Making and transforming art: changes in artists’ materials and practice
International symposium of the ICOM-CC working group on Art Technological Source Research (ATSR)
The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) is honoured to host the interim meeting of the ICOM-CC working group on Art Technological Source Research (ATSR) in Brussels on 22-23 November 2012. The colloquium is intended for all scholars who are interested in art technology: conservators, art-historians, scientists, technical art historians and artists.
This conference is the fifth in a successful series of interim meetings of the ATSR working group: following upon symposia in Amsterdam (2004), Madrid (2006), Glasgow (2008) and Vienna (2010).
The aim of the interim meeting is primarily to provide a forum for discussion of art technological source research, exploring artists’s practices as recorded in technical treatises, manuals, correspondence and journals, and also in images such as photographs, films or prints. The focus of this year’s meeting is the transformation of artists’s materials and works of art, as documented in visual and written sources
Main colloquium topics
Interpretation of sources on artistic techniques;
Transformations of works of art and materials;
Classification, recording and access: inventories and databases.
Language
The language of the conference will be English.
Conference venue
The conference will be held at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels.
Scientific committee
Mark Clarke (Department Conservation and Restoration, Faculty of Sciences and Technology Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Hélène Dubois (KIK-IRPA), Sigrid Eyb-Green (ATSR/ICOM-CC WG Co-Coordinator, Institut für Konservierung-Restaurierung / Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna), Jo Kirby Atkinson (formerly of the Scientific Department, The National Gallery, London), Stefanos Kroustallis (ATSR/ICOM-CC WG Coordinator), Jilleen Nadolny (Art Access & Research, London), Jana Sanyova (KIK-IRPA), Joyce Townsend (Tate Gallery, London).
Organizing committee
Catherine Bourguignon (KIK-IRPA), Christina Ceulemans (KIK-IRPA, General Director a.i.), Anne-Françoise Gerards (KIK-IRPA), Simon Laevers (KIK-IRPA), Hans Opstaele (KIK-IRPA), Edwin De Roock (KIK-IRPA), Hélène Dubois (KIK-IRPA), Mark Clarke (Department Conservation and Restoration, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Registration and practical : here
Programme :
21 November 2012, Wednesday evening
16:00–18:00 Registration /Welcome reception at KIK-IRPA
22 November 2012, Thursday
8:30-9:20 : Registration
9:20-9:30 : Welcome by Christina Ceulemans, director a.i. of KIK-IRPA
9:30-9 :45 : S. Kroustallis and H. Dubois – Introduction
First session Moderator: S. Eyb-Green
9:45-10:15 : M. Ajmar – Material Metamorphose. Trans-materiality and material mimesis in Renaissance art objects
10:15-10:45 : M. Clarke, A. Wallert – Atelier and Academy : mediaeval transmission of (late antique) artists’ knowledge for craftsmen and philosophers
10:45-11:15 : Coffee break/Posters
11:15-11:45 : N. Eastaugh, J. Nadolny, W. Sweich – Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of pigments in the 19th century: text and image
11:45-12:15 : S. Neven, J. Sanyova – Describing the ‘elusive’ : availability, preparation and use of Anthocyanin colorants in Medieval European illuminators’ workshops
12:15-12:25 : Questions
12:25-13:30 : Lunch break/Posters
Second session Moderator: M. Clarke
13:30-14:00 : A. Phenix – Some instances in the history of distilled oil of turpentine, the disappearing painters’ material
14:00-14:30 : R. Jones – Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript
14:30-15:00 : S. Kroustallis, R. Bruquetas – The manufacture of artificial vermilion: a comparative study of textual sources (VIII-XVI century)
15:00-15:30 : Tea Break/Posters
15:30-16:00 : P. Dietemann, W. Neugebauer, U. Baumer, I. Fiedler, C. Beil, and R. Poggendorf – Research into German Tempera Painting around 1900: what is the Role of Historic Sources?
