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CLIFFORD RAINEY • Create a record.

A few days ago I received the call from Destilerías Bernal, S.L., of Murcia, to ask me for information about a glassmaker that could make them some 2,000 or 3,000 bottles with artisanal elaboration to pack their products.

I asked them if they had contacted the Santa Lucía Glass Museum, in Cartagena, because, by proximity, it would seem the right place to carry out the assignment and they informed me that they were waiting for their response to the proposal.

I also got in touch with Pere Ignasi, the great master glassmaker located in Campanet (Mallorca) to see if his son Gabi, who is newcomer from the United Kingdom, could be interested in the realization of this project and I gave him the phone number and the data of the distillery so that the characteristics of the work were informed: budget, technical specifications, etc.

M. A. Carretero.

This is not an isolated case of requesting information on order fulfillment needs from our Association, since on other occasions we have been consulted about glassmakers who could make other specific orders.

the enough resources to be able to continue maintaining this extraordinary activity that is the realization of pieces with glass.

But it would not hurt to develop a kind of centralized registry of which all would be part, or the vast majority of glassmakers and the techniques they use to make their pieces.

Another management derived from the need to be known and for which we have long insisted on its realization is the organization of an annual exhibition exclusively dedicated to the artistesanos of glass.

In the case that deals with the realization of artisan bottles, I get an average of Apparently, they see us as a about 10 bottles a day so suitable place for us to know that, with the technique of the peculiarities of the blowing in a suitable mold, glassmakers of our country. you can comply with the preparation of the order.

The truth is that, for our trips and visits to the different At first, it might not be glassmaking workshops possible to reach that since we formed part of the average, but in a short time I Board of Directors of our think it would take a few Association in February hours a day to fulfill the 2007, we know a large part request and there could be of the workshops that exist in free time to be able to our country and the dedicate it to other types of techniques they perform. activities.

That record could be posted on a freely accessible website so that anyone could have accurate information that could direct you to the Nuestra sede: I also made some more most appropriate place to Castillo Grande de contacts but did not fit the S.J. de Valderas order with the stained glass propose your orders.

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n techniques they were Even potential customers doing. In some cases they could leave their orders 28925 ALCORCÓN. told me that they carried out inserted so that any glass (MADRID) their works in casting, in workshop could know their info@amigosmava.org others that used cold glass, characteristics and get in etc., so they did not see touch with the owner of the feasible the realization of order. the order of the bottles.

In these times and taking into account the large number of glassmakers who are staying along the way "thanks" to this damn crisis that we have been suffering for so long, I think you should not waste any kind of commission that provides

In an appropriate place, gathering the institutional and private supports that were necessary, with live demonstrations in some cases and the projection of videos in others, supported by talks and lectures on topics related to glass, information and culture could be offered on the stained glass techniques and without the difficulty of being "scattered" between the facilities of the craft fairs that are being held in our country.

I think these are topics that are worth reflecting on and, if they are considered important, start taking the necessary steps to put them into practice.

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The last blowers

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Close Vidrios Lafiore

Directive 2010/75 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of November 24, 2010, on industrial emissions.

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Art. 3. Definitions.

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Activities on the MAVA

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News

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13) "emission levels associated with best available techniques": the range of emission levels obtained under normal operating conditions using one of the best available techniques, as described in the conclusions on BAT, expressed as an average during a certain period of time, under specific reference conditions;

CONTENT:

Piece of the month

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Established artists

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Young artists

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The last blowers

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Close Vidrios Lafiore

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More about La Trinidad

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Activities Museums

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Activities on the MAVA

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Resignation in A. of Marco 12 Works of art and bodies

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Viarca in Melilla

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Toyama Int. Glass

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Roman glass in Museums

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News

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Culture 2018

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They avoid closure MUVI

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Foods from Spain

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The glass in museums

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Recycling

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Cultural visits

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Culture 2018 program

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Four inventions with glass

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Other trends

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Training center

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Enamored of Gordiola

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GPD Istanbul 2018

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From La Mola to N. York

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Vanceva World of Color

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How do

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The technology of glass

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Telescope renews mirror

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Offer for Vicrila

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Neon universe

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Rotate a beam of light

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Prize for artisans

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Palace of Stock Exchange

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Astronomical mirrors

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The Oiasso Museum

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In the cradle of glass

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Daiana Lerman

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Luesma & Vega

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Board Of Directors

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14) "emerging technique": a novel technique for an industrial activity that,

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if developed commercially, can provide a higher overall level of environmental protection or at least the same level of environmental protection and superior cost savings to those that would be obtained with the best current available techniques;

the installation or plant; 16) "the public": one or more natural or legal persons and their associations, organizations or groups;

17) "the interested public" means the public concerned, which may be affected or have an interest in making a decision on the granting or 15) "owner" means updating of a permit or any natural or legal the conditions of a person who exploits, permit; For the wholly or partially, the purposes of this installation or the definition, noncombustion, the governmental incineration of waste organizations that work or the co-incineration for the protection of the of waste or has the environment and that same or, where meet the relevant national legislation so requirements provided provides, that it has, for by national by delegation, a legislation shall be determining economic considered to have an power on the interest; technical operation of

Gabi Ignasi returns.

At the end of last February, Gabi at the head of the Andalusian Ignasi returned after a long stay in Glass Center and where he carried out a great but ephemeral the United Kingdom.

And he has resumed in Campanet training project for glassblowers and in which the Saramago (Mallorca), where his father, the Foundation was involved. great Pere Ignasi, has his workshop.

We met Gabi Ignasi in May 2010 when we visited the town of Castril in Granada where he was

The political ups and downs of the locality put an end to that experience and Gabi had to look for life in other latitudes.

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

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

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11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.

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Piece of the month. Xavi Muñoz.

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are young and teachers", Galeria N2, Barcelona (2009); "Blume", Galeria Espai B (2007); "Very fragile", MAVA, Museo del Vidrio, Alcorcón (2005); "Siteations / Sense in place", Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (2005); "Identimidados", Unpublished Cycle, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2002).

Xavi Muñoz was born in Barcelona in 1975.

Madrid (2011); "Captura libre", La Casa Encendida, Madrid Live and work in the (2009); "Paradise", Cal Catalan capital.

Massó Art Center, Reus, He is an artist of Tarragona (2009); outstanding local, "Sleepwalker", Raquel national and international Ponce Gallery, Madrid projection.

(2009); "Dream hunter", Addaya Center d'Art Since 2000, she has Contemporani, Alaró, been developing her Mallorca (2008); "The artistic work, logic of desire", Sala investigating, through Mauro Muriedas, various disciplines, the emotional involvement of Torrelavega, Cantabria (2007) or "This I have the public. wished to write you", Among his individual Casa de las Conchas, exhibitions are Salamanca (2006).

"Landscape", L & B contemporary art gallery, Among his collective exhibitions include "Null", Barcelona (2016); Le Murate, Florence, Italy "Butterflies dream", (2010); "Art shake", Galeria N2, Barcelona Mondo Bizarro Gallery, (2011); "In somnis", Rome, Italy (2010); "They Raquel Ponce Gallery,

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Public art projects stand out as "MEMORIAL", Caldas de Reis, Galicia (2007); "PUBLIC ART", Art Públic, Universitat de Valencia (2005) and "MAKE A WISH" and "MEMORY", permanent projects in process that have traveled throughout Europe and America since 2003.

He has worked with numerous and important galleries such as: Raquel Ponce, from Madrid, Galeria N2, from Barcelona, ADDAYA Art Center, from Mallorca ...

He has participated in fairs such as: ARCO - 5 consecutive years -, MACO (Mexico), Swab (Barcelona), ArtMadrid ...

His works are part of important national and international collections.

The work that we have chosen as "Piece of the month" is entitled "Shipwrecked".

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Established artists. Clifford Rainey.

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He was born in 1948 in a village in Northern Ireland.

Since he was a little boy making wood carvings in his grandfather's carpentry workshop in Belfast, Rainey absorbed the teachings and inspirations that come with living a curious, creative life.

After attending several art schools in the United Kingdom, he went on to a prolific career as a sculptor (his works have been compiled in 22 museums and public places in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States), and has taught art and sculpture

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in nine art schools and universities in Great Britain and the United States.

homeland, he embraced art as an alternative path, mainly because it was a powerful argument for a better, more equitable and more empathic.

He is currently the President of the Glass Program and Professor of Fine Arts at the California In Greece and Turkey, as well as in eastern and southern Africa, he College of Art in Oakland. discovered aesthetic values and Over the years, he has also humanistic themes that have managed to travel the world, from colored his works since then: the Scandinavia to the eastern structure, design and organizing Mediterranean, from Africa to the principles of classical Greek Caribbean, with multiple columns, the dignity and stopovers in North America elegance of African sculpture before landing at the top of his hill traditional, and the issues of in Napa County. freedom, justice and democracy The son of a working-class family are now present in those cultures. from Belfast, who reached the age of majority during the terrible His study was ashes in past fires sectarian problems in his in California (USA).

Emerging artists. Zuzana Kubelková.

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Purkyně (UJEP) in Ústí nad Labem, and enjoyed a series of research scholarships abroad.

Since 2007, Kubelková participates in a variety of exhibitions: the first prize for his work was awarded in two years.

And this was followed by further recognition, which included winning the Ludwig Moser Prize (2012) and the Stanislav Libenský Prize (2014).

He was born in 1987 in Strakonice, Czech Republic.

Zuzana Kubelková is much more than a glass artist. His talent also covers related fields, such as painting, drawing, jewelery, stained glass and design.

And the final works reflect, not only Kubelková's inventiveness, craftsmanship, creativity and skill, but also his constant search for

new avenues of artistic expression.

Zuzana Kubelková started her education in glass making in northern Bohemia.

After studying at the Higher School of Applied Arts for Glass Manufacturing in Železný Brod, where he graduated in the field of pressed glass (or pattern), he continued his studies at the Ilja Bílek studio at the University of JE

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Recently, Kubelková won the first prize in the Young Glass 2017 competition held in Ebeltoft, Denmark.

Both curators and art critics have praised her for her daring experimentation. Kubelková clearly enjoys exploring the inherent sense of adventure in the concept of uncertainty, and this manifests itself both in the creative goals and ideas of the artist, and in the varied use of materials that she combines with glass.

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The last glass blowers.

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They say that the research level of a country can be measured by the number of scientific glass blowers it has. Well, in Spain there are little more than a dozen. "Three here, one at the University of Zaragoza, one at the University of AlcalĂĄ ... Another at the University of Murcia ... Two in Santiago ...". In the glass workshop of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Complutense University, Emilio Elvira lists the companions who endure in the trade as if he were pressing the knob of a dropper that is consumed.

