FiatLux: Fusion of Imaging and Time-Tracking for the Study of Geometrically Complex Paintings [Fusion d’Imagerie et suivi temporel pour l’étude de peintures à géométrie complexe] Interdisciplinary project 'Imag’In Challenge'. 2015–2017 The 'FiatLux' project aims to relate certain techniques in imaging analysis and processing, radiation physics, physico-chemistry of
Discussion 12 March 2015 at 1.30 p.m. Contributor: Jean Fouace, chief conservator of cultural heritage, head of the CICRP's scientific department The history of the Mobilier National and the Manufactures Nationales of the Gobelins, the Savonnerie and Beauvais are inextricably linked. Each of these structures has served to
Issues and challenges in the restoration and presentation of a double-sided artwork The Petit Palais museum has been working for many years in close collaboration with the CICRP and is offering the opportunity to the public to discover the scientific studies and restorations that the works
Duration: 2008–2009 CICRP: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): Museums of France Research and Restoration Centre Centre (C2RMF) A research programme on the identification and behaviour of PVC materials was undertaken in liaison with the Museums of France Research and Restoration Centre (C2RMF), primarily from analyses carried out on pure PVC
Duration: 2010–2011 CICRP director: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): Research Centre for the Conservation of Collections (CRCC); ARC-Nucléart; Laboratory of Molecular and Macromolecular Photochemistry of Clermont-Ferrand; Museums of France Research and Restoration Centre (C2RMF), in the context of a Regional Natural Park of Corsica (PNRC) This project focuses on celluloid,
Duration: 2010–2011 CICRP: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): Research Centre for the Conservation of Collections (CRCC), Laboratory of Molecular and Macromolecular Photochemistry (LPMM); Museums of France Research and Restoration Centre (C2RMF); Gwenola Corbin, conservator-restorer, National Centre of Plastic Arts (CNAP) grant Under the restoration research allowance granted to Gwenola Corbin
Programme start: 2012 CICRP: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): Clémentine Bollard, art restorer, grant holder of the National Centre of Plastic Arts (CNAP), Museums of France Research and Restoration Centre (C2RMF) This programme draws on research carried out by Clémentine Bollard, art restorer, CNAP grant holder. The scientific assistance of
Programme start: 2009 CICRP: Alain Colombini (director), Norbert Bernstein, Emilie Hubert Partnership(s): Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Musée Picasso of Antibes, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre of Marseille This research programme on the identification of paints of domestic and industrial application used by Picasso and his contemporaries has essentially concerned
Programme start: 2008 CICRP: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): Fondation Vasarely, Atelier Arcay, Atelier Dernier Cri, All City This programme draws on the systematic study of paints made from organic and fluorescent pigments/dyes used by artists in the second half of the 20th century with the aim of gaining an
Programme start: 2007 CICRP: Alain Colombini Partnership(s): the National Forensic Institute and the Marseille physico-chemical laboratory The purpose of this research programme on the degradation and consolidation of polyurethane resins/paints and latex-rubber is to optimise consolidation methods of these two materials, allowing the display and easier handling of
