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The conservation of contemporary art should not be a static process carried out behind closed doors but dynamic and open to discourse. New media and new materials constantly present issues which traditional conservation methods cannot address and a continual search for new techniques is therefore required. This dynamic research may include interviews with artists; documentation of artists' materials; the recording of image, word or sound of performances; installations, temporary and 'permanent' visual art; scientific research into the identification, composition, ageing and preservation of modern materials.
This volume makes a most important contribution to the on-going debate by presenting the conservation challenges relating to ten objects of different media and materials (plastics, kinetic objects, monochromes and works of mixed media) of considerable art-historical value. The ten selected studies include the works of Jean Tinguley, Piero Manzoni, Tony Cragg and Mario Merz. In addition to case studies, this volume includes symposium papers by art historians, physicists, philosophers, artists, conservators and critics on topics as varied as: accidental damage; working with artists; packing and transport; installation; identifying plastics; ethics; training, databases etc.
This volume is an Archetype Publications reprint of the volume first published by The Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage.
�a publication of this nature should be of interest to anyone who cares for modern art, including owners and curators as well as the conservation profession.
Forewords
Evert van Straaten and Rik Vos
Preface
IJsbrand Hummelen and Dionne Sillé
PART ONE: THE PROJECT CONSERVATION OF MODERN ART
Introduction to the project
Dionne Sillé
The investigation of the ten pilot objects
Jean Tinguely Gismo
-Reconstruction of a moving life
The editors and Lydia Beerkens
-The playful world of Jean Tinguely: an interview with Ad Petersen
Dionne Sillé and Marjan Zijlmans
Henk Peteers 59-18
-For the benefit of science
Evert Rodrigo and Lydia Beerkens
-Chemical analysis
Thea van Oosten and Peter Keune
Pino Pascali Campi arati e canali d'irrigazione
-The element of artistry recaptured
Marianne Brouwer
-Searching for shades of blue
Thea van Oosten and Pieter Keune
-Careful with Abestos
Pieter Keune
Mario Merz Città irreale
-The preservation of a city of light
Lydia Beerkens
-Merz and the archetypes of our culture
Jan Hein Sassan
Tony Cragg One Space, Four Places
-Artificial respiration
Jaap Guldemond
-Interview: Tony Cragg on conservation
Lydia Beerkens and Christiane Berndes
-Model research
Lydia Beerkens and IJsbrand Hummelen
-The actual restoration
Lydia Beerkens
Krijin Giezen Marroco
-The transitory nature of memory
Ingeborg Smit
-Krijn Giezen: transformations in art and life
Tineke Reijnders
-Killing them softly
Agnes W. Brokerhof
Woody van Amen De overwintering op Nova Zembla
-Thaw on Nova Zemlya
Madeleine Bisschoff
-Woody van Amen: between Pop Art and New Romanticism
Marja Bosma
Marcel Broodthaers M.B.
-On the way to Une seconde d'eternite
D.H. van Wegen
-Wounds from the time of production
Lydia Beerkens
-The technique of vacuum-forming
Thea van Oosten and Pieter Keune
Piero Manzoni Achrome
-A contemporary cleaning controversy
Lydia Beerkens
-Piero Manzoni
Jon Thompson
Piero Giraldi Still Life of Watermelons
-The unexpected life of a total loss
Piet de Jonge
-Chemical analysis of the materials used
Thea van Oosten and Pieter Keune
-Experiments in the conservation of a foam object
Aleth Lorne
Reflecting on the research
-A shining document of our time
Tineke Reijinders
Artist's materials
Standards for art materials needed: join forces now
Pieter Keune
Here today, gone tomorrow? Problems with plastics in contemporary art
Thea van Oosten
The models
The decision-making model
New registration models suited to modern and contemporary art
Christiane Berndes & Working Group Registration and Documentation
The model for data registration
The model for condition research
Ethics and art theory
Painful decision: philosophical considerations on a decision-making model
Renée van de Vall
Between fetish and score: the position of the curator of contemporary art
D.H. van Wegen
Man Ray, or the eternal theme of the wink
Piet de Jonge
The precarious reconstruction of installations
Riet de Leeuw
Artists' rights and the museum
Moral rights in modern art: an international survey
Annemarie Beunen
PART TWO: THE SYMPOSIUM MODERN ART: WHO CARES?
