 million euros.
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The glass in Museums: Ariana.
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The Ariana Museum of Ceramics and Glass is located in Geneva, Switzerland, and is also known as the Musée suisse de la Céramique et du Verre (Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass).
Revilliod, who named it in memory of his mother, Ariane de la Rive, and later bequeathed it to the city of Geneva.
International Academy of Ceramics.
In its modern glass collection includes the Scandinavian design, such Since 1934 the museum as manufacturers Orrefors has been a member of the and Kosta Boda with its Geneva association of art functional objects with It contains about 20,000 and history museums, simple and elegant lines, objects from the last 1,200 Geneve d'Musée d'art et the American Studio Glass years, representing the histoire, associated with that advocates a return to historical, geographic, the Museum of Art and small workshops motivated artistic and technological History of Geneva. by the rejection of industrial breadth of glass and production, Or the focus of Subsequently, some ceramic manufacture artists such as the Czech pieces of the collection during this period, a unique Stanislas Libensky (1921have been sent to other collection in its class in 2002) or the French museums while the Ariana Swiss territory. sculptor Bernard Dejonghe Museum has acquired new (1942). Built between 1877 and exhibitions in exchange, 1884 and made up of centering in its rooms the Swiss production is no neoclassical and neocollection of glass and exception, and is baroque elements, the ceramics. represented by such Ariana is located on talented artists as Monica After a dozen years in Avenue de la Paix, near Guggisberg (1955) and her works, the building was the Palais des Nations. husband Philip Baldwin opened to the public in It was built to house the (1947), Diego Feurer 1993. private collection of the (1955) and many other Swiss art collector Gustave It is the official artists and glass designers. headquarters of the
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Recycling. Electronic waste.
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More than two tons of recycled raw materials were also generated.
"We no longer buy material that is not certified," says Marques, referring to an issue still very The initiative is part of the Energía common in the industry: informal or Más project, which aims to improve illegal processing of electronic transmission quality and reduce the waste (stolen material, for example). problems of incorrect metering and theft of electricity, which cost Brazil This black market moves between about 15,000 million reais ($ 4.7 12.5 billion and 18.8 billion dollars a billion) a year. year in the world, according to Interpol. But electronic waste does not only "At each auction, recycling include mobile phones, computers companies are committed to Today, the company only processes and home appliances, but also destroying obsolete meters, to end material that is not the result of a equipment whose existence is robbery and gets 40% of its revenue scarcely perceived, such as energy any possibility of being reused in the distribution network itself, which from the recycling of the meters. meters. would aggravate the problems," The iron, copper, glass, aluminum explains Christophe de Gouvello, Although small, hidden in homes project manager In the World Bank. and plastic present in the equipment and containing no heavy metals, are separate, certified and shipped meters can cause environmental "The final destination of these to buyers of various types of and health hazards from the elements was made traceable so industries. moment they are sent to landfills. that we were sure that the material would not go to a landfill," he adds. In developing countries, the On the other hand, they are collection and recycling of solid completely reusable and have Gouvello highlights the interest that waste employs more than 64 million lucrative potential if they are people, according to the United properly disposed of and recycled, the recycling market had for the teams, even though they were in Nations Environment Program in a scheme known as reverse distant states of most companies in (UNEP) in the report Waste Crime logistics. the sector. Waste Risks. This was done in Brazil, the Latin American country that produces the For many of these companies, the It is an economic activity that not only generates income but also most e-waste: more than 1,400 kt in auction served as a motivation to helps to preserve the environment, 2014, according to the GSMA and organize and provide better services. according to this and other UN UNU-IAS. studies on the subject. One of them, Trafominas, is in An alliance between the World Guaxupé, city of 70,000 inhabitants Of the 21 countries in the region, Bank and Brazilian Power Plants in Minas Gerais, Southeastern Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa (Eletrobras) in six states (Acre, Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru Amazonas, Rondônia and Roraima Brazil. The founder, Geovani Marques, was a small metal trader have regulatory frameworks for the in the north and Alagoas and Piauí when he decided to found the disposal and treatment of these in the northeast) made it possible to company in 2007. wastes. However, only Costa Rica, auction obsolete meters, Mexico and Brazil have the transformers, cables and other Marques learned that in order to recycling companies in the equipment for recycling companies. close important businesses, he international standard R2, which would have to reform the recycling seeks to provide more safety for the With the sale, local energy plant and seek environmental environment and workers' health. operators raised 5.4 million reais ($ management certifications. 1.7 million) to be earmarked for social projects. By 2018, Latin Americans are forecast to generate 4,800 kilotonnes of e-waste, which is 70% more than in 2009, up from 55% globally, according to a report by the GSMA and the Institute of Studies On the Sustainability of the United Nations University (UNUIAS).
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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 2017.
Cultural visits. The next day 14 will attend the technical conference on conservation and restoration of cultural goods will be held in Avila and in which the glass will be represented by the paper on conservation of stained glass will be given by Mª Ángeles Villegas.
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There will also be a workshop on consolidators in archaeological-historical glass by two technicians from the Institute of History of the CSIC.
CULTURE 2017 program. Reyes Magos, which until the seventeenth century occupied the first stretches of the cathedral nave. A total of fourteen pieces, some of which reconvene after almost five hundred years, which for the first time leave their usual locations to show in the Prado a new and complete account of the work of Master Mateo and his workshop for more than four Decades in the cathedral of Compostela. Mateo and his studio carried out important works in three prominent areas: the socalled "crypt", the Portico de la Gloria and the disappeared western façade.
In this month of March we will approach the Prado Museum to visit the exhibition "Maestro Mateo". This exhibition brings together the nine known sculptures that are preserved from the disappeared exterior façade of
The "crypt" or "old cathedral" was built to bridge the gap between the nave and the square of the Obradoiro and serves as support for the portico, with undeniable formal and the Portico de la Gloria, especially iconographic including recently discovered; similarities, introducing in other elements that also formed the Iberian Peninsula new part of her like a rosette and two artistic forms in which are vowels; and key pieces to added French, Italian, and understand the stone choir, even Islamic influences. such as San Mateo and Caballos del cortejo de los
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Glass jewelry in Russia.
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quantities in these colder the snow highlights the areas of the world. vivid colors of the stones. Russian authorities have But with the passage of named the place "Playa time, the waves of the de Cristal", and declared sea and snow on the it protected zone. sharp pieces of glass polished their dangerous The small bay has become popular with A few decades ago, this edges and turned them tourists visiting the cliffs beach was considered a into precious stones making it one of the most area to walk over the dangerous dump, throwing bottles of vodka, beautiful beaches on the colors and plunge into its planet. crystal clear waters in beer and wine that are search of the finest consumed in large The beach is spectacular, gemstones. especially in winter, when The strange beach of Cristal is located in the Bay of Ussuri and the same nature has corrected the pollution of the man to turn it into a wonderful place.
