{"id":114015,"date":"2020-02-01T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/restoration-dramas-inside-the-world-of-conservation-artists\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:07:12","slug":"restoration-dramas-inside-the-world-of-conservation-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/restoration-dramas-inside-the-world-of-conservation-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration dramas: inside the world of conservation artists"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNaval figureheads, ancient art and even Spitting Image puppets are all being brought back to life by a team of crack conservatorsThere is a lot of talk about \u201closs\u201d in the studio of Hans Thompson and Maxwell Malden. As art conservators, this is traditionally what they deal in: missing pieces that range in size, shape and form. Today, it\u2019s a small chip of plastic from a conceptual sculpture belonging to a contemporary art gallery. Tomorrow, it\u2019s the gilded oak finger of a 17th-century sculpture of St Catherine. Each \u201closs\u201d comes with a fresh set of practical and ethical challenges.Thompson and Malden founded their studio, Orbis Conservation, in 2013. The pair met at Goldsmiths and both went on to study conservation at City & Guilds of London Art School. \u201cWe\u2019d always worked together on freelance jobs,\u201d says Malden, who worked as a gallery technician from the age of 17. \u201cWe knew we\u2019d work together at some point. We just didn\u2019t think it would happen quite as quickly.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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