Introduction to the symposium
Dionne Sillé
Opening's speech
Jan Riezenkamp
Lectures
Men at work: the significance of material in the collaboration between artist and fabricator in the 1960s and 1970s
Christian Scheidemann
Conservation-restoration ethics and the problem of modern art
Ernst van de Wetering
The restoration of Kelly's works at the Stedelijk Museum
Elisabeth Bracht
An investigation of Frank Stella's magnesium reliefs
Marie Laibinis-Craft
The Jean Tinguely Museum: caring for machine sculptures
Andres Pardey
The conservation and documentation of video art
Pip Laurenson
Installations and problems of preservation
Carol Stingari
On the ageing of works of art
Jean-Christophe Ammann
The Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst and a private archiv: registration systems for contemporary art
Erich Gantzert-Castrillo
Conservation lessons from other types of museums and a universal database for collection preservation
Stefan Michalski
Seminars
Training conservators of modern art
-Introduction texts
Anne van Grevenstein and Mikkel Scharff
-Proceedings
Tonnie Bakkenist
Electronic media: rethinking the conservator's role
-Introduction texts
Derek Pullen, Barbara Otterbeck
-Proceedings
Pippa Balch
Ethics and theory of conservation of contemporary art
-Introduction texts
Claire van Damme, Hiltrud Schinzel
-Proceedings
Nicole Ex
The conservation of modern art in Eastern Europe
-Introduction text
Iwona Szmelter
-Proceedings
Steph Scholten
Packing and transport of modern art
-Introduction texts
Hester Stöbe, Wies Raanhuis, Stephen Hackney
-Proceedings
René Boitelle
An international computer network for the exchange of information on artists' materials and techniques
-Introduction text
Britta Schinzel
-Proceedings
IJsbrand Hummelen
Registration and reinstallation of installations
-Introduction texts
Cecilia Illa Malvehy, Roland Groenenboom
-Proceedings
Ariadne Urlus
Conservation problems of contemporary photography
-Introduction texts
Mogens S. Koch, Hans der Herder
-Proceedings
Susan Breen
Plastics: identification, degradation and conservation
-Introduction text
Brenda Keneghan
-Proceedings
Karin Coopmaan
The conservation of monochrome paintings
-Introduction texts
Liesbeth Abraham, Louise Wijnberg
-Proceedings
Marie Louise Sauerberg
The conservation of kinetic art
-Introduction texts
Artur Ketnath, Kees Aben
-Proceedings
Irene Glanzer
The material durability of art works and museums' purchasing policies
-Introduction text
Frederik Leen
-Proceedings
Arjen Kok
Accidental and wilful damage to contemporary art
-Introduction text
Joachim O. Goppelt
-Proceedings
Ruth Hoppe
Documentation and registration of artists' materials and techniques
-Introduction text
Cornelia Weyer and Gunnar Heydenreich
-Proceedings
Marja Peek and Agnes W. Brokerhof
Working with artists in order to preserve original intent
-Introduction texts
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Shelley Sturman
-Proceedings
Daniela Petovic (group I), Emma Hermens (group II)
The interdisciplinary approach in the project Conservation of Modern Art
-Proceedings
Caroline van der Elst and Alan Phenix
Legal aspects of conservation
-Introduction texts
Jan Kabel, Caroline Forder
-Proceedings
Annemarie Beunen
Discussions
Artists' forum on cooperation in conservation
Tatja Scholte (report)
Museum directors' forum
Tatja Scholte (report)
List of organisations and individuals
List of contributing authors
Notes