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Other trends. New manifestations.
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is called conceptual art, because in the MDE, a great majority of Exhibitors correspond to foreign artists; The locals are few. And if you reflect on this point from these approaches ... Will they have to do with a possible answer to this concern?
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The one and the other What did Sergio Arias, who was in charge of the Marketing of Fine Arts, say? "This trend, of leaving behind traditional art, does exist, but in Fine Arts workshops are still important manual work, such as drawing, painting, photography ...". He recalled that until the early 1980s, A few days ago, Carlos Andrés Gómez, the last century and we began to live it the emphasis of the faculties was plastic. Afterwards it has become a plastic artist who settles on the at the end of the century or rather in platform of Fine Arts to paint portraits this century. "We are going behind the visual, more than anything, following the tendencies of the postmodern art, with oils or charcoal, with training in an vanguard." And the faculties, then, in which not only are the executions of institute similar to this one in Cali, began to look for the way to not stay inquiring if the students of that behind, to teach these currents that, of the plastic, that is to say, of the institution were approaching Ask him course, had to be taught, and began to decidedly direct relation with the materials. Therefore, in many about technical issues of handling diminish the force in "the practical faculties, such as the National pigments or fabrics, he replied that they part", in the doing. University for example, it is called the came to see him painting, yes, but not Because it began to favor the concept Faculty of Visual Arts; Not plastic. to inquire about any of that because that the artist was not the one who these traditional techniques: oil "But I think they will always teach knew how to do, but the one who painting, watercolor; Sculpture in stone conceived the idea, so that he did not basic and traditional arts, such as or mud; Drawings with charcoal; know how to do it and had to be told to painting, drawing, engraving, Recorded; They belonged to the history do it. sculpture. New trends appear, they of art. In many faculties they do not are integrated into the academic Already in the rest of the world, North teach these subjects, "he said," or if program, but I do not think they will they do, they do not have the emphasis America, Europe, again understood displace them. " that it is necessary to know how to do. they had when he was an art student. Gabriel Mario Vélez, dean of the It is not uncommon, said Roldan, that The emphasis of the faculties today at this time, at Chicago universities, art Faculty of Arts of the University of he continued - is in the new Antioquia, said that the tendency to students are working in their manifestations, conceptual art, weaken the emphasis on traditional woodworking, casting, molding, or performance, installation, video, arts, painting, sculpture, painting, other workshops that allow them to photography … drawing and engraving, It is not a acquire expertise with glass. guideline, but it is a "natural dynamic". Since the last decades of the last "We do not have the same conscience. century, in our midst, we are seeing the The phantom of contemporary art The faculty that it directs contains a facilities, for example. Artists are no Department of Visual Arts, that came with the sophistry that in art, longer the only ones who seek in the includes the plastic ones. He believes what interests are ideas, not the bottom of the stone the hidden figures, that a discussion about the realization of form. That, in the first those who try to represent their ideas in world, is revalued. Knowing how to supremacy of plastic over visuals or fabrics, those who charcoal their papers transform discourse and Nature into a vice versa is a pointless discussion. or press inked materials to get one of new creation is important. " He knows that there are an artistic them leave their marks on the other. manifestations - the traditional ones of He mentions that conceptual art is Therefore, it is understandable that the complex. That contemporary art is which we are speaking -, in which the academic programs of the faculties of relation of the artist with the matter, often equated with contemporary art, arts, like those of the other careers, with the materials, is direct. but that, if we think well, the art of change in the time. Leonardo D'Vinci was contemporary to "In our case," said Gabriel Mario, "the the achievements of the Medicis ... Last to arrive at the party pénsum has been modernized to In raising these questions to Óscar Roldán, the artist and curator of art who now occupies the position of Director of Cultural Extension of the University of Antioquia, said: "I think what you say might be true. It is definitely happening. But I do not mean the faculty of the University of Antioquia, which certainly has an academic program very similar to the historical, with strength in traditional arts, or none in particular, but as a trend in Latin American and Colombian universities. Roldán affirmed that ours is a society accustomed to being late to the holidays. Conceptual art had its furor in the world in the sixties and seventies of
The contemporary - regardless of the time - has as its main characteristic Separate from the conventional.
meet the contemporary dynamics of art, which have changed. But it does not mean that we disassociate ourselves from the traditional arts.
Contemporary thought puts in The workshops of sculpture, drawing, judgment or in critical situation the previous thought to produce something painting, engraving, drawing are important, but they are at the service new. of contemporary dynamics. We give "What I know about Latin American art students the traditional drawing schools, in general, is that they have resources, for example, but also neglected drawing, painting ... And I do performance, video art, photography”. not think drawing is important, but drawing is at the service of thought ... He said that in his faculty, the plastic program changed the penum three But You must know how to do well. " And he wonders, "Why do many of the years ago. Now, he said, there is a art school graduates do not succeed in more flexible structure. "Let the students take the workshops of museums?" He does not think that many of them even have many in what sculpture, engraving or painting that they need for their creative ideas, for their works".
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The windows of the cathedral of Auch (II).
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From caocultura.com.
In the development of the pictorial possibilities of the stained glass window, certain advances were made in the path of the Gothic to the Renaissance, such as the introduction of the use of silver yellow, of the carnations and the manual engraving of the plaqué glasses. It was these advances that allowed the introduction of perspective, landscape, and figures with greater realism and volumetry, turning the stained glass into an authentic translucent painting, and relegating the decorative protagonism of the lead network that was encasing the glass of the first Gothic stained glass windows An almost exclusively structural role. Thus, although it is inevitable to think of Gothic in the case of stained glass, the art of stained glass not only transcended Gothic, but also reached some of its higher elevations in later
moments, as in the present case.
dominant forms are those corresponding to Flamboyant Gothic, visible mainly in inside.
Auch is a small and quiet town of the French Midi of only On the outside, however, the Renaissance and Mannerist 23,000 inhabitants. features are already To reach the upper part of the appreciated, notably in the city, where the cathedral rises main façade. majestically, one can choose to ascend by one of the However, for what we are pousterles, the narrow and interested in, the contribution of dizzying alleyways that lead to Cardinal François de Clermontthe banks of the Gers, or by Lodève was much more the monumental staircase important. presided over by the statue of He was a man of good taste the Famous D'Artagnan, one and culture, as well as a of the local heroes. profound connoisseur of what Either option will leave us just was being done in Italy during as tired at the foot of the the Renaissance. cathedral. He commissioned Arnaud de The cathedral is a work that Moles the whole of the was done along different eighteen stained-glass windows, which are beautifully stages, so it accumulates different styles in it. preserved throughout the chapels of the Ambulatory of The first impulse was given by the cathedral. Archbishop François de Savoie, who decided to build There is very little that we know towards the end of the fifteenth of this excellent painter of stained glass. century a new temple on the ruins of the old Romanesque cathedral, hence the first
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The last glazier of Olocuilta.
