conservation
Find below the portfolio projects related to conservation:
Course: Match your infill (Leiden, 2023)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions (-- hours). Organization: Restauratoren Nederland (Nederlands). Language: English. Dates: April 13-14th, 2023. Audience: Professional book conservators.
Course: Match your infill (València, 2023)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions (18 hours). Organization: IVCR+I - Institut Valencià de Conservació, Restauració i Investigació (València). Language: Spanish. Dates: April, 19th-21st, 2023. Audiences: Paper conservators in practice.
Conservation of plan on natural tracing paper
We are quite proud of this treatment since tracing paper is most rebel: folds and tears are most visible because of their lack of translucency. We've taken the before and after images on a black background so that you can judge the results.
Conservation of Game-Boy box
Original box for Game-Boy by Nintendo with wrinkles, tears, and pressure-sensitive label. Minimize as much as possible the damages and remove the price label.
Course: “Inpainting & Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation” (Oslo, 2022)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions. Organization: National Museum (Oslo, Norway). Language: English. Dates: October 18-20th, 2022. Audience: Professional paper conservators.
Conservation of varnished map
Conservation of an oversized map, varnished and with a linen backing, dated 1906. Varnish removal with gels, backing removal, capillary washing, tear mending, infilling, lining, flattening, retouch, varnishing and finishing (tapes and slats on edges).
Conservation of rennaisance astronomy book
Conservation of rennaisance astronomy book with reverse vellum binding and protruding thongs. Clavius was a reputated astronomer, contemporary to Galileo Galilei. This book was used in his defense towards the inquisition. Despite not sharing astronomical theories, Clavius considered Galilei's respectable enough.
Conservation of cartoon drawing by Quino
Conservation and flattening of a cartoon drawing by Quino using the same paper for the infill of the loss.
Tailored workshop: Photographs, carte-de-visite and autographs conservation (Premià, 2022)
Tailored workshop: Conservation of photographs, cdv and autographs. General treatments (dry cleaning, tear repair, flattening). Chemical aspects of conservation (deacidification, chelating agents).
Lecture: Sewing, adhesion and grain direction in book conservation
Event: AIC 50th Annual Meeting, [...]
Lecture: ‘Conservation of recycled bindings and fragmentology’ (Parts 1 & 2), SICP Chile
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied.
Workshop: Wet treatments of
Works on Paper (Amsterdam, 2021)
Theoretical and practical sessions. When to apply wet treatments on paper, and how. From the basis of handling wet paper to more complex moisturizing, humidification and washing techniques. Fugitivity tests, types of inks and their properties, and many case studies to show conservation treatments on real artwork: manuscripts and documents, drawings, watercolours, pastels, charcoal drawings...
Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau
Owner: Jean Cocteau Museum [...]
Conservation of Salvador Dalí’s “Peerless” suitcase
Suitcase owned by Salvador Dalí, brand "Peerless", made of wood, leather, fabric and metal. There's a boarding label dated 1948. Dry cleaning, stain, rust and fat removal.
Conservation of gouache and watercolour drawing on paper
Conservation of a china ink, pencil, watercolour and gouache drawing with severe discolouration due to light exposure. Dry cleaning, wash cleaning, deacidification, light bleaching, inpainting of light areas and flattening.
Workshop: Wet treatments
of Works on Paper (Köln, 2021)
Theoretical and practical sessions. When to apply wet treatments on paper, and how. From the basis of handling wet paper to more complex moisturizing, humidification and washing techniques. Fugitivity tests, types of inks and their properties, and many case studies to show conservation treatments on real artwork: manuscripts and documents, drawings, watercolours, pastels, charcoal drawings...
Lecture: ‘Conservation of reused bindings’ (Part two), Dubrovnik
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied.
Conservation of cartoon drawing of a packed tram
Conservation of a china ink, pencil, watercolour and gouache drawing with severe discolouration due to light exposure. Dry cleaning, wash cleaning, deacidification, light bleaching and flattening.
Lecture: ‘Conservation of re-used bindings’ (Part one) Zagreb
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings with rolled sewing on parchment are studied.
Conservation of stationery vellum binding with rolled sewing
That's the typical case of the covers of a binding (or what'sleft of it) being a former parchment manuscript, a waste material that was recycled for a new purpose (a binding).