16:00-16:30 : W. Neugebauer, C. Asai, I. Winkelmeyer, H. Stege, P. Dietemann, C. Tilenschi, U. Baumer – Varnishes used by Franz von Stuck and Wassily Kandinsky – A reception of Medieval Varnish Recipes?
16:30-16 :40 : Questions
16:40–18:30 : poster session and reception
Guided visit of the Institute (optional)
19:30 : Dinner (by prior inscription)
23 November 2012, Friday
Third session Moderator: S. Kroustallis
9:00-9:30 : G.M. Helms – The Bronze Working Techniques of Maso di Bartolomeo and his Workshop
9:30-10:00 : A. Crabbé, H. J. M. Wouters, G. Dewanckel – Colorando Auro: Experiments and Literature’s investigations of medieval colouring recipes on gilded plates
10:00-10:30 : A. Sánchez, A. Sánchez, D. Gayo, S. Micó – Manufacturing technology of wax anatomical models for the eighteenth century in Spain: relationship between archival information and analytical study of several sculptures
10:30-11:00 : Coffee break/Posters
Fourth session Moderator : J. Nadolny
11:00-11:30 : R. D. Heysen, N. A. Tse – Hans Heysen’s art materials: an investigation into supply, knowledge and choice
11:30-12:00 : A. Le Gac, P. Oliveira, I. Dias Costa, M.J. Dias Costa – Materials for painting and gilding used within the Benedictine Community of Portugal from 1638 to 1822. Other times, other ways
12:00-12:30 : N. A. Tse , R.T. Jose, M.T. Torralba – The Baclayon Parish’s Book of Income and Accounts (1856-1909): Documentary evidence to investigate art material supply and paintings practice in the Philippines
12:30-13:00 : Questions
13:00-14:00 : Lunch break
Fifth session Moderator: H. Dubois
14:00-14:30 : C. Laloue, J.-P. Echard – Harpsichords transformed to ‘please ear & eye alike’ over centuries
14:30-15:00 : D. Steyaert – On sculptures restored by Adriaan Hubert and Léon Bressers and their archival documentation
15:00-15:30 : Tea break/Posters
15:30-16:00 : L. Catterson – Donatello & the Re-carving of the Sarcophagus in Cortona
16:00-16:30 : R. Bek, C. Frohnert – A destructive happening and its relicts: Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
16:30-17:00 : Questions
17:00-17:30 : Closing remarks
Posters :
V. Antunes, M. Lorena, V. Serrão – Four paintings of the old St. Jerome College of Coimbra: Restoration, technique and treatises
R. Boitelle, A. Phenix – “I need large canvases to capture it all”. Technical Examination of Daubigny’s Cliffs at Villerville-sur-mer (1864-72)
E. Cwiertnia, B. Singer, J. Perry, J. H. Townsend – Transformation of images and materials in Francis Bacon’s working process – tracing evidence in the artist’s studio
H. den Otter – ‘Craftsmen and gentlemen’
J.-P. Echard, V. Malecki – VERNIX: an online database of historical varnish recipes’
I. Kneepkens, R.S.V. de Jongh, A. Wallert – Interpreting the technical recipes in Sloane 345’
S. S. Lauke – Slow Actions – Transformative gestures in documenting moving image installations
S. Neven, M. Clarke, K. Leonhard, S. Dupré – Written transmission of artists’ knowledge within practical and intellectual milieux, 1400-1650. Towards a New Database of artist’s recipes
A. Obermann – The Legible City – one artwork, multiple embodiments’
O. M. Piavento – Transformed altarpieces in the age of Baroque in northern Italy: between memory and conservation’
A. Stijnman – Publications on Art Technological Source Research’
S. Stigter – The Artist Interview and Installation Practice as Contemporary Art Technological Sources
M. van Bommel, M. Geldof, T. Meedendorp, L. Megens, K. Pilz – Lasting longer than a lifetime? Changes in the appearance of ‘Small pear tree in blossom’ by Vincent van Gogh
A. Wallert, M. Bol – Glass and Parchment with a View. Oil paint and the imitation of (stained) glass windows, 1400-1600’
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