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Artec de México Art and Technology to Preserve Works of Art |
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Tempestad Magazine
RECOVERY, RESTITUTION, RESTORATION The artist is a critic of his moment. When he creates, he is trying to give us the speech that will move us, touch us. Is his way to link the audience in time and distance? Although the inner process of the creator is completely abstract, normally our relation with the master piece is mainly through the five senses (talking about painting or sculpture is strictly visual), because his master piece produces in ourselves an emotional effect which many times we simply express with a “I like it”, or “I do not like it”. We could describe it as beautiful or strong…The eye, one of the most sensible parts of our body, is however incapable of decoding an unwritten message, it senses the image, but misses the speech. And this is why, when a master piece is damaged the communication between the piece and our senses is interrupted, the speech gets lost and therefore the master pieces loses its power. The power of sending a massage, because the only bond that connected us, has been interrupted by the physical fracture. The function of the restaurateur is not only to recover the physical structure of the master piece, but also to recover the massage proposed by the artist in his speech. To recover the missing parts and to reintegrate the colors is like putting letters back to incomplete words and word to incomplete paragraphs, in such a way that when the restaurateur finishes his work the spectator to read the complete essay, the possibility to establish a relationship with the piece of art. Recover, restore, replace: are words that tell us about what an object has lost and we had to give back. Nevertheless, perhaps the most important function of the curator (preservator) to give the people back, the possibility to interact again with it. With that object that holds a big emotional load- in case the object was inherited- or the one that was acquired at a considerable amount of money,
BASIC GUIDE TO ART PRESERVATION
OBJECT RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS HISTORY
CLEANING PROBLEMS IN WORKS OF ART RESTORATION
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