Program

This is a preliminary programme.

The official languages of the symposium are French and English with simultaneous translation offered in Marseille.

Registration for the conference dinner and payment : Digitick.com.

Cans from the historic paint collection of
the Art Institute of Chicago

TUESDAY 24 MAI (Marseille)

Beginning of registration.
Beginning of posters gathering.
Bruker workshop : download Document PDF PDF Workshop Program (198 ko).

Plenary lecture: Brigitte LEAL, Musée National d'Art Moderne (MNAM), Paris
La matière et l'esprit.
Claire LE THOMAS, Université de Strasbourg ; LAHIC (Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture, CNRS)
"Amateur" means in Cubism? The use of Ripolin® by Picasso.
Harriet STANDEVEN, Paintings conservator, London
Oil-based house paints 1900-1960: History and use.
Dawn ROGALA, University of Delaware, Smithsonian Institution (USA);
Industrial literature as a resource in modern materials conservation: zinc oxide house paint as a case study.
Pierre LEGRAND, Coloris Global Coloring Concept (The Colorants Company®), Marseille
Decorative paints' formulation in France in the first half of the 20^th century

Plenary lecture: Marilyn MCCULLY, Art historian
Ripolin® aesthetics and the art historian.
Claire GUÉRIN, Fundacion Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA), Madrid (Spain)
Survey of the deterioration phenomena observed on paint layers of Pablo Picasso's works of art painted containing industrial paint between 1915 and 1972.
Diana WIDMAIER-PICASSO, Art historian
The use of Ripolin® and other materials by Picasso on his late sheet-metal sculptures.
Julie ARSLANOGLU, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: an investigation of materials and techniques.
Gwénaëlle GAUTIER, The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Chicago
From can to canvas: a modular scientific approach for the identification of oleoresinous Ripolin house paints in works of art.

17:00-19:00 Poster session.

Plenary lecture: Ann HOENIGSWALD, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Picasso and metamorphosis: Ripolin® as "objet trouvé".
Annette KING, Tate, London
Study of the possible use of Ripolin® by Francis Picabia in "The fig leaf, 1922".
Francesca CASADIO, The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Chicago
An Investigation into Kandinsky's use of Ripolin® in Paintings in the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenhein Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Gilles BARABANT, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Paris
From drugstore to museum: Ripolin® in paintings by Séraphine de Senlis.
Joyce TSAI, University of Florida (USA)
"Transparency and light, structure and substance": enamel paints in László Moholy-Nagy's "Z VII, 1926".
Antonio RAVA, Centro Conservazione e Restauro in Venaria Reale, Torino (Italy)
Studies of the painting technique of Giacomo Balla and the futurists.

Plenary lecture: Leslie CARLYLE, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Can appearances deceive? Visual evaluations of paint characteristics and rheology.
Chris MCGLINCHEY, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
David A. Siqueiros: revolutionary discoveries from a can of paint.
Paula DREDGE, University of Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Lifting the lid on a collection of Ripolin® paint from Sidney Nolan's studio.
Marie-Odile HUBERT, Conservator of painted works of art, Paris
Pierre-Antoine GATIER, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Paris
Jean-Marc VALLET, Centre Interrégional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine (CICRP), MarseilleThe paintings of the Le Corbusier's monumental artworks (1930-1960) in Paris and Roquebrune-Cap Martin (France): history, technique and conservation.

16:45-17:45 Panel discussion on interdisciplinary research.

Picasso museum room, Antibes

11:15-11:45 Plenary lecture: Jean-Louis ANDRAL, Musée Picasso, Antibes.

12:00-13:00 Private, guided tour of Antibes collection for delegates by Jean-Louis Andral.

Invited lecture: Daniele GIRAUDY, former director of the Picasso Museum, Antibes
Picasso in Antibes, the joy of painting.
Invited lecture: Benoît DAGRON, Paintings conservator
Considering the material history in Antibes (1946-1947).
Joint lecture: MOLAB and Art Institute of Chicago research groups
Antonio SGAMELLOTTI, SMAArt, University of Perugia (Italy); MOLAB (CHARISMA)
Francesca CASADIO, The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Chicago
Picasso at work: Scientific investigation of Picasso's paintings in Antibes
Panel discussion focused on the use of house paints in Antibes
Discussion with Picasso Express book authors.

Optional tourist trips.

Updated on 2 May 2011.