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Katharine Coleman Whole people. I must congratulate, and I do it with all my enthusiasm, neighbors of the Tarragona town of Vimbodí in general and its Mayor, Joan Güell, in particular for successfully hosting this year's III Festival of Glass Craftsman. On page 5 of this Bulletin a comprehensive description of the various events that have taken place during the celebration of the fair is done.
M. A. Carretero.
Igor Obeso, the Basque town of Irun and Almeria Manolo Garcia, an excellent glazier who was invited by the great Japanese artist Kenji Ito to be one of his assistants and had to return to Spain following the earthquake and tsunami It occurred in Japan in March 2011.
In addition to these Spanish glassmakers, who were conducting various demonstrations of what can be done with a blowpipe and the molten glass, also the But what is still more it local teacher Paco Ramos astonishes me this shows is sweated his stuff in the oven the interest shown by most Glass Museum to show the of the inhabitants of this public the technique of glass town so visitors can enjoy blowing air. the various activities that have developed during this But what I most want to highlight is the involvement first weekend of October. of the inhabitants of Vimbodí And how could it be in getting the festival for the otherwise, the glass has third year is a success. been the highlight of the A group of older women fair. made us delight, just start Last year invited Rafa Nuestra sede: the days of Saturday and Abdon and Xus Redondo, Castillo Grande de Sunday, with a hearty of the Valencian town of S.J. de Valderas breakfast of sausages, Avda. Los Castillos, s/n L'Ollería and this year we sardines and good local wine have invited four other 28925 ALCORCÓN. drunk from a wineskin in one Spanish heavyweights (MADRID) of the village squares. info@amigosmava.org blown glass: Diego Rodriguez, blower master This group of women also made Saturday a great meal of the Real Fábrica de at the local Civic Center Cristales de La Granja; Ferran Collado, Barcelona; kindly to which we were invited along with glassmakers who participated in the fair. The various commercial establishments in the city offer their best products to visitors in large numbers, they came from different parts of the region to enjoy the event.
Local cultural groups also showed their good work in their various specialties. In this year we could follow the development of the various acts through an effective and well designed playbill in which, besides including a map of the location, we were informed of the schedules of the various activities. It is true that the undeniable success of the Fiesta contributed an excellent time allowed stroll through the different points of the town both day and night. In my Glass Art Museum of Alcorcon visits guided I explain to the groups the differences between glass and glass, and let them put them graphically example of a block of ice, another glass and another glass. They seem made of the same material but are completely different. Thus, the ice also had its presence at the fair for its similarity to the glass. The artist Ivan Lopez made us a magnificent sculpture of this material represents a "setril" oil in Castilian, from a good solid ice. It is undeniable that the various components of the government team of the City of Vimbodí, with its Mayor, Joan Güell, head, have done a great and laborious work to make a success of the event this year and, in my opinion, I consider they have succeeded handsomely. Congratulations for that.
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An installation consisting of a tree with branches of glass bottles, is the central and symbolic piece, chosen by the Assistance Association mentally ill DOA, for the exhibition "Sinerxias", which opened in the Capela do Hospital in Cangas Morrazo, within the commemoration of World Mental Health Day.
workshops and this time chose to take pictures of his works were made and work on it. With DOA users also exposed, in support of Cangas new artists.
The exhibition which opened in the Capela do Hospital is the first of an extensive program of activities organized by DOA The exhibition displays works of from its headquarters in Vigo on collective Paniko infographics, the occasion of the commemoration of the World composed of Cangas DOA Day of the Sick Metal. users, participating in
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17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Sally Faukes.
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profile as well as having created many site specific artworks for both interior and exterior locations.
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She is currently a visiting lecturer at The Royal Danish School of Design, Bornholm, Denma rk and throughout her career has lectured on the following programs:- BA and MA Contemporary Craft at University for the Creative Arts, UK, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK and Escuela del Vidrio, Lan Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain.
The nature of visual perception is rich and ambiguous and can stimulate extraordinary sensory experiences. Fawkes’s glass sculptures express the sensations created by the interactions of the visible and invisible possibilities of place. The late Dan Klein described Fawkes work as “self-explanatory narratives full of feeling and content, communicating without any need for words, delighting the eye and setting thought processes in motion.” Fawkes began her studies in glass with a clear sense that glass was the material that would enable her ideas to be realised. She graduated with first class
She has received several awards for her work from Arts Council, England (2000, 2001 and 2003), Crafts Council, England (2000 and 2004) and the Department of Trade and Industry, UK (2005). Most recently she has won a honours in 1998 from the prize for a large scale University for the Creative collaborative work Arts and on graduating with Richard Jackson she worked for Colin Reid from The Worshipful full time for a year. Company of Glass In 2000 she established a Sellers, London (2012). studio with Richard Her work is represented in Jackson in private, corporate and Gloucestershire, UK. In public collections 2005, feeling the need to worldwide, including realise bigger works, they Mastercard USA and moved to their current London, MUDAC, location, (still in the Lausanne, Switzerland, Cotswold town of Stroud) M.A.V.A., Madrid, Spain, where they have a large, Fitzwilliam Museum, well equipped glass studio Cambridge, UK and that enables them to Victoria & Albert Museum, undertake challenging London, UK. projects of notable scale. The work is exhibited in the Since 2000 she has MAVA is entitled "Formes of worked continuously as an luminance" artist practising in glass. She has an extensive international exhibition
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Established artists. Katharine Coleman.
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Born in Sutton Coldfield 1949, Katharine Coleman is a freelance glass engraver and designer. She was taught point, drill and copper wheel engraving on glass by Peter Dreiser at Morley College, Lambeth from 1984-7 and continues to explore these techniques at her workshop in Clerkenwell.
Potter Morgan Glass. Once the glass has been blown and annealed, the top surface is cut away and polished, allowing one to see inside the piece. It is then engraved on the outside surface.
The engraved decoration reflects and refracts onto the inner surface, creating the illusion of one body floating inside another. The optical Katharine engraves on clear properties of glass fascinate lead crystal forms, overlaid with Katharine and she feels that coloured glass, blown to her they provide a rich world for the design. artist. Her work requires close The inspiration for her work is collaboration with glassblowers the beauty that can be found in
Emerging artists. Karin Forslund.
the ordinary, whether natural history or the modern urban landscape. Katharine's work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe, USA and Japan and can be seen in many public collections (see below). She feels strongly that wheel engraving on glass no longer needs to be traditional in style or content, though she prefers traditional techniques, using lathe-mounted copper, diamond and stone wheels, to obtain the crispness, textures and fine finish, so much more difficult to achieve with Our web
Art, School of Design in Bornholm, Denmark. Karin has had multiple art glass production jobs in Scandinavia, including Åfors Glass Factory, KostaBoda. She has also worked for numerous internationally acclaimed american and european artists. With an aesthetic background in the indigenous tradition of Scandinavian glass, her artistic approach uses the principle of the dogme to probe the creative Karin Forslund was born in 1984. She received formal training as a relationship between maker and glassmaker in Orrefors, Sweden, material, taking interest in the This is a Swedish glassmaker and received a B.A. from the and artist, currently based in subjectivity of materiality and Royal Danish Academy of Fine execution of craft. Norway.
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III Glass Craft Festival in Vimbodí.
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The first weekend of the month of October was held in the Tarragona town of Vimbodí the Third Party Glass Artisan.
The opening of the festival was given by Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge of the Catalan government, Jordi Baiget.
Our President and our Secretary have enjoyed, as in previous editions, this intimate event, in which most of the local residents participate.
This third edition has brought together various recreational activities around the glazier work, as have been those dedicated to children, with children's workshops recycled glass, "taula amb jocs vidre", "L'emprenta the vidre" and storytellers.
At the Fair they have collaborated with displays of glass blowing four important Spanish glassmakers: Igor Obeso (Basque Country), Diego Rodríguez (La Granja, Segovia), Manuel Garcia (Almeria) and Ferran Collado (Barcelona), which were added to the glazier the municipality, Paco Ramos. A novelty of this third edition of the Festival has been the appointment of the first window of honor. This year has received this distinction writer Empar Moliner. It is a recognition, glaziers and window of honor, which plans to have continuity for forthcoming editions of the Fair. Another of the highlights was the musical part with Vitrumusical, concert by Binarium Duo, with Conrad Setó the keyboard and Roger Conesa with the saxophone, which have fused music with displays of the four glassmakers at night Saturday. During the fair, the glass has shared the limelight with the ice in the activity of 1,000 ° to 0 °, in which the Barcelona artist Ivan Lopez created an ice sculpture representing a piece of those usually made in the museum of glass the locality, "Setrill", which in Castilian known as an oil. Due to the large influx of visitors and for next year, the City Council will propose new ways of organizing the Party, as stated by the Mayor, Joan Güell, which you can see a suit in the image illustrating this Article.
