The Role of the Artist in the Restoration of Contemporary Art

Abstract

Since the Nineteenth Century, philosophical, political and technological developments have influenced art, coming together in an aesthetic and intellectual revolution for the artists, resulting in a different perception by the public, and requiring a different approach to its conservation. 

Unlike traditional restoration, in the restoration of modern and contemporary art, contact with the living artists is a unique and fundamental tool used as an international methodology. 

The Restoration Workshop and Seminar of Modern and Contemporary Art is taught as an optional workshop in the last semester of the BA in Restoration at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography, one of its most important tasks is to directly relate the student with the artistic contemporary field to support the operation, known trends, materials, and generate a databank of interviews useful for the analysis and preservation of contemporary art towards the future.