{jcomments on}Parallel session
Title
Case Studies on Access: Spanish Speaking Countries
Type
presentations & discussion
Date, time
Friday 11th June, 10:00-12:00
Organisation
Arianne Vanrell Vellosillo, conservator
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía / MNCARS
Guests
Santiago Gonzalez, MNCARS
Ana Cudell, Universidade Católica Portuguesa / UCP
Marta Moreira de Almeida, Fundação de Serralves
Daniela Oliveira, Fundação de Serralves
Description
During this session a number of Spanish speaking guests will discuss good practices in preservation and presentation of contemporary art, in order to increase the interactivity with contemporary art. Santiago Gonzalez will discuss a project on the sculpture collection developed especially for blind visitors, created in collaboration with the conservation department at MNCARS. Museu de Serralves (Porto, Portugal) and Universidade Católica Portuguesa / UCP are going to present the restoration case-study of “Double Exposure” by Dan Graham installed in the park of the museum. The speakers will discuss the results of the research and the methodology used during that process.
Biography
Arianne Vanrell Vellosillo is a conservator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid, Spain. She studied art history and obtained Master of Professional Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and the DEA for Conservation and Restoration of the Compultense University of Madrid. He specialization is the conservation of installations and new media artworks. Arianne conducted research as well as coordinated the Spanish partners in the European project Inside Installations. She is involved in the current EU project PRACTICs. She was also responsible for sharing the results of the Inside Installations project with colleagues in Latin America.
Biography
Santiago Gonzalez is since 2005 Access Coordinator of the Education Department, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. He studied Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and then specialized in contemporary art. At the same time he began working in museums and attended several courses dealing with art education. At the Reina Sofía he has developed programs for the visually impaired, people with cognitive disabilities and for the deaf community. For blind and visually impaired people, the museum offers touch tours with tactile pictures and descriptive tours. In 2008 he enhanced his specialisation in access during a one-month stay at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Biography
Ana Cudell has a degree in Conservation and Restoration and since 2006 teaches the conservation of contemporary art at the Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in Porto, Portugal. Ana is also a researcher of CITAR – Research Center for Science and Technology in Art at the UCP with a grant to carry out PhD research from FCT – Fundaçãopara a Ciência e Technologia, from the Portuguese government department for Science and Technology. Her PhD project concerns studying the pictorial techniques and conservation problems in Portuguese contemporary art based on an analysis of paintings from a group of artists.
Biography
Marta Moreira de Almeida has a degree in Art History from Porto University. Since 1991 is working in Fundação de Serralves as a curator and in 1995 became the Head of the Fine Arts Department (department responsible for the organizations of the temporary exhibitions and for the collection of the museum). Curatorialship projects: Arte Portuguesa dos Anos 70 aos Anos 90 na Colecção da Fundação de Serralves (tour exhibiton, 1998/99); Na Paisagem (tour exhibiton, 2002/03); the site-specific and time-specific work of Maria Nordman at Museu Serralves (2001); Um lugar no mundo: Pedro Cabrita Reis at Instituto Açoriano de Cultura of Angra do Heroísmo (2002); 6=0 Homeostética at Museu de Serralves (2004); Maria Nordman at Museu de Serralves (2007); PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Pedro Cabrita Reis at Palácio da Galeria in Tavira (2009).
Biography
Daniela Oliveira has a degree in Art History and a post-graduate degree in Museums Studies from Porto University. Since 1999 is working in Fundação de Serralves as registrar for the museum collection and temporary exhibitions.