Conversations on conservation and restoration: Does our art industry neglect to ensure South Africa’s culturally rich space is immortalised?
Standard Bank Art Gallery’s head curator Dr Same Mdluli walked audiences through a history of black modernist art at theexhibition recently. She explained that an important, but overlooked, part of this is the preservation and maintenance of its artworks.
“I think there is a narrowness that is kind of being preached at institutions, that yes, you study fine arts so you’re going to be a fine artist.
So, when laser and X-radiography technologies are applied to a painting and hidden figures invisible to the eye are uncovered — that’s conservation in practice.
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