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Conference Review
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The Object in Transition: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference on the Preservation and Study of Modern and Contemporary Art
Organiser: The Getty Conservation Institute
24-26 January 2008, Los Angeles, California
Review by Christabel Blackman
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For
those who have not yet had the opportunity of visiting the Getty
Center, it is a singular and enticing place that offers a unique and
marvelous experience to any and all visitors. For conservators it
represents an idealistic reverence for our vocation in its monumental
presence and is a magnanimous attraction.
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it is what we all aspire to, the inclusion of conservation at the
highest and most essential level in life. Geographically it is
stoically posed upon its very own verdant mount, perched above the
sprawling flatness of L.A., and in some way it is a symbolic
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Conference Review
| Conservation-Restoration Workshop for the Artistic Components of Historic Monuments |
| Organiser: Romanian Ministry of Culture and Cults |
20-21 March 2008, Bucharest, Romania
Review by Anca Dina
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In
its second edition, the event gathered prominent personalities in the
conservation-restoration field, being the most recent opportunity for
the Romanian professionals to meet and present their work. All those
interested in cultural heritage topics were present, such as
conservators, art historians, chemists, physicians, curators, young
professionals and students. This meeting aims, on one hand, to keep and
strengthen the link between the specialist conservators and the younger
professionals and, on the other hand, to bring into discussion and
search solutions to the actual problems that concern the cultural
heritage conservation.
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2008 Worksites
Conservation of the Mural Paintings from the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel – “Mantuleasa”
by Simona Patrascu and Anca Nicolaescu
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It
is not very common to find in the middle of a tourist capital such as
Bucharest a historic monument in such advanced state of decay as the
Mantuleasa church. However, this was the situation that the church
faced until very recently. Out of sight between high modern buildings,
it seems that all this time Mantuleasa draw back from the traffic of
the city centre, remaining somehow isolated from the consideration that
it is worthy of. Fortunately for the monument an on-site conservation project was started by the conservation enterprise Restauro Art Grup.
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 Upcoming Events
April to June 2008
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A list of upcoming events, a short introduction and links to the organisers websites.
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Technology Development
VARIM - A Useful System for Acquiring and Composing Images in Painting Analysis Techniques
by Juan Torres, Alberto Posse, José Manuel Menéndez, Araceli Gabaldón, Carmen Vega, Tomás Antelo, Marián del Egido & Miriam Bueso
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The increasing development of the computer systems and the advances in the image processing algorithms and computer vision not only provide new instruments of analysis but also permit to improve the ones already existing. In addition, this improvement allows the reduction of costs, making the technology accessible to a greater number of conservator restorers, curators, art historians and researchers in general.
Having this idea in mind, the VARIM project (Computer Vision applied to Mechanized Infrared Reflectography) was born. In this project, a complete system for acquiring and composing the infrared reflectography mosaic was designed and created.
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