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A faint flash breaks the darkness of the dawn in the municipality of Olocuilta. It is the spark that comes from the furnaces of the workshop of Carlos Céspedes, where glass is melted every day at high temperatures. Carlos and the fire of those ovens know each other well, they are old friends.
was about to explode. Despite the adversity involved in the war, Céspedes did not step back and with the strength of his arms and the dexterity of his hands, he built his first oven and began to design his peculiar pieces. Now, at age 72, his small business has four ovens and at least eight workers, including some of his children, to whom he has inherited his knowledge.
This craftsman has devoted 60 years of his life to working in glass. The craft learned in his native Peru, The child, who has shown greater when he was only 12 years old, and interest in following in the footsteps since then he lives on it. of his father, is 16 years old and is already a skilled and disciplined The first job was obtained in a craftsman who awakens daily at factory in Lima. His father was a five in the morning to begin his friend of the manager and although work. they only allowed him to make bottles - the most basic work - was Don Carlos awakens much earlier, there where he met his first at two o'clock, partly because of the teachers: Italian and insomnia of the routine years and Czechoslovakian craftsmen who to light the main oven in which showed him the virtues of the thousands of fragments of glass material. bottles are made every day that Cespedes buys and breaks with a Contrary to what he himself hammer To get the raw material of thought, it turned out to be very his works of art. good for the glazier trade and his quality led him to travel several Because it defines its work: each South American countries between piece is unique, no two are the 1965 and 1977, invited by same. Vases, fruit baskets, plates, companies interested in swans, angels and a myriad of implementing his techniques and figures that only the imagination of designs or as he Explains: "to work the artist understands but captivate outside." in the sight of the sporadic buyers who stop their vehicle to the edge One day, being in Colombia, of the road to Comalapa, at decided that it was time to work for kilometer 21, Where they are himself and became independent. displayed for sale. He was 23 years old when, in Medellin, he founded his first workshop. Fate took him to Mexico and then to Guatemala. With stumbles, he perfected his technique for business and in 1978 he came to cuscatlecas lands determined to succeed. In the country, a long armed conflict
Nomads of glass Before planting roots in El Salvador, Carlos traveled many avenues. The work of glassmakers used to be this way: the young craftsmen traveled in search of teachers and experiences.
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Now there are few adventurers who move for "love of the trade". Francisco Arango is one of those last nomads of glass. A 67-year-old man who works for seasons in workshops throughout Latin America, a great friend of Don Carlos. He met him in Ecuador, in a factory where they agreed for some months. They took different courses, but their friendship lasted for miles and decades until one day - 20 years ago - they met again in Guatemala. Since then, Francisco visits him and works with him during the production season. Francisco travels with only three changes of clothes, "two for the street and one for work." The work is a canvas of stains, ash and burns; Almost a map of the lands to which his passion for glass has taken him. "This never ends learning," he says. From Mexico to Costa Rica, and from Venezuela to Argentina, Francisco continues to give vent to the restlessness of his feet, despite having a family in Guatemala, he knows no other home than the warm shelter offered by the furnaces of a Foundry workshop. "It's my life," he confesses. Carlos. Francisco and the furnaces rest little when they are together, work is the most important thing. Those years of office have left memories and scars. The latter display them with pride, as an infallible sign of experience and wisdom; The memories, which sometimes hurt more than the scars, share them carefully, sometimes only if they visit during those long hours of dawn.
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From factory to school.
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The Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has inaugurated the renovation of the former factory Cristalleries Planell, which will house the adult education school in Les Corts district, the language normalization center and a space for entities.
façade of the old factory, has 1,600 square meters of built area, divided into three floors, where training will be offered to the residents of Les Corts.
owned a workshop of lampistería in Barcelona. From a very young age he was linked to cultural societies.
He was the founder of the Society of New Artists, The renovation has continuing the Theater of included the creation of a the Arts. covered patio that allows Cristalleries Planell was the building to be the scene in 1925 of what The restoration of this compatible with the is known as 'the children's historic building "respects patrimonial part and to the factory past that improve the natural light strike', because in this made Barcelona an conditions of the spaces artistic glass factory the minors who worked on it engine and is also a destined to the rebelled against the tribute to the workers who classrooms, besides abuses and exploitation fought to dignify working providing a thermal and they suffered. conditions and to respect acoustic cushion that their rights," said the respects the Francesc Pedra, who was mayor during The environment. eleven years old at the inauguration, reports the time of the strike, was one It was its founder and "I City Council in a love", Leopoldo Planell i of the main leaders of the statement. protest and, at the age of Porqueras (1885-1953) The building, which has that was born of a family fifteen, he became a CNT delegate in the glass preserved the cataloged of workers; His father sector. www.amigosmava.org
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Ibiza and Menorca, in common.
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Discovering the connection that existed between Ibiza and Menorca before they were separated by the scarce (and expensive) air and sea connections is one of the attractions of 'Talayotic architecture in the prehistory of Menorca', which is exhibited in the Monographic Museum of Puig Of Molins. It is discovered that half of the pottery - especially amphorae - discovered in the archaeological sites of Menorca comes from Ibiza and other elements have also been found coming from the culture ebusitana, as a necklace of beads of glass paste that can be See also in the sample. The presence of representations of the goddess Tanit in pieces found in Menorca also underlines the cultural connection between the two islands. The origin of this exhibition is in the work they are doing to promote the candidacy of Menorca Talaiòtica as World Heritage, "the most important institutional cultural challenge of the island in the last decades after being
declared a Biosphere Reserve".
horns found in the pit of Binigurdó and the reproduction of a comb and a cylindrical container of human hair found in the cave of Es Càrritx.
"Ibiza already has the experience of being named World Heritage, so this statement will make us twin," Nicolau pointed out that "this added Maria, Culture exhibition was actually born Minister. 4,000 years ago when the The exhibition, located in the first inhabitants of Menorca Museum's traveling arrived", but the idea of the exhibition hall, presents a exhibition arises from a combination of photographs guide they made to discover of Talayotic culture elements in a different way the with drawings that reproduce Talayotic culture. scenes of what life was like "It began in 2100 BC but in these towns, as well as also reaches the current small scale models of talayots, taulas and naus, as culture of the island because well as a selection of pieces all these elements are present in the present such as ceramics (glasses, Menorca, breathe and see. pots and pans), jewelry, mirrors, weapons and other In Menorca you open a items. window and there is a talayot and if you walk you find a «La crème de la crème» taula and that is what we "We are talking about 60 tried to reflect in the sample objects that are the crème described. de la crème of Menorca's Nicolau also stressed that museums", said Antoni the exhibition is possible Nicolau, curator of the exhibition with Elena Sintes. thanks to the temporary transfer of funds from the Among the most striking Museum of Menorca and the pieces are the figures of a Municipal Museum of bull and a warrior from the Ciutadella. town of Torralba d'en Salord; Several knives, spears and
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Isabel de Obaldía in Panamá.
