The Centro Conservazione Restauro La Venaria Reale participated in the ninth edition of Future Talks 025, an international event dedicated to research projects on the conservation of modern and contemporary works. This year’s theme focused on an aspect directly linked to the evolution of human culture: innovation through errors.
Errors and failures have always been an integral part of innovative scientific research and this edition was the context for creating a debate on the subject for the purposes of innovation and professional progress in the field of the conservation of cultural heritage.
The Centre has brought its experience by deepening three case studies also addressed for educational purposes:
- Evocative surfaces by Beverly Barkat. Restoration of a fragmented artwork consisting of a monumental painted semitransparent PVC sheet
- Meridiana by Pino Pascali. Experimental study for the conservation and restoration of a polymateric ‘experimental’ sculpture with polyurethane flexible foam elements.
- Venus with apple by Enrica Borghi. Restoration of a fragmented plastic sculpture for a “renewed skin”
In-depth analysis
The great Meridiana Pascali 's
Restored by the JRC’s Laboratory of Contemporary Art as the subject of a thesis in the Master’s Degree Programme in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Turin, in agreement with the Centre.
The restoration carried out by Daniela Margaria, a fifth-year student, resolved the serious problems and conservation conditions in which the work was located.
The materials used by the artist in 1968 (expanded polyurethane, steel wool and PVC) showed signs of suffering due to their very nature and the multiple improper stresses of visitors.
The intervention was based on an updated technical methodology, supported by historical-artistic research and specialist scientific analysis.
CCR and accessibility