And the accounts do not come out. "A couple of years ago another one retired, another one, blowers are an endangered species".

in day to day. "Having a good base allows you to know the nature of the materials and substances with which you work, understand how a distillation is produced, anticipate the reactions that can occur at 400 degrees of temperature or predict the behavior of the glass once it cools" , explains this blower.

Surrounded by oddments, prototypes and borosilicate glass tubes (the material used to make many of the containers and utensils used in the experimental sciences), this man from Madrid relates with the passion of an artisan the avatars of a trade that during decades has shaped the ideas that flowed from the brain of the best researchers. "We do not make specimens or test tubes, scientific glass blowers carry out research prototypes," he says. "We collaborate directly with the researchers and create pieces or devices that they need for their experiments, they pose a problem, some needs and we offer them a solution."

The anecdote illustrates well the lack of generational relief in an office wounded to death. In the good times, the highest scientific body of our country came to have six glass workshops. Today there is none left.

"The last one, the one at the Rocasolano Physical Chemistry Institute, was closed two years ago after the only remaining blower had retired." The rest suffered the same fate in the absence of personnel.

"Now, we assume from here a good part of the work required by the scientists of this organization."

The fire that emanates from the revolving torch that Elvira handles with dexterity has served to illuminate pieces of the most varied: from glass hearts used in the faculties of Medicine to cells for space satellites.

Last year, without going much further, collaborated with researchers at the Center for Biomedical Technology of the Polytechnic University of Madrid in a project that was able to create spider silk artificially, copying the procedure of these arachnids. The results were published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

Apart from manual skill, knowledge in Chemistry or Physics are fundamental

Elvira, who started in the trade with 15 years thanks to his uncle, also blower, is the last of these professionals who could be trained at the CSIC, back in the year 86. "By then he was the youngest blower. Three decades later, at 50, things have not changed and I'm still one of the youngest. "

As is usual in topics related to science and research, comparisons with other countries in our environment are embarrassing. "The German association of scientific glassblowers, for example, has more than 2,000 professionals working in the most leading centers of the country.Our association, at its highest peak, in the year 90, reached a maximum of 50 blowers" , says Elvira.

Thus, while countries such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom and even the Czech Republic have schools, in Spain there is no formal training with which to develop talents. "Our only desire, for many years, is that this job does not disappear, but it is becoming increasingly difficult." The Universidad Complutense de Madrid itself has a

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vacancy glass vacancy seat that is not covered by the lack of qualified candidates. The same happens in other Spanish universities.

Clara Lorca, a 31-year old Grenadian trained in Fine Arts, has been developing her pictorial and sculptural work for more than 10 years using techniques based on the experimentation of materials. For the last three months he has been working side by side with Elvira in the Complutense workshop thanks to one of the very few training places that appear every few years in some universities.

His crush on the blown glass was the result of chance. "One day I went to a glass conference without having any idea what it was, I discovered that there was a crack, an unknown trade that practically nobody is already engaged in and, curiously, in these times, there was work That's when I started discovering its addictive magic, "he confesses.

The addiction to glass is not a metaphor. As Elvira recognizes, most blowers end up turned into a kind of fire junkies after years of work in front of the torch. "People who work with high temperatures develop thermal stress, in this state, our body begins to generate endorphins, as if we were doing sports, so when we finish working we are like spirits," he says with a half smile on his face. "We enjoyed it a lot, that's why we say that the glass is hooked."

For the time being, this addiction has served so that the handful of blowers left in our country resist, like Gauls against the Romans, the onslaught of a time - and a Government - that seems to have forgotten that the investigation is our best weapon of future. This is what Elvira claims through a job she performs with the passion of a beginner. Hoping that one day science - and scientific glassblowers - will be in the place they deserve.

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Close Vidrios Lafiore.

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The Lafiore artisan glass factory has closed its doors and has joined the already long list of industrial firms that have chosen to liquidate their production in the Balearic Islands.

In its Esporles facilities, the store is only kept open to release the product stock during the tourist season, while the ship where its merchandise is made and stored is offered for rent for 10,000 euros per month.

Keeping an industry active in Mallorca has become a mission that is increasingly difficult, according to the administrator of this firm, Miguel Tortella.

Lafiore has been experiencing difficulties for years, which has led her to close their different stores (one of them was at the Palma airport) to declare bankruptcy in early 2017.

At the end of that year it was decided to terminate its production of glass and lay off the workforce, and at this time it only keeps the store located in the Esporles facilities active.

Specifically, a few days ago activity was recovered in this

commercial establishment, after the winter closure of two months that has been maintained in recent years.

Is it possible to recover the activity of Lafiore? Miguel Tortella recognizes that it is very difficult. However, it leaves some doors open, although all of them are still unripe.

the sales have not accompanied the firm in recent years "and the banks either", which led the property to use its own funds to try to get ahead.

But that has not allowed to save the company. Because in spite of the high number of tourists that the island has received during the last years, the expense that they One of them is that some company chooses to acquire realize "is low". the firm and recover Industrial decline production. In addition, we The liquidation of Lafiore is want to hold a meeting with confirmed a few days after the former workers to test Pepsi has reached an the possibility of forming a agreement with its staff to cooperative and that they close its MarratxĂ­ factory on take over the factory. "But February 15th. everything is still very green" The administrator of the and it is not necessary to artisanal glass firm highlights harbor false hopes, it is the enormous difficulties emphasized. involved in maintaining At the moment, the property industrial production on an of this firm, which is also the island, and points as an owner of Artifoc, the example of some company that owns the multinationals that have property, has decided to closed their facilities or that offer these facilities for rent, of footwear firms that have which, as indicated in the moved their factories out of offer that appears on the the archipelago. When asked web pages on which it is about the reindustrialization sold, includes 2,000 built plan recently presented by square meters and 17,000 of the Government, it merely land, for a price of 10,000 states that "they are only euros per month. holders".

Tortella does not hide that

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More about La Trinidad.

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After more than a decade of mobilizations of neighbors and defenders of historical heritage, the Management of Urbanism of Seville has approved an agreement that allows the urban development of the old Glass Factory of La Trinidad.

The agreement determines that the compensation board will assume the works of consolidation of the buildings of the Glass Factory before its obligatory and free transfer to the Consistory, as well as the works of urbanization of the floors.

The agreement guarantees the protection of properties with heritage value (both the main factory and the three auxiliary buildings), which will become municipal property as well as public facilities.

200 homes will be built on the plot.

The Management assumes the drafting of the reparcelling project and the preliminary urbanization, exempting the board of compensation of the cost of these works, and undertakes to streamline as much as possible the urban planning in this The City Council and the regard for what counts in 2018 with a budget of landowners assume a series of commitments to 60,000 euros. enable urban The compensation board development.

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rejects the allegations submitted to the PERI modification document in its initial approval phase.

The plot will have a landscaped area of about 14,000 square meters.

"It is a city project that had been blocked for years and now faces the final phase of its processing, so that at the beginning of 2019 the first projects can be executed there," explained Antonio MuĂąoz.

The socialists will discuss with the neighbors of the old factory the equipments that will be put into use.

The agreement signed establishes that the City Council receives 1,400 square meters.

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Activities Museums II.

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Activities Museums III.

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Activities on the MAVA. Working Glass.

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It is a proposal of nomadic genealogy that pursues the dissemination and visibility of glass as a material The Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón (MAVA) presents Working Glass, a proposal of nomadic genealogy that pursues the dissemination and visualization of glass as a material, as well as reflection on creative processes, artistic practice and rethinking the articulation of Social relations.

The project brings together sixteen artists, both from our country and international and a glass technician, in a proposal that revolves around the study of glass and its many possibilities.

Only some of the participating artists have occasionally worked glass, so this project is a challenge

and an exploration in the work with a new material.

techniques.

The developed productions Working Glass wants to that can be seen in the MAVA collect the avant-garde include the work with glass tradition of the Bauhaus and as the main agent with the later the Studio Glass plastic result of sculptures, or Movement, proposing a as an integrated element, method of creation in which generating installations. the artists conceive the The Museum of Art in Glass proposal they execute of Alcorcón- MAVA, is the manually, using the first space in which you can necessary tools, studying the see this exhibition, which processes and working was born with the vocation of personally in the oven. roaming through different In addition, the proposition rooms. allows the combination of The sixteen participating individual and collaborative artists are: Ana H. del Amo, pieces.

Miren Doiz, Andrea Canepa, The study and production of Jorge Perianes, Cristina the pieces have been carried Llanos, Jorge Isla, Pelucas, out in the workshop of the Lolo & Sosaku, Iñaki Museum of Art in Glass of Domingo, Nano 4814, Alcorcón (MAVA), a project Alejandro Marote, Manu that has been supported by Blázquez, Tamara Arroyo, David Duque, technical glass David Herguedas , Jan workshop, which has Danebod and E1000. accompanied the process in See images. the didactic and material

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Resignation in Friends of the MARCO.

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The Association of Friends of MARCO, a museum located in Vigo, is given a month to elect those responsible who will lead this new stage of disagreement with the local government for the change of model that is being applied to the up to now museum of contemporary art of Vigo .

point out that what most concerns them at this time is Regarding the opening of the "the lack of independence FRAME to all kinds of artistic when it comes to developing styles, the group is clear and the program", an aspect for contrary. they "key" they do not see guaranteed.

"We are in total disagreement, there was They will continue to unanimity in this regard demand a meeting with because we believe that it municipal officials. has a future as a museum of The current president, Bad news that allows us to contemporary art still ready Daniela Sarraíno, announced continue to testify that not to transform and make in recent days her intention always the relationships changes," says the still to leave office and on president of the entity, which between the associations of February 6 a large criticizes the government of Friends of Museums and extraordinary assembly was those responsible for the Vigo not to accept their held, attended by around 80 request interview carried out respective museum people and in which it was "already in September" and institutions are as good as decided to postpone the they try to make us see from after calling the Council election for a few weeks of some agencies. several times. substitute.

From our position as "We feel trampled and not In the assembly, several members of the Friends of recognized despite making names of volunteers were the Museum of Art in Glass annual contributions to the already ready to assume the museum," says the head of a of Alcorcón we have always reins, but it will be analyzed defended that our raison group that brings together calmly until this March if a d'être is the Museum, but more than 400 individuals single president is elected or never its Directorate or the and artists "friends" of a kind of steering committee MARCO, center they want to City Council, which is the is chosen. one that holds the property keep "open to film, music "We are granted an impasse and contemporary painting of the Museum. to find the best solution, and as before ", noting that the Therefore, we believe that the commitment we assume figures place it as the most the solution to the problems is that none of the partners visited in the city. is not resignation when will be retiring for now," things do not go as one They do not enter into the Sarraíno explained at the would like, but in facing up to quality of the proposals end of the meeting, called to the problems and fight to try made, but they criticize the decide on a substitute and to reverse situations. "radical change in the evaluate the changes in the management model" and programming confirmed this week.

