SearchCategory:  March 12-14, 2001

Fachhochschule Cologne, Fachbereich Restaurierung und Konservierung vor Kunst und Kulturgut

Organiser: Thea van Oosten, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and Friederike Waentig,  Fachhochschule Cologne

Abstracts of the Interim Meeting ICOM-CC Working Group Modern Materials can be downloaded from the website.

Table of content

Elisabeth Jägers, Friederike Waentig: Preface

Thea van Oosten:  Welcome

Lydia Beerkens: Plastics in modern art

Jaap J. Boon: Mass spectrometric identification of pigments and media in modern paint

Eva Brachert: ‘Knowledge of two ways in the process of moulding plastic materials. Compression moulding and injection moulding

Judith Bützer: ‘Pratone’- a polyurethane-soft foam art-seat by ‘Gruppo Strum’

Irene Civil Plans: The matter paintings of Antonio Tàpies: a study of some mechanical properties of contemporary alkyd layers with high pigment volume concentration

Christine Frohnert: Preservation of contemporary electronic art at the Ludwig Museum

Claartje van Haaften , Sanneke Stigter: The training programme in conservation of modern art at the Limburg Conservation Institute

Mari Kaukovalta: A Study of Synthetic Polymer Gessoes and Their Behaviour in Artificial Ageing Tests

Ruth Keller-Kempas: Specialisation in Conservation of Technical Objects in the Degree Course Conservation/Field Archaeology at the FHTW Berlin, University for Applied Science

Brenda Keneghan: Plastics in Archives: History, Degradation and Preservation

Katrin Kessler: Celluloid – a material is decaying. Testing environmental conditions for storage of Celluloid objects

Ulrich Lang: motion as material. the kinetic art of gerhard v. graevenitz

Chris McGlinchey, Roger Griffith: The Formation of Calcium Formate on a Rigid Phenolic Foam

Thea B. van Oosten: Crystals and crazes: phenomena in plastics due to micro climates

Antonio Rava: Recent restoration works on items from the Cinema Museum of Torino: Starwars, Robocop, Gremlins, Alien and other movies plastic devices

Dominic Scalarone, Prof. Dr. Oscar Chiantore: The use of Py-GC-MS for identification of polymeric constituents in artworks, museum and collectible design objects

Yvonne Shashoua, Lisa Young: Deterioration of PVC components in Apollo

spacesuits

Christian Scheidemann: Gordon Matta-Clark. Cuts through the 20th Century

Friederike Waentig: Plastics: consumer goods or precious objects? The development of plastics and their use in German society

Iris Winkelmeyer: Perfection for an Instant-Conservation/restoration of a Polyurethane Sculpture by John Chamberlain

Poster session abstracts

Francesca Cappitelli: Thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation-pyrolysis-gas chromatography / mass spectrometry for the chemical characterisation of synthetic binders in paints

Francesca Cappitelli et al.: Investigation on biodegradability of synthetic binders in paints by fungi