El Museo de arte Thyssen-Bornemisza - (Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid-España)

Hyperrealism 1967-2012
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Hyperrealism. 1967-2012

22 March to 9 June 2013

Advance purchase is recommended

Autor:: Tom Blackwell
Título:: Triumph Trumpet (detail)
Fecha:: 1977

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 180 x 180 cm.
Ubicacion:: Private Collection, New York.
image © Tom Blackwell photo © Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

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New Display of the Collections

From 26 February to 2 June 2013

Autor:: Nicolas Maes
Título:: The Naughty Drummer
Fecha:: c. 1655

Técnica:: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Nr. INV. 241 (1930.56)

Restoration

restauradores trabajando sobre unas obras en el taller

Conservation is the main responsibility of the museum on behalf of its legacy. Conservation and Restoration are fundamental pieces of the activities of the museum and are intimately related to the investigation task. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum's effort on knowing in depth its collection is a priority for its future conservation.

The Restoration Department owns an equipment that is permanently being renovated and it enables modern studying methods for the works of art. Complete photographic studies using macro digital photographs with visible light, UV light photographs, IR reflectographies and X rays are made. It also has a laboratory of chemical analysis that covers the information needs for possible restoration treatments, analyses aspects that refer to the composition and behaviour of materials used in works of art, and is involved in different investigation projects with other institutions.