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Taylor Hinojosa Hayes:	The Materiality of Cloudy Boxes: The Investigation, Documentation and Conservation of Jaume Plensa’s Sculptural Works Cloudy Box VIII and Cloudy Box IX	Zurück
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Zusammenfassung:	The subject of this thesis is the conservation of two unsaturated polyester resin artworks, Cloudy Box VIII and Cloudy Box IX (1994), by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. These artworks are from the Cloudy Box series, which Plensa made between 1994 and 1996. Each work comprises a cast of an occasional table and a pedestal. In the artwork’s exhibited form, the pedestal is mounted high on the exhibition wall using a built-in mounting system, with the corresponding table placed on top of the pedestal. The artworks have been exhibited only twice, once at the 6th Triennale Kleinplastik in Fellbach, Germany in 1995-1996 and again in the Abstrakt/Real exhibition at the Museum moderner Kunst (mumok) Stiftung Ludwig Wien/20er Haus in Vienna, Austria in 1996-1997. The objects were acquired by the mumok in 1994 and have, since their last exhibition in 1997, been stored in the mumok collection. Over the nearly thirty years in storage, the artworks have sustained multiple damages to their surfaces due to a combination of the incomplete cross-linking of the resin during production and the packaging materials used. The packaging damages incurred include expanded polystyrene (EPS) adhered to the surfaces, as well as imprints in the surface from the EPS; imprints from bubble wrap and glossy imprints from siliconised films. The artworks possess heterogeneous surfaces, with numerous traces of the production processes intentionally left by the artist and thus, are inherent to the works. Due to the diverse surface phenomena, a detailed understanding of the artworks´ materiality, conceptual identity, and production processes is necessary to clearly differentiate between authentic characteristics and the damages incurred. The damages will be reviewed in detail as well as the implications the damages pose to the reception of the objects. Practical conservation treatments of the damages are tested and evaluated, informing the development of conservation strategies. An additional focus is placed on preventative conservation and sustainable long-term storage of the artworks. Top
Schlagworte:	Unsaturated polyester resin, conservation, Jaume Plensa, materiality, conceptual identity, authenticity, packaging damages, surface damages, expanded polystyrene, material ageing
weitere Angaben:	Hochschule: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Art der Arbeit: Diplomarbeit Erstprüfer/in: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carolin Bohlmann Zweitprüfer/in: Julia Sawitzki M.A. Abgabedatum: 2025 Sprache: English Seitenzahl: 300 Abbildungen: 283
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