An exhibition of recycling art Time and Glass opened on Baikal

An exposition about the history of glass and the possibilities of its processing is located in the Taltsy architectural and ethnographic complex.

The exhibition is a joint project of the Melting Glass and Clover workshops and the Taltsy Museum. Guests will be told about the history of the glass factory, which was located on the territory of the modern museum, and will be shown products made from recycled glass.

At the Time and Glass exhibition, special attention is paid not only to the importance of collecting and recycling recycled glass. The history of this place is very interesting - in the 20th century there was a glass factory here. The factory produced household utensils, window and mirror glass, and even porcelain. And in Soviet times, the plant produced dishes from recycled glass. During the operation of the enterprise, a large village of Taltsy grew up around it with a church, a school and several shops.

The exhibition of the plant's old products will be complemented by recycled art objects created in the Plavem Glass and Clover workshops. The exhibition will also show whether time affects glass and attitudes towards it, as well as the possibilities of its endless recycling.

“Today, this malleable and extremely brittle material is still being worked on. And if earlier it was in short supply, today the issue of processing excess products becomes an obvious necessity. For this reason, “Time and Glass” is a kind of historical bridge to the time of the shortage of glass, the transformation of the meaning of this material in time,” the organizers say.

Within the framework of the exhibition, master classes will be held on creating decor from recycled glass, an action to collect garbage from the bottom of the Angara and in the coastal zone, followed by processing the found glass into an art object.

The exhibition will run until September 15.

Reference:

The Taltsin glass factory was founded in 1784 by the Swedish scientist Eric Laxman and his partner, the local merchant Baranov, on the Taltsinka River. The factory used a new method of glass production invented by Laxman: he replaced potash (an alkaline salt obtained from wood and grass ash) with Glauber's salt. As a result, his glass turned out to be as strong and beautiful as English glass. The Taltsin factory produced glassware, window and mirror glass, and souvenirs. In the 1950s, in connection with the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, the plant was moved to the city of Tulun.

Source: https://recyclemag.ru/