International Study Conference “Mauro Pellicioli and the culture of restoration in the twentieth century” (Venice, November 14-15, 2018)
In the framework of history of restoration, fundamental point for a deeper knowledge of problems related to Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage and History of Art, the Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo together with the Fondazione Accademia Carrara, the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio of Venice and the Polo Museale Veneto, promoted and organized an International Conference dedicated to the Italian restorer Mauro Pellicioli.
The Conference is connected to the project Archivio Storico Nazionale e Banca Dati dei Restauratori Italiani – ASRI, (National Historical Archive of Italian Restorers), which was launched in 1995 during the conference dedicated to Giovanni Secco Suardo, aims to increasing and enhance the knowledge on history of conservation-restoration through the safeguard of the Italian conservator-restorers’ private archives and through studies, researches and cataloguing in the ASRI database.
The Conference was an interdisciplinary moment of debate on the conservation-restoration history in Italy and in European countries, starting from Mauro Pellicioli, whose work on the most important Italian works of art ranged from public institutions to private customers.
This Conference it was a precious opportunity to match different themes: the history of conservation-restoration (as technical and philological study), the conservation-restoration methodology and the historical analysis of social and cultural processes. Different paths so deeply interrelated that need increasing integration.
In fact, it should be considered that, despite the presence of multiple reports on individual interventions or reconstructions of relationships with institutions and personalities from the world of art and restoration, an overall interpretation of the figure of Mauro Pellicioli is still lacking. The critical analysis of his biography and the results of his activity on works of art is completely fragmentary and largely still unpublished. On the other hand, there is a large amount of largely unpublished documentary material, represented by his personal archive, conserved at the Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo.
Promoters
Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo
Fondazione Accademia Carrara, Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
MiBAC, Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro
MiBAC, Polo Museale del Veneto
MiBAC, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Venezia
In collaboration with: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana
With the support of
Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo
Fondazione Accademia Carrara
Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
MiBAC Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Intesa Sanpaolo
Comune di Nembro (BG)
With the contribution of:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Regione Veneto
Comune di Bergamo
Comune di Nembro (BG)
Comune di Venezia
ICCROM – International Centre of Conservation- Rome
ICOM – International Council of Museums Italia
ECCO- European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers’ Organisations
ENCORE- European Network for Conservation-Restoration Education
Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, ANAI – Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana, ARI – Associazione Restauratori Italiani, ORA – Associazione Restauratori Alta Formazione