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Alain Colombini
Conservation scientist
Science Department

Speciality

XX^th century artworks, analysis and research :

• Painting analysis
• Characterization and assessment of degradation process of contemporary artworks : organic pigments, binding media, polymers
• Optimization of analytical techniques, notably Raman and I.R.T.F.
• Colour measurement
• Supervisation of scientific students and conservators
• Instigator of the collaboration with the Forensic Science Laboratory of Marseille
• Court-appointed scientific expert of works of art, notably of paintings

Research programmes in CICRP : "Characterization and behaviour of contemporary art materials", Project Picasso Ripolin with the AIC.

Past

1990-1993 : Conservation Scientist, Victoria and Albert Museum, London ; Textile Conservation Scientist, Textile Conservation Studio, Hampton Court Palace, London.

1983-1990 : Textile Conservation Scientist, Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques (L.R.M.H. Champ sur Marne).

Publications

You may consult on this site a few posters done by Alain Colombini :

• "Dégradations d'une couche peinte composée de latex : cas d'une sculpture en polyuréthanne de Kenjii Yanobe", poster presented Art d'aujourd'hui, patrimoine de demain, S.F.I.I.C. Paris June 2009. (In French)
• "Limitations of Raman spectroscopy in the degradation assessment of polyurethane artworks", poster presented with Vicente Leal Romero at the Lacona VII conference in Madrid in 2007.
• "Conservation of Cézanne's studio objects : characterisation of painting materials", poster presented at the ICOM-CC Congress in The Hague in 2005.
• "Characterisation and accelerated ageing assessment of two twentieth century blue paints", poster presented at the 5^th E.C. Conference of Cultural Heritage Research in Krakow (Poland) in 2002.
• "A new approach in the use of oxygen scavenger for insects eradication in museums", poster on the use of oxygen scavenger in conservation/treatment of works of arts in museums for the 6^th International Conference on "Non-Destructive Testing and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage", Rome in 1999.

Download list of publications and posters (updated on July 2009).

Page last updated on 27 July 2009.

CICRP – Centre Interrégional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine
Groupement d'Intérêt Public à Caractère Culturel
21, rue Guibal, F-13003 Marseille FRANCE

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