É hora de conhecermos artistas contemporâneos de Almada Negreiros. Para tal, contamos com a colaboração das três consultoras do projeto ALMADA, que nos irão apresentar investigações em Espanha, Brasil e USA. A primeira palestra é já no dia 21, às 17h. Não perca!
[It’s time to meet contemporary artists of Almada Negreiros. To this end, we have the collaboration of the three consultants of ALMADA project, who will present investigations in Spain, Brazil and the USA. The first is on 22 January at 17h (GMT). Do not lose!]
Sétima Palestra : 21 de Janeiro às 17h com Mercedes Sanchéz Pons e What about Spanish murals of the 20th century? Needs and opportunities.
Link para zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84650222547?pwd=V3dYK01WRHNKVVJqUDRVWjJQSE9HZz09
In this lecture we will make a panoramic vision of the production of murals in Spain during the twentieth century, relating the type of works made with the political and socioeconomic events that have conditioned their characteristics and their durability. We will see how many of them have been lost and forgotten without the valuation they require. There are many studies to be done from which we could learn a lot about our identity and our most recent history, as well as about the way in which the artists in our area reinterpreted the traditional mural techniques and introduced the new industrial materials in art. The combination of interest, the collection of documents from the artist’s immediate environment, and the use of current analytical and diagnostic techniques will allow us to approach the conservation and restoration processes in the safest conditions to preserve such a significative heritage.
Nota bibliográfica
Mercedes Sanchéz Pons has a PhD from the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (2002, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage Program). Since 2003 she has been a lecturer in the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of the UPV in bachelor and master’s degrees, where she has been teaching conservation and restoration of mural paintings, particularly contemporary murals and urban art, since 2006.
He is a member of the research group “Workshop on Analysis and Intervention in Mural Paintings” of the Instituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio of the UPV and belongs to the Micro-Research Cluster (MCI) “Globalization, Tourism and Heritage” at the International Campus of Excellence VLC/CAMPUS. She is also a member of the “Urban and Public Art” group of the Ge-IIC.
She has directed and has been involved in numerous researches, cataloguing and intervention projects, about national and international mural paintings. Among the most recent ones, the restoration of the murals of the church of San Nicolás in Valencia and the European Project Ewaglos: european illustrated glossary of conservation terms for wall painting and architectural surfaces. She is also co-editor and author of the volume Conservation Issues in Modern and Contemporary Murals (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).