Date: 1 Mar 2010
From: Ann N'Gadi <ngadia [at] si__edu>
Subject: Conference on cleaning paintings--addendum
International Conference
Cleaning 2010: New insights into the cleaning of paintings Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Spain)
May 26-28, 2010
Organization: This conference is a joint effort of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI)
Venue: This conference will be held at the UPV in May 26-28, 2010.
Languages: English and Spanish (simultaneous translation will be available during the conference)
Fees: Early Bird Registration (before March 15, 2010):
Students: 200 euros
Professionals: 275 euros
Standard Registration (from March 15, 2010):
Students: 300 euros
Professionals: 375 euros
(Fees include access to all sessions, simultaneous translation, proceedings and coffee breaks)
Accommodation: special rates soon in the website
For more information: <URL:http://www.cleaning2010.upv.es> cleaning2010 [at] upv__es
Program (updated February, 2010)
Wednesday May 26, 2010
8-00-9.00 Registration
9-00-9.30 Opening Ceremony
Session 1: Opening
9-30-9.45 Introduction
9-45-10.30 Opening talk "The Art and Science of Cleaning Paintings"
Stephen Hackney, Tate Gallery
Session 2: Ethics and Aesthetics
10-30-11.00 "Cleaning treatments in easel paintings in Italy: a history of a slow and difficult travel in the last 15 years : difficulties, lack of understanding, contrasts and positive results"
Erminio Signorini, Cesmar7 (Italia)
11-00-11.30 "The Removal of 'Patina' "
Stephen Gritt, National Gallery of Canada
12-00-12.30 "Solvents, gels, cotton swabs... look out!"
Konrad Laudenbacher Former Head of the Conservation Dept. Doerner Institut de Munich, responsible for the Nueva Pinacoteca and Schackgalerie
12-30-13.30 Poster session (1st part)
13-30-15.00 Lunch
Session 3: Traditional Media: Egg Tempera and Oil
15-00-15.30 "The chemistry of egg binding medium and its interactions with organic solvents and water"
Antonella Casoli, Univ. Parma
15-30-16.00 "Oils: The chemistry of drying oils and the potential for solvent disruption"
Charles Tumosa, Univ. Baltimore
16-00-16.30 "The Influence of Pigments and Ion Migration on the Durability of Drying Oil and Alkyd Paints"
M.F. Mecklenburg, Smithsonian Institution
16-30-17.00 Coffee Break
17-00-17.30 "Effects of organic solvents on artists oil paints"
Alan Phenix, Getty Conservation Institute
17-30-18.00 "Quantifying solvent leaching effects on aged oil paints"
Ken Sutherland, Philadelphia Museum of Art
18-00-18.30 "An evaluation of changes in the appearance of 19thC grounds on canvas on varnishing and varnish removal"
Aviva Burnstock, Meredith Watson and Emily Nieder, Courtauld Institute
Thursday May 27, 2010
Session 4: Acrylics and Polyvinylacetates
9-30-9.45 Introduction
Tom Learner, Getty Conservation Institute
9-45-10.15 "Cleaning of acrylic emulsion paints and the influence of paint formulation"
Richard Wolbers, Univ. Delaware
10-15-10.45 "Surfactants and acrylic emulsion paints: evaluating changes induced by surface cleaning treatments"
Browyn Ormsby, E. Kampasakali, P. Smithen and T. Learner, Tate Gallery
10-45-11.15 "Multi-technique study of the effect of chemical cleaning of acrylic and PVAc paintings"
T. Domenech et al., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia
11-15-11.45 Coffee Break
Session 5: Alkyds and Modern Oils
11-45-12.15 "Characterisation and Stability Issues of Artists' Alkyd Paints"
Rebecca Ploeger and Oscar Chiantore, Univ. Turin
12-15-12.45 "The non-ideal Action of Binary Solvent Mixtures on Oil and Alkyd Paint - Influence of the Selective Solvation and The Cavitation Energy"
Stefan Zumbuhl, Bern University of Applied Science, Art Technological Laboratory
12-45-13.15 "Progress in the Water Sensitive Oil Paints project"
KJ Van der Berg, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN)
13-15-15.00 Lunch
Session 6: Cleaning Systems
15-00-15.30 "Rigid gels and enzyme cleaning"
Paolo Cremonesi, Cesmar 7 (Italia)
15-30-16.00 "Soaps and residues"
A. Sanchez-Ledesma, U. Complutense Madrid
16-00-16.30 "Dry cleaning on paint surfaces"
Maude Daudin-Schotte (Freelance Conservator), Madeleine Bisschoff (Freelance Conservator), Ineke Joosten (ICN) and KJ Van der Berg (ICN)
16-30-17.00 "The Modular Cleaning Program Applied to the Cleaning of Acrylic Surfaces"
Chris Stavroudis (Freelance Conservator) and Tiarna Doherty (Getty Conservation Institute)
Friday May 28, 2010
Session 7: Influence of Research in the Practice of Cleaning Treatments
9-00-10.30 Poster session (2nd part)
10-30-12.30 Panel discussion:
M. Mecklenburg (SI),
Pilar Sedano (Head of the Cons.
Dept. Museo del Prado),
S. Gritt (Nat. Gallery Canada),
P. Cremonesi (Cesmar7) and
A. Phenix (Getty)
Moderator:
Jacqueline Ridge (National
Galleries of Scotland)
12-30-13.00 Closing of the conference
13.00 Closing Wine