Research Summary

The aging and conservation of wood-based materials used as support in contemporary painting are poorly studied. Starting from National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) paintings collection on these supports, a diagnosis of their conservation state will be made. To deepen preservation issues, it is important to understand how they age and degrade, by testing accelerated ageing on samples, with and without paint coating.

This knowledge will be applied to an in-loco analysis of the paintings on wood-based materials at MNAC, creating a Damage Matrix for each work. This Matrix will allow a qualitative and quantitative analysis, essential for the monitoring and conservation strategy of paintings on this type of support.

The interdisciplinary character of this research, between art and science, will allow us to obtain an experimental knowledge of these materials and an effective analysis of the MNAC paintings, responding to questions about the conservation of paintings on wood-based materials.