Conference on historic and modern assemblages

"Historic and Modern Assemblages: Treatments of Wood Based
    Multimedia Artworks/Interiors in Context"
Joint interim Conference of
    ICOM-CC Wood, Furniture, and Lacquer Working Group

    and

    Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decoration Working
    Group

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
8-10 April, 2016

The conference is kindly supported by the German Association of
Conservator-Restorers (VDR) Specialty Group: Furniture and Wooden
Artifacts.  Hosted in collaboration with the University of Applied
Sciences Potsdam.

Set within the historic gardens and palaces of Potsdam, this
conference will focus on site-specific wooden works of art of a
composite nature.  Included in this broad theme are the exploration
of the purpose and the complex means used to create these works
consisting of multiple elements and mixed materials as well as the
conservation strategies designed to preserve and display them.  This
three-day conference will bring together an international roster of
conservators, art historians, conservation scientists, and artists
to share new research, past experiences, and their specific and
varied expertise.

The conference will be divided into two days of presentations and
followed by a day with guided tours of historic sites, museums and
conservation studios.  Lunch and coffee breaks will be accompanied
by posters displayed in the main hall.

Presentations will focus in sessions on the following themes:

    Assemblages in-situ: Architectural interiors

    Conservation in-situ: Methods and challenges

    Assemblages set in the museum context: Western, non-western and
    religious

    Innovative techniques for documentation, conservation technology
    and analysis

The conference will be held in English.

Program

Friday April 8, 2016

Session 1: Assemblages - Historical Approach

    The paradise bed and the painted chamber of Westminster Palace
    c.1486.

        Helen Hughes

    Charlemont medal cabinet (1767-68) designed by Sir William
    Chambers: A consideration of its past and future.

        Paul Tear

    Conservation and recreation: The restoration of Sir John Soane's
    private apartments at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

        Helen Dorey
        Lyall Thow
        Jane Wilkinson

    Tegel Palace (1822-1826): A unique survival of the interiors
    designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for Wilhelm von Humboldt.

        Martina Abri
        Jarg Weber

Session 2: Conservation in Situ - Methods and Challenges

    The hall of catalogues and the hall of globes: The laser scanner
    survey and data collection of two complex 19th century libraries
    located within the Accademia delle Scienze, Turin.

        Stefania de Blasi

    The Junkerhaus (1850-1912), Lemgo: An exposed wooden house and
    its contents: A review of the preventative conservation measures
    installed in 2001-2004.

        Norbert Grote

    The Eremitage of the Neuer Garten in Potsdam: Investigation of
    the interior panelling and the original appearance.

        Gerald Grajcarek

Session 3:  Documentation, Technology and Analysis

    Modern methods of documentation for conservation:
    Photogrammetric evaluation of historic recordings.

        Gunnar Siedler
        Sebastian Vetter

    The scientific investigation of 18th and 19th polychrome
    furniture from the collections of the House of Esterhazy, at
    Esterhazy Castle, used to inform conservation-restoration
    decisions.

        Sabine Stanek
        Martina Griesser
        Vaclav Pitthard
        Susanne Kaefer
        Florian T. Bayer

    Capturing the history of finishes: A documentation tool for
    architectural paint research.

        Edwin Verweij
        David Edvardson

    Choir stalls (1537) from Transylvania: A conservation challenge
    saving every millimetre: the use of 3D laser scanners and
    digital techniques for their reconstruction.

        Gerdi Maierbacher-Legl
        Christine Fiedler
        Gunar Grossmann

Social event in the evening

Saturday April 9, 2016

Session 4: Museum Presentations - Western Assemblages

    A rococo room from a Grachtenhuis in Amsterdam (1743-1748) in
    the Rijksmuseum: The reinstallation of the original fittings -
    and a streak of sunlight.

        Paul van Duin

    The Bernstorff Suite at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Its
    presentation and interpretation from the 18th to the 21st
    Century.

        Cynthia Moyer

    The Period Rooms in the Swiss National Museum, Zurich: The 1898
    installations conserved and reinstalled.

        Gaby Petrak

    Building Backwards: Ornament defines structure in the
    installation of the Worsham-Rockefeller bedroom (1881) at the
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

        F. Carey Howlett

    "Are you still cooking or already eating? The reinstallation of
    a Frankfurt kitchen (1926-1931)" provides a new understanding of
    built-in furniture of the period.

        Christian Dressen

Session 5: Museum Presentations - Non-Western Assemblages

    Petioles, paint and steel: The conservation and re-installation
    of the Mariwai Village Kwoma ceremonial house ceiling at the
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.

        Beth Edelstein
        Christine Giuntini

    The Alhambra Cupola in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin: The
    history of a 14th century wooden ceiling, current conservation
    challenges and new prospects for a Nasrid masterpiece.

        Julia Gonnella
        Anne Mollenhauer
        Jutta Maria Schwed

    Ornate panels from 18th and 19th century Damascene 'ajami
    interiors: Conservation issues and Western perceptions of the
    'Orient' revealed.

    Ornate panels from 18th and 19th century Damascene 'ajami
    interiors: Conservation issues and Western perceptions of the
    'Orient' revealed

        Anke Scharrahs

Session 6: Religious Assemblages

    Three Baroque Altarpieces in the Church of Our Lady in Aarschot
    (Belgium): Insights into the working methods of Antwerp sculptor
    and designer Pieter Scheemaeckers.

        Ingrid Geelen

    The investigation and treatment of a 17th century wooden Jain
    Shrine (house-temple) from Gujarat, Western India.
    Part 1. Context
    Part 2. Treatment

        Kathleen M. Garland
        Kimberly Masteller
        John Twilley,
        Cathleen Duffy

Q&A and Closing Remarks

Sunday April 10, 2016

Tours

For more information and registration, please visit the conference
website at

    <URL:http://www.restauratoren.de/fachgruppen/moebel-und-holzobjekte/icom-tagung-potsdam-2016.html>

Daniel Hausdorf
ICOM-CC Working Group Coordinator:
Wood, Furniture, and Lacquer

Department of Objects Conservation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10028
USA.


                                  ***
                  Conservation DistList Instance 29:29
                 Distributed: Sunday, December 13, 2015
                       Message Id: cdl-29-29-007
                                  ***