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Works of art and bodies of crime.

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that lived in the countryside and it may be that nature is hostile to the production of relationships and primitive people. Inquiring into the family past, I discovered that this was normal: there were many stories of violence against women.

In November 2016, the newspaper Il Manifesto (here the link to the newspaper) published an insert on gender violence, 'Il corpo del delto'.

An insert to keep (you can still buy it here), because it is full of testimonials and intelligent, deep and important analyzes.

The Manifesto has also asked my friend, the glass artist Silvia Levenson, to tell her story and how she has a fundamental influence in her work.

I think his testimony is strong and important, linked to an Argentine reality of several decades ago, but basically similar to many Italian situations today. Therefore, I refer here in its entirety to the article published in Il Manifesto.

Most of my work as an artist investigates the interpersonal relationships that have the home as a backdrop: a protected universe, but also a minefield. I explore the house as a nest, last refuge or bunker muffled.

When I was ten years old I lived in Buenos Aires with my mother, my partner and my sister Bibi.

Our life had changed a lot since the separation of mine: from that moment, my sister and I had not had peace, not even one of our rooms: we were sleeping in the living room.

One day I was on the sofa bed when I heard adults arguing in their room. At one point my mother complained loudly. I opened the door and saw Omar, his partner, trying to strangle her with the telephone cord.

One of my great uncle who discovered one night that his wife, fed up of being beaten, tried to escape on horseback with her small children. Then he put a gun to her temple and ordered her to leave and never come back. My aunt, now older, still remembers that moment: she never saw her mother again. Today I find it difficult to imagine where a woman could escape in the middle of the Normally disputes began with looks, phrases thrown here and immensity of the Argentine plains there, to degenerate into furious and I wonder if life in those parts is fights. In the end, he hit her and still that way. she ran to the corridor of the Statistics tell us that last year in apartment, she started crying on Argentina 286 women and girls the stairs or sitting on the floor. were killed by gender violence.

One day he pushed her against One murder every thirty hours. a glass door. She cut her arm: a However, this reality does not lot of blood came out. More than belong only to Argentina, but it is a making me suffer, everything worldwide phenomenon. In Italy, scared me, paralyzed me, I did where I came to live in the not know what to do. eighties, women certainly have "I also remember my mother with more rights, the result of their struggles and the years of a knife in her hand, defeated, feminism. However, even here, a with a lost look sitting on the woman is murdered every three floor, now that these images days by someone who belongs to come back to my mind I would like to caress her, dry her tears, her present or her past. It has nothing to do with age, economic as I would with any woman in situation, school level, whether her condition. Then I was a frightened girl and I could only sit from the north or the south of the next to her.My mother cried and world: in all parts of the world said to leave, that my father had women are not killed by strangers, but by people with whom they been a mistake.My sister and I have shared a project of life. They were looking to be their solidarity, but we also knew that, are terrifying figures: they tell us beyond that moment, the 'couple' about a sick society that produces men incapable of confronting would return to 'normality'. women without the use of physical I knew that my mother would force. have ignored it, that the neighbors in the tragic moments Domestic violence often seemingly caused by a little, the tensions had helped us and that they were worried about us. From ten explode even if you try heroically to sixteen years old (when I left to keep them under control. These are situations that I know well and home to marry) I experienced this tragedy that consumed me that I reproduce in my works.

Everyday objects - scissors, implacably. knives, knives, pots - can become Only many years later I material evidence in a few managed to perceive my mother minutes. The transparent knives as a victim. In my opinion, as a that float above us are an almost child, you personified the invisible threat, like candy-pink executioner, I thought it was his hand grenades that describe the fault if we were in that violent house as a battlefield. situation. With the ingenuity of Art can hardly change society, but my ten years, I thought that if I did not react, Omar would have it can help transform the observer's gaze and shake avoided hitting her. I thought I was provoking him, because he confidence, revealing the negative did not shut up. And I hated her mechanisms of what we call 'normal'. for that.

Often it happened, while I and Bibi played or did our homework, that we heard them fight, in a crescendo that never predicted anything good.

My mother came from a family

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VIARCA in Melilla.

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The three historic stained glass windows that decorate and allow natural light to pass through the Assembly Palace live, for a few days, their second youth.

The merit is held by the master glassmaker Alberto Cascón, a Malaga with more than three decades of experience, who has submitted these windows of almost a century of history to an important restoration to repair the damages they had suffered in the earthquake of January 25, 2016 After crossing the Mediterranean to spend three months in the workshop, the windows are already back to fill with beauty the entrance to the consistorial building.

"I have only put in value what you already had," says Cascón humble in statements to MELILLA TODAY, shortly after completing the commission of the Autonomous City.

However, he admits that the stained-glass windows of the Assembly Palace have given him a lot of work in recent weeks due to the great deterioration they had before, even from the earthquake.

So much so that the windows suffered a serious risk of detachment.

Most likely, the master glazier points out, is that if they had not been restored soon, one day they would have dawned on the ground.

Hence the urgency to act as soon as possible, since the metal structure that holds the glass was completely broken.

In spite of everything, "it has arrived on time" and the window, in addition to being saved, has also come to life thanks to an intense museum restoration in which Alberto Cascón has applied a technique invented by him to give it greater protection and resistance.

A technique endorsed by the CSIC As explained, this system, endorsed by the CSIC, is based on giving the window an isothermal glazing protection, which allows to protect it from the outside with a laminated safety glass that serves as a shield against moisture, saltpeter, changes in temperature and pressure and wind.

In addition, it also holds the different parts of the window

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through a series of points, giving it a greater capacity to absorb ground movements or other impacts, among other incidents.

The final result is that the stained glass windows are now "almost protected in an urn".

In addition to this important step forward, the master Cascón, Viarca company, has also repaired the various damages that have accumulated the melillense stained glass over time and even previous repairs, such as the one made two decades ago to change the shields for the Historical Memory, which was marked by "certain gaps" in the work carried out.

The result of the intense restoration that has taken place now is in sight of all in the hall of the Palace of the Assembly, where the three historic stained glass windows of the middle of the last century shine.

Three jewels of the prestigious Maumejean House that, near a century old, live a second youth in Melilla.

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Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018.

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Toyama City is proud to announce the Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018, a triennial international open-submission glass art exhibition. It is aimed at attracting the latest creations of contemporary glass art from all over the world and assessing their artistry.

Glass Art and the Toyama Glass Exhibition 2018 will Glass Studio. demonstrate compelling ideas and unique material In the final phase of the City’s long-time effort, the handlings.

Toyama Glass Art Museum, designed by world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma, was built in downtown Toyama City.

As a new symbol of the City, this museum is making great Toyama City has held the contributions to Contemporary Glass contemporary glass art Triennial, with promotion through its submissions limited to many exhibitions and within Japan, four times events. between 2002 and 2011.

Within the field of Now expanding the contemporary glass art, a submission to both new movement, which national and international viewed glass as a artists, the Toyama material with unique International Glass expressive potential, Exhibition 2018 will be began in the Czech in the held at the Toyama Glass 1950s and in the United Art Museum, which States in the 1960s. opened in 2015.

While this movement has Toyama City has been matured over half a working on the “Glass Art century, the expressive City, Toyama” project for potential of glass over 30 years. This has continues to be unlimited included the and endures today. establishment of the Works selected for the Toyama City Institute of Toyama International

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They will provide powerful and creative inspirations to young artists, and will showcase the continual advancement of contemporary glass art.

We hope this exhibition will provide an opportunity for contemporary glass art to further flourish all over the world, and will offer a new forum for the breadth of creative expression within the medium of glass in the 21st century.

Online entry applications submitted through the website must be received by midnight on March 20, 2018 (Japan time).

Entry applications sent by mail must arrive not later than March 20, 2018.

As the deadline approaches, it may become difficult to access our website due to increased applicant traffic.

We appreciate your early entry.

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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXXVI).

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Eduardo Alonso Cereza

This technique should have been put into use shortly after the invention of blown glass and was probably already used frequently in the second third of the first century AD. C. It was used mainly commercially to manufacture in series bottles of square, hexagonal or polygonal shape; also bowls and containers of all kinds with special decorations such as glasses with representations of human heads or with decorations of bulbs, grapes, or ribs for example.

To achieve an object by means of this technique, the mass of glass was introduced into the mold which could also be one piece in the simplest or several objects when the object was more complex.

Normally the molds used to be double or bivalve, one for the front face of the container and one for the

back face.

Likewise, they had a filling hole at the top, which also served to finish the piece with the formation of the mouths or necks of the container, modeling them in the air.

used to make the rest of the bottle, such as the neck and the mouth of the bottle.

If the bottles or stamped containers had some special decoration on the base or seals bearing the initials of the manufacturer or merchant of the product, this was also Once the dough was introduced into the mold until achieved through the use of a second mold, usually in it was completely filled, it marble, terracotta or took on the shape of the dough and with the piece of calcareous, with the cited raised motifs, which were then dough that protruded added to the base of the first through the filling hole, we mold. proceeded, as we have The blowing technique allows already said and with the help of special tools, such as to lower prices. punches, tweezers and Strabo tells us about the scissors, to make the neck cheapness of glass in Rome. and the mouths of the This is not just luxury; its use containers. is introduced in all social In some pieces, such as classes and containers and some square bottles, a containers are made in large single square mold could be numbers. used that gave this shape to Traditional techniques were the tank of the bottle up to also continued, although the the shoulder thereof. sand core disappeared.

Subsequently, through the upper and open part of the mold, the free blow was

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• Veteco 2018. commercial platforms in the sector.

companies in the industry of the window, facade and sun protection.

Promoted by Asefave, the contest Ifema announces the 16th edition of incorporates a new sector, Veteco the International Window, Facade Glass, which seeks to respond to and Solar Protection Exhibition, the specific needs of the glass Veteco 2018, from November 13 to industry.

16, for which the participation period The incorporation of this sector, has already been opened. together with that of Veteco Solar, As reported by Ifema in a statement, which was added to the successful it is expected a business first call of 2016, is positioned as participation of more than 400 one of the largest European Open the participation period for Veteco 2018.

