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Artec de México Art and Technology to Preserve Works of Art |
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Arte y Negocios Magazine
OBJECT RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS HISTORY Whatever we consider a master piece, has always an obvious aesthetic function, but also the piece is a historical object that is related to its moment, and may be or may not be the present, and that always keeps an attachment with the context it was created, and at the same time with the society it deals with, the one who uses it, who understands it, who enjoys it, and moves around it. The restaurateur can sense an object as a group of symbols, where the elements that are part of it are signs with a legible symbolic load, easily detectable in religious pieces where ornamental elements where used, or specific colors in clothing in determined characters are perfect clues top identify the character of the scene. The main role of the restaurateur is to recover all those values, so the object may have back the power to communicate. He must define if it is a usable object, if it has another function other than expressing an aesthetic intention. When the object was made as a communicator of an idea or a belief, the elements inside it are essential to understand the intrinsic message, when an element is modified or there is a big missing part, the message is interrupted, the communications between the object and the spectator will be stopped. It is then when the restaurateur job is totally necessary to reinstall the communication between the object and the observatory, in a completely comprehensible way therefore our relation with the object may be interactive. The restaurateur begins his work researching the historic background to understand completely that piece, the one that must be repaired and all its elements tangible and intangible must be reinstall. If the restaurateur does not make a proper research, he may, no intentionally, make modifications that will interfere with the reading of the message of the object in the future. This is why a total respect for the piece is an indispensable behavior in restoration practice. To know the limit of intervention is indispensable to conserve the piece, this ensures its integrity and allows its preservation through time, so new generations may be able to understand the cultural baggage that withhold all and everyone of the objects that come to as from the past. And when History and Literature end all their possibilities of explaining physical and chemical elements, then science and technology act as a resource almost infallible in detecting the physical and chemical elements unreachable to the reflection. MCO
RECOVERY, RESTITUTION, RESTORATION
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