25-AC-2021_Turin, Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), S. Scarpitta, Rajo Jack Spl

Facilitated description: 

 

Rajo Jack represents a 1930s racing car in the workshop. Near the car there are two gas pumps.
Salvatore Scarpitta made the car in 1964. The work takes its name from a famous motorist.
The car is stored at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) in Turin.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre has carried out maintenance on the occasion of the move and set-up at the OGR.
The restorers kept the ruined parts of the work made by Scarpitta. In fact, the peeled parts of the gas pumps and the dirt of grease and earth were created by Scarpitta to mark the passage of time.
The restorers reinforced the parts that were detaching on the gas pumps.
They cleaned the work of dust.
They inflated the tires so they wouldn't ruin them.
They have created a special system so that the wheels do not rest on the ground and do not ruin them.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Intervention

On the occasion of the fitting-out of the spaces of OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, the ‘La Venaria Reale’ restoration centre carried out extraordinary maintenance work and supported the handling, transport and fitting-out of Salvatore Scarpitta’s work. Rajo Jack spl. The operations were particularly complex because it was necessary to ensure compliance with the constitutive characteristics of the work, keeping the degradation of the materials, an integral part of artistic intentionality. The work is in fact composed of original historical elements integrated with specially aged non-relevant parts and camouflaged foreign materials (e.g. the workshop door is a canvas painted with applied elements). Therefore, it was important to preserve the crettature on the pumps, the dirt, the gasoline grease, the soil as elements that marked the passage of time. The intervention was therefore limited to limiting the degradation process at the most critical points. Specifically, a consolidation of the crettatures in the detachment areas was carried out and a cleaning of the surfaces was carried out to eliminate recent dust, while the historical soil deposits were maintained. Finally, the car tires were only partially inflated to avoid excessive stress to the stiffened plastics and a support capable of moving the petrol pumps without direct contact with the surfaces and a car suspension system were designed to limit the wheel ovalisation process.