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In addition, Veteco is celebrated along with the rest of specialized salons, under the umbrella of ePower & Building, where the "most innovative solutions" are offered for the entire life cycle of the building, from the conception of the project and design, execution of work, maintenance and habitability, and renovation and constructive rehabilitation.

With a call that has as its motto 'Transforming the way we build a Green World'.

The ePower & Building trade fairs will gather more than 1,600 exhibiting companies and 80,000 professional participants from 100 countries, becoming one of the "most complete" international platforms for the building sector throughout its life cycle.

You can apply at www.veteco.ifema.es until April 20.

Culture 2018.

Sorolla and fashion

that aims to show the Last February we visited relationships between Sorolla's painting and the Sorolla Museum to see the Sorolla exhibition fashion from the years 1890 to 1920, a moment and fashion. of extreme elegance and The Sorolla Museum and sophistication in clothing. the Thyssen Museum The exhibition brings host the Sorolla together paintings from exhibition and fashion

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museums and private collections together with an outstanding collection of period dresses and accessories, with valuable pieces also lent by important institutions and private collections and many of them unpublished.

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that proceeded to the inventory of all its parts for cataloging and subsequent musealization project," according to Castejón.

Popular councilor, Carolina Palazón, has said that "we are pleased that Castejón fulfills the mandate of the Plenary and helps the Association of Glaziers to maintain The Museum of Glass of the City Council, as the Museum of Glass, a Santa Lucia will benefit requested by the motion that our group from the approval by the Association to prevent its presented in October City of Cartagena, the closure, will assume the 2017 and that has taken updating of the maintenance costs of the longer three months to agreement of transfer of museum, as well as complete it "and regretted the facilities to the those derived from the that" the Government of association of artisan supplies of water, light Lopez and Castejón glassmakers. and propane gas. allowed put between the The mayor of Cartagena, "This municipal support is ropes the existence of the Museum and have not Ana Belén Castejón, has added to the recently moved file until this group informed the new terms of realized by the reported the situation". the agreement by which Department of Tourism •

Food Awards of Spain. industry.

It stands out for its high dedication to R + D + i both in its raw materials and in its manufacturing processes.

In terms of process innovation, they incorporate the fractionated distillation column with reflux built entirely in glass.

It is to point out its significant range of products and presentations.

DISTILLERY SIDERIT S.L., Arce (Cantabria) Cantabrian company dedicated to the artisanal elaboration of spirits

It is also worth mentioning of high quality has received an his access to different international markets in his honorable mention to the entrepreneurial initiative, in the barely four years of life. modality of alimentary

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The glass in Museums: Imagine.

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The thriving glass art scene in Florida (USA) adds another member to its ranks when the Imagine Museum officially opens in the center of St. Petersburg.

Dedicated to the Studio Glass movement, the museum is a creation of benefactor Trish Duggan. The art collector had been interested in opening a museum for some time, but it was not until he took glass foundry lessons from Clearwater artist Marlene Rose that he decided what the museum should contain.

Rose introduced him to Corey Hampson, president and owner of the Detroit Habatat gallery, the oldest and largest gallery in the United States dedicated to glass art.

Hampson selected the Imagine Museum collection, which is an exhaustive survey of the history of Studio Glass.

And that's what sets it apart from other glass collections in the area.

"What is unique about this museum is that it's only from the 1960s until now, and it's just the American movement," said Jane Buckman, the museum's deputy director. "It's fun to have a little focus because we have to dig into something truly American."

Studio Glass is a fairly recent movement in the field of glass art.

It was started in the early 1960s by Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino, who took the ceramic as an example and made an oven to act individually. They wanted the ability to create glass in a personal study, rather than in large factories, as was the norm. The pieces of both artists are on display, appropriately placed in the first of several galleries.

The museum guides through the history of the movement in America, showing the developments.

The collection includes works of the genre superstars. There are early pieces, surprisingly made by Dale Chihuly, the work of William Morris that seems to have been unearthed from an archaeological dig, and the Toots Zynsky threads cups.

There are examples of blown glass, molten glass and torch, exceptional examples of the latter being the chair and Brent Kee Young sphere encapsulated in a square.

Duggan called the local glass artists to help with the museum. St Petersburg artist Chuck Boux explored the location at 1901 Central Ave., which had previously been a bank, a nightclub and, most recently, the Imagine Charter School.

The name got stuck, and the building was painted with

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Duggan's favorite color, a bright blue sky. The three-story building measures 35,000 square feet, with the museum's exhibition on the first floor.

The artist Sam Brewster recorded an elaborate scene in a set of windows and doors of the museum that includes images of marine life, as well as a meeting of two hands, clearly a nod to The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. Both artists have pieces in the collection and Boux also has items for sale in the gift shop.

In the future, the museum will exhibit international glass, because it would be shortsighted not to include these influences in the genre. There are also plans for a manufacturer's space to hold workshops, but instead of a hot shop where glass blowing occurs, participants will use 3D printers to create molds to melt glass.

The museum is committed to the exhibition of emerging artists and that the bay area is a place where the movement can continue to thrive.

"We really want this to be the coast of glass," Buckman said.

"We have the Duncan McClellan gallery, the Chihuly Collection, the new glass pavilion at the Ringling Museum, and now the Imagine Museum, and what really supports it are glass collectors."

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Recycling. Book on recycling.

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Seven out of ten glass containers are recycled in Spain, where it exceeds by 10 points the European objectives for this matter that has gone from waste to raw material in just two decades and whose history, with images from the EFE photo library, is collected in "20 years recycling glass".

Edited by Ecovidrio, the entity responsible for the recycling of glass containers in Spain reviews how the management of this resource has changed since the first glass container was placed in the Madrid neighborhood of Moratalaz in February 1982.

Twenty years later more than 150,000 containers are distributed throughout the territory, achieving the complicity of citizens and making glass recycling a successful model.

7 out of 10 glass containers are recycled So much so that, "after twenty years, seven out of

every 10 containers are recycled and the recycling rate is currently 72%", a figure that exceeds the EU's requirements.

The book also has a selection of historical photographs from the Graphic Archive of Agencia EFE that accompany a text that has made memory of some of the milestones achieved by this Integrated Waste Management System during these twenty years.

So among the photographs you can see Professor Tierno Galván, the "old professor", depositing glass in an igloo being mayor of Madrid, anonymous citizens taking their bottles to these containers, waste separation plants or garbage trucks of the years of the transition.

This commitment to the circular economy has resulted in each Spanish recycling in 2017 16.9 kilograms of glass containers, which means an average of 64

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containers per inhabitant, according to Ecovidrio the tome.

The primatologist Jane Goodall, the designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and the chef Ángel León The Minister of Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has signed one of the chapters of the book in which she recognizes the effort of the entity to make environmental protection "an ally of socioeconomic growth".

The primatologist and prize Prince of Asturias, Jane Goodall, the designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and the chef Ángel León sign some of the chapters in which they tell their experience with recycling and the circular economy.

In the epilogue of the book, the director general of the entity, José Manuel NúñezLagos, has been "proud to celebrate the consolidation of the habit of recycling glass containers in our society", because "recycle today is build tomorrow" , he assured.

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• Our activities.

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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 2018.

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Tiffany technique without having any prior knowledge; You will enjoy a good day with friends and family and you will be surprised with a live demonstration of Murano glass with a torch.

The activity includes: all the necessary material to carry out the practice, a brief visit to the glass museum and an exhibition and explanation of hot glass handling.

This unique experience will accompany you with a breakfast of Malaga artisan products.

In this month of March we will visit the Malaga workshop of Viarca to see the Nazarene Glass Workshop, an artisan experience in which each one will be able to make their own

Nazarene in glass to decorate their house with the colors of their brotherhood or that they like the most.

All this thanks to the oldest glass workshop in Málaga, VIARCA, in which its priority is to value quality.

The participants will start in the

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The looks of these three artists, never before confronted, coincide in the same demand of what the work of art should be.

Far beyond the mutual admiration and sincere affection that united them throughout their lives, the deep aesthetic community that exists between them is the guiding thread of the exhibition.

DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI. A FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ARTISTS Exhibition in Madrid.

Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Room From 01/02/2018 to 06/05/2018 This March we will visit the

The exhibition, with about 240 works, has the generous support of numerous private collections and international institutions, including the Fondation Giacometti, Paris; Musées d'Orsay and de l'Orangerie, Paris; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Pierre and Tana MAPFRE Recoletos Matisse Foundation, New Foundation hall in Madrid, York; Hirshhorn Museum where they present an and Sculpture Garden, exhibition that explores the Washington D.C .; Musée friendship of three great Picasso, Antibes; Musée artists of the 20th century: National Picasso, Paris; André Derain (1880-1954), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (1908- 2001) and Ville de Paris; Tate, London; Fondation Alberto Giacometti (1901Beyeler, Basel or 1966).

Kunsthaus, Zurich.

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Four inventions with glass.

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Glass is one of the most used building elements, thanks to its versatility allows the ecological architecture can use it directly or recycling it.

We present some inventions of this material: An almost unbreakable glass Japanese researchers created an almost unbreakable material, a very resistant glass. They are waiting to market the technique in the near future. Doing so will mean a durability of the glass never seen. That is to say, it would become an even greener option.

It would also expand its applications, since placing that glass would be synonymous with building a wall. More so, in fact, because its resistance would surpass that of a conventional wall. In addition, it would have many other uses, and in principle they see future as a hardener of windshield glass.

Or, for example, the screens of mobile devices such as digital tablets or smartphones. Beyond the world of electronics, if costs become cheaper, they can have a great future as construction material.

The substance that achieves the miracle is alumina, an aluminum oxide, mixed with silicon dioxide.

His great achievement has been to make it come true, after countless failed attempts. For these researchers from the University of Tokyo there were no problems of adhesions to the walls of the containers when synthesizing the chemical components in the air.

Improve the performance of solar panels

which would increase its efficiency up to 3 percent.

Improving the performance of solar cells is one of the great challenges that science does not abandon. Although this time everything came by chance, a team of American scientists has created a new type of glass that could have a thousand and one uses, including improving the efficiency of solar panels.

Against heat and radiation

They started doing optical experiments with glass steam and they managed to create this revolutionary glass. It was formed after superimposing several thin layers of vapor of organic molecules.

With the result of a promising material that could improve the performance of electronic devices, LED light emitting diodes and the aforementioned solar cells.

Another invention has been the result of the joint work of the company Tecnalia and the University of Cantabria in the Sunglass project, where they have developed a new glass designed to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic systems.

Its thickness is due to the strategic placement in its interior of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) block radiation and solar heat without losing luminosity.

By intercalating these compounds (the butyral sheets wrap a film) it is possible to filter part of the infrared without preventing the transmission of light.

