Is not an easy job - to restore the works of modern art
Journal Artension
Amelie Pequeno
to care for the works of new generation and preserve them for posterity, more recently, the National Institute of Cultural Property, the cooking restorers, open section of the restoration of works of modern art
Once you have created your product, sprinkle with the handful of termites, to enable him immortality, advised Louis Pons. Question: Are the termites in this case part of the work?
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Yes, precisely such questions facing rastavratorami, working with the works of contemporary art.
But if it were only the termites! The restorers had to deal with live parrots, which need to be fed and replaced when they die of boredom in front of the amazed public, with dead fish, which become foul, despite the rubber, in which they are immersed, broom, in which you have to manually paste in the bristles hair for hair, exploding cans with «mierda d'artista», blowing television screens, different on a regular basis, the broken machinery, urinals, which need urgent repair, when some irreverent individual bang on them with a hammer, etc.
Everyone is familiar with unusual thoroughness of the restorers of the old art in aprons and white gloves, armed with X-ray machines and scanners, surrounded by various bubbles, brushes, cotton swab soaked in tainstvennennymi solutions ...
But the actual art restorers often the same thoroughness in their work, requiring a variety of talents, because they have become alternately in plumbers and plumbers, in firefighters and carpenters, the electricians, mechanics, welders, blacksmiths, botanists, biologists, dermatologists, and even lawyers ( You can not imagine how often restoration of works of modern art entails legal problems!).
In any case, the profession is booming. Field of their work immensely - a collection of modern art are innumerable, and immense. Works of modern art fills the museum's storerooms, and they require constant care, so as to preserve this national treasure - the present must be immortalized!
Felt that the administration of cultural institutions of the country is experiencing some awkwardness, because the cost of restoration far exceeds the value of commodity sami works. But if you want the solution is always there - it is fragile and highly perishable asset, it was announced neobemlimym, therefore, the trading value of speech now no one remembers.