I was born in Buenos Aires, I graduated in Publicity.
After traveling through different techniques to express myself in an artistic way, I found, in the glass, a new mean of expression so tangible as ethereal. The colors and the handling make the glass, the ideal raw material to plastically express myself. The vitrofusion is a glass superposition and fold technique. The glass is fired at approximately 790¢X it can be colored with oxides.This technique was already known by the Egyptians, but it was re-discovered in this century.
So my intention is to offer a service to architects, designers, decorators, particulars, in which I can work with all my experience with glass for all type of wish or special work.

FUSED GLASS
It is said that fused glass was discovered 4000 years ago, by Fenician sailors that were cocking some food in a beach, under the stars. When they moved their pots, the following day, the sand that was under those was turned into glass. The fusion of the glass disappeared virtually when the Romans developed another technique that was the glass blow. But the glass fusion appeared again round 1940 and it grew quickly in the 90¡¦s when the Bullseye Glass developed a special line of fused glass. Although there are different types of glasses, the essential elements still are, sand and intense heat. The fused glass, also called hot glass or glass formed in oven, is created when glass pieces are cut, and they are put in a special oven at a 1600¢X temperature. At the beginning, the glass are just big leaves (34" X 36" usually) of artistic glass, that I cut with glass cutters and two special types of pliers. I use my own designs, combining different sizes, shapes, textures, colors of glass in two to six layers. Some glasses remain bright, others are transparently colored, others are painted more dull, some have an iridescent coat, and others are of the dichroic glass type (observe in the next page). When a piece put all together, it is deposited in the oven in a shell and the fusion starts.

FORTH STATE OF THE MATTER
What makes the glass a unique material, is that it is always in a liquid state. This material is known as "the forth state of the matter" because it doesn¡¦t have a solid nor gas state. Although windows and other objects like wine bottles look solid, the glass that compose this objects is a cooled liquid whose molecules move really slowly. If the glass is fired in an oven, the liquid nature of the material will be visible. At a temperature of 1450¢X F, you can see the edges of the cut glass that start to melt. At 1550¢X F the major part of the glass is melted and is turns into a syrup (at high temperatures), and if the temperature gets higher, you will be able to see how the oven moves from side to side.
The temperature of the oven is in intimate relationship with glass form and will determine how the fused glass piece will look like, when it is finished.
Some of my designs use "Tack Fuse". This means that the glass is heated so much that all the pieces are fused and become one solid piece of glass. Other designs, are fired at a higher temperature, so that they reach a "Full Fuse", and the separated pieces loose their shapes and all the fusion becomes a more controlled piece.
After the glass reaches to the temperature that I desire for a particular piece, the cooling or cold process starts. All the glass has to expand and contract with the same ratio (it has to have the same "expansion ratio" so that all the cut parts are fused together completely, and that it is still stable when the glass gets cold again). The glass is cooled very slowly, and when the process is finished, the pieces are filled by hand. Some pieces are fired more than once, with new layers and elements added in the middles of the firings.

DICHROIC GLASS
I use dichroic glass in the major part of my work. Dichroic means "Two colors" (Greek): the dichroic glass reflect a color (when the light crushes against the glass¡¦s surface) and transmits a different color. You can also watch a third color generally in an angle. The dichroic glass represents an air-space industry contribution to the art world. The technology is based in the thin films physics. The dichroic glass is made in an empty chamber, where the hot glass is coated with multiple microlayers of metallic oxides (selenium, titanium, magnesium, and others) that were vaporized with an electrical pistol. The colors that are transmitted and reflected in a particular piece of dichroic glass depend of which metallic oxides are used, and of how many microlayers are applied and in which order.
When you observe a piece of dichroic glass, you¡¦ll see only the reflected color, but you see it very intensely. If the dichroic coating is in the back of the clear glass, you will be able to see the colors sliding, and on the sides of the piece you will see that there is no color in the glass. It¡¦s a clear glass. The colors that you observe are physical in action. The result of the microlayers of the metallic oxides, is that they do not have colors, and that the interact with the light.

The art that can be used, is still art when you are not using it
Is the glass fragile? Does this material require a special treatment? The glass is as fragile as the glass that is used for bottles or drinking glasses. The things that break a drinking glass will also break a fused glass, for example the fact of throwing a glass against a hard surface, or hitting it with another piece of glass, etc.. If you avoid things like this, the pieces will be forever, like the glass little balls, that can last for hundreds of years. The glass can be washed with clean water of alcohol, when the piece need it. There is no paint in the glass, so that there is nothing that can come loose or ripped. The dichroic glass is not going to be ripped once it is fired in the oven. Sometimes, I receive calls of some client that has done something that has scratched his piece of fused glass. In those cases, I fix the piece if it¡¦s possible, if I cannot do it, I give him a discount in a similar piece. And remember? The art that can be used, is still art when you are not using it.

Artistic vocational training
2000/01	painting in acrylic Marisa Varela
1998/01	Fusing Miguel Diez
1994/96	Glass fusion, TECHNIQUE OF ENAMELS IN GLASS Mila Wertheimer
1993/94	blown glass Miguel Russo
1992/94	painting in oil and acrylic Adrian Dorado
1990/92	painting in acrylic and oil Felipe Noe
1988/90	painting in acrylic and oil Kenneth Kemble