In the Plaza Mayor a dozen tents were installed for various local craftsmen could provide the public with their work. One of these craftswomen, the stained glass artist Loli Lafuente, offered on Sunday afternoon at the Civic Center a magnificent conference on "The magic of stained glass", which was followed with great interest by a large audience.
i oli and tasting of vermouth produced locally. On the street of Embraces, of only 94 cm wide, the "Abraçat 3.0", in which several people had to be crossed, some in one direction and others in another, made this curious street. Both Saturday morning like Sunday, a group of ladies of the town offered a great breakfast with sausages and sardines, washed down with great wine of the town. Vimbodí seeks to recover the glazier spirit that permeated the village during the first half of the twentieth century, when they came to run up to four glass furnaces and a parallel activity carafes lined with twill.
But the glassmaking tradition in the town dates back to the twelfth century, under construction Poblet monastery, near which there was In another town squares of the temporarily a furnace where the other tents for the sale of foodstuffs lights and windows for the new produced in the area they were Cistercian abbey were made. installed. It was not until the early twentieth There was also an exhibition of paintings and other jewelry made with glass by students of the School of Art and Design Council of Tarragona. Family visits to the Museum and Baked glass to see the demonstrations by master glassmaker Paco Ramos was also one of the highlights of the fair.
century when the glass production became an industry. Industrial, religious, decorative, especially agricultural and domestic use: objects were produced for different uses. The main pieces coming out of the ovens were jugs, oil and carafes of green and white glass Catalan and jars, salt shakers, waterers canaries and decorative pieces.
The public could participate in several guided-called "Meet Today in the town is the Museum of Vimbodí" previously registering with Glass and Oven, operational since the information about the fair visit. 1993 (the museum) and 1996 (the Music also had another place oven) where you can see the through "Sons of vidre", a different parts that are produced in workshop to experience the sounds factories mentioned. made with glass cups. The images we have captured the Other activities to highlight the III various activities of this Party glass Contest were drinking duck, III can be viewed at this link. Batukada with music and giant figures of the streets, the contest all
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Klaus Moje, rest in peace.
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Artist Klaus Moje, who founded the Glass Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art, has died at the age of 79 after a few months of ill health. Considered a giant in the world glass art scene and the "grandfather" of Australian studio glass, Moje pioneered a fused glass technique using specially developed glass rods. Invited to set up a glass program at ANU in 1982, he created a workshop program unlike any others at the time, focused on fusing and coldworking techniques, rather than just glassblowing. Klaus Moje, Untitled, 2010. Fused and cold worked glass. Photo: Rob Little It was a program that emphasised technical skill as much as conceptual thinking, and today, the ANU's Glass Workshop is considered a leading glass centre. Current head of workshop Richard Whitely said Moje began Canberra's glass art trajectory "on a very different page to what had existed, particularly in North America, until that time." "He really empowered the individual student to develop their own voice rather than just mimic other people's processes," he said. Moje was also instrumental in setting up the Canberra Glassworks in the former Kingston Powerhouse in 2007,
following a concerted campaign for a workshop and gallery for the capital's emerging glass artists. Klaus Moje, Untitled, 2015. Fused and cold worked glass. Photo: Rob Little Photo: Rob Little Today, it's an institution that has attracted an increasingly dazzling array of new and established glass artists from Australia and around the world. On the occasion of the Glassworks' seventh anniversary two years ago, Moje said the institution had become far bigger than could ever have been imagined. "It was an overwhelming project but it's got international interest in the Glassworks, which is fantastic," he said. "Here we are now with an institution where everyone can come and see glass art, do glass art and the art prospers. We still have the feeling that we are only at the beginning of what we can achieve." He said the Glassworks had helped make Canberra a tourist drawcard and destination for artists. "The prospect of the next few years is quite fascinating. We have opened a door to the indigenous community, we have opened the door to international artists involved in our work, so the sun is shining onto us," he said. Moje also maintained a prolific
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practice throughout his career, exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions all over the world. He retired from teaching more than two decades ago, and had been living and working on the south coast until his illness. He was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006 for his service to visual arts. Arts curator Nola Anderson said Moje would remain in the memories of countless Canberrans who had learned from him. "There are so many students who would remember his mentoring," she said. "You only have to look at how many people were exhibited in the Glassworks from ANU to see how many Canberra connections he had." Born in Germany in 1936 to a family of glass workers, he studied glass art Rheinbach and Hadamr, and began his artistic career creating carved and polished glass sculptures, before discovering fused glass techniques that would come to define his work. His works are held in hundreds of private collections, and in more than 60 public collections both in Australia and internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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La Granja in the MNAD.
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The Victoria & Albert has become one of the brands most sold in England due to an intelligent and clever combination of science, fun and good taste, explained from the National Museum of Decorative Arts, located in Montalban, close to Retirement. It is no coincidence that our museum wants to look in its English namesake. Although smaller dimensions interest in wanting to share, plus the history of design, to approximate the trends and innovations that arise in the world.
The tour of the exhibition discovered more than 150 pieces related to the trajectory of the great Catalan artist, since it passes through La Movida, where he presented his first collection at the gallery Juana de Aizpuru and participates in the film Matador -the fork used Assumpta Serna as a lethal weapon was designed by him, to his many collaborations with personalities: the writer Paul Bowles, the set designer Robert Wilson or artists Miquel Barceló and Louise Bourgeois.
"Bures fits very well the elements at its disposal. The sample Chus Burés. The Debugs and debugs until you consciousness of matter, open leave jewelry how are you, "explains the director in room until 16 this October, about 2, dedicated to the work of the one of the most important of recent Spanish history leading Nineties, an ideal dialogue between traditional jewelers. craftsmanship and innovation. "We wanted to open a line of As we move through the exhibitions that have the glamor as a leading indicator," rooms of the exhibition, designed by Alvaro Soto and said Sofía Rodríguez Bernis, director of the public institution. Maria Nunez, with the help of the Royal Glass Factory Farm, "The glamor represents a cut contemplate different series: in the market, which sells necklaces, pendants, products which should have a bracelets, rings and even number of features to appeal ceramics and rugs . to a certain clientele". The curator of the exhibition, High-level production, Fréderic Bodet, curator of cosmopolitan and elegant are modern collections of the City some of the values that of Ceramics in Sèvres, says highlight the work of Bures.
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Bures "as a goldsmith-plastic, has broken with the conventions of classical jewel, those that encrypt the value of the investment in relation to the precious material, good taste and a very regulated positioning on the body. " The designer uses "poor unusual materials and considered that knows how to deal with dizzying technical precision." The bures own flaunts its fertile relationship with industry. "I've always liked working with the best goldsmiths. That quality control is not easy to have some "tells about a type of activity that has taken him to Morocco, Thailand and Japan. Within a few weeks you may see a new publishing project, a book published by El Viso, with photographs by Alberto GarcíaAlix, Antoine d'Agata and Andres Serrano. A tribute to his followers, those who continue to buy most of their works. And two more projects in mind that still they can not be disclosed. "I could not understand my life as a repetition. Would be the end, "says the designer restless.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. New exhibition.
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Toledo and the Director of 1917, after the architect Luis On September 21 a new temporary exhibition at the MAVA Technological Glass Museum, La Sainz de los Terreros Granja (Segovia), Paloma Pastor. construyese these buildings. opened. This group exhibition has been an inspiration as portraits of the Marquis of Valderas, decorative It consists of works made all by fountains, chandeliers, wine leading Spanish artists of the cellar for guests, shoes glass. daughters of the Marquis or the Rafael Abdon, L'Olleria ghosts of the Castle, among (Valencia), Igor Obeso, Irun, Luis others. Machi, Albacete, Ferran Collado, The blowers have worked with Barcelona and Ismael Cerezo "Flyppy" of Murcia, have done a glass reinterpreting these wonderful job for this exhibition. elements. The inauguration was conducted The exhibition aims to participate in the commemoration of the by the Councillor for Culture of our City and also attended by the centenary of the construction of the complex of Valderas Castles, current Marquis of Valderas, Hipólito Sanchíz and Alvarez de the Marquis began to inhabit in This time, the exhibition entitled "Blows glass memory."
