What’s changing. Theories and practices of restoration in contemporary art
10.02.2012 - 11.02.2012 from 0:00 to 0:00
Curators: Maria Cristina Mundici and Antonio Rava
10 February, 10 am – 5.30 pm, Conference Room
11 February, 10 am – 5 pm, Conference Room
“What happens to a work of art over time, both in its material form and in the perception one has of it? How has research into the restoration of contemporary art developed?” These are the questions underlying the major international conference organised by the Castello di Rivoli 25 years after the first Italian conference on the restoration of contemporary art, organised at the time by the Museum. What’s changing sees the participation of speakers from the most prestigious international universities, museums and foundations and is divided into sections covering the main sectors involved in the conservation of contemporary art: the development of the techniques and materials used by artists, advances in the concept of preventive conservation, new restoration techniques, moving and installing works of art and scientific research in the field of synthetic materials.
10 February
9.30 am Accreditation
10 am welcome
10.15 am Proposals for a theory of the restoration of contemporary art
Giorgio Bonsanti, former professor of History and techniques of restoration at the Universities of Turin and Florence
10.45 am Conservation and Materiality of Contemporary Art
Ijsbrand Hummelen, Senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN)
11.15 am Protecting, conserving and restoring contemporary art. The philosophical horizon
Massimo Carboni, Lecturer in Aesthetics, University of la Tuscia
11.45 am Form and memory, hypotheses for the conservation of contemporary art
Antonio Rava, lecturer in the restoration of contemporary art at the Centro Conservazione e Restauro (CCR) of Venaria Reale – Turin
12.15 pm Contemporary art, conservation and market
Marina Pugliese, Director of Polo del Novecento e Arte Contemporanea, Milan
12.45 pm Debate
13.15 pm Interval
3 pm The limits of contemporary restoration
Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Soprintendente at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
3.30 pm Restoration and the Law: roles, limits and consequences
Massimo Sterpi, Jacobacci Avvocati, Rome
4 pm Ethical conflicts in the conservation of contemporary art based on contemporary technology
Mikel Rotaeche and González de Ubieta, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
4.30 pm The study and conservation issues of the plastics and resins used by John McCracken and De Wain Valentine in their 1960s/70s sculpture
Thomas J S Learner, Senior Scientist, Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Research, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
5 pm What to do? Saving Arte Povera in the Netherlands
Lydia Beerkens, Senior Conservator Modern Art, SRAL – Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg, Maastricht
5.30 pm Debate
11 February
10 am Non-invasive in-situ research of some paintings by Mondrian, Picasso and Burri. A multi-analytical study of the materials in De Dominicis’ “Calamita Cosmica”
Antonio Sgamellotti, Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Perugia
10.30 am Experiences of restoring Arte Povera
Barbara Ferriani, Studio Barbara Ferriani, Milan
11 am From research to restoration of Arte Povera and All the Steps in Between
Thea van Oosten, freelance conservation scientist, Amsterdam
11.30 am Contemporary drawing seen through the lens of artistic techniques and conservation problems
Antonio Mirabile, Preventive conservation, Restoration of art and documents on paper, UNESCO Expert, Paris
12 noon Synthetic materials in comtemporary art: opportunities and problems
Oscar Chiantore, Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Technology at the MFN Sciences Faculty, Università degli Studi di Torino
12.30 pm Debate
1 pm Interval
2.30 pm Cleaning acrylic emulsion paintings: case study treatments, evaluation and reflections
Bronwyn Ormsby, Senior Conservation Scientist Tate, London
3 pm Asbestos in modern and contemporary art. Problems of disaply and conservation
Galileo Pellion di Persano, Laboratorio di restauro e analisi Persano Radelet, Turin
3.30 pm Working with living artists
Luisa Mensi, Luisa Mensi – Conservazione e Restauro, Turin
4 pm The ISCR: an approach to method in the restoration of contemporary artworks – case studies
Grazia De Cesare, restorer, Contemporary art materials laboratory, Istituto Superiore Conservazione e Restauro, Rome
4.30 pm “What to do?” Historical and technical research, restoration of Mario Merz’s Igloo de Giap
Chantal Quirot, Head of sculpture restoration, Service de Restauration du MNAM-CCI, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
5 pm Debate