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Ladies and light
For the first time, Baccarat is celebrating women and light through a dazzling event that pays tribute to their creativity. Ten women designers or interior decorators, deliberately selected for their contrasting personalities, would be asked to create ten crystal chandeliers.
These artists were willing to take full advantage of the creative free reign offered. Letting their imagination run wild, they designed and created one-of-a-kind pieces, offering a radical new take on the crystal drops in Baccarat's traditional chandeliers. Hailing from the world of fashion, design or interior design, these women have one thing in common: talent and imagination that are uniquely their own.
These women draw on multiple sources of inspiration and use innovative light sources such as LEDs and fiber optic cables. As a result, their creations are sheer magic.
Their choices make this event a fabulous vehicle for Baccarat's creativity and dynamism, treating light as the purest of materials.
After shows in Tokyo and Paris, these extraordinary chandeliers will be preciously stored in the Baccarat archives.
October 5th - November 4th 2006
Musée Baccarat, 11 place des Etats Unis, Paris 16eme, France

Arcverre, base objet / design
Du Verre à la Flamme, Inséparables mais...
Obsidian Glass, African Renaissance Chair
Mauro Bonaventura, Sinapsi
Mauro Bonaventura, Biosphère
Michel Stefanini, Le rêveur de près
Jean-Pierre Baquère, Cinquante deux bols

Selected website : Robert Wynne
Robert Wynne is one of the pioneers of the studio glass movement in Australia. He is represented in collections nationally and internationally.
www.robertwynne.com

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Coburg, Dan Klein's opinion
http://www.idverre.net/actu/pdf/coburg-glaspreis-2006.pdf

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The Glass Sellers Prize 2006
Announcing the winners
This years prestigious Glass Sellers Prize worth £4,000 was won by glass artist Colin Reid for his cast glass piece Cello.
The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers ( www.glass-sellers.co.uk) dates back to the 17th Century and has for some years supported artistic expression in glass by offering two annual awards, including a student award.
There were well over 100 submissions this year and of their consistently high standard made it an extremely difficult choice. All the judges remarked on the high quality of entries this year and the difficulty of choosing the winners.
A special award of £1 000 was made to the runner-up, Jessica Townsend. The winner of the Student Award 2006 is June Kingsbury, an award of £500 has been made to the student runner-up, Tracy Nicholls.
An exhibition of the shortlisted works is planned for 2007, to be held at the Glass Art Gallery. Sylvie Marks, studio manager
The Glass Art Gallery
7 The Leathermarket, Weston Street, London SE1 3ER
Tel: 0207 403 2800
Fax: 0207 403 7778
info@londonglassblowing.co.uk
www.londonglassblowing.co.uk
@sources Dan Klein associates

Pink Hope in Europe
In support of breast cancer care
Starting October 1 2006, Swarovski will join in the support of breast cancer care throughout Europe.
This year, Swarovski has designed a Pink Hope Bracelet 2006. In Switzerland, Swarovski's Pink Hope cooperation with the Swiss Cancer League has become a tradition. In 2005, Swarovski donated CHF 40 000 from the sales of Pink Hope Broches.
@sources : www.swarovski.com


This Italian Stained-Glass Windows Database,
In course of realization at the present time, offers the researchers a practical and easy tool for exploring the whole corpus of the Italian stained-glass windows dating from the VI to the XVI century, including not only the ones still in situ but also the scattered panels in private collections and museums in Italy and abroad. The work project foresees the census of about 500 stained-glass windows.
The lecture key is based on three indexes: Subject, Location (with the name of the region, town, cathedral, monasteries, museum) and a Typological index of the windows (rose, mullioned window, lancet window, qamarrieh, etc.)
www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/eng/indici.htm

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Hot Shop Visiting Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel
October 18 - 22, 2006
The Museum of Glass is pleased to welcome renowned French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to the Hot Shop
During his Museum of Glass residency. In his work, Othoniel explores fantasy, desire, self-portraiture and the body and often produces narrative installations inspired by these themes
Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art
1801 Dock Street, Tacoma.WA 98402
Information Line 253.284.4750 or 1.866.4MUSEUM
museumofglass.org

Petr Vadura, The Art of glass
from the 9th of November to the 23rd of December 2006
opening on the 9th of November at 6 p.m
Galerie Mathieu
48, rue Burdeau
69001 Lyon
Tel: 33 (0)4 78 39 72 19
Fax : 33 (0)4 78 39 45 19

New Finnish Glass Art 2000-2005
Touring exhibition by the Finnish Glass Museum
Stichting Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam from Oct. 21, 2006 to Jan. 15, 2007
In September 2006 there will be published a catalogue in English, New Finnish Glass Art 2000-2005.