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De Obaldía, an artist with work in the MAVA permanent collection, he participates in a collective painting exhibition in Panama.
About the program, Lachman stated that it is expected to address different issues.
should not last more than 5 minutes.
Thus, several people talked about each of the artists "We will not only talk about whose works were artists but about situations, exhibited in the collective. In the recently inaugurated facts, spaces and Nancy Calvo stressed circumstances of art in cultural center of the about Isabel de Obaldía, Panama," he said. Fundación Arte Panama present in the conversation, they hang from their walls 'Let's talk, it's not a treatise a skill and physical and the works of their inaugural on art, it's not an art critic, mental strength to do his collective that was just like that. work [sculpture in glass] presented last December We have invited our friends that is to take off his hat. 14th. who have been art 'The characters in his In this, the first of many collectors, who have paintings take them out of exhibitions, according to represented them, who there and turn them into Arlene Lachman of have written about them, glass.' Fundación Arte Panama 'it "explained Lachman to the De Obaldía, talking about was very difficult to choose audience before starting his beginnings he said a number of works the session. 'living with Guillermo Trujillo representative of our The mechanics would be [his father] was a luxury'. history of art, from the simple. Each guest would And he remembered an beginning, until today'. talk about the designated occasion when he asked Precisely on the artists artist for no more than 3 his father to teach him how represented in the minutes. After this, any to paint. In response he collective would be carried other wizard could add had: How am I going to out the first conversation some additional teach you how to paint? Go Let's talk about ... Art. information. This space there and paint what you are seeing ...
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How does it.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by William Ortman.
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Security at the Eiffel Tower.
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Paris authorities will install around the Eiffel Tower a perimeter of glass panels 2.5 meters high and with bulletproof material to reinforce the safety of the emblematic monument, one of the most watched in France.
"will restore the link between France is under a state of the monument square and emergency since the chain of the gardens." attacks that shook Paris on November 13, 2015 and in The Eiffel Tower receives which 130 people were killed. about seven million tourists each year, which is why it is considered a sensitive place.
The monument already has a provisional fence since the Euro 2012 football, but the intention now is to make it definitive and improve its aesthetics. The president of the Society of Exploitation of Eiffel Tower, Bernard Gaudillère, revealed these plans in a meeting with the City council, according to 'Le Parisien'. The project plans to install a bulletproof wall that will be 2.5 meters high and will cost around 20 million euros. The authorities also plan to reorganize all traffic in the area, so that the security perimeter can be strengthened in collaboration with the Police. Councilor Jean-François Martins has defended the initiative in honor of "security", but also insisted that the project on the table www.amigosmava.org
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Dreams of glass.
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At Corning headquarters, three people equipped with oversized masks and quasispatial suits work in the company's research furnaces. They move gracefully and in harmony.
such as mobiles and tablets that are folded or rolled up.
A stronger glass will break with a large number of cracks; The A thin, flexible glass could also weaker glass is fractured only in a couple of places. turn curved surfaces such as the inside of cars into tactile Materials that pass the test screens. may be used to produce mobile mock-ups that will be launched The foundry researchers While facing face to face with a prepare between eight and from a height equivalent to that 1600 ° C oven, they should of a person's hip on cement, twelve experimental hold a molten glass crucible gravel, and other surfaces. discharges a day and send and shape it before it hardens. samples to company Most of the company's One of the gloves begins to smoke, but the worker does not pay much attention.
scientists.
"It's like a ballet," says company materials scientist Adam Ellison, as he watches workers work on glass in an oven that blows infernal heat. "It's hot to die for, the glass turns stiff very quickly and you can only work with it for a couple of minutes," he explains. He knows the details well because he helped develop the material they pour, whose brand name is Gorilla Glass and found in many smartphones thanks to its durability, thinness and low weight. The team of researchers is helping Corning expand the glass boundaries. If the company could produce a difficult to scratch and break but flexible version, it could create entirely new products,
The goal is to find out what happens when they try something new, like melting the glass at a different temperature. The team also tests different manufacturing methods to see how they affect glass properties. Potential products are subjected to any abuse that occurs to engineers. A machine repeatedly folds a thin piece of glass to see how much it holds; Another folds it until it breaks with a great rumble. Fracture specialists (the science of how and why materials such as glass fracture) employ custom machines to measure the pressure needed to break the material.
research focuses on new manufacturing processes and incremental improvements to existing products such as Gorilla Glass. But scientists can also experiment. One of Ellison's recent projects, for example, was to try to recreate the glass of the Roman cup of Licurgo IV century. The glass shows a deep red color when it lights from behind, but looks jade when received light from the front. Ellison enthusiastically teaches a sample of the glass inspired by Lycurgus, approaching it to a window to demonstrate its effect.
The researcher says, "Now I know perfectly well why he does this." Since there is no use for the product at the moment, the recipe will be With microscopes, researchers archived and maybe in the study the mechanical future it may serve something. messages that appear in the fracture pattern.
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A fantasy space.
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The Furnace of the Citadel, in Pamplona, will host until next March 26 'Installation S / T 1998-2008', a work of the Vizcain artist Dolo Navas created from recycled glass, creating an ecosystem of precious stones, sculptures Who live in the environment, breathe, expire and never die. The director of Culture, Linguistic Policy, Education and Sport, Maitena Muruzábal, presented the exhibition, accompanied by the artist herself. The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Friday, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm; Saturday in the morning and afternoon, from 12 to 14 hours and from 18 to 20.30 hours and Sunday, only in the morning, from 12 to 14 hours. The installation consists of a large piece floating in the center of the room of the Furnace, plus three small pieces that rest in the bottom, on the floor of the room; A curtain at the entrance creates a kind of protective membrane made with glasses glass bottles. With these colors, sounds and visions, the artist wants to take the visitor to other
places within. Even the soul or the mother's womb. The exhibition is completed with a video titled 'Underwater installation', where all pieces of glass disappear or appear as ghosts under the water of a large swimming pool, in a montage created by Itxaso Díaz. It is a whole universe created from recycling, which surpasses the imperative of the useful looking for spaces of fantasy and dreams, spaces to feel alive. And is that recycling is a constant in the works of Dolo Navas. Throughout his career, he has not only made use of glass, but also made sculpture installations based on shirts sewn and hardened with starch and latex, creating from small works to towers of two meters high raised with cotton collars And latex.
prizes, such as the 'Gure Artea' and scholarships of the County Council of Vizcaya, Bilbao Arte, Arteleku, etc. He also participated in the last live recycling marathons Drap Art in Barcelona, in Braderie de l'Art in Roubaix (France) during three editions and in Berlin for three years. The group 'The recyclers of Iruña' is part. Organizer and director of Denon Islada Art elkartea, has created, along with Open your Kolektiboa a live recycling marathon, 'Alarmarte' in Bilbao.
