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On Thursday 16 and Friday 17 of November, International Symposium on "Glass, Functional Material for the Future" in Nancy. Be there too! During these two days live news and pictures of the events in the Section "News" of www.idverre.net Thanks for visiting us.

St-Art : 11th Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair
The organizers have invited the ESGAA to participate in the 2006 St'Art fair which will take place from November 24 - 27, 2006.
In collaboration with the fair management, ESGAA will propose glass related events within the fair:
- Joan Crous "Cenae 6"
A catalogue of Joan Crous will be specially published for this occasion and will inaugurate thepublication sector of ESGAA.
- Hyoung-Won Yu "Tension"
- Charlotte Hatté "je te tu me"
Catherine Pochylski "instant's screen"
ESGAA will host two round tables on Saturday November 25, 2006.
All round tables will be in French and will take place within the St-Art fair, in Parc des Expositions du Wacken.
The round tables will be hosted by Mr. Hervé CLAUDE, journalist on ARTE:
- Contemporary Italian Glass 14:30 (2:30 PM)
- Sponsoring, Contemporary Art and Companies : A successful collaboration, 16:30 ( 4:30 PM)
St'Art
Parc des Expositions
67007 Strasbourg Wacken, France
Tel : 03 88 37 21 21

Arcverre, object / design database
AnaThiel : Trine
Vanessa Mitrani pour Salviati : Fibre
Ghislène Jolivet pour Salviati : Envers endroit
Atelier Fil de Verre, Chéné et Morin : La Traversée
Daum : Fleur (en) volée
Stéphanie Dinet : Dessous chics

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Kamenicky Senove
you will find a report from the celebration of the 150. years anniversary.
www.supss.clnet.cz/stranky/akce/150/prubeh.html

Daum : China collection 2006
Daum signed an agreement with the cernushi Museum and the Guinet Museum and in addition with two famous contemporary Chinese artists. The collection was presented in Nancy (France), november 7.
www.daum.fr

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Glass Studio Opportunity in Denmark
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft has a studio offer not to be missed.
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft
Strandvejen 1
DK-8400 Ebeltoft
Tel: +45 8634 1799
Fax:+45 8634 6060
glasmuseet@glasmuseet.dk
www.glasmuseet.dk
Read the offer
@sources Dan Klein associates

II International Symposium of Art Glass Gus-Khrustalny
The 2nd International Symposium of Art Glass will take place in Gus-Khrustalny (Russia) from 26th February to 3rd March 2007. The symposium will be organized with the support of Russian Academy of Arts, Association of Russian artists, National Committee of Glass Industry Enterprises "Steklosoyuz", Glass Industry Enterprise Association of the Vladimir region, Administration of the Vladimir region. Leading artists, technicians and art experts dealing with artistic glassware will participate in this symposium.
In the course of symposium the world tendencies, market development and technical maintenance of artistic glassware industry, copyright questions as well as production organizing problems will be discussed.
At the symposium the participants will be given an opportunity to realize their ideas concerning production and decoration of glass items with the help of qualified foremen of Experimental glassworks. The main sections will deal with :
- melting of flint glass and coloured glass (wide colour spectrum);
- hand working of glass items (crackled glass, millefiori);
- glass production by means of blowing into wooden, metal or plaster mold;
- glass production into metal blank mold (stained glass);
- glass decoration with silicate paints and luster, gold, portrait painting;
- glass decoration with etching;
- cold glass decoration with diamond cut, engraving;
- glass items adhesion;
- lamp-work.

At the same time in the course of symposium the contest of unique glass items made by artists will be held.
During Symposium the "Glass on the snow" landscape exhibition of unique glass items made by artists will be organized.
You are kindly requested to fill in and send the application form to the organizing committee. Please inform your colleagues from other companies dealing with art glass about our Symposium as far as possible.

Postal address : 114, Internatsionalnaya str., Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir region, Russia, 601500.
Telephone: (49241) 2 54 01, 93 1 77
Fax: (49241) 2 54 01, 2 53 02
prod@niis.kolp.ru

press review

EU glass industrie 2005
The EU-25 is the word's largest market, both in terms of production (34,8 million tonnes) and consumption. The European glass industry with its ca. 1300 compagnies (195 800 employees) accounts for more than one quarter of the non-metallic mineral sector.The glass industry is highly concentrated and more than 80 % of glass is produced by less than 10 multinationals of each more than 1 000 employees. The other companies are small or medium-sized but mainly specialists.
Revue Verre, vol 12,N° 5, octobre 2006

events

RACHAEL Woodman "Dreams in glass"
Twenty five years developing colour and form in glass
18 November 2006 - 1 April 2007
Victoria Art Gallery, by Pulteney Bridge, Bath

Rachael Woodman has spent most of her working life in Bath so it seems entirely appropriate that her first retrospective exhibition, celebrating a career spanning twenty five years, should take place in the city.

A skilled technician, Rachael Woodman is known for her highly refined forms and dazzling use of colour as well as an ability to exploit the opaque, translucent and transparent qualities of glass in highly innovative ways. Her ideas have never stood still. Her earliest series of Bevelled Bowls combined layers of colours within a formal vessel, whereas in her more recent Vertical and Chosen series she has "de-constructed" the pieces into separate elements which she then composes into vibrant sculptural works. Her sources of inspiration range from a purely aesthetic delight in using glass as a unique vehicle for colour and form to intensely personal reflections on her Christian faith. These factors have combined to create work of great presence and enduring quality.

Born in 1957, Rachael Woodman gained her first degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic and after two years abroad at Orrefors Glass School, Sweden and in studios in Denmark and Germany, she completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in London in 1984. Since then, she has established herself as an internationally recognised studio glass artist and as a successful industrial designer, notably with Dartington Crystal. For Dartington she created the 'Rachael Collection' and 'Winemaster' both collections of stemware that are still in production today.

A past winner of the Royal Society of Arts Dartington Glass Prize, the Corning Glass Prize, Form '91 and The Bavarian State Gold Medal, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA and has work in many public and private collections including the Corning Glass Museum, New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, whose current guide book features Empty Vessels, a group of vases by Rachael Woodman as the cover illustration.

For further information and images please contact Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon on 020 7581 9888, email cbeck@adriansassoon.com or Victoria Art Gallery on 01225 477232; email sue_lucy@bathnes.gov.uk. The Victoria Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday 1.30 to 5 (closed Monday). Admission is free.
sources @Dan Klein associates

Montreal, Contes muets (Mute Tales) Glass sculptures by Michèle Lapointe
Maison de la culture Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie
6707, avenue De Lorimier, Montréal.
Studio 2
"It was while discovering antique dolls, borrowed from the world of little girls, with their used bodies, dislocated limbs and intense gazes that I felt strong emotions and feelings which are sometimes empty, sometimes ephemeral and sometimes prolonged that I imagined these volatile tales, mute imprints of stories and real facts."
Glass, collage, objects, found images and photos, these are the material that the artist used to create her installations.

Transparent realism , contemporary Nordic glass art
10.11.06 - 31.12.06
North-Norwegian Art Center
Box 285
N 8301 Svolvær
Norway
+47 76 06 67 70
www.nnks.no

Participating artists :
Tove Ohlander (Nor.), Benjamin Slotteroy (Nor.), Marie Lindgren (Swe.), Ned Cantrell (Den.), Johannes Rantasalo (Fin.), AEsa Bjork Thorsteinsdottir (Ice.).
For more information : Lisbeth Dahllof, Tlf: +47 76 06 67 70,
lisbeth.dahllof@nnks.no

The exhibiton Transparent realism contemporary Nordic glass art shows six nordic glass artists working figuratively in glass.
From Anne Karin Jortveits catalogue essay:
'The six artists represented in Transparent realism all operate in a conceptual space in which glass is much more than just an aesthetically pleasing material with functional potential. For all of these young artists, glass is a reflective medium, offering a multitude of opportunities for dialogue with the surrounding world. They have experience of craft, design and art, which allows them to use the material as an overarching platform containing references at both the functional and conceptual levels. They each represent a distinct aspect of contemporary glass art, but they are united by their figurative mode of expression. By alluding to areas such as pop art, ready-mades, physiology, science and through social engagement, they explore different levels of reality.'
The exhibiton is sponsored by Nordic Culture Fund, The Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts, Essemce and Glasma AB.

Antoine Leperlier, Galerie CAPAZZA
Nançay en Sologne
From october 7th to december 10th 2006
To see the catalog with beautiful text of Andrew Brewerton on the web site :
www.capazza-galerie.com

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An abstract of the last issue of Idveille
China
Asahi Glass is building a second automotive glass plant in Guangdong province. The production will start in early 2008 and the company aims to grab about 30% of the overall Chinese market.
Vietnam and USA
Artglass is the first glass producer toi export to the USA! The company has won a contract to export lights, logos and name plates of basketballteams, colleges and universities. The total exports in 2006 will amount around 3 MUSD.

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