Its application in facades that are completely glass can mean a saving in very important air conditioning, as interesting economically as environmentally friendly. It is obvious, on the other hand, that in cold places its application would not be convenient.

Recycled glass tiles Recycled glass is a material increasingly used in construction.

In general, it is used after repeated recycling for other uses that require a raw material in better condition.

When it is considered not suitable for another type of reuse, the glass admits a very interesting processing to manufacture tiles or another type of coating.

Its objective is to promote renewable energy in the construction sector. Its goal is to exceed 15 percent of the current average performance of current Of course, the glass should be of local origin to be considered truly panels. eco-friendly.

Its implementation in the glass The company Dexterra has that covers the solar panels would achieve a greater capacity developed this procedure with the use of a patented cement binder, to absorb high frequency radiation. In this way, it would be subjecting the result to a final issued at more effective ranges, polish that gives it its characteristic brightness.

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Other trends. Like bees.

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Despite the low temperatures, the almond tree that grows next to the main door of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona is already in bloom, announcing, although it may not seem so due to the intense cold of recent days, that spring is getting closer .

The pink flowers of this tree will be one of the first targets of the more than 15,000 bees of Arbúcies that have moved to the roof of the white building built by Josep Lluís Sert.

world of the bee from the first moment, after an amazing change of scale, turning the visitor by art of art into simple and hardworking bees surrounded by succulent and fragrant flowers.

Jerónimo Hagerman achieves this with mutualist relations, huge transparent spheres hanging from the ceiling inside which he has placed flowers orchid and mimosa- that will be changed every week.

The spheres, open at the They will be there - these or bottom, allow the head to enter others, because worker bees live and be flooded with odorous only an average of 45 days - until stimuli like those that the bee May 20, while the Beehave must have in full pollination to exhibition is open, a pun on the obtain the precious nectar and English terms bee (bee) and pollen. behave (behavior) invites to Eyes as hives understand these restless and We feel like bees and we want to sensitive insects (making the know what our new species is visitor feel a bit like them) and raise awareness about their role like. in the balance of the We are helped by the aesthetics environment and in our lives. enlarged photographs of Anna Marie Maes in which are shown The exhibition, curated by anatomical details of these Martina Millà, responsible for Programming and Projects of the machines to create honey.

Foundation (after two years of Among the most surprising, that work), gathers, in about twenty the reticular structure of their installations, the interest of eyes is hexagonal, like the hives contemporary art for bees and they create in a frantic way. honey.

From there, it goes inside a hive, Overcoming the rejection in an interactive installation of generated by the fear of the pain the Goig studio, in which the of the bite, these animals activity and intensity of the bees represent like no other the (electronic) depends on the metaphor of sociability and number of visitors that pass in organized and group work. front of the piece.

They also suffer from the threat And what do bees do inside the of climate change and predatory hive ?: work, work and work species such as the giant Asian tirelessly. As in the two huge hornet. drawings of the German Philip Wiegard made (with cornstarch As an immersive show that is, and honey) in a workshop in the visit allows us to enter the which a dozen people

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participated who dialogue with the small bronze Nena amb rusc per barret created by Joan Miró in 1966, in which the small is crowned by a metallic honeycomb.

But nothing better than seeing the protagonists of this exhibition in their midst.

Emjambres is an installation by the artist Xavi Manzanares and the beekeeper Àlex Muñoz in which it is possible to snoop and enter, in real time, in the hive installed on the terrace.

It is achieved lying on a multisensory plate that vibrates with the humming of the bees that do not stop passing in front of the camera.

The room is completed with two more projections by Marine Hugonnier and Toni Serra, one carried out in Austria and another one in Morocco that demonstrate that the beekeeping practice is universal.

Along the way, Luis Fernando Ramírez sectioned column created with a hexagonal structure filled with honey and sealed with wax that speaks of the delicate balance of the environment and the role of bees in the stability of the ecosystem.

The visit to the exhibition (which has had the collaboration of the Sabadell Foundation and which can be seen from September at Basel's Kunsthaus Baselland) is the first presented by Marko Daniel, as director of the foundation, does not guarantee to overcome the atavistic fear of the bee sting, but surely the vision we have of this small, but important being of nature, will be another.

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The Training Center of Talavera.

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The Councilor for the Promotion of the Community of Castilla-La Mancha, Agustina García Élez, announced that the next Council of Government will approve the tender for the Training Center for Crafts and Glass in Talavera de la Reina, which it will be located in the old facilities of the 'Padre Juan de Mariana' Institute, and where the Employment Office will also be located.

García Élez, who has visited the craft workshop 'Alberto Acosta Ceramista', in Velada (Toledo), recalled that this was "a commitment" of the regional government, detailing that the adequacy work will be bid with an amount of 1.6 million euros, as reported by the Board in a press release.

The counselor said that this craft center "is going to be a regional and national reference in ceramics, glass and other handicrafts", in the same way that will be addressed "with the perspective of working and putting together the offer and the demand and provide a means for professionals who are in the sector and those who want to enter do so through certificates and professional courses, without forgetting the line of research and development of current and new materials. "

Agustina García Élez has stated that this center "could not be anywhere else than here, in Talavera de la Reina".

Predictably, the work will last for nine months, so the work could be completed by the last month of this 2018, in the absence of providing these new spaces for the sale and exhibition of this raw material that "is going to help many craftsmen from the Talavera region, the province and all of Castilla-La Mancha.

In the same way, the counselor said that "they will always find the regional government to be able to carry out their work and do it jointly, as well as for the defense of a product, a tradition and as an expectation of the future to continue betting on new ways and in the adaptation of the subject ".

The owner of Development also recalled the support of the regional government in the use of ceramic material.

Thus, he said that in the announcement of the awards Urban Integral Regeneration Areas (ARUI) were awarded some awards made in ceramics, as well as advanced that in the act of World Water Day, which is celebrated on March 22 and which Organized by the Government through the Ministry of Development, ceramic will also

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be valued as material of the prizes to be delivered.

DEGREE OF COMPUTING Regarding the strategic map of degrees from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), the counselor has responded to the media that "what the university and the rector should do is sit down with the government, because it is the one who has to authorize and who finances a large part of the projects ".

"We have been very clear and we have not moved or we are going to move from our position and we are going to defend the Degree in Information Technology for Talavera, but with no other name or any other variant that we want to place," he continued.

The Minister of Development has stated that "Computer Engineering is not the same as a degree or Master of Information Technology for Well -being".

"Computing is Computing and so it was contemplated in the 2010 program and the only thing we are doing is asking the UCLM and other political leaders to row at the same address.

In Talavera there is a cry that the Degree in Information Technology is a reality, "he concluded.

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In love with Gordiola glass.

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Gordiola is one of the best-known emblematic establishments in Palma and its brand is synonymous with prestige and distinction.

who is said to have "stolen the secrets of Venetian glassmaking."

«We have adapted to market demand».

In this order of things, he In this sense, he points explains that «we had out that nowadays the always followed a remaining glassmakers traditional design», but Daniel Aldeguer, one of keep with zeal the now they also make other the co-owners of formulas to get the colors more innovative products Gordiola, remembers that of the glass. such as lamps for hotels its origins go back to and restaurants.

Daniel and his four 1719, when the Catalan sisters belong to the They are also selling a lot glass dealer, Mestre eighth generation that to the palaces that are Gordiola, proposed to the runs the business, which being rehabilitated in Aragonese Blas Rigal, to has always belonged to Palma and the estates in install an oven in Palma, the same family, although the Part Forana. in the Temple. his father lost the Among its clients are very His son Bernat Gordiola Gordiola name because it distinguished people, Cànaves continued with came from his mother. such as Queen Sofia. the business and The co-owner of Gordiola «Doña Sofía visits us introduced the novelty of explains that they have every year and also goes the Venetian lamp. been able to survive for to the factory; she is Aldeguer tells as an centuries "with a lot of always in love with anecdote that one of the imagination", even Gordiola glass, she takes Gordiola had an affair though they have had it to give and for her, "she with the daughter of a very hard times. explains.

Venetian glassmaker,

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GPD Estambul 2018.

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The fourth edition of the GPD Istanbul presents the latest advances in the glass industry, as well as the most interesting developments of the future.

GPD Istanbul 2018 will be held from 7 to 9 this March, in collaboration with Eurasia Window, Glass and Door Exhibition.

The space reserved for GPD Istanbul is located in Hall 11 of the Istanbul Exhibition Center.

A new initiative of GPD is the 'Step Change Innovation Corner', which provides the 'start-ups', universities, research institutes and established companies the opportunity to give small presentations and show their latest innovations.

Here, numerous exhibitions and conferences will be offered so that all interested parties can see and learn about the latest

innovations, technologies glass architecture will be and applications in the explored by speakers glass industry. from Glaston, Sisecam, Dow Corning, Kuraray The innovation area is and other companies. . open to all GPD and Eurasia Exhibition The day of March 9 will visitors. For now, fifteen focus on the processing start-ups and of glass, with the consolidated companies intervention of several have confirmed that they speakers who will aim to will present their promote better innovations in this space. cooperation, quality and efficiency in the supply On Thursday, March 8 chain of glass processing. will be dedicated to the Gennady Vasilchenkoarchitecture of glass. One Malishev will give a of the most awarded lecture on 'Zero tolerance architects in this field, - practical cases and Professor Ian Ritchie, will requirements of give the lecture 'The designers'. It will deal with history of invention with the different needs and glass - future trends in requirements of glass and glass: society / how to solve them in philosophy and design cooperation with glass direction'. Several details processors. of the construction of the new Istanbul airport will The Istanbul GPD is also be analyzed in an organized by Glass exhaustive monographic Perfomance Days and study. It is the largest Glass Innovation Institute, airport in Europe and it is and sponsored by planned to complete its Glaston, Sisecam Flat production in 2018.

Glass, Dow Corning, During that day, the latest Kurakay and Reed TĂźyap trends and solutions in Fuarcilik.

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From La Mola to New York.

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For years, Gennaro Pepe has had a modest position in the market of La Mola, on the Balearic island of Formentera.

his other residence in the province of Malaga.

Recently he has been surprised by the interest of one of the most powerful A little over a year ago a American designers of the woman became interested in moment, Maryam Nassir her work: it was Maryam Zadeh, who noticed his work Nassir Zadeh, one of the two years ago, when he was most powerful designers on visiting Formentera. the international fashion Thus, Gennaro Pepe's glass scene. accessories, bracelets, rings, Suddenly, this master earrings and details on glassblower saw how their shoes and buttons have crafts became one of the become the latest fashion best accessories of the trend in the United States. famous designer.