Currently, he is part of the organization and management of the group Drap Art Barcelona and teaches workshops in painting, clay, recycling, design and creative movement, from his residence in his studio and workshop of sculpture and recycling of clothes in the natural park of Montseny, in Dolo Navas (Vizcaya, 1966), Barcelona. has been working with recycling and nature for His works have been more than 20 years. exhibited in numerous collective and individual Designer, artist and exhibitions in Catalonia, educator, received training in Basque Country, and have Creative Education Diraya projects to exhibit in the (Bilbao) and has been United States. recognized with important
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Verallia competition.
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The Glass and Creation Competition of Verallia lands one more year in our country. On this occasion, under the motto 'El mundo del olivo', invites students to rediscover the fruits of this emblematic tree and its creative possibilities in glass packaging.
wine in every way: it presents different varieties, rites and utensils for their own consumption and, of course, increasingly spectacular presentations.
event will have an international final to be held in Paris during the month of November, and which will include the best works of each participating country.
The selected schools for the present edition are: University School of Design, Innovation and Technology (ESNE) of Madrid; Engineering in And not only is it focused on In its 2016-2017 edition, the Industrial Design and Product the oil and olives, but also on competition invites design Development of the Industrial other products twinned to students to immerse Engineering School (EII) of the these foods in their main themselves in the olive grove University of Valladolid; EINA moments of consumption. and create the most modern School of Engineering and Verallia, a leading company in and differentiated containers Architecture (Zaragoza); the glass packaging sector, for premium oils and original Escola d'Art i Superior de wants to pay tribute, through glass solutions for packaging Disseny de València (EASDits Glass and Creation products commonly associated Valencia). Contest, to one of the key with it. Your students have a specific elements of Spanish Always making the maximum website where you can consult gastronomy: olive and its possible use of glass and its the bases, as well as any other derivatives, mainly liquid gold. qualities (sustainability, food useful information about the Olive oil is the most safety, transparency and contest. appreciated of its fruits hygiene). The prize for the best project is throughout the world. The designer Albert € 2,500. A second prize is also Its consumption has multiplied Puigdemont, CEO of the awarded, valued at € 1,300, by 1.7 in the last 25 years, Puigdemont Roca studio, and a third, € 900. according to the International heads the jury, composed of Olive Council, with the United As in past editions, the public oil producers, designers and States and Asia demanding it will have the option to vote for journalists related to the in a spectacular way. their favorite design on packaging world. Verallia's Facebook profile. In Spain is the base of our Among them, they will choose kitchen. The knowledge of the The most voted project will the most original project, Spanish about their properties viable and faithful to the values receive the Facebook Prize, has grown exponentially in the endowed with € 300. associated with glass. recent decade and its market is already equated to that of This year, for the first time, the The AOVE is already considered one of the best ambassadors of the Spain Brand in its own right.
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They fight over the Leonese glass.
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They have worked with Norman Foster, the late Zaha Hadid, the Swiss Herzog & De Meuron and Santiago Calatrava.
"Thanks to the fact that we have satisfied the high quality requirements demanded by our customers and of being able to offer our glazing products to the most His projects include museums, demanding markets in the airports, hospitals, corporate world," Prado says. 70% of its headquarters of large production is exported. multinationals, flagships of luxury stores or skyscrapers. One of the pillars of its international expansion is the From Marrakech to Doha and US, which already has half of from Stockholm to Rio de the company's turnover. Janeiro, via London, Rome, New York, Washington, Boston New York is finishing 50 West and the Bahamas, Tvitec has Central Tower, a 250-meter become a global giant in the high skyscraper. manufacture and installation of In Washington, the new architectural glass, a material headquarters of Fannie Mae, Which is taking center stage in which was the former building the most interesting projects. of The Washington Post. Its Cubillos factory, near A Four Seasons hotel in Ponferrada, is one of only two Boston and another in Miami, European plants capable of as well as the Norton Museum processing pieces of glass up of Art in Florida, signed by to 12 meters in length (the Foster, are among the latest other is German). projects located in the US. Molding glass plates to adapt "Almost every week, first-rate them to the complex shapes architects and engineers cross required by the great architects the Atlantic to see firsthand the is not a simple task: it requires level of our main processing precision technology and good plant, Cubillos," says communication with the client, commercial director Alberto explains the company's CEO, Sutil. Javier Prado. One of the projects that has How have they managed to the most symbolic charge, reach 100 million euros in according to the director turnover in just nine years? www.amigosmava.org
general, "for being one of the first of large volume," is the Tower Titania of El Corte Inglés in Madrid. It is not the only large Spanish company they have worked for: among the most recent are the new BBVA headquarters, the Fundación Botín de Santander, signed by Renzo Piano, the Torre Pelli in Seville or the Puig building in Barcelona. The new headquarters of Banco Popular, still under construction, and the Real Madrid offices will also carry a Leonese stamp. Another of the fronts that is reporting business to Tvitec is the construction of flagships and headquarters of luxury signatures. A tower of the Swarovski theme park in Wattens (Austria); The Glass House Bulgari, in Tonza (Italy), still under construction; Cartier jewelry in Milan, also unfinished; Or the new Chateau Margaux winery are some of the more recent works. Architectural glazing is fashionable in major projects, and many rely on a Leonese firm aspiring to lead a market in progression.
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Stained glass window by Rufino Tamayo.
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Although the El Universo Pavilion of the Alpha Planetarium recently suffered a fire, Rufino Tamayo's stained glass window is apparently in good condition.
"It is one of the masterpieces of contemporary stained glass in the country and I can tell you that internationally".
The specialist said that although it is necessary to With the title "The Universe", check its state, it is very the work of 1982 is the only difficult to suffer damage stained glass that the Oaxacan because the work is made up artist, one of the most relevant of glass plates of 1.20 by 1.60 of the Mexican plastic arts, meters. performed during his lifetime. The thickness of the blocks, Ismael Contreras, director of Ulloa said, would need a Civil Protection of San Pedro, temperature of 1,300 degrees said the stained glass was not Celsius to merge, which can damaged. not be reached in a fire or open-air fire. The Planetarium also said in a statement that the work "It is very difficult to damage appears to be complete and in everything, if a shore or some good condition. part, but it is very difficult because of the thickness and "We inform that after a the number of sections," preliminary inspection, the explained the author of the stained glass window 'El book Ancient Egyptian Glass Universo', by the Mexican and director of the Museum of artist Rufino Tamayo, appears the Bishopric. to be in good condition and complete, subject to an expert "That makes it have a safety in the coming days carrying that other stained glass do not out a more exhaustive have, any other stained glass, inspection of the work, The maybe with the heat in the statement said. bow would have thundered in a part, here, by the system Gina Ulloa, a glass art scholar, and technique (probably) has explained that stained glass is not been damaged. a masterpiece created to look natural. Generally on Wednesdays the
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site charges the entrance at half price. Currently, its rooms are home to the "Lego: Adventure Travel" exhibition, from the Children's Museum in Indianapolis. Artistic universo The stained glass "El Universo", by Rufino Tamayo, is located in the Pavilion El Universo building, designed by Fernando Garza Treviño and built to house the work of art. With the stained glass "The Universe" Alfa Group commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Alpha Planetarium on July 20, 1988.
Created by Tamayo in 1982, the work represents the cosmos.
The stained glass window is 7.5 meters wide and 8.3 meters high.
To do so used 10 tonnes of glass sheets brought from Germany.
With the design of Tamayo, the work was realized by the Dutch company Van Tetterode with the technique of laminated glass.
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"Carroña" in the Fine Arts.
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Ten dissected crows perched on a lamp with twelve arms of red Murano glass receive in the lobby visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao. It is a piece of the Bilbao artist Javier Pérez, entitled Carroña, which is exhibited until next May 9 in the framework of the program The Work Visiting, which is sponsored by the Fundación Banco Santander. The image was presented by the hand of its creator, who was accompanied by Javier Viar, director of the gallery; Patricia Arias, territorial director in the Basque Country of Banco Santander; And Joxean Muñoz, Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Basque Government. As explained by Javier Pérez himself, who also has other similar facilities in museums in New York, Miami, Tokyo and Paris, Carroña was made in 2011 in Murano (Italy). In it, the dissected crows are perched on scattered pieces of a large red glass lamp partially shattered against the ground. This opportunity to work with the Italian centenary workshops, which have a long tradition with glass, seemed to Perez "very attractive" and wanted to take advantage of it "using an element such as the opulent lamps representing the wealth, ornamentation brought to the extreme". "With this work I considered transgressing that concept of beauty, luxury, and transforming it in the opposite: in a grotesque feast of a flock of crows with the fleshless carcass of the corpse of a dead animal," he argued
during the presentation. He also emphasized the special importance of exposing one of his creations in the Bilbao art gallery: "This is the first museum in which I set my feet, to return with one of my works is an honor for me." Javier Pérez is an artist who from his beginnings uses different organic materials, such as leather, latex, parchment, intestines, pupae or stuffed animals, along with other generally fragile and lightweight manufactures, including glass, porcelain and bronze , A personal seal that can also be seen in Carrion. With these materials the author composes works that usually refer to the baroque idea of the tempus fugit, a conception that is reflected again in the creation installed in the vestibule of the Bilbao museum. For the author the work has "multiple readings" and assured that it is "a constant" in the pieces that he has elaborated throughout his career "to play with different dialectics like life and death, catastrophe, the collapse of stereotyped ideal of beauty". As for these different interpretations of the work, Javier Pérez pointed out that the glass is interested in its "fragile and rigid at the same time, attractive and dangerous" quality, while the red tone can be an allusion to blood and the life it recalls The vulnerability of existence, since "it is the color of our interior". In this respect, the prestigious artist of Bilbao highlighted, on the red color chosen for the
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lamp, that "it is not usual to be used in glass, because it poses numerous technical difficulties to master glassmakers." "But I wanted it that way, because it is a reference to the blood, to the viscera, to the decomposition of animal flesh," he added. Joxean Muñoz, on the other hand, wanted to emphasize that "it is not the same thing to see the work in the first hour than to see it at dusk, because it is a piece that is transformed much with light." "This game of beauty, destruction, sinister and beautiful, is a world that asks the audience to focus on the ability of the work," added the counselor. International Javier Pérez (Bilbao, 1968) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV / EHU, and at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and soon began to stand out with his own style. His promising beginnings led him to participate in the Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2011, where he presented a large inverted dome made up of thousands of glass beads, titled A piece of crystallized sky, a work that is now Located in Artium, the Contemporary Art Center of Gasteiz. Javier Pérez also has works in the funds of other institutions, such as the Guggenheim Bilbao or the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and has exhibited his works in galleries and international centers such as the Center Pompidou or the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , And even at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Rouen.
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The most solidary glass.
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The Plaza de EspaĂąa, in the heart of Seville's Maria Luisa park, was the heart of solidarity in the Seville capital. The Friends of Glass consumer platform, which supports the consumption of food and drinks packaged in glass, celebrated its II Solidarity Mosaic, which consisted of drawing a giant heart by placing candles of batteries inserted in glass jars.
The day chosen for the event, Valentine's Day, also has its motives: "It was wanted that the good feelings and gestures that are shared on February 14 become a help," explained Davies.
platform seeks to reach the consumer in the most immediate way, making them aware of the benefits of glass as an ideal packaging material. This association reports that glass is made from naturally occurring natural and sustainable raw materials, such as silica sand, soda ash and limestone.
Regarding to designate the Plaza Spain to assemble the mosaic, the person in charge of Friends of Glass indicated that it was selected because it In addition, it ensures that is an emblematic place of the glass is the packaging city and because it is very well preferred by consumers for The act, which began at noon, traveled by the citizens. health and environment issues, lasted until 21.00 hours, when chemically inert, recyclable one a check was given for the The organization of this equivalent amount in tons of initiative, Davies admitted, has hundred percent infinite times food to the 2,500 jars that put always had the collaboration of and reusable. the thousands of Sevillians the City of Seville. The platform also points out who approached to the Plaza that jars as a primary The I Solidarity Mosaic was of Spain to collaborate with packaging guarantee the set up in the Plaza de Santa this Original solidarity initiative. preservation, shipping and Ana in Madrid, on December attractive presentation of a On this occasion the aid was 26, 2015. wide range of consumer given to the Spanish On that occasion and by the products. committee of Unicef Spain, dates of its celebration, with which will be devoted to The association, Karen Davies the jars painted a Christmas health, water, protection and motif. Through this place came recalls, was born in 2008 as a education projects for the most result of social networks. Its to pass 2,000 passers-by, vulnerable children. whose participation resulted in members do not pay any fee, Friends of Glass a donation of two tons of food. although to be able to organize sympathetic acts like the one of representative in Spain, Karen The destination of these foods yesterday in Seville they count Davies, explained that the city was for Caritas and more on the support of the of Seville has been chosen for specifically for the parish of Federation of Glass Containers this solidarity action because it Santiago and San Juan (Anfevi), that represents the was requested by many of the Bautista who donated the companies dedicated to the followers of the organization in proceeds to the most needy manufacture of glass social networks, but clarified people. containers of Spain. that its intention is to celebrate Similar acts throughout the Through the slogan Friends of Spanish geography. Glass, Fiends of People, the
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The Astro Tower in Brussels.
