COST G7

ARTWORK CONSERVATION LASER

THIRD MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING and

2nd WORKING GROUPS MEETING

ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA

15-16 JUNE 2001

  

Acting Chairman: Dr. Vassilis Zafiropulos (Hellas)

Scientific Officer: Ms. Anna Danti (Brussels)

Inviting Delegation: Austrian (Dr. Manfred Schreiner - Academy of fine arts Vienna,

Mag. Johann Nimmrichter - Bundesdenkmalamt)

  

AGENDA 

15 June 

Morning (room “Sitzungssaal”) 

10.00 - 12.30 hours

 

1.     Welcome to the participants  

2.     Presentation of the Delegations 

3.     Adoption of the agenda 

4.     Approval of the draft minutes of the 2nd meeting of the management Committee (12 - 13/01/2001 -  Bucharest) 

5.     COST G7 Homepage - R. Radvan to report on progress 

6.     Budgetary situation : 2001-06-08 

7.     Short-Term Scientific Missions-Election of an administrating Institute

 

12.30 - 14.00 hours  

Lunch

 Afternoon (room “Vortragssaal R5”)

14.00 -16.30 hours

 

Workshop: “Presentation of the State of the Artwork Conservation by Laser”

 

14.00-14.45 hours:

Laser - A New Technology for Conservation - Restoration Principles, Trends and perspectives, Prof. Dr. R. Vilar, Departamento de Materials , Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon/Portugal

 

14.45 - 15.15 hours:

The Demands on a New Cleaning Method for Paper Conservators  Mag. D. Muller- Hess, Institut fur Papierresstaurierung, SchloB Schonbrunn, Vienna/Austria

 

15.15. - 15.45 hours :

An Overview on Laser Cleaning of Varnished Paintings

 Dr. V. Zafiropulos, Laser & Applications Division , Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (I.E.S.L.), Foundations for Research and Technology - Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.), Heraklion, Crete/Greece

 

15.45 - 16.15 hours:

Laser in the Field of Stone Conservation

Dr. M. Cooper, Conservation Centre, National Museum  and Galleries on Mereyside, Liverpool/England

 

16.15 16.30 hours:

Discussion and conclusion

16.30 - 17.00 hours

 Coffee break  

17.00 - 19.30 hours

                                                (room “Sitzungssaal”)

 

Laser Systems for Cleaning Application - WG1

 

1.     Events

1.1 Information on the Munich Conference (Salimbeni)

1.2 Information on the LACONA 4 Conference (Verges-Belmin) 

2.     Introduction and distribution of a complete mailing list of WG1 members

     (Kautek / Verges-Belmin) 

3.     Presentation of new members of WG1

3.1 Jana Kolar (Preservation Department, National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

3.2 Dr. Matija Strlic (Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of  Ljubljana, Slovenia)

3.3 Prof. Rui Vilar (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

3.4 Other groups

 

4.     TASK 1: Preject on the bibliographical data and organization of the relevant databases (papers, unpublished- work reports, project summaries)

      (Andreoni/Aberg, Verges-Belmin, Radvan)

4.1 Approval of the proposed forms, organization and circulation plans

4.2 Discussion

 

5.     TASK 2: Presentation on the forms prepared for collecting information on the laser tools available for cleaning purposes in Artwork conservation

      (Cooper)

5.1 List of laser (Verges-Belmin, Cooper, Pini, Teule )

5.2 Discussion on the presented data  

6.     TASK 3: Organization of the inquiry concerning the demand for new research in the field of artwork conservation by laser

      (Ahmad, Andreoni, Zafiropulos)

6.1 Forms and data collected by the WG1 members

 

7.     TASK 4: Progress in validation of laser and optical techniques

      ( Pini, Fassina) 

8.     Assignment of new tasks 

9.     Discussion on R&D collaboration and funding prospects

9.1 Presentation of EUREKA  European Laser Network (Phillippe Loward BIT-EUREKA).

  

16 JUNE  

morning (room “ Sitzungssaal”)

 09.30 - 11.00 hours

Laser and Optical System in Analysis and Diagnostics WG 2

1.     Introduction and distribution of a complete mailing list of WG2 members (Aberg / Andreoni) 

2.     Vivi Tornari, IESL-FORTH: “Laser technology in art conservation structural diagnosis: technique overview, advantages disadvantages and prospect  

3.     Presentation of new members of WG2

3.1 Gianluca Valentini, Politecnico (Milano, Italy)

3.2 Anna Grazia Mignani, IROE-CR (Firenze, Italy)

3.3 Vincenzo Palleschi, IFAM-CNR (Pisa, Italy) 

4.     TASK 1: Project on the bibliographical data (papers, unpublished-work reports, project summaries) and organization of the relevant database. (Andreoni/Aberg, Verges/Belmin, Radvan)*)

4.1 Approval of the proposed forms, organization and circulation plans.

4.2 Discussion 

5.     TASK 2: Presentation of the protocol for collecting information and data on the state-of-the-art use of laser and optical techniques relevant to artwork conservation. (Andreoni)*)

5.1. List of lasers and optical techniques (Aberg, Salimbeni)

5.2. Descriptions of the corresponding methods as optimized by the participants for particular application (Tornari, Esposito)

 

11.00- 11.30 hours 

Coffee break 

11.30 - 12.30

 WG 2 (cont.)

6.     TASK 3: Organization of the enquiry concerning the demand for new research in the field of artwork conservation by laser. (Ahmad, Andreoni, Zafiropulos)

6.1 Forms and data collected by the WG2 members 

7.     Progress on TASK 4: validation of laser and optical techniques. (Andreoni, Fassina)*)

7.1 For which laser and optical techniques comparisons exist with techniques traditionally used? (Fassina) 

8.     Assignment of new tasks 

9.     Discussion on R&D collaboration and funding prospects.

10. A.O.B.

 

12.30 - 14.00 hours

 Lunch break

 

Afternoon (room “ Sitzungssaal”) 

14.00 - 16.00 hours

 Real - time Optical Equipment for Environmental aspects and the response of Artworks WG3   

1.     Presentation of new members and introduction of the topic - SRA

2.     Database on research result (Task 1: Literature forms)

            - Effects of pollution on artwork

            - Advances in monitoring technologies  

3.     Database on commercial monitoring technologies

4.     Critical review on conventional and existing optical monitoring technologies - Simon Watts

5.     Overview on the current state of Optical Diagnostic technologies - Anna Mignani

6.     R&D need for the implementation of optical monitoring/ diagnostic technologies - Rafi Ahmad

7.     Outlook and Plan of action for R&D - Rea Drakou

8.     Result on Task 3 - Demands for research

9.     Discussion on new Tasks

10. Discussion on R&D collaboration and funding prospect

  

16.00 - 16.30 hours 

Coffee break 

16.30 - 17.30 hours  

Management Committee (part 2)  

8.     Publication  - Work plan

9.     Forthcoming meetings of the Management Committee and of the Working Groups  

10. Review of the work undertaken by the working groups Work programme  

11. Any other business

17.30 - 19.30 hours

 

Presentation of the conservation work at St. Stephan’s Cathedral (Dombaumeister DI Wolfgang Zehetner)