Uniqueness and multiplication : plaster as an art material Program International Conference • Brussels, October 10-11, 2017 DAY 1 – October 10th, 2017 9:00 Welcome 9:15 Opening of the conference 9:20 Opening speech by Hilde De Clercq (Director KIK-IRPA) 9:30 keynote speaker: Holly Trusted (Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK), Displaying Plaster Casts at the Museum: South Kensington and the Reproduction of Sculpture Context of the conference 10:00 Introduction of the KIK-IRPA, Géraldine Patigny (BEL), Research on Plaster Works at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage: a plural Relationship 10:15 Introduction of the Epitaaf NPO, Tom Verhofstadt (BEL), The Salu workshop at Laeken. Presentation of a plaster collection in situ 10:30 coffee break Session 1: COLLECTIONS Chair: Alicia Adamczak 10:45 Marianne Decroly, Nicole Gesche-Koning, Valentine Henderiks (BEL), Quel avenir pour la collection des moulages conservée à l’Université libre de Bruxelles? 11:10 Stephanie Zumbrink (DEU), The Plaster Collection - Memory of the Freiburg Minster 11:35 Fabio Marcelli (ITA), Perugia and its Gypsum: an ancient and fruitful dialogue 12:00 lunch break 13:00 Lorraine Kypiotis (AUS), «Castaways»: a classical collection adrift on an island continent 13:25 Ximena Gallardo (CHL), History, composition and significances of the plaster collection of the «Museum of Copies» at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago 13:50 conclusions and questions 14:15 coffee break Location Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, parc du Cinquantenaire 1 BE-1000 Bruxelles www.kikirpa.be Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Jubelpark 1 BE-1000 Brussel Session 2: CONSERVATION and RESTAURATION Chair: Judy De Roy 14:30 Bruce Banks, Sharon Miller, Tomas Markevicius, Nina Olsson (NOR), Monoatomic oxygen: a non-contact nanoscale method for nuanced cleaning of plaster and sensitive porous surfaces 14:55 Renata Tislova, Petra Zitkova, Jakub Doubal (CZE), Consolidation treatments for gypsum plaster models 15:20 Stéphanie Deschamps-Tan (FRA), De l’étude préalable à la restauration d’une épreuve du chef-d’œuvre de Giovanni Dupré, Abel mort: la redécouverte d’un plâtre délaissé 15:45 conclusions and questions 16:15 Stone workshop of KIK-IRPA: visit DAY 2 – October, 11th, 2017 9:00 Welcome Session 3: ART HISTORY Chair: Linda Van Santvoort 9:30 Dimitri Laboury (BEL), In the workshop of an Ancient Egyptian sculptor 9:55 Eckart Marchand (GBR), Plaster casts in sculptors’ workshops in France during the Ancien Regime 10:20 coffee break 10:45 Sarah Betzer (USA), Canova, 1816: marble, plaster,surface 11:10 Bénédicte Garnier (FRA), La collection d’antiques du sculpteur Rodin, de l’objet à l’œuvre 11:35 conclusions and questions 12:00 closing speech: Holly Trusted 12:30 lunch break Conference Excursions 14:00 Plaster-cast workshop, Royal Museums of Art and History: visit 16:00 Epitaaf NPO (Laeken), former workshop of the sculptors Salu: visit and reception Location Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, parc du Cinquantenaire 1 BE-1000 Bruxelles www.kikirpa.be Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Jubelpark 1 BE-1000 Brussel .