Description
Due to the actual art particularities, as the diversity of materials used, artistic manifestations and immaterial issues integration – as the conceptual dimension – it becomes necessary adaptable documentation to this reality, namely on what refers to conservation and restoration, reason why it was developed Conservation and Restoration Challeges on Contemporary Art: the Documentation Importance and the Study-case of João Pedro Vale’s Work. The main goals of this study were to present contemporary art conservation and restoration related problematic, to proof the significance of the contact with artists, the need to apply for systematic documentation models, the development of a documental model capable to bridge the need of intervention essential information, as well as its’ application to a complex case with no anterior similar developed study. The documentation model was applied to a set of six works of art with different typologies — sculpture, photography, installation, performance, painting and video — created by João Pedro Vale, that belongs to an emergent generation of national artists. His utilization of unusual diverse materials and the high procedural conceptualization, capable to characterize contemporary art problematic, are shown as factors that must be weighted in order to the correct conservation and art fruition. Through interview it became possible the fixation of the works history and his intentions towards eventual interventions. The results are shown by the theoretical grounding of the approached problematic and by the documentation model developed, capable to respond to the artist’s work complexity, and which application is possible to other works and authorships with similar identified characteristics. The multiplicity of recorded intentions, as well as conceptual dimension variants, unique on every work of art, leads to conclude that the documentation and contact with artists are necessary to the total knowledge of works of art, and essential to the relevant intervention methodology indications registration, as well as to further investigations about the artist.| Period | 2012 |
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| Degree of Recognition | Master |