Keep it moving? : conserving kinetic art : proceedings from the meeting organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the ICOM-CC Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group, and Museo del Novecento, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, June 30-July 2, 2016 / Rachel Rivenc and Reinhard Bek, editors

Additional Titles:: Conserving kinetic art
Published:: Los Angeles, California : Getty Conservation Institute, 2018.
Copyright Date:: ©2018
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: xi, 175 pages ; 29 cm
Additional Creators:: Rivenc, Rachel, Bek, Reinhard, Getty Conservation Institute, ICOM Committee for Conservation. Working Group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art, Museo del Novecento (Milan, Italy), and Palazzo reale di Milano

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Contents:

Foreword / Timothy P. Whalen -- Preface / Rachel Rivenc -- Opening Remarks : the Kinetic Collection at the Museo del Novecento, Milan / Iolanda Ratti -- Part 1. Keynotes : -- A question of KinEthics / Reinhard Bek -- The fluid boundaries between interpretation and overinterpretation : collecting, conserving, and staging kinetic art installations / Tiziana Caianiello -- Part 2. Case studies : -- Fast and furious : operation, maintenance, and repair of Chris Burden's Metropolis II at LACMA / Mark Gilberg, Alison Walker, and Richard Sandomeno -- Conserving Thomas Wilfred's Lumia Suite, Opus 158 / Carol Snow and Lynda Zycherman -- Cybernetic umbrella : a case study in collaboration / Carla Flack, Louise Lawson, Jack McConchie, and Ming-Yi Tsai -- Moving with the times : the refurbishment and restoration of a choreographed robotic arm / Sherry Phillips and Marcel Verner -- Part 3. Collections/artists' oeuvres : -- Takis and the fourth dimension / Erin Stephenson and Kari Dodson -- Preserving performativity : conserving the elusive in Aleksandar Srnec's artwork / Mirta Pavić and Vesna Meštrić -- Engineering a solution : Latin American light-based kinetic art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Jane Gillies and Ingrid Seyb -- Intertwined strategies for conservation and display of kinetic art : case studies in the European neo-avant-garde / Francesca Pola and Barbara Ferriani -- The examination and conservation of thirteen artworks by Jean Tinguely in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Esther Meijer, Susanne Meijer, and Sandra Weerdenburg -- Part 4. Theoretical issues : the hype about ZERO and its influence on the conservation and presentation of early kinetic works / Gunnar Heydenreich and Julia Giebeler -- Kinetic multiples : between industrial vocation and handcrafted solutions / Isabel Plante -- The collection of Nicolas Schöffer : from the artist's studio to the museum / Manon D'haenens, Muriel Verbeeck, and David Strivay -- "Pretty Good for the 21st Century" : restoration, reconstruction, and realization of Len Lye's "Tangible Motion Sculpture" / Paul Brobbel and Simon Rees -- Part 5. Posters : -- Conserving mechanical elements in technological artifacts : three case studies from Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci," Milan / Marianna Cappellina and Claudio Giorgione -- Think big! the conservation of Ballerina Clown, a kinetic work of art by Jonathan Borofsky / Mine Erhan -- Conserving a kinetic "Rotor" : Light Dynamo by Heinz Mack / Paola Iazurlo, Grazia De Cesare, and Mariastella Margozzi -- Considering the continuum of care for outdoor kinetic sculpture / Abigail Mack, Friederike Steckling, and Sara Levin -- Gianni Colombo's Strutturazione cinevisuale abitabile : from flickering to light / Marlies Peller, Gerda Kaltenbruner, and Martina Pfenninger Lepage -- Death of a moment: management, installation, and maintenance of a site-specific kinetic sculpture / Eugenia Stamatopoulou -- Future in motion : conservation issues of seven kinetic artworks by dutch artist Ray Staakman / Carien van Aubel, Nikki van Basten, Katja van de Braak, Sjoukje van der Laan, Anouk Verbeek, and Marleen Wagenaar -- The conservation ethics of and strategies for preserving and exhibiting an operational car : the motion and standstill of Joost Conijn's Hout Auto (Wood Car) / Arthur van Mourik -- Contributors -- Symposium participants -- Index of videos.

Subject(s):

Kinetic art—Conservation and restoration—Congresses

ISBN:

9781606065372 electronic book
1606065378 electronic book
9781606065389 paperback
1606065386 paperback
9781606065365 electronic book

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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