Museums
Find below the portfolio projects related to Museums:
Mrs. Daydí Pastel portrait by Fèlix Mestres
Conservation of pastel drawing on paper and cardboard by Spanish painter Felix Mestres. Portrait of Mrs. Carolina Daydí. Dry cleaning, mould removal with HEPA vacuuming, in-painting of foxing stains.
Course: Inpainting and Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation (Oslo, 2022)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures, matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, light, tools, criteria, un-restoration, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Preservation, housing, mounting and framing artwork on paper (Valls, 2021)
Which is the best way to preserve paper artefacts? How are they mounted and framed for exhibition? Technical session explaining products, materials & techniques.
Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau
Conservation of oversized casein drawings by Valerio Adami with stains caused by a flood. Slanted capillary washing, flattening, mending and conservation mounting.
Workshop: Preservation, housing, mounting and framing artwork on paper (Tortosa, 2021)
Which is the best way to preserve paper artefacts? How are they mounted and framed for exhibition? Technical session explaining products, materials & techniques.
Video about the profession of book and paper conservator
What does a paper conservator do? Whom does she work for? What skills and knowledge does she ought to have? Preservation and conservation, a field linked to science, history and arts and crafts. The video shows -among other- how we produce a hand-made suction table to restore paper artifacts, with loads of creativity, a feature most necessary to become book and paper conservator.
Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]
Stop-motion video of a paper conservation treatment
A lockdown is kind of stoping any activity, and that is what I have done, a stop-motion video, showing the full conservation treatment of a paper document.
Impregnated tracing paper with tapes and ball-point pen inscription
Conservation of pencil architectural drawing on impregnated tracing paper, with a ball-point pen inscription, pressure-sensitive tapes and stuck onto a board. Drawing by catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
Lecture: “A possible solution for paperback bindings” (ICPWH, Sarajevo)
Event: First International Conference on [...]
Technical translation English → Spanish
Client: Apache. Project: Technical translation from [...]
Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper
Conservation of preliminary drawing for a carpet, an oversized gouache on paper. Dry cleaning, backing with japanese tissue (washi). Flattening, loss compensation (in-painting).
Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper
Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper. Preliminary technical drawing, a design for a tapestry.
Conservation of architectural drawings on tracing paper, by Fernando Higueras
Owner: Association of Architects of [...]
Conservation of choir book, an oversized manuscript on parchment
Choir book, an oversized manuscript on parchment. The bookbinding is full leather on wooden boards with brass edges, as well as clasps, also in brass. 1634, renaissance style.
Exhibition “Art and Heritage: Preserving History”
Event: 20th Paper and Board [...]
Lecture: “Reversible vs Irreversible” (Cores Symposium, Brugge)
Event: Cores Symposium. Dilemmas: Between cherishing [...]
Conservation of gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç
"Gran Pastoral", gouache on paper, 83 x 112 cm. The artwork was lined on a Kraft paper with tapes and synthetic adhesives. It had losses and tears, and remarkable discolouration. The paper was extremely brittle. Tape and synthetic adhesives removal. Capillary wash and light bleaching, infilling of losses, lining, inpainting (mimetic criteria in the small ones, neutral color in the bigger ones).
Conservation of romantic album
Owner: Museum of History of [...]
Facsimile of the first Pharmacy graduation photograph (University of Barcelona, 1901)
What is a facsimile and what is it used for? Is it a forgery? Why the graduation photographs of the first pharmacists generation was mutilated during the Spanish Civil War? Facsimiles, also known as original copies or reproductions, are a very good solution when we want to disseminate an artefact with restricted availability due to poor condition state or unique character.
