Volume II — Number 121
May 2019
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Frida Fjellman  Make an illusion a reality. For a long time I had in my mind the possibility of making the illusion of visiting the Corning Museum of Glass, in the US state of New York, a reality. Visiting the most important museum in the world dedicated to artistic glass was for me a dream that is about to be confirmed with the trip we will make at the end of this month of May. About 50,000 objects representing more than 3,500 years of history are displayed in its galleries. The articles that are exhibited range from the portrait of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh to contemporary sculpture. The most recent addition to the Museum, which opened in March 2015, is a 9,000square-meter Contemporary Design + Design Wing that includes a 2,400-square-meter gallery.
The icing that has overflowed the glass of illusion and makes it Nuestra sede: become a reality has been Castillo Grande de the opening of the S.J. de Valderas exhibition New Glass Now Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 2019 at the Corning 28925 ALCORCĂ“N. Museum. (MADRID) info@amigosmava.org
As reported on page 5 of this Bulletin, New Glass Now will present objects, installations, videos and performances made in the
M. A. Carretero.
last three years by 100 artists from 32 different nationalities and working in more than 25 countries.
and will be open until January 5, 2020.
Labino, who successfully devised a small economic furnace in which glass could be melted and worked, making it possible for artists to blow glass in independent studios for the first time without having than to use the furnaces of the big factories.
The Finger Lakes area is the largest wine producing region in New York with more than 100 wineries and vineyards.
We will visit this exhibition from May 29, since I imagine This is the last exhibition of a that we will not have enough series of three that began in with a single day to enjoy the 1959. The first two content of the exhibition, the exhibitions in the series were permanent collection of the Glass 1959 and New Glass: museum and the exhibitions A Worldwide Survey, in that take place in the 1979. museum itself. artists who temporarily reside there and From the first it can be said who demonstrate their skills that the New Glass with the realization of a piece Movement was initiated, by means of some of the being the catalyst for the different techniques used in development of study glass the handling of glass. in the United States the artist Harvey K. Littleton, a teacher We will take advantage of potter from the University of our stay in Corning to visit Wisconsin in Madison, who Lake Ontario and Niagara was inspired in the Falls from the Canadian river pioneering work in pottery of bank and take advantage of California potter Peter the Niagara Falls State Park Voulkos. and several New York State parks, such as the Allegheny Littleton, influenced by his National Forest, Watkins own experience in the Glen State Park, the Green material, began Lakes, the Finger Lakes, experimenting with hot glass Chittenango Falls or in his studio in 1958. Taughannock Falls State Park with a 65-meter-high He worked with glass research scientist Dominick waterfall.
He finally realized that his desire to develop the glass blowing under study in the United States could become a reality after encountering the small historical workshops of Italy and have limited success. New Glass Now will be inaugurated next May 12
The city of Syracuse will be another of our objectives. Of small size (about 150,000 inhabitants), it is a city on the rise, with an architectural heritage that reveals its importance in past times. There we will stop at the Erie Canal Museum, a historical museum on the Erie Canal whose building was used to weigh the boats that passed through the canal.