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This exhibition aims to be a creative, original, funny and surprising reading of the history of the most important civil building in the city of Alcorcón, is aimed at all audiences and will run until November 4, since the room which is installed it must deal with the activities planned for the celebration at the Museum of Science Week of the Community of Madrid. These blowers and teachers there is only one generation, but both its formation and, above all, by their mentality, the distance is huge.
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More about La Trinidad.
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Seville La Trinidad deteriorate. glassworks ceased trading in Basilio Moreno, president of 1999 and since then is the Historical Association abandoned to their fate. Retiro Obrero (AHRO), sees You can now find a way out in this contest "a wonderful of its progressive opportunity" to bring deterioration of a proposal ostracism Trinity. from the residents of Retiro The project would involve Obrero. the rehabilitation of four They have filed a brief in the ships: the oldest (1900) municipal register so that the would be adapted to use as city of Seville aware and lead a civic center; the largest a project to qualify for one of and most modern (1926) three prizes of Architecture would host a handmade Competition Richard H. glass museum and a school Driehaus, which would workshop would serve to restore this symbol of boost the economy of the industrial heritage of the city neighborhood, create jobs as the event aims to and as a tourist attraction; "promote the practice of the third, wood, could be architecture and urbanism used as a library, conference that preserve and give room, cafeteria, continuity to local traditions." restaurant ...; and fourth, the smallest, could be a place of Although there has been exhibitions, municipal greater-and protection has a offices, space for special plan for internal associations ... reform (PERI) in the last year and a half - and spoke of The competition launched by their registration in the the entity's financial and National Catalogue of patron of Chicago seems like Industrial Heritage, the truth a possible solution given that is that this vast and valuable "those designs that factory site avenue encourage the use of Miraflores continues to materials and techniques of
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the place will be valued" and "more committed to the conservation of cultural heritage Spanish". Yes, the first deadline for submitting the documentation expires this October 3 and it is imperative that the application be signed by the mayor of the municipality. A jury will choose three locations and then a contest of ideas will open. A senior center The AHRO has in mind a second idea that could be presented to the contest, and rebuilding houses -the bathroom first public pools in Seville and administration of the district, built in 1928 and demolished in 2003, to turn in a senior center for the elderly. Located on the numbers 29 and 31 Calle Amante Laffon, solar today, these homes were designed by José Gómez Millan following the regionalist style.
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After the beauty of Venetian glass (III).
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Alejandro IpiĂąa.
The Stanze opened with an exhibition dedicated to Carlo Scarpa. He followed Martinuzzi. Now a sample of the best of Finnish glass is exposed, with pieces belonging to the Bischofberger Collection. Best of all is that in an orchard next to the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore have opened a Glass Tea House, designed by Sugimoto Hiroshima, in line with the new Japanese Zen.
Cini Foundation itself fought with some delay their notebooks Saggi di Storia dell'Arte e Memorie. At the core of this project is Marino Barovier, who has curated and authored several catalogs that are published while the exhibitions. Marino and Marina Barovier are the embodiment of the aristocracy of Venetian glass.
best companies and firms, writing books and catalogs, organized exhibitions, and occasionally doing survey work to authenticate pieces. I was struck how tastes drew international market in an interview that made them Andrea Tossi for Vetro magazine in 2002.
Italians are inclined to the production of the twenties and thirties of last century, From time to study it, take transparent glasses of Vittorio silica in the veins. Are two Zecchin, the murrine Ercole living encyclopedias. Barovier, roses and blue parts of Attend a tea ceremony in the Marino was born in one of the the architect Tomasso Buzzi, or space conveys the essence of windows family par excellence, designs of Carlo Scarpa. the best in Japan, as if you the Barovier, who since 1400 made an honorary citizen of While the Germans prefer it worked lead glass, and Kyoto. produced in the fifties with the Marina, Genoese, fell in love bright colors of Fulvio Bianconi With each exhibition catalog and he entered his life and and Dino Martens, Americans publish a most elaborate, it circumstances. like everything indiscriminately, continues this way will become Almost without realizing I was including the Baroque era or the an indispensable collection for involved in the passion for nineteenth century. lovers of glass. glass. He started collecting I have not managed to find out Hopefully someday they and researching. how things have changed in the release them online as many In 1980 he opened his first last decade with the emergence foundations are doing with gallery until today. They have of new customers in emerging their catalogs, such as Juan done everything moving parts economies: Chinese, Russian March or Mapfre. work gallery owners of the and Spanish American ... ...
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Ethics in conservation and restoration (III).
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By Fernando CortĂŠs Pizano.
Unfortunately, the exercise of self-criticism is very rare in our profession. I would not dare to write about professional ethics while trying to be infallible. We should all examine our consciences before dare to criticize colleagues. In fact, I myself, with specific training in conservationrestoration and many years of experience in my particular field of work-the window-I do not dare deny that once may have made and make mistakes.
We all know that some associations related to the field of conservation and restoration have developed codes of ethics, but in reality these associations do not have the power of enforcement or prosecution for the actions of its members. These are not subject to legal liability, understood as the potential liability that may result in the payment of damages or lead to legal actions. Studies regulated in an unregulated profession
A first and important step to remedy this situation has been I will not deny having caused the creation and regulation of damage to any work during the approved studies in exercise of my profession. Conservation and Restoration Small errors and minor in recent decades and within damage, but errors and the educational framework of damage after all. Or the same the European Community. professional experts In this sense, it is important to conservation and restoration remember the are infallible, let alone those recommendations of E.C.C.O. without specific training, which (European Confederation of can cause serious damage to a Conservator-Restorers of): work during the course of their The minimum level to enter the work. profession as conservative And yet, the reality is that our qualified restorer must be at profession is not really linked to the level of the Master (or a universal code that is recognized equivalent). "mandatory" compliance or internal rules that impose legal This should be achieved through a period of full-time sanctions. study in conservationrestoration of at least 5 years
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at a college (or in a recognized equivalent level) and should include well-structured external practices. It should be continued by the possibility of study to PhD level. The theoretical education and practical training are of great importance and should be arranged evenly. After passing a final exam the candidate is awarded a degree or a diploma. You are also given a reference to the specializations studied. Depending on national situations, it may also be relevant to assess professional practice to confirm the ability of conservator-restorers to work, ethically and competently in their specialization. All this, however, is not enough. And that's where we get to the essence of the problem: while studies in conservation are regulated in many European countries (although many of them without EU coordination), however the profession of conservatorrestorer is not, at least in most countries, including Spain. To be totally fair, as far as I know, only in nine countries of the European Community it is governed our profession ....
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The windows of the cathedral of Burgos.
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The general director of Heritage of the Junta de Castilla y Leon, Enrique Saiz, has acknowledged that the windows of the cathedral of Burgos are in a "good condition" of conservation and that except for specific issues, interventions now focus on maintenance works.
work done by Pilar Alonso helpful.
good condition" and with original glass.
Professor of the Department of Art History at the University of Burgos has performed in "The stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Burgos," the first monograph on this artistic element.
On the occasion of the presentation of the study entitled "The stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Burgos" prepared by Pilar Alonso, the director general has analyzed the needs of the main burgalés temple.
Burgos fame as a center of glassmaking continued to grow in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when this art symbol of prestige and good taste, ranging considered non-religious buildings.
That is one of the most important aspects of a work in which collaborated several centers linked to the Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC), recalled the author.
The capital was filled with glassmaking workshops and key teachers in the country came to the Fair to acquire Burgos colored glass newcomer Flanders.
Alonso has applied an interdisciplinary methodology, so Enrique Saiz recalled that that the analysis of stained glass currently takes place a covers scientific, restoration and restoration project of the windows conservation, as well as historic of the Chapel of the Condestable, and artistic. "neediest" intervention. At the same time, research has However, the general condition of allowed us to reach some these artistic elements in the important findings, such as the cathedral of Burgos "good" fact that Burgos was a pioneer in except "more specific" issues, so the Iberian Peninsula in the art of working especially in glassmaking. maintenance. It was in the Middle Ages when it Saiz has insisted that manage began to work the glass as a cultural heritage is not only to decorative element, explained restore them, but should also Alonso, and the first creations work on their upkeep and appeared in burgaleses maintenance. monuments. And to meet both objectives in an Specifically, it was in the appropriate way, the first step is monastery of Santa María Real to know your art and heritage de Las Huelgas and the values, so Saiz considers the cathedral, preserved latter rosette Puerta del Sarmental, "in
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In this second era of splendor the windows of the dome of the Cathedral and the Chapel of the Condestable Condes de Castilla were created, recalled Alonso. This medieval art waned in later centuries, until the Enlightenment in the eighteenth recovered, and now are most of the windows of the burgalesa Seo. Professor of Art History has highlighted research opportunities arising from this study with respect to delve into the importance of Burgos as the center of creation. And it is that not only can catalog the windows of the cathedral of Burgos, but also those who left burgaleses joint workshops and arrived in Oviedo, Astorga, Seville and Granada.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XX).
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parallels only stone vessels in "frasca new year" which This type can be compared have their parallels in the same period. to a few examples made in terracotta; They have In early New Kingdom terracotta belonging to an circular and elliptical section. increase political and earlier, XVIII period, and Frequent They are from the commercial contacts with show business contacts with Egypt Mediterranean peoples. reign of Amenhotep III Cyprus also influence the onwards, and in time will be This results in that are located production of glass vessels. delayed his typology in the Nile valley large As already stated in relation widespread especially in amounts of import vessels to the cup, the cup for kohl faience and then Terracotta. exert their influence on local based, curved shaped body Typical terracotta vessels of production of vessels. that Bottlenecks at the top the XVIII dynasty is also the We have the example above, and bottom, and a broad way with ovoid body: the vessels as Melograna, of neck and resounding ellipsoidal-vertically with Cypriot origin, probably appears only at the maximum length at the top imported as containers for beginning of the production and cylindrical neck. opium, which will be copied in of glass beakers and its form glass, especially at the end of It is an evolved form of a finds parallels in ceramic model of the Middle the XVIII dynasty. contemporary stone cups, Eduardo Alonso Cereza
which after a long production started in the Middle Empire from the nineteenth dynasty onwards gradually are replaced by tubes of various types.
Kingdom.
This form is reproduced in glass especially during the reigns of Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV - Eknnaton. More often find this shape with handles and, in many Highlights include glass vessels whose form is called cases, with feet that finds
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In this period shaped vessels made of fish originating in ceramics from prehistoric times, or something is possible in some previous piece to the period in which they appear in glass.
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Farcama 2016. countries different. This event, "The Great Craft Fair" this year has a budget of 303,000 euros, reducing by 10% the departure of the last year's edition. It will be a fair wait at least equal the number of visits last year (66,000 passed through facilities) and is organized to "visiting family", with a cost of general admission three euros although there are input options reduced for retired, disabled or unemployed persons, among others, the price of one euro.
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Toledo hosts this Friday October 7 Fair Craft Castilla-La Mancha (Farcama), which in its XXXVI edition
will feature 189 artisans, 20% more than 2015, coming from 11 autonomous communities and five
Visit the show to see our friends Malva and Grey glassmakers, Lume Vidrio, Grisailles Moreno, DeCristalia and NYRB Vidrieras.
Culture 2016.
Last September we visited CaixaForum Madrid to see the exhibition "Impressionists and modern". This exhibition traces the names of the leading masters of painting from Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism through the works of Manet, Courbet, Sisley, Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Pollock and Rothko, among others, all
from the Phillips Collection, one of the largest collections of the United States in modern art and avant-garde. The exhibition is divided into six blocks, from romanticism to abstract expressionism. Having the most influential names of each of these movements is a milestone in the exhibition program with which you can count on very few occasions, an exceptional opportunity to see the major works of the
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history of painting of the past 200 years . In the words of Duncan Phillips, "shared by artists from around the world and different eras spirit shows us that art is a universal language." An exceptional opportunity for the visitor to see the masterpieces of the Phillips Collection collection of Washigton, from where very rarely.
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The windows of Mme. Petit. Brothel Madame Petit (roughly 1889 to 1956, street Arc del Teatre, 6, Barcelona) is the Guadiana local journalism, a legendary whorehouse that occasionally resurfaces because the flame of his fame, that crossed the border, burned so brightly that It does not go off so easily.
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Of that establishment bibliographic extraordinary portraits, like Paco Villar in 'History and Legend Chinatown' they are. Is, of course, the vacant lot where for 67 years all that sexual trajín took place. some photographs and coins minted in the whorehouse with which the services were paid and trading higher in the numismatics market remain. But the most exciting and beautiful materials palpable rest of the story of Madame Petit is a set of windows that unexpectedly the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona (Muhba) discovered a few years ago when the building was demolished. It is a local treasure that as an ark of the covenant, sleep since in a warehouse in the free zone, but one of the pieces, a happy decision finally is exhibited in public. Perhaps surprisingly the place. Occupies a wall of Vil·la Joana, Vallvidrera farm dedicated to the memory of Father Cinto Verdaguer and, by extension, House of Literature of Barcelona.
Glass Trophy for Seniors Cup. Albert Costa, as Senior Masters Cup champion tournament received at the Club de Tenis Puente Romano trophy from the hands of José Bernal, mayor of Marbella. Trophies, both championship as runner-up, were represented by a glass sculpture that was produced by Ecovidrio with recycled glass collected over the last two months in Marbella. More than 2,600 spectators enjoyed the final. The event culminated with a party led by tennis player Yannick Noah and his band delighted the more than 400 guests who packed the VIP Lounge. For John McEnroe "it has been an incredible tournament. He missed coming to Marbella to play and I liked being back here. "
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The glass in Museums: Curtius.
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Not since the late nineteenth century to trace the origin of the founding of this institution, when Alfred Baar, President of the Commercial Court of the City of Liege, began to satisfy a boundless passion for art glass.
written several books and articles, giving the collection an international reputation.
Philippe enriches this treasure buying glass pieces of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and acquisitions In 1942, the death of are also focused on Armand Baar, the collection contemporary art, by the has more than 2,400 glasses strong relationships he had of various countries, and as with the leaders of strengths, Liege, Venetian or Cristalleries du Val-SaintGet a great number of made to façon Venice, Lambert, which brings pieces, looking for Liege and Antwerp, the Netherlands together a large number of rooms overseas sales, and a and glass of Bohemia and objects to trace the history of special relationship with England. the largest manufacture of several ancient and In 1946, Ms. Baar, and as Belgian glass. renowned international her husband wished, she operators. Several prestigious puts the collection in the exhibitions are held in late Alfred Baar arranges to be Curtius Museum. The town 1990 and in 2000, as "Le an exceptional collection of of Liege bought it six years verre de Venise, ses origines glass from antiquity to the later. are rayonnement" and "Glass nineteenth century. Helen Van Heule, curator of in all its splendor", presenting After his death in 1907, his Museum of Archaeology and successfully in many son Armand continues to Decorative Arts had studied countries (Japan, Romania, enrich the heritage of glass the history of art in glass, he Turkey, Italy, France, that has inherited, and had benefited from the Belgium, Finland). participation in a real "lessons" of Armand Baar. Currently, it is one of the conservation work. Given that this wonderful most prestigious collections In it the parties, drawings, collection has a bright future, in the world, with about number, making it makes the section is 10,000 pieces. comparisons, and groups independent and the City of Brightness, color and original with a specific profile for Liege conferred the title of shapes attract enthusiastic each object are listed. Museum of Glass in 1959. and large audience. This is tell a story of In the following decades, the glassmaking for what he has conservative Joseph
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Recycling. University study.
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Research Park of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) coordinates a project to study the feasibility of a sustainable system for the collection, cleaning and reuse of glass bottles in the wine sector in Catalonia.
may be a cost effective solution for businesses and the environment," says the coordinator Rewine, Juan Fran Sangüesa.
The pilot will take into account the whole bottle from washing, labeling, bottling and distribution in the market, until picking Research Park UAB explained that the project, through the same called Rewine, is part of wineries, collection centers, restaurants and the EU LIFE program shops involved. involving institutions, warehouses, distribution This process will be companies and tested with bottles of the consumers. two Catalan wineries
the washing plant and begin the cycle again. Thus, approximately 45 tons of glass packaging waste will be avoided, with the foresight to end the pilot in June 2019. UAB stressed that Catalonia consumes more than 9 million bottled beverages per day, 6% of which are bottles of wine.
The project has a budget of 991,309 euros, of which 60% is contributed by the EU and with the participation of a "spin-off" of the UAB, the Waste participating in the project "With this project we Agency of Catalonia, the and is expected to intend to identify Catalan Foundation for opportunities and barriers recover about 100,000 Waste Reduction and bottles, to be carried to to reusing wine bottles Responsible and assess whether there Consumption.
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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 2016.
Cultural visits.
On day 3 of this October, taking advantage of the return of our visit to the III Fair Glass of Vimbodí (Tarragona), we visited the workshop of Star Alba, artisan who uses glass for jewelry pieces made by , and it is located in the town of Zaragoza La Muela.