So much so that the actress Gennaro Pepe is one of Dakota Johnson ('Fifty those craftsmen who prefer Shades of Gray') wears her to go unnoticed and who sell glass necklaces as if it were their pieces every summer in a talisman.

Formentera, either at the flea But Gennaro Pepe is market of La Mola or at surprised how, overnight, home. without a word, his pieces, Born in Naples, he is the only which he continues to sell in artisan of the Balearic La Mola, have become the Islands, resident in object of the desire of many Formentera, who has the title women. of master glassblower.

This master craftsman That is to say, that their learned about the technique and production are manipulation of glass, adjusted to the parameters of starting with the 'candle'. those that do not produce Thanks to the combination of chain parts. different techniques, he He himself tells that, after a found his personal style, long trip by sea and land, he clearly influenced by the arrived in Formentera, where Mediterranean and the he spends long seasons that waters of Formentera. he combines in winter with One of the other properties

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of his work is the use of recycled glass, which reinforces the authenticity of his pieces.

Even some of them have been created in the laboratory, joined by natural elements such as corals, shells, stones and algae.

In addition to jewelry, Gennaro also creates sculptures, walls and decoration.

In 1999 he obtained the title of master of glass, in 2003 he won the first prize for quality and design at Baleart, in Mallorca. And in 2008 he collaborated with the Zaragoza Expo to make gifts to the guests.

Now Gennaro Pepe has incorporated his work, in the spring-summer 2018 collection of Maryam Nassir Zadeh, in the fashion show in New York of September of last year and last February 14 he prepared the jewelry for the Autumn / Winter 2018 collection of the same designer This defines Gennaro's work as "a curious material, with the chaotic molecular structure, closer to liquids than to solids. It is a cooled liquid, therefore it is a solid liquid, "he says.

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Vanceva World of Color Awards.

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Eastman, manufacturer of the Vanceva color system for laminated glass, has invited architects, interior designers, glass manufacturers, engineers and other interested industry professionals to register and submit their works to participate in the Vanceva World of Color Awards. 2018 It is an international recognition program, held every two years by the brand, where any professional involved in the field of architecture and design can participate.

disciplines from around the world and raise awareness about the practices and principles of glass design.

It should be noted that the Vanceva color system offers architects and designers unparalleled creative freedom to incorporate color in glass and glazing systems, using stained intermediate layers, which are laminated between two pieces of glass.

A palette of 16 colors can be combined in up to four layers to produce more than 17,000 transparent, translucent and This event seeks to honor solid glass colors, giving architects, interior designers, glassmakers, furniture designers, designers unparalleled flexibility to create personalized colors glazing contractors, engineers and artists, for its innovative use and unique aesthetics. of colored laminated safety glass Vanceva's intermediate color in the design of buildings and coats also offer all the benefits of interiors around the world. intermediate layers of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) for laminated The deadline to send basic safety glass, including safety, project information is Sunday, April 15. There is no registration solar control, sound insulation and UV protection. fee and all projects can be uploaded to www.vanceva.com/ Key elements for the woca/submit-a-project. presentation of projects: After the reception of projects, a • Project presentations can be pre-selection process will be carried out and qualified projects made electronically at will be announced on Monday, www.vanceva.com/woca.

April 23.

• All projects must include the The final projects will be received use of Vanceva laminated on Thursday, May 31 and the glass products. winners, which will be announced on July 16, will be • When entering a nomination, formally recognized at the step 1 includes the basic Glasstec Fair in Düsseldorf, details of the project (name of Germany, from October 23 to 26. the project, location, architect and glass laminator). If preDoug Marren, Global Marcom selected, you will be asked to Manager Advanced Interlayers complete a questionnaire in for the Vanceva color system, depth to provide a description said the goal of this award is to of the project, explain your recognize the best of creative

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inspiration and vision, and provide more details.

• Registration fees are not required.

• There is no limitation on the date of completion of the project.

• Projects submitted in previous Eastman competitions are not eligible for consideration.

• Any individual or group of

people who contribute to the design of a project can submit a nomination. Multiple entries of the same individual or group are accepted.

• Projects must be submitted in English (since the jury is international).

• Include detailed photographs of the glazing used in the project, as well as several additional photos that represent the general scope of the project.

Interior and exterior views are preferred, if possible.

• The sketches, drawings and

representations of the design studio that help to communicate the location, shape and function of the glazing in the general design, are also recommended.

• The winners will be determined by a jury composed of leaders of the international architecture and design industry.

• The winners will receive a

glass award and recognition, which will be published in various media.

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How does it.

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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Clifford Rainey.

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The technology of glass.

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The MVRDV architecture studio presents an iconic store that stands out and differs from the rest: Crystal Houses.

Crystal Houses breaks with the growing globalization of the retail trade that has led to the homogenization of the commercial streets offering a showcase surface that is necessary in the current stores while maintaining its architectural character and its individuality.

The result is an iconic store that stands out and differs from the rest.

The MVRDV Crystal Houses saw the light thanks to Warenar; a limited company focused on investment of luxury goods in Amsterdam.

Warenar invested in properties located on PC Hooftstraat street and has tenants such as Chanel, Hermès and Ermenegildo Zegna among others.

The assignment was to design a flagship store that combined both the Dutch heritage and the international architecture of the street; the first and only commercial street of luxury brands in Amsterdam, which was once a residential area.

The MVRDV project makes a reinterpretation of the original buildings through glass.

The main facade, almost entirely made of glass, emulates the original design of the building, from the brick moldings to the details of the windows.

The glass dissolves with the height to become a traditional terracotta façade and thus comply with the city's habitability regulations.

ways stronger than concrete: it supports up to 42,000 Newtons.

Also participating were the engineering company ABT and the contractor Wessels Zeist, In this way, the apartments seem responsible for developing a high to float on the floor of the store strength transparent adhesive to currently occupied by Chanel. join the bricks without the need for a more traditional mortar; The "We are going to return what is material of Delo Industrial demolished, but taking it further," Adhesives, in Germany, realizes explains Winy Maas, architect its adhesion by means of UV and co-founder of MVRDV, how lamps. they communicated it to the client.

The survey, which lasted a year, was more like a laboratory than a "Crystal Houses allows the construction site since the existence of a flagship store, placement of the pieces required respecting the structure of the a high level of precision. surroundings and bringing a poetic innovation to glass The control of 10 experts construction. throughout the execution, new methods of construction, such as It allows global brands to the reduction of waste, since all combine their imperative desire the glass components are for transparency with a local completely recyclable and new configuration and with a construction tools; from high-tech modernity that respects their lasers and laboratory UV lamps, heritage. to Dutch cow's whole milk, which, thanks to its opacity, was ideal for Therefore, it can be applied in leveling the first row of bricks that our historic centers. " made the project a reality.

MVRDV counted on the As a counterpoint, to ensure collaboration of experts to safety in the building, a concrete materialize their idea. plinth lined with reflective Poesía in Resana, near Venice, materials capable of absorbing was in charge of manually and the impact of a car was executed. individually molding solid glass Regarding the section on bricks. renewable energy, the building They also had the research of was designed around a the Delft University of geothermal heat pump, with Technology whose resistance pipes that reach up to 170 meters tests showed that the deep, which provide an optimal construction glass was in many indoor temperature throughout the year.

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The telescope renews its main mirror.

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On February 13, a renovated 6-meter mirror from the Azimut Grand Telescope (BTA) was delivered to the town of Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia, and now it hopes to be placed in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS).

telescope in the world, thanks to its 6-meter main mirror.

and preparation of the surface - these works were carried out in the Optical Glass Plant Then it was surpassed by Lytkarinsky. more modern telescopes with segmented and non- Now, the mirror was segmented mirrors. finally delivered to Nizhny Arkhyz, a town 17 For example, the kilometers away from the segmented of the Gran Special Astrophysical Telescopio Canarias Observatory.

(Spain) has a diameter of 10.4 meters and Subaru This is published by the The installation work of and VLT have segmented principal investigator of the mirror in the mirrors of 8.2 meters in Moscow State University, telescope will begin next diameter.

Vitaly Goransky, on his May. Facebook account: In the 70s, two identical This was reported by the "Today, February 13 at main mirrors were head of the Scientific night in Nizhny Arkhyz, created for BTA, and Information and External the observatory was given since 1979 the Relations Department of a new mirror for the 6observations have been the Observatory, meter telescope. it's an carried out only with the Ekaterina Filippova, at N old mirror, it worked in the help of one of them. + 1.

70s, but it was polished Over time, its optical again. " BTA is the largest optical properties deteriorated telescope in Eurasia and TASS reported that the and it was decided to has been operating since placement of the mirror to replace the mirror with a 1975. the observatory would spare one. begin on February 14 at At the time of its creation, It has taken more than 10 10 a.m., Moscow time. it was the largest years in the modeling

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Offer for Vicrila.

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The insolvency administration that takes the liquidation process of Vicrila considers that the offer of Mivaricar S.L. It is the most appropriate to give continuity to the industrial activity of the Biscayan glass manufacturer.

been in a rather difficult already deposited to bankruptcy for more than a formalize the offer-, the year.

Biscayan consortium plans to open the second line of These are three partners glasses at the end of the belonging to different year, as Gestiber proposed branches of activity that before retiring in the last can be complemented well moment. in Vicrila.

In total, investments could Mivaricar's commitment is be around 15 million, with made up of entrepreneurs This has been an important novelty, such linked to the waste communicated to the as the start-up of an treatment sector, the interested parties. aluminum microfusement, maintenance of industrial using the gases from the From now on, a period of furnaces and food. production process with a five days begins to It competed with the score of workers. negotiate the detail of the Sherpa fund, and with impact in the social field An idea that draws from the Idurgo. The offer of with the representatives of experience in this field of Mivaricar, which includes the workers before the three industrialists. the subrogation of 231 transferring the proposal to workers (of a staff that Everything points to this is the Mercantile Court currently is around 275) is the last chance to keep number 1 of Bilbao, which the one with the least alive the historic glass will be in charge of making social impact, since the manufacturer of the the decision definitive and other two proposed leaving neighborhood of Lamiako decide the award. the workforce between 190 (Leioa), which in the last Mivaricar is the investment and 213 employees. year has already seen two vehicle of two Basque other attempts to refloat the In addition to an initial families that for months activity were frustrated. investment of 6 million were articulating an offer to euros -to add to the million take over Vicrila, which has

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Neon universe in Mexico.

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"I look at the sky, the light is fading" (I look at the sky, the light is fading) "It's an eclipse.

An eclipse described in neon lights that floats on a large scale over the Tamayo Museum's central courtyard of contemporary art in Mexico City.

takes up space, an amorphous space that has the dimensions of the building in its entirety," explains Juan Gaitán, director of the Museo Tamayo.

For the first time, a monographic exhibition by Cerith Wyn Evans arrives in Mexico. The Welsh artist invites a sensory and E = C = L = I = P = S = E, thus immersive journey of light and written, takes by surprise the sound with large works that visitor who will be part from stimulate bodies and that precise moment of the imagination through what is universe of light and sound of real and what is invented by Cerith Wyn Evans. our brain in each stimulus.

Everything in this conceptual At each step the sample is artist has to do with light, with transformed as one interacts perception. Even he himself with something ephemeral, gives off an own and lively delicate, complex. energy that can be absorbed while walking with his works.

"They are like drawings floating in space that do at the Artificial light canned in twisted same time have multiple neon tubes that float in the air perspectives and force you to and enter battle with the be all the time relating one daylight that sneaks through piece to another (...) among the windows of the museum. them all generates a kind of dissonant but very elegant Light that is destroyed, that concert that They give a very vanishes in the corners. And particular presence to the suddenly, more blinding light that explodes in the middle of exhibition, which fills the space not only with light but also with space, creating a universe in sound ", explains Gaitán. constant change.

The 12 pieces that can be "From the first minute you seen in the Tamayo, including enter the museum you are inside the exhibition because it neon sculptures, kinetic

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elements, sonorous pieces and Murano glass candelabras, are a reflection of the last 10 years of production of this creator that has been exhibited in the British Tate Gallery or the Venice Biennial.

The work in lights of neon gas has a relation with the history of the contemporary art as it is possible to be appreciated in the work of Nauman or Dan Flavin, mixing the technology with the ephemeral thing to obtain a very particular result.

"This relationship with the extinction of gas is important in Cerith's work," adds Juan Gaitán.

Wyn Evans launches a cognitive challenge that challenges the perception of space itself, creating a constant dialogue between science, art and philosophy.

"Here space is transformed into time," says one of the works that can be seen from the street.

The message of Evans is not caught in the walls of the Tamayo, as an echo floods other spaces and evokes the piece by Nicolas Jaar: "Space is only noise if you can see it".

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Turn a beam of light.

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Cover a star to see the planets around it, confine cells to stimulate tissue growth or manufacture drug dispensers. Nobody would say that these three actions are achieved with the same tool: circular light or optical vortex.

It is that flow that spirals in the hurricanes, leaving a central point in calm, but with beams of light in which there is a black dot in the center.

communications, trying to put more information in fiber optic threads.

"If you join several waves that rotate at different speeds (at higher braking, more speed of rotation), they do not mix; that is, the information that each of them carries is not mixed ", which multiplies the communication channels, increases the bandwidth.

Still, they are just experiments.

material on which they are applied, but sublimate it", they pass it from solid to gas, they cut it cleanly.

This is how, for example, drug dosers and membranes in nanotechnology are made.

According to Atencia, "it is a very topical technology".

By curling the loop, for its aspirations to control the light completely, the Pulsed Lasers But, in addition, as the light pushes Center of Salamanca commissioned the TOL group from Zaragoza ultraLet's see, this is not natural; these the objects, very slowly but short pulses that form a vortex, beams must be created, because steadily, if it is circular and something that was 'impossible' but light, without touching it, usually generates a loop, "with a lens can that the Atencia team has made real advances as a sphere that be directed to a point creating expands, as when we inflate a concentration effect," says Atencia. using its Knowledge in holograms.

"The shorter a pulse is, the more balloon.

So are the optical tweezers that are colors it shows and each color And how is circular light already used in some research carries a different speed." So the 'manufactured'? How to make a laboratories. "They are two brief beam of light turns badly. beam of light advance like a opposing lasers that hold and By making holograms of vortices, corkscrew? "It is manipulated with concentrate particles." If they are pieces of glass of different cells and the tweezers retain them, illuminating them with other lasers and sticking them together (that is, thickness, which are shaped like a tissue growth is assured. 'magic'), the effect of the colors and spiral wedge", explains JesĂşs The scientists, at this point, put on their speeds is corrected and, Atencia, coordinator of the TOL another challenge: "Generate indeed, very short pulses of light are group (Laser & Optical vortices with ultrashort light obtained that advance in spiral.

Technologies) of the University of pulses". Why? Well, because Zaragoza. When the light passes continuous light has some uses, as In Salamanca they have already through this material, it slows down done the tests and the 'TOL we have seen, but also short and the different thickness of the solution' works. It is basic research pulses are very useful in other parts of the piece causes that some that in the future will throw new fields such as high precision points of the beam of light are machining, when it comes to cutting applications. delayed more than others, with material into very small pieces. which the light begins to turn ". And Cryptography with photons, the on the wall we see a circle. sighting of exoplanets and The very short pulses, those that holographic television are already only last one trillionth of a second This was discovered a few years on the horizon. (femtosecond), "do not melt the ago. And it was in the field of

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Prizes for Spanish artisans.

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Prize of New Traditional Architecture, the Ministry of The winner in each discipline Development and the Ministry will receive a cash prize of € of Education, Culture and 10,000. In addition, among the Sport. four winners of each edition, the jury will select one of them, Among the projects that granting an economic support Richard H. Driehaus has created and financed in Spain Endowed with 50,000 euros, of € 10,000 for the training of these last 6 years include the these awards recognize the an apprentice for a year.

Rafael Manzano Architecture work of Spanish artisans in the The jury is made up of Prize, which recognizes the various trades of construction. representatives of the Ministry work of national and The Richard H. Driehaus of Development, the Ministry international architects Awards for Construction Arts of Education, Culture and respectful of Spanish and aim to recover and give value Sport, INTBAU (International Portuguese architectural to disciplines on the verge of Network for Traditional traditions and the Architecture extinction, a process that gets Building Architecture and Competition Driehaus, which worse every time we choose Urbanism), the Rafael seeks to recover the forgotten standard products, often as Manzano Prize, the architect heritage of Spanish towns and cheap as they are short-lived. and draftsman José María cities and the National Network Pérez González, Peridis and of Teachers of Traditional The importance of these the Marquis of Santa Cruz, Construction, an online trades lies in the fact that they Gold Medal of the Fine Arts. directory that gathers the most are the ones that have given outstanding of these rise to the heritage that we This initiative is part of the professionals. admire today. Without these celebrations of the European arts, and those that carry them Year of Cultural Heritage and In addition to organizing out, the conservation of the is funded by Richard H. seminars and international architectural tradition is Driehaus Charitable Lead workshops of architecture in condemned to oblivion.

Trust through INTBAU and has Spain. The sum of all the the collaboration of the projects of the Foundation until The awards are divided into CSCAE (Superior Council of 2017 in our country exceeds four categories: carpentry, Associations of Architects of two million euros. stonework, tilework and other Spain), the Rafael Manzano decorative finishes and Among the initiatives that the American financier and philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus carries out in Spain, is the second edition of The Prizes of the Arts of Construction.

wrought iron and glass.

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Palace of the Stock Exchange of Madrid.

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"Fog formed by tobacco smoke rising in the room, cries of hundreds of workers, cold sweat and stress", ...

This scene takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in a spacious building in the center of Madrid, where securities are exchanged in a frenetic way.

The agents of exchange and stock market have a myriad of worries in their heads, but among them is not to admire the architecture of the building in which they are.

Today, a century later, the interior of the Stock Exchange Palace has changed a lot: that stock market activity is only a distant echo in the corridors and halls of this emblematic building.

In 2018, only 70 employees of the Communication and Marketing Department of Stock Exchanges and Spanish Markets (BME), the operator of the stock

considered that he was markets and financial systems of our country, work designing the "Temple of Economics". in the Stock Exchange Palace.

"Their religious connotations are shown very clearly," says Its approximately 700 employees are located in its Nieves Mestre, architect and professor at the Polytechnic offices in Las Rozas, while University of Madrid. the original building is reserved for representative "It is covered with a window, and symbolic tasks. it is enormously ornamented inside, and has an Enrique María Repullés y Vargas was the architect of ambulatory around the main the Palacio de la Bolsa. His room that would allow the own father was an exchange proper functioning of the building. agent and stock exchange, so he knew the stock market To support the weight of the and the stress that went with glass, the architect decided it up close. to try the constructive Therefore, decided that the material that was in vogue during those years: iron. building should have large Thanks to him, he was able windows that let in natural to design the vault with glass light. The motto of his winning project was "Without that today can be enjoyed in the Palace. peace, commerce is not possible".

The decoration of the interiors was commissioned The building began to be to two artists from Madrid: built in 1878. Repullés wanted to give the building a the sculptor Francisco Molinelli and the painter Luis basilica look, with Taverner. neoclassical style, as he

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Chilean astronomical mirrors.

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Since the beginning of astronomy, telescopes have been an essential tool for observing celestial phenomena. The light that is reflected in its mirrors allows us to observe the different objects of the universe.

seeks to answer questions about how planets are formed, a subject that has implications on how we understand our place in the universe, explains Amelia Bayo, astronomer and director of the NFP.

The project will only use That is why the Millennium mirrors manufactured in the Nucleus of Planetary country. "Building the mirrors Formation (NFP) seeks to be a in Chile will also lower the cost contribution in this area of importing instruments," through the manufacture of adds Bayo. Today, most astronomical mirrors, a mirrors for telescopes are process that a group of brought from Europe and the scientists has just started in a United States. warehouse specially prepared Push to astronomy for it in the Valparaíso Scientific and Technological Claudio Lobos, specialist in Center (CCTVal), belonging to the construction and polishing the Federico Santa María of astronomical mirrors in Technical University (UTFSM). charge of the project, says that they are currently working with These mirrors will be the first a prototype of 42 centimeters to be completely built in Chile, in diameter and then going through the choice of manufacture one of a meter, glass until completing the final according to the international tests. standard measurement for The initiative would also optical tests. contribute to the international Finally, the mirrors of four project "Planet Formation meters will be built, a measure Imager" (PFI), which through used in the telescopes of the capture of optical images, international observatories.

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"We are in the first phase of polishing, where we use different porosities to achieve a surface without deformations or scratches," says Lobos.

"In addition to glass, we are also conducting tests in parallel with carbon fiber," he adds.

This material is lighter and also has a better resistance to temperature changes.

"Carbon fiber has even shown an advantage over the glassceramic mirrors that are currently used in large telescopes," he adds.

Lobos affirms that this initiative will push Chile to grow in the construction of tools and astronomical instruments, an area that is not yet fully developed in the country.