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If we look at developments in the field of sustainable construction - including laws we may have a false sense of euphoria. Because it is true that everything that is going to be raised will be much less polluting, but what happens to what is already done? There the advances do not seem so promising and, without a doubt, the rehabilitation with a green criterion is the greater of the challenges to face the threat of the climatic change, the more so that the cars spit less bad fumes. According to data from the European Environment Agency (Aema), 13% of the pollutants in the 28 countries of the European Union are caused by road transport. Private homes, shops and shopping centers and institutional buildings, 56%. Observing the green shoots, one of the best news these days is the comprehensive reform of the Astro Tower in Brussels by the Spanish study Lamela, which has become the highest green building in Europe in terms of saving and
regulate the exchange. In addition, electricity "When we won the consumption and air competition, in 2010, we bet to conditioning are regulated and rehabilitate it from the original regulated by more efficient structure preserving its systems. essence. For example, radiant ceiling air For that, we have replaced the conditioning is used. facades with others to gain in light and, more importantly, to "For Estudio Lamela, it is a privilege to sign the reform of a achieve energy control of the building of these Tower" , Explains Carlos characteristics. Intervening on Lamela, director of the firm. an existing architecture of Built in 1974 by the architect these dimensions is an Albert Donker and 113 meters enormous challenge: it involves and 41 floors, Torre Astro is living with an already created one of the tallest buildings in work and looking for the the European capital. formulas and ways that - The original proposal", continues Now it also exhibits the Lamela. certification Bâtiment Passif 2014 and 2015, which From an aesthetic point of corroborates that it is a view, the glass and steel building almost self-sufficient facades extend on the last from an energetic point of floors to increase the sensation view. of slenderness and to hide the Specifically, it reduces energy technical plants of the last consumption by up to 90% and floors. cuts heating costs by 60%. Astro Tower will fulfill the mission of being the With a budget of 55 million headquarters of Actiris, the euros, the project has public body that is in charge of substantially improved the insulation and watertightness helping to find employment in of the facades to avoid energy the region of Brussels, which from this moment will centralize losses. its activity in the highest green A triple glass with solar factor building in Europe. control has been used to energy consumption.
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Stained Glass in Cuba.
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A glass factory in the Spanish city of Burgos has already recovered and installed nine of the Parisian stained glass windows that are a hallmark of the Catholic cathedral in this southern Cuban city of Cienfuegos. They are about to restore five other stained-glass windows of the temple, which will be ready for the Bicentennial of this provincial capital (April 22, 2019), referred to the local newspaper, September 5, Enrique Barrios, who, together with two of his brothers, By his last name. With some intermittency, the restorative work began in 2013 and with the added value of incorporating in the work, as assistants, to students of the specialty that are prepared in the office of
offices of the Office of the City of Light, stained Conservative of the City. glass represent the 12 Christian apostles, plus Completed to build in the Sacred Heart of Jesus 1869, since 1903 the and two glasses ) Inspired church of the Purísima by other symbols of the Concepción assumed the Catholic Church. rank of cathedral and The company Vidrieras headquarters of the Barrio, formed in 1975 present diocese of with the advice of former Cienfuegos (240 masters of the Parisian kilometers southeast of house Maumejean, with Havana) and Trinidad. branches in Madrid, The building, part of the Barcelona and San historic center of Sebastián since the late Cienfuegos, inscribed by nineteenth century, is a Unesco on the World member of the Heritage list since July International Association 2005, treasures among for the Study of Glass its main values a set of History. 15 stained glass windows Account for the manufactured in Paris restoration of patrimonial and released on assets in more than 40 December 8, 1871. Spanish properties Produced by the Swissbelonging to religious, French master Jean banking, tourism and Jules Gaspard Gsell public institutions. (1814-1904) in the GsellLaurent workshops of the
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The chapel of Santa Catalina.
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After six months of work, the chapel of Santa Catalina, in the cloister of the Old Cathedral of Salamanca already has its new stained glass windows. The scaffolding is still present in this space, but the light does not deceive and demonstrates without doubt that a new stage has begun for this historic space, which also, for a few months, has access to toilets, installed in the Cathedral for tourist use. After processing and obtaining the permission of the Territorial Heritage Commission, the Cathedral Cabildo began these works of renovation of the six stained glass windows of the chapel, which are up to four meters in height and, in some cases, more than a meter and a half Wide, as the dean of the Cathedral, Jesus Terradillos, comments, explaining that the blown glass has been brought from Germany, and that the subjection of glass to stone has also been changed, since before Tucked directly into the concrete, while now there is a stainless steel structure that improves the survival of stained glass. "When Salamanca hosted the Ages of Man, the stained glass was covered to obscure the chapel and that cover was still there," adds the dean. It should be noted that during
the Renovation works have appeared parts of the old stained glass windows of Santa Catalina, from the Romanesque era. "When the methacrylate was removed, some precious traces of the beginning of the fourteenth century were discovered, which have been respected and conditioned." This vestige of Romanesque style is found in the first window of the chapel, to the left. In the chapel of Santa Catalina is also, as we said, the access to the baths installed in the Cathedral for tourist use some months ago. A space that is accessed through a door that in times was blind and that is above the level of the ground, reason why it was not necessary work of excavations, that could have had "archaeological complications", given the special entity Of the place. This place, the House of the Heads, is part of the houses that surround the cloister of the Old Cathedral and that look towards the streets Tentenecio and Gribaltar. In the cloister was also installed the souvenir shop, which is the last place that the visitor travels, before finishing the tour and exit to the street through the door of Carros,
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which ends at the beginning of Tentenecio Street. Next musealization The chapel of Santa Catalina will be the object of new interventions in the future, such as the cleaning of its facades and the vault, with the aim of making it a new museum space for the Cathedral, a project that is still being defined. This step will be given "with time and money," says the dean, who remembers the high cost of any performance within the centennial cathedral walls. "Without the sale of tickets we could not afford it," he says, not without remembering that the Cathedral works for 14 people. The last rainstorm has caused new leaks that are being repaired And it is that this time of rains and cold nights brings with it the increase of the incidences in the Cathedral. Since last week several operators of the company that is in charge of the maintenance repairs the leaks that have appeared in different places, some very sensitive, like the chapel of the Virgin of Morales, in the New Cathedral. "We have to act constantly, and there are 15,000 square meters of roofs," the dean says. The last storm of wind and rain has left its effects in the Cathedral, raising protections and shingles, which now the workers are busy in relocating. Likewise, the moisture of capillarity, which passes through the stone of Villamayor, porous by nature, was seriously affecting the paintings of the tomb of Carvajal, inside the Old Cathedral. The intervention can not be more direct, since, as the dean Jesus Terradillos explains, these paintings are being separated from the stone to be placed later on a canvas, with frame and frame, and placed back in the place that the Corresponds. Separated, of course, from the stone which was at the same time their subjection and their condemnation.
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Kandinsky in Málaga.
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Without being able to look away, totally seduced by the color of a Kandinsky very recognizable in its abstract creation, but also new and unknown in the small figurative jewels on glass and the delicacy of Impressionist landscapes. Thus, caught, the eyes of those who attended the presentation of the new temporary exhibition of the Russian Museum Collection were found. Kandinsky and Russia, curated by the artistic director of the museum, Yevguenia Petrova, has collected a total of 78 pieces - 29 of them from the master of abstraction - that relate Kandinsky's work with his Russian roots, with folk art , With the work of his contemporaries and religious iconography. Until July this exhibition can be visited, which also offers a complementary teaching space on the relationship of the painter and composer Arnold Schönberg. "Kandinsky is one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, with many works in different countries of the world, however, he is an author who does not usually show his training period and our exhibition is directed at his Russian roots," he explained. Yevguenia Petrova, curator of the exhibition. That is why, together with their pieces, there are icons, engravings known as lubok and ethnographic elements such as baskets, sleds, toys, disks, textile pieces. It is, as its organizers explain, "a suggestive exposition that reveals new facets of the creator of abstraction". The artist, born in Moscow in 1866, "knew the popular art and this passion was always with him", commented the curator. "Before abstraction, as it is known worldwide, we can see the impressionism, the realism in works on glass, which also attempts to copy Russian, Ukrainian, German folk art, is a figurative art and we approach through Them to their abstract works
of which we show our collection, more than a dozen works that are known a lot in the world, "added Petrova. And he emphasizes that the aim of this exhibition is to make the public perceive more clearly the development of the art of the painter after seeing his initial works.
the history of Russia, "said Petrova. "Kandinsky and Russia are totally different," he added.
For Vladimir Gusev, director of the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, "Kandinsky is the painter of this time of change" that was generated even before the Bolshevik revolution. And he stressed that "our collection is The river in autumn, The river in summer, The hacienda of Ajtirka, Red interesting because it represents a period that little is known in Europe." Church and Autumn, works painted between 1901 and 1903 are his oldest Gusev reiterated that "Kandinsky's work is related to icons, with the pieces collected in this sample. popular art he adored and from which These fields, rivers and buildings are began his development of vanguard, is becoming more impressionistic a very interesting set", he considered brushstrokes in the two canvases of and wanted to bring forward that for the Murnau. Summer landscape, dated coming year " We will teach realistic 1909. St. George (I), 1911, is already socialism, it will also be a very a play of stains and lines that, interesting sample. " although the figure is intuited, in the And before arriving at the oils of picture has simply remained its greater format, in a room painted black, essence, like Improvisation No. 11 the bulbs highlight the treasures that in (1910 ). Black stain (I), Table with 1918 painted on glass. Some are white border, Picture with tips, Two deteriorated, with slits and even faults, ovals and Blank (I), dated between but suppose delicious oil-on-glass 1912 and 1920 are examples of its prints, an ancient technique typical of more universal pictorial language, the traditions of German folk painting abstraction and praise of color. for which Kandinsky was passionate in "The exhibition is traced following her Murnau in the late 1900s and the I biography," said the curator, who would return by the end of the next. emphasized that "the exhibition closes In relation to the two exhibitions with the last work she did in Russia presented this week, the director of the and with an icon, because everyone Collection of the Russian Museum of forgets that her roots are in Russia and Of which he was deeply religious, Malaga, José María Luna, pointed out that "the third annual exhibition is going he was all the life, until his last to be a public and critical success moment ". According to Petrova, "the icons for him were an inspiration and a because it is an ambitious exhibition, with a great Number of works but with spiritual symbol" a speech also very well armed that Presenting the sample of Kandinsky makes us travel three centuries of next to Dynasty Romanánov supposes Russian history. an interesting contrast for the This exhibition "ends in that artistic spectator. avant-garde that will later have points "We wanted to prepare two different of brilliance in teachers as the great exhibitions, complementary in turn and referent of abstract art, Vassily for different types of public. We think Kandinsky," said Luna, and stressed that in this case we have chosen well that "his art is closely linked with because for people who like realistic popular culture, as can be seen art and Russian history, the exhibition perfectly In this sample curated by of Romanovs is A great opportunity to Yevguenia Petrova. " know the Russian creation through the works of the XVIII, XIX and XX and is
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They start the course.
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The School of Glass "El Progreso" of Honduras is already complete. From the 1st of February they started the 2017 Course. Students and teachers on the go, and happy families.
with the School; 16 in each specialty. They inaugurate the school year together and want it to be a prosperous year for all, that the students take advantage of their studies and the help they provide, and give the best of themselves.
Before the beginning of the classes they gave the Thanks to the donations they scholarships of school material receive, the Association and uniform to the students Friends of the School of Glass who needed it. and the support of European Together with the families they organizations, the School lives welcomed the students to the day by day. course 2017 in a very joyful New goals and new act. challenges. They start with This year 2017 also have the strength and motivation. food scholarship as a novelty, Welcome to the 2017 Course as young people open a new at the Glass School of schedule from morning to Honduras! afternoon. How do School Glass Since last year have two Scholarships work? options for Technical Studies. The Glass School is a Young people can choose cooperation project, that is, an between Technical Glass NGO. Studies and Technical Studies They welcome young people in Cooking and Tourism. with limited resources and In 2017, 32 new youngsters outside the education system. enter their first year of studies Families and young people
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undergo a selection process in which family resources and needs are evaluated. Based on socio-economic studies, the interviews and visits that are made to the homes of all students, each year review the needs of each of them and the new students. This allows them to assess and monitor the improvement or worsening of the family situation. In addition, in a more personal way, the School Counseling Department supports youth and family. In the School they are listened to and advised. To keep the scholarships, young people commit to giving their best and achieve an average of 80% or more. In addition, they must attend classes regularly, since if their attendance falls below 85%, they may lose the aid. For more information, you can write to this e-mail address.
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The Association of Friends of MAVA was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in accordance with current management.
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Valderas.
The purpose of this Association is to
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promote, encourage and support many
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cultural activities, in the broadest terms, are related to the mission and activities
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of the Museum of Glass Art Alcorcon.
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Our goal is to develop and collaborate with other public or private entities in the promotion, protection and dissemination of art and culture. Our members may be fees, benefactors, Full and juveniles.
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Presidente honorario
Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
Vicepresidente
José María Gallardo Breña
Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
Vocales
Javier Gómez Gómez
Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos