Acervos de obras de arte em plástico: perfil das coleções e propostas para conservação destes bens

Abstract

One of the main problems faced by professionals in conservation and restoration in museums of modern and contemporary art is the identification of types of degradation in the works of art composed of polymeric materials as well as the monitoring of these objects and actions to intervene in them. Besides the complexity of the material, there are two other issues relating to works produced in plastic: works that were created to be reproduced without the need to preserve theobject exposed, but with the need to preserve the design work, and works that are designed to be preserved, despite the brevity of the material. To assist in the process of decision making at the moment to intervene in these works, we accomplish a original research in a country where we have identified some of the major collections of works of plastic in Brazil, including the collection Gilberto Chateaubriand, cataloged the types of degradation that they had to create a database with this information, and as case studies, we report a few interventions in these institutions in compliance with the criteria used.