Modern Venuses

Students' exhibition of the Laboratory of Modern and Contemporary Painting Restoration

Head of the Laboratory of Modern and Contemporary Painting Restoration: Ľuba Wehlend (2018 – 2019), Dipl. Rest. Dr. Paul Bernhard Eipper (2020 – 2021)

Students of the Laboratory of Modern and Contemporary Painting Restoration: Ema Gerliciová, Marek Kocka, Jana Kviatkovská, Lenka Lešková, Kristína Luknárová, Barbora Peterková, Monika Rumanová, Eva Vídenská 

Author of the series Venuses: Ladislav Sutnar (1897 – 1976)

Restored works: VENUS/WRAPPED IN FLAGS (var. THE FLAG BEARER), 1971; VENUS/WITH GREEN EYES, 1972; VENUS/WITH THE BROWN HAIR, 1974; VENUS/GETTING CHICK, VENUS / ???; VENUS/AT JONES BEACH, 1969; VENUS/WITH THE BLUE EYE, 1974; VENUS/IN FASHION/WITH GREEN BOOT, 1972
(all in acrylic medium)

The 20th century brought a number of new materials and techniques into the fine arts. In the process of conservation and restoration of modern and contemporary painting, unique, unpredicted problems arise. The aim of the training in the Laboratory of Modern and Contemporary Painting Restoration is to educate students to understand these materials, their ageing and to be able to find the restoration and conservation methods suitable for the treatment. These knowledge and skills are inevitable for the profession of restorer of modern and contemporary painting.