As part of the process, the group also plans to visit and stay at the international reference centers for the construction of astronomical instruments, such as the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

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The Oiasso Museum.

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The Antequera museum recently posted a fourpart photo of its collections on Twitter and tagged it with the hashtag #CuatroCaras. He invited other museums to continue with the initiative, and the proposal has become viral.

In that objective from Oiasso they are collecting all the photos in an online Flickr album that can be consulted at the following link: https:// flic.kr/s/aHskBhHD3T

France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.

The attached photo shows the pieces that the Oiasso museum is participating in: from left to right and from top to bottom, we have a To date more than 100 chandelier with museums around the representation of the god world have joined #CuatroCaras, including Helios (the Sun) found The Oiasso Roman such important names as inside the mines of Aia museum has joined an the Prado de Madrid, the Harria; then a coin of the emperor Hadrian, one of initiative that, in the case Hermitage of Saint of Irun, allows to promote Petersburg or the Louvre the four bronzes of Higuer representing the goddess the archaeological de Paris.

Minerva, and a glass with heritage of the city and To date, the participating representation of the the pieces that help to museums come from goddess Diana. understand the origins of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Irun. www.amigosmava.org

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In the cradle of glass.

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From cadenaser.com

Murano is a small island near Venice.

Nowhere else in Italy could there be a school dedicated exclusively to glass.

The Abate Zanetti School has The merchants arrived in a gondola to do business, mainly among its walls artisans with more than 25 years of with glass. experience whose objective is Gianluca Seguso is one of the to transfer to the students all most well-known families. the details and techniques that have been used for years.

The Seguso are dedicated to the glass business since the fifteenth century. His works are found in more than 75 museums throughout the world.

glass world and from time to time travels to Murano to learn and export to her country.

In the classrooms there are teenagers who develop their theoretical education in the classrooms and who over time go to the laboratories and the ovens where, with great care, learn to model with fire.

Techniques that are not written It is essential to have a anywhere and that are passed previous idea, a design that from parents to children. you can not get out of and that only by dint of failure and Not everyone can study here. failure, you get it right.

The law requires you to be Gianluca and his brothers feel registered in Italy.

The goal of this school is not to very proud of their tradition but lose the tradition, that, despite In return they organize courses they are clear that nothing is new technologies, continue to untouchable and that the past and workshops for all who are pamper the glass with the interested. has to be continuously same instruments used by their innovating. ancestors.

During my visit I met an Australian woman who, due to an 'accident', found herself in a

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Dai Lerman, modern alchemist.

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trust in me and from there I grow up.

From baseboards, basins, windows, ornaments for a staircase, tables. lamps, tulips ... I have a boom of vitrofusion tables, from one that I fixed -which was mine and had been broken. From there I did not stop making tables. Repair something, bring it back to life, it's great. Sometimes they bring me old objects to repair ... and I love that variety of aspects that make my work "

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Daiana currently works four lines of pieces for bathroom, garden, kitchen and home.

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For 8 years Dai has been developing the activities and production of his Daiana Lerman is an artist who does workshop. "And 6 years ago I can say not stop for a minute. He flits through that I live from this. I always took it as his workshop as he tells how he went a job, it's my passion, but from the into the lides to transform the glass beginning I decided to live on this. and give it other shapes and colors.

Although society sometimes imposes The purpose of his work is to generate that prejudice that an artist can not live on his art, what one loves to do, I went objects of daily use that differ from what already exists in the market for its against all that. I played for this and found it back. I also found people who original design to customize a space. got involved and supported this idea, "I studied a little bit of everything to be not only the clients, but also my able to work with glass and vitrofusion. partner. When I started with tempered glass basins, which is one of the most And I started when I left the complicated techniques, I needed a architectural career to look for what I person to help me, not only really wanted to do. I was always emotionally: technically and real I need interested in art, and in fact, I went to study art at the Mantovani School, but help, and there he was and always is, " Holds Dai. "We continue working while waiting to enter the career, I together with the bachas", she closes studied different techniques to work smiling, proud of the construction. with glass. So I went to San Carlos Centro, where I joined a workshop for The paths of glass older ladies who met for the pleasure of painting, and with that I started. I The objects manufactured by Dai are was in Buenos Aires, in Córdoba, I very varied and with a unique bought many books -imported, personality. They have their imprint, because here there was not much they transmit color, light and joy to an edited about the treatment of glass-. In environment and the pulse of the artist fact, the technique is very protective, who created them is noticeable. there are not many people who want to teach you. There is a lot of zeal to "I wanted my objects to be design and transmit them, "says Dai. elegant. That people want to have them and have them. I always worked That reluctance of the medium did not with the idea that what I do is within stun her, and it did not stop her either. reach of the other. I do not want it to He made his glass path with a lot of be an unattainable piece of art. Yes of trial, trial and error, always supported design, but that is not an impossible by his family and his partner. object to have. It is art that one can appreciate, have, intervene. The The alchemy of glass customer can come and decide in the "Since always, the alchemy of glass is production process. For example, if kept secret, nobody talks about it. And you want some striped or colored it is very difficult to find someone who plates with a texture or a design for your house, you arm yourself. It can wants to teach you. It cost me a lot. I be done on demand. Do you like studied a lot of physics, a lot of chemistry, my partner helped me a lot mandalas, or flowers, or something because we had many obstacles. One that represents you? I work on the taste of people, who can come to the can think that vitrofusión is a simple technique that just put the glass in the workshop and find a world of creation.

And that's what I love about my houseoven is already, but in reality, has workshop, "explains Daiana. many edges and issues to consider.

Only someone who works in the trade knows it, "he explains with a big smile. The technique is so wide that it allows to make multiple objects: from windows and tables to crockery or These studies gave way to a great bijou, decorative but also functional. passion, and to a profession that dominates and adores.

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The bathroom line includes bachas, guards, mosaics and soap dishes. For the garden, the proposals are: tables, nice tutors, pot holders, mobiles and drinkers for birds. The products for the kitchen are dreamed: crockery, fountains, mates, cups, bottles and stamped cups. And as for home decoration, it proposes ornamental pieces, large windows and mosaics. All production with the possibility of cocreation with the client The transformation process For transmute glass is working at very high temperatures, the ovens reach up to 800 degrees, so in summer both the family and the neighbors of Dai warmly show their appreciation.

"I buy the large glass plates and cut them in the workshop, then they are painted according to the chosen design and molded in the ovens. That's the vitrofusión: the fusion of the glass to which it is shaped in a mold ", defines Dai. "Glass is a noble material, but it has its secrets. You do not learn to manipulate like that. For it to perform its magic, it involves a lot of study, a lot of practice.

Its not that easy. At the beginning everything was breaking! ", She laughs. "And one fine day, it came out!

The bacha was not broken. I could not believe it! At the same time there are sometimes setbacks, glass can have 'marks', manufacturing defects, which when you start to treat it, manipulate it, emerge, come to light, "he continues.

"Glass has life. If the glass is corroded from before or was in the sun, or had a blow, or in the oven to make the iron there was an error, when you wait, everything comes out. If the glass is old, you realize. With glass at high temperatures, the molecules move. In the crystal, the molecules are even, in the glass they are uneven. When it's hot they start to move and look for comfort. And all that you have to keep in mind when you work with glass. " Subsequently there is a cooling process before you can open the oven to remove the pieces, which also demands experience and extreme care, as the piece can break. In winter this process is longer.

"Each order is a challenge. And for people to trust me to make their space special, their house, for me it's great.

Its beautiful. In addition, people are becoming more and more involved with design, with art, and being able to implement it in their home. Santa Fe has that move with art, "he concludes.

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One goes to the restaurant of a great chef, usually with Michelin stars behind him and maybe he wonders where that wonderful crockery has come from in which he is presented with delights.

chefs use the tasting menu consisting of dishes that can not be served in a usual dish that we have at home, it does not make sense because they would be too small or not subject all right.

So suddenly the need arises to Because more and more, food add other things, new formats of has ceased to be merely an experience of taste buds to be a food appear that need specific sensory experience, in which the designs ", explains Vega. rest of the senses intervene.

Dishes that look like smooth stones for Kabuki; crisp-looking And, have you ever wondered creations and whimsical shapes who is the creator of many of those wonderful dishes? How do for Abac; Lunar tableware with seemingly rough textures for you create those almost Quique Dacosta ... impossible dishes, capricious shapes and light weights?

Behind the dishes of Diverxo, El Celler Can Roca or pieces chosen by Paco Pérez and Quique Dacosta, to name but a few, there is a small workshop of designers from Barcelona, Luesma & Vega.

No creativity seems to be a brake on these artists at the table, although there is one that has given them more work than others: for example, Diverxo plates, which are very large and thin and that gave them, at first, technical problems with the system of molds to print the texture.

Once the design is decided, it is passed to the furnace and the process may go on wheels or it may be necessary to repeat: "I remember a piece, a kind of shell, of which we made about 12 previous tests before having the final one. Or one for Albert Adrià, for a Peruvian tapa. We made about 8 or 9. The advantage of our technique is that we use an open mold system, which allows changing the silhouette, size or even color. The changes are not something traumatic, you do not have to produce molds again, "he adds.

After the oven, the piece would go to dry, finished and would be ready to go to the restaurant. In a month, more or less, they can produce about 200 or 300 pieces.

What are the most expensive pieces you have made?

Some for Diverxo and El Celler de Can Roca: David Muñoz's canvas plate, for example, a very Seeing their designs you might think they are made of ceramics, large format, 35x45, with a very but it is glass, mostly ironed. delicate manufacturing process: "We are talking about 140-200 They work with a technique called 'thermoforming', although euros per unit", adds Ester Luesma, the other partner of the they also use other mixed workshop. techniques, just as they have pecked at other materials such Among his latest achievements, as ceramics or wood. the #OnTheMoon series by Quique Dacosta, the pieces for With them they were working, How is the creation process? exclusively, until 2010, when they Or it is based on an idea that the the restaurant Miramar, by Paco Pérez. Also, the tableware for focused on the market niche of chef has, if he has one or, if not, Michael O'Hare, in his restaurant the dishes for avant-garde he is advised and as they in the United Kingdom and some restaurants. "We make this type already have a good amount of new term canvas for Diverxo. of tableware responding to a tests in the workshop, the client need, which arises because the makes a pre-selection.

Ester Luesma and Xavier Vega are the creators of the jewels that come out of these workshops.

Before they designed other products (jewelry and corporate gifts, basically), but the business was falling year after year until someone from El Bulli came by in 2004: "They wanted a piece of glass, that's how we met," says Vega.

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