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Our activities.
CULTURE 2016 program. Immaculate, one of the common themes among Spanish Golden Age artists to express successive ideals of feminine beauty. The selection of these works, dated from the 1630s and 1680s, lets see how the representation of the theme of the Immaculate Conception oscillated between two versions: one that emphasizes privacy, meditation and concentration, and featuring baroque formulas by dynamic and colorful compositions. On display the earliest Immaculate donation will meet and guarding the Prado, both of Zurbaran, whose comparison allows to know the different iconographic and compositional alternatives that the painter was raised at the beginning of his career before formal concentration and emotional introspection which entered the museum in 1956, from the donation Arango is expansive and is notable for the wide flight of his robe.
This October will visit the "Immaculate" exhibition at the Museo del Prado. After the generous donation made last year Plácido Arango Arias, the Prado Museum organizes a special new presentation that, this time, gathers the set of works donated to a sharper thematic personality, formed by the www.amigosmava.org
The second Inmaculada de Zurbaran donation, dated 1656, is a bridge with the rich tradition of sevillanas concepcionistas representations of the second half of the seventeenth century and can be compared to the Immaculate one of the great representatives of this school, Juan Valdes Leal that in his work, dated 1682, prevents the communicative compositional dynamism and expansion that are characteristic.
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The Cathedral of Leon restores its windows.
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A world of light and color opens inside the Cathedral of LeĂłn, Spanish Gothic stronghold, quintessential emblem of the city. Its symbolism, with large windows and stunning light structures, wraps and moved to the world of spirituality centuries ago in which it was conceived. 737 windows that defy the great darkness of the interior, with an area of 1,990 square meters and constitute a huge catalog of art and beauty that gradually regain the lost splendor over the centuries. The Cabildo of the Cathedral of Leon advances in the restoration project of all its stained glass windows, after the paralysis tasks blanketing came partner with the great reform of the nineteenth century, was revived in 2006 and has undergone several ups and downs along the way due to lack of budget. A project is now supported by the economic impact of the entrance of the temple and now focuses on the south 13 window where visitors can imagine the majesty of the prints stained glass on a canvas with which it seeks to
mitigate the effects of the works .
conditions of each are analyzed one of the windows.
Subsequently, the restoration will move towards the rosette to go "walking with the platforms towards the center of the temple."
The windows states suffer corrosion, dirt, cracks and bulges, which are analyzed individually to carry out its restoration.
Precisely, it is those of the south transept the most deteriorated, reaching present up to 80% opacity.
After removal, it is performed in the workshop correction of possible deformations, cleaning and replacement of the broken glass.
However, it is carrying out an intermittent restoration to avoid A delicate process that also vision loss by tourists. includes the restoration of the stone and providing better In any case, from the preservation of stained glass in Cathedral Chapter they had the future. clear from the beginning that an intervention in the whole of the windows was necessary.
In place of the glass protective glass enclosure that serves as "Opting for a more peremptory an antioxidant network to area another is difficult as it is "prevent possible harm" is urgent all, the most damaged placed. is the south by the brutal Meticulous, delicate and contrast suffered by the expensive work if you consider thermal oscillation, which in the cost per square meter is winter can reach 30 degrees around 4,000 euros. apart side," says Mario But the Cathedral Chapter not Gonzalez , administrator of the brake sets. Cathedral. Its aim is that within eight to ten A project developed by the years finish the restoration of Esoca Leon, involving a 850 square meters remaining previous photo studio and to return the splendor to one of covering a comprehensive the main demands of the process that includes the Pulchra Leonina, the largest removal of each panel and collection of medieval stained comprehensive documentation glass in the world. of pre- and post once been renovated in the particular
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Other trends. The hidden face of Mexican art.
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"Rivera reduces the Indian and traditions to an archetype, like Rousseau's noble savage," said Arteaga. The teacher drew landscapes and portrayed Zapatistas working molenderas corn knees.
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Another major, José Clemente Orozco, sublimated in his paintings the agave plant native of fleshy leaves, and then make photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. The exhibition also highlights names like Angel Zarraga, Agustin Lazo, Roberto Montenegro and Rufino Tamayo. His tone was not always laudatory. For example, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Francisco Goitia dug into the dark side of the Revolution, marked by death and destruction. There are so lush trees that do not allow to see the forest. Something happened to Mexican art in the first half of the last century.
In his novel critical review of the history of the avant-Arteaga sets out a series of parallel stories that oppose the prevailing legend.
During the emergence of the pictorial vanguards, the glow that emanated names like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo managed to outshine dozens of artists that official history has not retained.
The exhibition demolishes all the cliches about the art of that historic moment. Indigenism shows that did not start with the 1910 Revolution, nor the social sensitivity of Mexican artists.
A major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris runs a fresh look at that period to publicize its hidden face. Until January 23, the exhibition presents 200 works by 60 artists, reflecting a range which include both the stars mentioned as other supposedly secondary names, as well as representatives of half-forgotten collective aesthetic currents and little favored by the canon of art.
Clarifies that there were other women artists outside Kahlo and that not all painters were muralists who disdained the stand as bourgeois instrument. And it confirms that the Mexican modernists were not limited to copying European masters.
This ambitious exhibition subverts and expands. "The intention is to separate the cliches and deepen the reality of Mexican art, beyond the shadow of those Titans, who have hidden several generations of artists. This was not minimize its importance, but to offer a wider and propose a rebalancing scenario, "says the curator, Agustín Arteaga, new director of the Dallas Museum of Art, after having been the National Museum of Art (Munal) in Mexico City.
They preferred to create a vanguard itself. "A national art drinking and headed past utopianly forward, becoming spokesman for the revolutionary ideals," said the commissioner. The project had an undeniable ideological. The art was used to reinforce the feeling of belonging to a people who began to nationhood. While the rebels were fighting for fair distribution of land and wages, painting also began to speak the language of utopia. Workers and peasants became artistic subjects of the first order, which served to vindicate an ideal of social justice.
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But in general, art filled with flowers and fruit. Olga Costa, painter of Ukrainian origin who arrived in Mexico at age 12, exemplified in the fruit seller, almost a botanical encyclopedia of local varieties in which costs not see a political message. The exhibition explores the generations of women who became overshadowed by Kahlo, claimed as feminist myth from the seventies. The exhibition takes the contrapié that "blind worship" in the words of the curator. In the room dedicated to painting made by women, six works by Kahlo occupy an almost junior corner. Instead, less known names stands out as the Dolores Olmedo, Tina Modotti, Nahui Olin or Rosa Rolanda. Also Lola Alvarez Bravo, author of a photographic work as interesting as her husband, and Maria Izquierdo, a painter who had haunted André Breton, who saw in his work "a world in formation", made of "cold lava in the penumbra of the volcano. " After all, for the team leader of the movement, Mexico was "the Surrealist place par excellence".
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Polyhedral soviet vessel.
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The first Soviet polyhedral glass was manufactured in the glassworks of Gus-Jrustalny the September 11, 1943. The author of the design was Vera Mukhina, a famous Soviet sculptor famous for creating the monument Worker and Kolkhoz, presented to the world at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. The shape of the glass is not due to the creativity of its author: it is a form that suited perfectly to the new Soviet dishwasher 40s, which could only wash utensils certain shape and size. Soviet vessels differed in the number of faces (10, 12, 16, etc.), but the way was always the same: the polyhedral part was topped by a glass smooth edge. This provided a more robust product. Besides being resistant, glass was manufactured with a special technology (even at a time when lead was added) and was very thick.
machinery was introduced and the technology was lost.
Soviet love for the polyhedral glass house was indispensable: helped them to measure liquids In the years of government Nikita and food grains, even in the Khrushchev (1953-1964) books of Soviet cuisine volumes government, in a struggle were measured in cups and not against alcoholism, forbade in grams. selling vodka in bulk and in small quantities. The vessels dough pieces were cut to prepare pelmeni and There were only half-liter bottles, vareniks, Russian raviolis, and which contributed to the even acted as plant pots in the formation of a new tradition dachas. among fans to drink: meet threes In post-Soviet Russia the and drink vodka in polyhedral vessels, where just a third of a polyhedron glass is not so popular: other vessels made half-liter bottle fits. more precise technologies have Those who do not have much arrived. money but very thirsty gathered Now you can not buy a in groups of three, each with its polyhedral glass, put each one polyhedral glass in a regular ruble to buy the bottle (the store, or you can find in schools standard price of a bottle of or hospitals. vodka in the USSR was 2 rubles According to a study by and 87 kopeks) and enjoyed the journalists of the newspaper company. Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2013, Thus he was born the Soviet the main area of Russia in which utensils are still using Soviet expression "reflect three" and today in Russia the polyhedron trains. glass is still associated with The polyhedral glass and brass vodka. or copper tray on which the But not only alcoholics of the stewardess offering tea to USSR valued polyhedral travelers is still one of the vessels. symbols of Russian rail services.
However, in the 80s between the polyhedral vessels epidemic he broke out: it resquebrajaban, they broke the background, and some even came to burst. This type of vessel could be found everywhere: in schools, This was because in the glass hospitals, cafes even in vending production industry foreign machines water on the street.
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In the XXI century the polyhedral glass, with its solid appearance, may seem anachronistic, but will always be a tool permanently connected with Russia.
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Crystals San Justo paralyzed production.
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The Argentina cooperative can not face increased costs: gas spent to pay per month pesos 300-950000, so they decided to suspend the operation of the plant for five months. Expectations for next March are uncertain.
on demand 2 weeks. The oven uses gas, whose supply had until December cost $ 2.97 per BTU (the measure taken for the fluid). "We were getting subsidized by the state company Enarsa (Energía Argentina SA)," Hidalgo said.
to deal with that amount," revealed Hidalgo; consumption of electricity, the cooperative itself benefited from the judicial measure that paralyzed the tarifazo.
"At the same time, he added, sales were down 20 percent The decision is practically even lost two direct exports to irreversible: September 30 Brazil, and our products are Work Cooperative Limited San "But on December 20 -precisó- able to increase only between the national government Justo Crystals halted 25 and 30 percent, while the informed us that the subsidy production for five months, raw material, although it is was over, and that we should following the exponential national, is governed by the increase in costs and reducing look for another company. dollar, which in December was revenues, as confirmed by the Then signed a contract with 9.70 pesos. " Energy, whereby the BTU owner, Juan Carlos Hidalgo. Given this increase, the value passed $ 4 in summer About 15 years ago, the effort decision to produce as much and 5, $ 30 in winter same of workers allowed to maintain as possible at this time, and time, the dollar went from 9.70 labor source in Avenue Perón paralyze the plant from pesos to 14, so costs soared, 3927, San Justo: the company September 30 to February 28 and 300 thousand pesos we became a cooperative, thanks was taken. were paying per month in to state aid continued to 2015, we are now at 950,000 The head of the union warned: manufacture the optical-a part pesos. 800 pesos for "With the policies it has taken of the headlights cars- what consumption and 150 this government (national) I added illumination articles and thousand pesos for transport, have little hope about what can gifts. values that were not reached happen in March perform All with glass, it made from raw by the judicial measures ongoing efforts, and one of materials: feldspar, quartz and because they are a product of them is filing an injunction by sodium are primarily of a total the contract that we signed the lawyer Luis Caro. the of 30 components, which are with Energy ". National Movement of placed in an oven that reaches Recovered Factories, to which . "The last bill of 800 thousand a temperature of 1,400 we belong, but the prospects pesos have not been paid so degrees and operates 24 are very complicated". far are seeing the possibility hours a day, day: her off and that advance payments to us www.amigosmava.org
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The art of the sphere in Chignahuapan.
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can reach 300 ° C, molded through the torch, combined with gas and pressurized air; This stage takes one or two minutes. Where the stage in which it is metallized, when silver sphere this may take about 15 minutes begins, though it varies depending on the machine that can turn 800 or 2,000 pieces. Hence it proceeds to step painting where is detailed manually. By piece, this may take about 30 seconds and requires two hours for drying. Up to 15,000 spheres can be produced in one day at a workshop in this Mexican town that frowns the increase in the influx of tourists who now not only come to seek new natural and architectural attractions of this magical town, but also They are attracted to the craft areas of this municipality, to the point that most of the production and sale occurs in the municipal head, where you can see each of the 300 models as a true work of art that arise from simple glass bubbles .
products, in different sizes, in sizes ranging from 3 mm to 120. He has managed the creation of 300 different models sphere. With the advent of the area known as "fantasy three and a half", produced by Chinese, became specifically, especially in trade as in big cities, because it was replaced by the consumer at lower prices than were able to enter the Chinese.
"In Chignahuapan, the plastic sphere does not have much sale; consumers will prefer the craft sphere, "he said at the time Losada Germán Hernández, manager Blown Glass Christmas detailing the challenges now facing have to do with the rise spheres (Esnaviso), this that has inputs such as phenomenon has focused its electricity, raw materials, gas, strategy of selling at 80 percent in Mexico City and 20 percent of seen offset by the arrival of more tourists are attracted by the production for Chignahuapan. promotion that has made this Compared to the beginning, 25 destination offering attractive as years ago, now he had to use a the virgin of the Immaculate brand and logo. Conception, one of the largest in Formerly only enough to be Latin America, La Laguna, and called "factory areas". so on. He explained that at first it was only buy-resell, then stopped the sale to become manufacturers, especially when they saw the increased demand. But I had to learn to compete and that's how it became his hallmark innovation in designs, very different from those offered elsewhere.
Two hours takes to paint roughly 500 thousand pieces. Logistics and precision is such that they know that when they finish painting the latter area, the first is dry. This is how comes the stage decoration. This means more work, especially when it takes more than one color. Be painted, wait for it to dry and move to the second color, so on to achieve planned in each design. For the entrepreneur, who now wants to experiment with plastic spheres and draw on the creativity and art decoration to generate new products, a challenge that looks very good. "
It coincided with the chignahuapense Councillor for Tourism, in the sense that one of This has helped him increase in the things they do bring up the selling, comparing the figures field produced in this municipality is the quality and traditional recorded 25 years ago, with a character, but that does not mean difference of 100 percent greater, because at that time 5 or to compete with producers 6 thousand daily pieces and now sphere of Michoacan, by occurs between 12 and 15 example, since having different thousand pieces were produced markets. daily. "Competition, we have 300
While defending the serial That's how he got the snowman, production so represents a production volume will be in a the soldier, the harlequin, the light engine and wheel, carousel, few hours, if the whole process among other products that other can take a whole day. plants have not produced until Throughout the process the 70 today in the market. people who work with him from blowing the field, the first step of Currently directly employs 70 the entire production, to achieve people, including people with the different sizes required for disabilities or older adults, plus each model involved. 30 assembly plants, which achieve a daily production 12,000 pieces daily, for different
the heat rising from the torches used in the above process takes advantage.
This stage begins with heating the tube to temperatures that
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different products and what made us move forward the innovation of new products; we have our market in the State of Mexico, Durango, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, San Luis Potosi and Chiapas, although most market occurs in Chignahuapan, "external time he said he came to export their product, 15 years ago, though today-they not have that reinforce the growing demand of tourists visiting this town.
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"Think of Glass" now in La Granja.
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Eight artists from different fields have been encouraged to "Think Glass" with as many compositions now displayed in the Tech Museum of Glass in La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia), in a sample claims the dissemination of material forgotten in the art and previously was exposed in the MAVA. Ouka Lele, Juan Ugalde, Esther Pizarro, Manuel Bouzo, Angels San Jose Anibal Merlo, Carmen Algara and Erick Miraval come from different fields of expression such as sculpture, photography, painting and installation, but this time have concentrated all his imagination in a new element to them such as glass to create the exhibition "Think of glass". Museum director, Paloma Pastor, has highlighted last September 30, during the presentation to the media, the help they have received
artists masters of different techniques such as blow molding, casting, thermoforming or torch, including Emilio Elvira or segoviana Alba Martin. He further stressed "boiling creation and very different issues raised in this experiment," although in his opinion "behind each piece is the personality and the dregs of every artist to discover the new material."
The 50 pieces of the limited collection of Ouka Lele, "a blue moon", made in the furnaces of the Royal Glass Factory, can be purchased during the exhibition in the Museum shop, as part of the third and more creative production line of the factory. Meanwhile, Pizarro has confessed that this experience has enabled it to expand horizons and engage the glass as a creative material, which has led him to set up a small workshop in the European University of Madrid, where he teaches.
The creative Ouka Lele and Esther Pizarro also participated in the presentation of this exhibition which revealed the "The glass has something that no other materials, ins and outs and the which is the ability to transfer meaning of his work. and transmission of light, Ouka Lele said that she has that magic, that record of the been "almost erotic" invisible, the veiled, so experience to see how come diffuse, that nobility and alive his sketches and that is purity that moves is to the photographer and fascinating," he Madrid painter "glass has its own sculptress told during his personality and way of speech. acting, so you have to adapt to the material" .
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Pipes world's most expensive water.
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reaches the world of contemporary art. " The gallery specializes in "artists daring enough to be labeled as radical, subversive and rebellious".
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Among the rebels are virtuosos Robert Mickelsen, Zach Jorgenson, Scott Deppe and other stars of stoner sky. Some pieces are amazing, look like robots, psychedelic underwater scenery and or rifles. One is designed to hang on the wall, and reconfigures itself when the time comes enjoyment. "I'm not selling pipes," adds young gray. "I'm selling pieces of art with which you can smoke." Although it sounds crazy, this form of high art could become a good investment. A young New York opened the Grey Art Gallery Art Space, which held an exhibition where various water pipes and glass bongs, whose prices range between 20,000 and 300,000 dollars were. With the increasingly accepted marijuana, consumers no longer hide their water pipes in closets and under beds. Appropriate to expensive and powerful strains of exotic herbs, most extravagant water pipes sold six-figure sums, and even marketed as works of art.
The first device for smoking of USD 100,000 was created by the expert glassblower Scott Deppe, and its design is a skull adorned with marijuana leaves covered with gold. In the city of New York, during the last week of fashion, a mysterious man known as Mr. Grey, 21, opened a sample of artistic pipes in her apartment in Soho. As he told Vice, "This is the art stoner highest range obtainable. You get to the point where it is not at all stoner art: it is art that
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According to a source quoted by BuzzFeed, "I have friends who bought pieces of USD 15,000, and out the door already had a bid of $ 35,000. Some people smoke in them for two months, and then sell them and double their money. " BroBible Top 20 lists a water pipe including a shaped skeleton dyed green for $ 1,800, a two pieces for the child in all of us ( "Man with Lego Surfer Shark") USD 3,800, and a balloon giraffe aspect that could come from the study of Jeff Koons (a bargain USD 7,000).
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Katherine Coleman.
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Villeroy & Boch add new colors.
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Designers Villeroy & Boch have developed new product lines, in addition to expanding the most popular with new sizes and / or colors, including Boston Coloured, Colour Concept, Entrée and purism, expanded this year.
glass, including glasses of white wine, red wine and water, a glass of champagne and a new glass for shots.
For its part, the collection of hand-blown glass Colour Concept has also been expanded to include two new easy to combine Thus, the popular colors, which come to collection Coloured Boston replace oil kiwi and blue commitment pink, bold and colors. delicate color that blends These new colors are perfectly with the Lavender, an intense MarieFleur Grey and Rose purple hue that Cottage collections. harmonizes with the This line is also available in Craftsman Lavendel blue, red, green and clear collection, and Laggon, a
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green with clear natural inspiration. Also, Entrée is perfect for every day. With an extensive range of products available, such as glasses of red wine, white wine glasses and champagne, glasses and a jug, Entrée is extended with three new special glasses for cognac, sherry and beer. Finally, the Purismo collection also grows with a new assortment module. It is Purismo Bar with six new vessels for cocktails.
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GENVITRUM.
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GENVITRUM is a non-profit association dedicated to the people of the glass. An artisan profession for centuries maintained by glassmakers gentle-men, who in the twentieth century becomes an industry: story, characters, factories, craftsmanship and technology, vocabularies, multimedia files and documentation. The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa held on September 28 the European Heritage Days 2016. Among the 53 activities scheduled the conference "Glass Gentes" which had been proposed from GENVITRUM was. This conference was addressed, among other issues, the existence of a glass factory on the beach Ondarreta (San Sebastian). In one of the web pages Genvitrum the following description of this factory appears: "Glass factory Ondarreta [1] San Sebastian also, as other ports in the Cantabrian coast, had a glass factory. It was located in the area of Ondarreta, and used the sands of the beaches. It lasted a few years, and perhaps because of this circumstance San Sebastian continues to maintain its beaches.
The Brunet brothers, who owned the factory of sparkling cider Miquelete [2], installed in 1877 on the grounds of Ondarreta a factory that could produce up to 5,000 bottles of green glass a day. The house workers had the capacity to house 60 families.
Among the directors of the factory find Jose Manuel Brunet. 1883 happens to Guillermo Brunet and Bingley. In these same lands the Brunet built in 1896 the new summer and winter neighborhood in San Sebastián, announced in the White and Black of those years [5].
According to the Industrial Gazette of 1881, in that year Under the chalets where years they worked 80 workers and later residing ambassadors who produced 4,000 bottles a day. [3] came to the court of the King of Spain to spend summers in San The newspaper "Urumea" Sebastian, are the foundations of published on March 4, 1881 N. chronicled Bustinduy (Industrial this glass factory. Engineering), entitled "Industrial Magazine of San Sebastian" where the glass bottle factory Ondarreta mentioned:
Notes:
The same gentlemen Brunet have established a completely new industry in this province, which is the factory Ondarreta glass bottles; this was built 1876 and began working in 1877.
2. Antxon Aguirre Sorondo. The world Lasarte-Oria (page 53) labor.
When running the furnace employs about 80 workers, of which about 45 are foreigners, French and German, and the rest of the country. It produces 4,000 bottles a day and could produce more if consumption is greater.
1. Illustration Spanish and American, July 15, 1877 and recorded text.
3. Carmen Segurola Lazarus. Geography History of San Sebastian (October 2013). 4. In 1875 they established a glass factory in the present district of Ondarreta; but due to insufficient consumption and difficulty of creating workers in the country, the factory was demolished after ten years of work. Album Chart Description Country Vascongado. Page 106 verse. Volume of Guipuzcoa. Years 1914-1915. Picavea.
To grind the land and refractory products used to make glass a crusher Carr, driven by a steam engine eight horsepower is used. 5. Black and White, February 29, After 10 years of activity, the 1896 (hemeroteca ABC). factory closed "by difficulty of creating workers in the country." [4]
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Veteco 2016.
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About 300 companies have confirmed their participation in Veteco 2016, organized by Ifema Fair in Madrid on 25 to 28 October next, to be held under the umbrella of ePower & Building, along with Construtec, Bimexpo, Urbótica lounges and Matelec. This figure represents twice the business participation recorded in the last edition of the contest, 2014. The Fair has 20,000 m2 of exhibition space in Halls 8 and 10 of Ifema.
the Architecture program EÑE, with its own space - The Plaza-, days and I Architecture Awards with EÑE intended to recognize the important role the figure of the architect in the construction cycle.
Another interesting initiative ePower & Building is 'to companies committed to the Passivhaus', a consortium of companies that have joined forces to encourage integrated in ePower & Building knowledge of construction under the The Plaza is a space-the Passivhaus standard fairs. Thus, ephemeral architecture competition 960 professionals from the for its design won the architects construction sector will be trained in Kuneoffice-, dedicated to meet these techniques, through 48 architects, placing value on their workshops that will be held during role. This multifunctional space, the Fair. These workshops, offered very spectacular with its 300 textile by the best accredited by the The same promising expectations pieces and woven hanging from the Passivhaus Institute in Spain awakened Veteco Solar, the main ceiling, will have Lounge, Gastro, German trainers, will be held in novelty of Veteco 2016. Of the 300 Architectural Solutions area, PIA spaces located in Halls 8 (Veteco) companies confirmed to date, one routes, TechTools, El Rollo and and 7 (Construtec). hundred will be present in Veteco Contests workshop area. Solar, which will have own Without leaving the training field, it Regarding the competitions, it must differentiated space within the fair, should highlight the effort to be refer to the I Awards Architecture which is presented as the new made from the halls of ePower & with Eñe, some awards designed professional platform in southern Building by training and for the entire group of architects Europe for the sunscreen industry. dissemination, for which the pits within ePower & Building, featuring Training, a valuable tool available to This initiative is to serve a sector the collaboration of the Higher exhibitors will be arranged. In the both in Spain and in the nearest Colleges of Architects of Spain, pits (Classrooms Workshop) that Mediterranean countries are among CSCAE College and contemplate Ifema available in the various the top filers solutions sunscreen different modalities attending pavilions, companies will present and destination of the largest salons held under the umbrella of their products, demonstrations, volume of exports of the industry of ePower & Building: the Vetecoshare experiences and knowledge, the Iberian Peninsula. Also, Veteco Asefave Awards (including the organize seminars, debates or Solar will host the First Iberian modalities of Window, Facade, giving lectures or practices. Congress of Solar Control and Solar Protection and Thesis with Protection, whose organization have Facade Light); the lights Veteco 2016 will be the meeting collaborated Interempresas Media Architecture (categories Lighting point for professionals in the and publishing Solar Protection, Project Lighting Project Building enclosure industry, with sights set where new proposals and technical and Public Space) Awards; the on the gradual recovery of an solutions both from the perspective Stones Art (Using Stone in Building industry relevant to the construction of the installer, the architect will be and Public Space), and industry. known. Architecture S +, sustainability and Our association will be present at efficiency Awards (Building and Speaking of architects, architecture Public Space) Awards. the fair with the visit of our President will have a special role in salons and our Secretary, who have integrane Power & Building, through already obtained the right pass.
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Shows on windows of Vizcaya.
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The Fisherman's Museum of Bermeo has opened the exhibition "Possessing the light", with images of the main civil and religious windows of Bizkaia created between the nineteenth and late twentieth. The exhibition will remain at the museum until 30 this October, also collects images of sketches of stained glass windows designed by artists such as Anselmo Guinea, Aurelio Arteta and Adolfo Guiard, as explained to Efe the curator of the exhibition, Paula Monica Betanzos.
Some of the windows included in this exhibition were created in the main European workshops dedicated to this art, as representing the Archangel Gabriel made by Florence Camm in workshops William Camm England, preserved in the Artaza Palace Getxo . The exhibition seeks to highlight the importance of this vizcaíno cultural heritage, including remains of a window of the nineteenth century belonging to the Church of San Severino Balmaseda. Betanzos stressed that the
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images of the windows included in the exhibition are presented full -scale or sometimes in an enlarged size, so that the viewer can closely observe the richness of this legacy. In addition, Paula Monica Betanzos offered last September 29 a "virtual" tour to this exhibition. For 20 years, this artist studied the windows of Bizkaia and, within this research and dissemination, has written to the Provincial Council the book "Windows of Bilbao" and teaches courses in glass creation.
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France builds solar roads.
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France and the Netherlands have something in common and are not delicious cheeses. Both countries are promoting green roofs and roads, which oddly enough and smacks of fiction, are generating clean energy. Roads that generate renewable energy are part of a new global trend. In the Netherlands they are implementing a collection system clean energy with a model of paved roads with solar panels coated glass. After six months of testing, engineers report a better performance
than expected: 70 meters of bike lanes are generating 3000 kWh, enough energy to power a small house for a year.
passage of fire trucks 12 tons without suffering any damage.
Each panel is individually connected to smart "If we move the test to an meters that optimize production and transfer annual exercise could expect more than 70Wh their energy to the mains or public lighting. generated per square meter per year," says Recently France has also Sten de Wit. announced the Imagine the potential if all construction of solar road roads were solar panels. thousand kilometers. This important project coordinated by the Institute of Solar Energy of France and the Agency for Energy and Solar panels used on the Environment will develop bike path are interleaved over the next five years layers of glass, silicone and will have a significant rubber and cement. impact on reducing tons A report Clean Energy of greenhouse gas XXI states that are strong emissions. enough to withstand the In Spain and Mediterranean countries it would be fabulous performance.
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ARC want to activate Vicrila.
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The ARC French group wants to take control of the Basque company Vicrila, which he left in 2009 after they should do with the actions a group of managers with the support of the Basque Government.
intended to finance its international expansion with the opening of a production plant in Mexico.
The company through right now important cash flow problems, which have led it to delay ARC, who wanted to paying some salaries, a close the company due to situation that has excess production generated protests by the capacity glass table in workforce in recent Europe, now says it is weeks. ready to invest 10 million French group euros and maintain the representatives have met activity of this company, with officials of the dedicated to the Department of Economic production of cups and Development and glasses and It employs Competitiveness of the about 300 workers. Basque Government, The Basque government since the position of the injected 19 million euros Executive will be key to in the company through the operation can bear several investment funds, fruit. some of which were
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Also it is pending negotiation between ARC and banking, as Vicrila currently has a financial debt that exceeds 50 million euros. Basque Government sources said the government has already expressed to the company gala willingness to facilitate the operation, in order that the activity and employment is maintained. The president of the council, Iñaki Icaza, LSB / USO, said the interest of the French company is an "encouraging" news to the difficult situation, while expressed confidence in the plans that ARC has advanced to ensure continuity Lamiako plant.
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Digital printing in glasses.
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No one doubts the prominence "You must have your acquired glass in today's measurements, drilling and architecture. intaglios and definitive, because the end of the Thanks to technological process is to tune it, a step development, today it is that must be done without fail, possible to find films that since the printing ink is based propose unique textures and on ceramic particles and glass allow customization of spaces. particles are vitrified and If these developments enabled melted next to the glass to be various applications, the permanently on the cloth advent of printed glass "report Artglass advisers multiplies the creative VidPia signature. opportunities, either for private Thus, a noble material and spaces, public places or good behavior, which allows commercial salons. replacement of colorless or It is glass that possess one or tinted glasses one customized both sides a drawing or to customer's taste and decorative texture that imagination is achieved. prevents clear vision and Once you have done transmits light diffusely tempering you can not make offering, according to the any adjustments, since (due to design, different degrees of security features VIRIO by this translucency and privacy. process) is broken. This new product provides Concrete allow absolute solutions for projects freedom of artistic expression carpenters and glaziers, and and design of any project. allows to realize ideas for any home. "You can perform various types of printing, pictures, It is the concrete possibility of patterns, frames, full color, capturing the expression dual-point. solar control through digital printing system printing, where the percentage on raw glass. of radiation, illumination and
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reflection shown is possible is needed, and thus define a given image using a particular software "from Vidpia described. They conclude: "This type of glass must be differentiated from the screen-printed or plotted, because they are highly durable, have high resistance to scratches and over time, as well as the inclement weather and solar radiation because of its material" . Their conditions and materials make it suitable for: - Fronts and facades. - Revenue. - Institutional image. - Closings, stairs and balconies. - Bedrooms, living room or kitchen. - Bathrooms and shower enclosures. - Lighting, art and street furniture.
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Models larger glass.
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Madrid will exhibit the latest models of architectural glass larger Europe in the new edition of the Veteco 2016 Fair to be held in the grounds of Ifema from 25 to 28 this October. In it, Tvitec undertaking processing high performance glass, will present at its stand the products up to 12 meters can be supplied to the market unique building in double glazing, tempered, laminated and silkscreened to contribute to energy saving and an aesthetic result end quality.
Tvitec show on its stand, made entirely of glass, its ability to transform into large pieces up to 12 meters in length that are used in large facades and enclosures around the world as well as in the execution of interiors.
Reynaers Aluminium, which will display your system for HiFinity sliding minimalist, featuring glazed surfaces extending from floor to ceiling, so discreet that the chassis becomes invisible and get a great lightness.
Tvitec also combine its stand glazings in Veteco 2016 with Eastman products, in this case Vanceva, PVB with different color finishes that bring a Also, Tvitec have their doors special touch to any laminated open during those days in Hall glass design, as well as 10 (stand 10E08) for the public security and soundproofing. to know their news. In addition to these largeformat products, they will also present other solutions for the closing.
To do this, he will team with
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China closes the glass bridge longer.
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In the penultimate page of our Bulletin Last September we published the news of the opening of the longest bridge in China World's glass.
meters above the ground.
Faced with this influx of people, the managers of the bridge have announced the need to "improve the internal Well, this footbridge glass system ', which includes' longest in the world, recently software and equipment visitor opened in the spectacular management," according to mountains of Zhangjiajie the official Xinhua news (China) has temporarily closed agency said, without as a victim of its own success, specifying the date of two weeks after opening to the reopening. public. The company that manages When it opened, he said the the bridge has apologized to number of visitors should be passengers who had already limited to 8,000 people a day. booked their visit, although this gesture has not prevented the However, in the first weeks of scathing reviews on the operation it has received more Internet, as this tourist: "I'm than 10,000 people every day, already on the train. I can not attracted by this amazing change my plan or get a bridge, 430 meters long, 300 refund. You are the biggest
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cheaters in the world. " This park, included in the UNESCO World Heritage and famous for its rugged mountains surrounded by clouds, landscapes inspired the movie Avatar. After an incident in 2015 in another glass bridge in Henan, where the structure had cracked, local authorities have organized several events with the media to demonstrate the strength of the bridge Zhangjiajie. Even a reporter was invited to hit the bridge with a hammer and another ushered into a vehicle with passengers on the bridge, without consequences for the structure.
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Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
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Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos