Conference on cleaning paintings--addendum

International Conference
Cleaning 2010: New insights into the cleaning of paintings
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
May 26-28, 2010

Organization: This conference is a joint effort of the Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI)

Venue: This conference will be held at the UPV in May 26-28, 2010.

Languages: English and Spanish (simultaneous translation will be
available during the conference)

Fees:

    Early Bird Registration (before March 15, 2010):

        Students: 200 euros
        Professionals: 275 euros

    Standard Registration (from March 15, 2010):
        Students: 300 euros
        Professionals: 375 euros

    (Fees include access to all sessions, simultaneous translation,
    proceedings and coffee breaks)

Accommodation: special rates soon in the website

For more information:

    <URL:http://www.cleaning2010.upv.es>
    cleaning2010<-at->upv<.>es

Program (updated February, 2010)

Wednesday May 26, 2010

    8-00-9.00               Registration
    9-00-9.30               Opening Ceremony

  Session 1: Opening

    9-30-9.45               Introduction

    9-45-10.30              Opening talk
                            "The Art and Science of Cleaning
                            Paintings"

                                Stephen Hackney
                                Tate Gallery

  Session 2: Ethics and Aesthetics

    10-30-11.00             "Cleaning treatments in easel paintings
                            in Italy: a history of a slow and
                            difficult travel in the last 15 years:
                            difficulties, lack of understanding,
                            contrasts and positive results"

                                Erminio Signorini
                                Cesmar7 (Italia)

    11-00-11.30             "The Removal of 'Patina' "

                                Stephen Gritt
                                National Gallery of Canada

    12-00-12.30             "Solvents, gels, cotton swabs... look out!"

                                Konrad Laudenbacher Former Head of
                                the Conservation Dept. Doerner
                                Institut de Munich, responsible for
                                the Nueva Pinacoteca and
                                Schackgalerie

    12-30-13.30             Poster session  (1st  part)

    13-30-15.00             Lunch

  Session 3: Traditional Media: Egg Tempera and Oil

    15-00-15.30             "The chemistry of egg binding medium and
                            its interactions with organic solvents
                            and water"

                                Antonella Casoli
                                Univ. Parma

    15-30-16.00             "Oils: The chemistry of drying oils and
                            the potential for solvent disruption"

                                Charles Tumosa
                                Univ. Baltimore

    16-00-16.30             "The Influence of Pigments and Ion
                            Migration on the Durability of Drying
                            Oil and Alkyd Paints"

                                M.F. Mecklenburg
                                Smithsonian Institution

    16-30-17.00             Coffee Break

    17-00-17.30             "Effects of organic solvents on artists'
                            oil paints"

                                Alan Phenix
                                Getty Conservation Institute

    17-30-18.00             "Quantifying solvent leaching effects on
                            aged oil paints"

                                Ken Sutherland
                                Philadelphia Museum of Art

    18-00-18.30             "An evaluation of changes in the
                            appearance of 19thC grounds on canvas on
                            varnishing and varnish removal"

                                Aviva Burnstock,
                                Meredith Watson and
                                Emily Nieder
                                Courtauld Institute

Thursday May 27, 2010

  Session 4: Acrylics and Polyvinylacetates

    9-30-9.45               Introduction

                                Tom Learner
                                Getty Conservation Institute

    9-45-10.15              "Cleaning of acrylic emulsion paints and
                            the influence of paint formulation"

                                Richard Wolbers
                                Univ. Delaware

    10-15-10.45             "Surfactants and acrylic emulsion
                            paints: evaluating changes induced by
                            surface cleaning treatments"

                                Browyn Ormsby,
                                E. Kampasakali,
                                P. Smithen and
                                T. Learner
                                Tate Gallery

    10-45-11.15             "Multi-technique study of the effect of
                            chemical cleaning of acrylic and PVAc
                            paintings"

                                T. Domenech et al.
                                Univ. Politecnica de Valencia

    11-15-11.45             Coffee Break

  Session 5: Alkyds and Modern Oils

    11-45-12.15             "Characterisation and Stability Issues
                            of Artists' Alkyd Paints"

                                Rebecca Ploeger and
                                Oscar Chiantore
                                Univ. Turin

    12-15-12.45             "The non-ideal Action of Binary Solvent
                            Mixtures on Oil and Alkyd Paint -
                            Influence of the Selective Solvation and
                            The Cavitation Energy"

                                Stefan Zumbuhl
                                Bern University of Applied Science.
                                Art Technological Laboratory

    12-45-13.15             "Progress in the Water Sensitive Oil
                            Paints project"

                                KJ Van der Berg
                                Netherlands Institute for Cultural
                                Heritage (ICN)

    13-15-15.00             Lunch

  Session 6: Cleaning Systems

    15-00-15.30             "Rigid gels and enzyme cleaning"

                                Paolo Cremonesi
                                Cesmar 7 (Italia)

    15-30-16.00             "Soaps and residues"

                                A. Sanchez-Ledesma
                                U. Complutense Madrid

    16-00-16.30             "Dry cleaning on paint surfaces"

                                Maude Daudin-Schotte (Freelance
                                    Conservator),
                                Madeleine Bisschoff (Freelance
                                    Conservator),
                                Ineke Joosten (ICN) and
                                KJ Van der Berg (ICN)

    16-30-17.00             "The Modular Cleaning Program Applied to
                            the Cleaning of Acrylic Surfaces"

                                Chris Stavroudis (Freelance
                                Conservator) and Tiarna Doherty
                                (Getty Conservation Institute)

Friday May 28, 2010

  Session 7: Influence of Research in the Practice of Cleaning Treatments

    9-00-10.30              Poster session (2nd part)

    10-30-12.30             Panel discussion:

                                M. Mecklenburg (SI),
                                Pilar Sedano (Head of the Cons.
                                    Dept. Museo del Prado),
                                S. Gritt (Nat. Gallery Canada),
                                P. Cremonesi (Cesmar7) and
                                A. Phenix (Getty)

                                Moderator:
                                    Jacqueline Ridge (National
                                    Galleries of Scotland)

    12-30-13.00                 Closing of the conference

    13.00                       Closing Wine


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