More Unconventional Treatments for Unconventional Art

Abstract

New methods are described to treat contemporary paintings without touching or damaging their delicate surfaces. These methods can be reversed without difficulty or hazard to the paintings: The following three paintings were selected: (1) Karel Appel, oil on canvas, 129·6 × 195cm, high impasto still soft—vacuum lined without a membrane on a standard vacuum hot table, using a method which can be easily adapted by any conservation studio; (2) Enzo Cucchi, oil on canvas, 280 × 360cm, very heavy impasto, which had suffered a 34·7cm-longtear—lined using a newly developed contact adhesive, Beva-Gel®, on Scapa polyester monofilament fabric;(3) Red Grooms, soluble crayons (pastel) on five sheets of heavy-gage, textured artists' paper, each 264·2 × 152·4cm (total size 264·2 × 762cm)—mounted with Beva® 371 Film and Velcro on aspecially prepared support.

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