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Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Working Group Bi-annual meeting via Zoom 24 April 2025

April 3 2025 Murals, Stone, and Rock Art

The Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Working Group of ICOM-CC is pleased to announce the next bi-annual members Zoom meeting

to be held 24 April 2025 from 18.00 – 19.30 (CET / Paris). 

 

The topic of the meeting will be the study and conservation of 20th century frescoes.

Six speakers will present brief 5-7 minute overviews of the work they are doing on wall paintings created in the fresco technique in the 20th century, ranging from the Mexican muralists working in Mexico and the Americas, including Diego Rivera and Siqueiros, to muralists working in the international sphere including Gino Severini, Otto Sköld and others. 

 

You may click here  to register for this meeting.


Program

  • Nathael Cano, Pintar con colores los muros: meanings, materiality & conservation of Mexican’s modern frescoes
  • Kiernan Graves (Site and Studio), Katey Corda, Anne Rosenthal, Original Technique & Conservation Issues of Diego Rivera’s portable frescos
  • Leslie Rainer (Getty Conservation Institute), Towards a Technical Revolution of Painting: David Alfaro Siqueiros’ manifesto on the materials and techniques used for cement fresco painting
  • Chiara Pasian, Public art and the revival of the fresco in Sweden – Otte Sköld in Gothenburg
  • Francesca Piqué, Patrizia Moretti, Stefania Luppichini, Maria Rosa Lanfranchi, (SUPSI), Gino Severini and his Wall Painting Technique: an Overview
  • Samantha Emmanuel (Freelance, wall paintings conservator), Molly Lambert(Principal, Architectural Conservation, Inc.), Hidden Histories: Rediscovering 1930s-era frescoes at the San Francisco Art Institute

Please note that this meeting will not be recorded.