Located in the heart of Villeurbanne near Lyon in France, the “À la Lueur du Pinceau” workshop offers services of Conservation-Restoration of paintings.
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Act of Conservation-Restoration
The act of care of the restorer today is part of an approach that is ethical, minimalist and respectful of the historical and aesthetic integrity of the work of art and its own temporality.
“Reversibility, Stability, Legibility”. It is under the aegis of these great ethical principles of modern restoration that the whole restorator’s work development process comes upstream and throughout his interventions.
Each action and reflection is carried out with the aim of guaranteeing the work respect for its physical, historical and aesthetic integrity. Each choice is assumed with the intention of providing the best possible care to the painting in recognition of its own materiality and its double temporality, its history and its “artisticity”, its quality as a work of art and a unique work.
« The restoration constitutes the methodological moment of the recognition of the work of art, in its physical consistency and its double aesthetic and historical polarity, in view of its transmission to future generations. »
Cesare Brandi, Théorie de la Restauration, 1963, réed. 2011, Allia
Diving into the heart of the history of a painting, from its material to its composition, from its conception to its posterity, this is what the restoration of a work of art can allow and reveal.
To restore a work of art, it’s to brave the ravages of time while respecting its passage, to investigate the work of art in the depths of its technical and iconographic story, to go through its past in order to better understand its present and to transmit its identity, its material, its essence to the generations of tomorrow.
Some examples
Copy of Old Masters
In this section, I wanted to propose to you to dive for a moment through my eyes, to share with you some restoration experiences, to make you travel with the glow of the brush in the heart of some paintings that I would have had the chance or not to meet. To walk in the footsteps of a painter, famous or unknown, to follow the furrows of the brush… Here are a few stories collected during my pictorial peregrinations in the studio or in the museum, punctuated with anecdotes about the profession.
