Symposium on Siqueiros

"The Siqueiros Legacy: Challenges of Conserving the Artist's
    Monumental Murals"
Museum Lecture Hall
The Getty Center
Los Angeles
October 16-17, 2012

The Getty Conservation Institute is organizing an international
symposium on October 16-17, 2012 at the Getty Center, titled, The
Siqueiros Legacy: Challenges of Conserving the Artist's Monumental
Murals (see full program below).

For more information about this symposium, please visit:

    <URL:http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/siqueiros_symposium.html>

You may register for the symposium by September 30, 2012 at
<siqueiros<-at->getty<.>edu>

The symposium is being held in conjunction with the completion of
the project for the conservation, protection, interpretation and
presentation of David Alfaro Siqueiros mural, AmerTropical, a joint
project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the City of Los
Angeles.

To find out more about the public programs being organized around
the opening of the site, go to:

    <URL:http://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/field_projects/siqueiros/siqueiros_public_prog.html>

Program

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

    9:00 am         Welcome
                    Tim Whalen
                    Director
                    The Getty Conservation Institute
                    Los Angeles

    9:10 am         David Alfaro Siqueiros' Mural America Tropical:
                    Historical Context and Project Overview

                    Leslie Rainer
                    Senior Project Specialist
                    The Getty Conservation Institute
                    Los Angeles

    9:20 am         America Tropical through the Eyes of a Filmmaker

                    Jesus Trevino
                    Filmmaker
                    Los Angeles

    9:40 am         America Tropical y El Renacimiento del Arte en
                    Estados Unidos

                    Jaime Mejia Servin
                    Conservator
                    Mexico City

    10:00 am        Coffee and refreshments

    10:30 am        Institutionalizing a Radical: How the City of
                    Los Angeles Finally Embraced America Tropical

                    Chris Espinosa
                    General Manager
                    El Pueblo Historical Monument
                    City of Los
                    Angeles

    10:50 am        America Tropical as Artifact: Designing a
                    Framework for its Protection
                    Viewing and
                    Interpretation

                    Mark Buckland
                    Brooks and Scarpa Architects
                    Los Angeles

    11:10 am        Sheltering Siqueiros: Complexities of Building
                    in a Historic Site

                    Gary Lee Moore
                    Bureau of Engineering
                    City of Los Angeles

    11:30 am        Preserving America Tropical: From Original
                    Technique to Conservation Treatment

                    Leslie Rainer
                    Senior Project Specialist
                    The Getty Conservation Institute
                    Los Angeles

    11:50 am        Interpretive Design for America Tropical:
                    Created, Concealed and Revealed

                    Tom Hartman
                    IQ Magic
                    Santa Monica CA

    12:10 pm        Discussion

    12:30 pm        Lunch on your own

    3:00-5:00 pm    Site visit: America Tropical Mural and America
                    Tropical Interpretive Center--downtown Los
                    Angeles transportation is on your own

    4:00-6:00 pm    Drinks and light appetizers: America Tropical
                    Interpretive Center

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

    9:00 am         Introduction to the Conservation of Siqueiros
                    Murals in Mexico and South America

                    Susan Macdonald
                    Head of Field Projects
                    The Getty Conservation Institute
                    Los Angeles

    9:15 am         La obra mural de Siqueiros: Una Politica de
                    Rescate Patrimonial por Parte del Estado
                    Mexicano

                    Gabriela Gil Verenzuela
                    CENCROPAM
                    Mexico City

    9:45 am         Preservation of Siqueiros Murals and Archives at
                    the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros

                    Taiyana Pimentel
                    Director
                    SAPS
                    Mexico City

    10:15 am        Discussion

    10:30 am        Coffee and refreshments

    11:00 am        Observaciones Sobre las Causas del Deterioro en
                    la Obra Mural de David Alfaro Siqueiros

                    Professore Sergio Montero
                    Conservator
                    Mexico City

    11:30 am        Agonia y Extasis del Ejercicio Plastico de David
                    A. Siqueiros

                    Nestor Barrio
                    Dean,
                    Instituto de Investigaciones sobre el Patrimonio
                    Cultural
                    Universidad Nacional de San Martin
                    Buenos Aires

    12:00 pm        Discussion

    12:30 pm        Lunch on your own

    2:00 pm         Siqueiros y Terremotos
                    Precursores del Muralismo en Chile

                    Carolina Ossa Izquierdo
                    Director
                    Centro Nacional de Conservacion y Restauracion
                    Santiago

    2:30 pm         Made Public: Siqueiros's Portrait of Mexico
                    Today

                    Diana C. du Pont
                    Writer
                    Curator and Project Director for Siqueiros's
                    Portrait of Mexico Today at the Santa Barbara
                    Museum of Art
                    Santa Barbara CA

    3:00 pm         Discussion

    4:00 pm         Symposium ends

Presentations will be in English and Spanish with simultaneous
translation.

Leslie Rainer
Senior Project Specialist
The Getty Conservation Institute


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