The following artists are included in the exhibition :
Anne Aalto, Kari Alakoski, Hans-Cristian Berg, Markus Eerola, Tuomas Ervamaa, Brita Flander, Mary-Jane Gregory, Alfredo Häberli, Liisa Ikävalko, Sara Ilveskorpi, Jukka Isotalo, Alma Jantunen, Viola Karvinen, Päivi Kekäläinen, Pirjo Kivimäki-Krouvila, Ninna Kjällman-Kukla, Klaus-Tuomas Kopu, Juha Kortevuori, Susanne Koskimäki, Harri Koskinen, Esko Kurvinen, Nathalie Lahdenmäki, Antti Lampisuo, Riikka Latva-Somppi, Johanna Lehto, Jaakko Liikanen, Joni Liukkonen, Reima Maaronen, Tarmo Maaronen, Pertti Meriläinen, Pertti Metsälampi, Camilla Moberg, Kazushi Nakada, Kerttu Nurminen, Rosa Ortega Grönlund, Pekka Paunila, Anu Penttinen, Martti Peräluoma, Markku Piri, Johannes Rantasalo, Ristomatti Ratia, Auli Rautiainen, Timo Rytkönen, Anucha Saenglab, Gina Salaris, Säde Salmi-Nykopp, Markku Salo, Mitsuru Sato, Scroderus Anna, Satu Siimes, Jari-Matti Solin, Nanny Still, Taru Syrjänen, Kirsti Taiviola, Oiva Toikka, Jan Torstensson, Minna Tuohisto-Kokko, Heikki Ulvi, Juha Valkonen, Vesa Varrela, Miia Virtasalmi

More information:
Kaisa Koivisto, curator
The Finnish Glass Museum
Tehtaankatu 23
FI-11910 Riihimäki
Tel : 358-20-758 4101
kaisa.koivisto@riihimaki.fi

Negreanu and 40 other glass artists are represented by Gallery Mariska Dirkx at the Glasstec
Messe Dusseldorf, Hall 9A60
www.glasstec.de
Galerie Mariska Dirkx
Wilhelminasingel 67
NL-6041 CH Roermond
Tel/Fax : +31-(0)475-317137
Mobile : +31(0)6-54927759
galerie.dirkx@wxs.nl
www.galeriemariskadirkx.nl

press review

Starting with beads on the via vitro
This Side Up! n° 2/2006, 06/2006, p. 4-5

Artist's portrait : Wim Delvoye
This Side Up n° 2/2006, 06/2006, p. 8-9

From Works to Book: General Catalogue of the Contemporary Glass Art Collection
From 17 October to 5 November 2006, in parallel with the exhibition 'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2005', the Mudac will be displaying the work entailed in producing this trilingual book (French / English / German) consisting of 412 pages and around 500 colour illustrations.
At the end of three years joint work by Chantal Prod'Hom and Bettina Tschumi, helped by members of the Glass Group (Traudl Engelhorn, Alissa Gerlich, Rosmarie Lippuner and Gabrielle Guth) and in collaboration with Atelier Cocchi, Lausanne (graphic design), La Bibliothèque des Arts (publishers) as well as with the team of partners involved in this project 'specialised authors, translators, editors and photographers'the mudac is pleased to present the stages undergone by the book, from development of the concept up until concrete realisation.
A few fundamental aspects: What scenario should be adopted. What order should we choose for the presentation of the works: by order of their entry into the inventory, by stylistic, technical or geographic grouping... How can we show off the objects to their best advantage and legitimise the consistency of the procedures followed by the collectors and the museum. What should be illustrated: everything or just part, and according to which criteria. How should we select the authors for the texts. What type of artwork, what general graphic presentation, and with what aims. So many questions, among others, that arise during an enterprise of this kind and that we will have the pleasure of presenting to you in exhibition form on the occasion of this first private book view organised at the mudac.
A thematic party will be organised for thursday, 26 october 2006, at 18h.
Bettina Tschumi, the person in charge of the Contemporary Glass Art Collection, will describe the production history of this book, explain the options retained regarding the presentation of the works and answer questions from the public.
On this occasion we will also be screening a number of documentaries about artists represented in the collection, including Stanislav Lybensky and Jaroslava Brychtova (I Grandi Vetri, exhibition of sculptures, Bergamo, 1998), Bohumil Elias (Metamorphoses, 2001) and Frantisek Vizner (documentary produced in 2002 under the patronage of the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague).

L'art du verre contemporain collection du MUDAC Lausanne
Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains
Place de la Cathédrale 6
CH - 1005 Lausanne
Suisse
Tel : +41 21 315 25 30
Fax : +41 21 315 25 39
www.mudac.ch

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