La conservación preventiva de las obras de arte contemporáneo: algunos casos de estudio

Datos de la revista en la que se ha publicado este documento: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CULTURAL STUDIES https://thesocialsciences.com ISSN: 2327-008X (Print) ISSN: 2327-2554 (Online) https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-008X/CGP (Journal) First published by Common Ground Research Networks in 20## University of Illinois Research Park 2001 South First Street, Suite 202 Champaign, IL 61820 USA Ph: +1-217-328-0405 https://cgnetworks.org The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journalAbstract: The conceptual evolution and the material renovation of contemporary artwork have generated many problems in its conservation. The study of the major causes of alteration and the established recommendations for new artwork preservation can be seen in the criteria followed in different examples of contemporary art: the consideration of the possibility to forbid lending Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica;” the maintenance of Eduardo Chillida’s “The Comb of the Wind” at an exhibition under bad conditions; and the re-edition and exhibition of Richard Serra’s lost piece of artwork, “Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi.” Artists and selected works are referents internationally. The works presented for study have different technical support and various conservation problems. They are also found in Spanish collections or have been exhibited in Spain, which was a main factor in the decision to use them in this study. In conclusion, there are different reasons why conservators and curators have needed to extend their classical working criteria, namely the wide diversity of the constitutive material of contemporary artwork, the difficulty to predict its durability, and the concept of reduced durability. Thus, each particular case has to be studied with the artists very closely, and many choices need to be made, such as the manner of documentation, whether or not to reproduce performance art, or how to re-edit works that have been lost among other solutions.Research Personnel Training Grant, University of Granada, 2005. University Professor Training Grant, Ministry of Education and Science, 2006. Integrated Action Plan, University of Granada (Spain) and University of Beira Interior (Portugal), 2015. Acis&Galatea Project, “Research Activities in Cultural Mythcriticism,” Acis and Galatea, ref. S2015/HUM-3362, (www.acisgalatea.com), co-funded by the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the European Social Fund. Aid for R&D activities performed by research groups from the Community of Madrid in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2015, co-funded by the European Social Fun