TRAINING/RESEARCH
Find below the portfolio projects related to TRAINING/RESEARCH:
Conservation workshop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions Organization: Art Institute of Chicago (Ill., USA). Language: English Dates: 3May 31st - June 2nd, 2023. Attendees: Conservators from the Art Institute of Chicago
Course: Match your infill (València, 2023)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions (18 hours). Organitzation: IVCR+I - Institut Valencià de Conservació, Restauració i Investigació (Institute of Valencia for the Preservation, Conservation and Research). Language: Spanish. Dates: April, 19th-21st, 2023. Audiences: Paper conservators in practice.
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: Identificaction, conservation and preservation of photographs (Oslo, 2022)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions. Organization: National Museum (Oslo, Norway). Language: English. Dates: December 6-7th, 2022. Audience: Professional paper and photographs conservators.
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.
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, [...]
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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. A video explains what differenciates us from forgers and 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: ‘Sew it, rather than paste it!’
(ERC Conference, Krems)
Event: Conference Book Conservation: One [...]
Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]
Lecture: ‘Impregnated Tracing Paper Conservation’ (ICON Book & Paper)
Organization: Icon Book and Paper [...]
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.
Lecture: “Conservation of Impregnated Tracing Paper” (Papers at the balcony, Granada)
Beneficiary: University of Granada, La [...]
