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The “Art Doctor” comes to the Blanton Museum
Ever wonder what to do when your painting made of elephant dung begins to crumble or that shark-in-formaldehyde sculpture you have starts to rot?
You should enlist the services contemporary art conservator Christian Scheidemann.
Dubbed, “The Art Doctor” by the New Yorker magazine, the New York-based Scheidemann is considered a pioneer in the world of contemporary art conservation — one of the few who specializes in the odd and organic materials from which much contemporary art is made: fat, latex, chocolate, felt, dung and just about anything else.
Scheidemann has restored works by artists Martin Kippenburg, Takashi Murakami, Wifredo Lam, and Paul McCarthy, among others.
On Saturday, he comes to Austin to deliver a free lecture at the Blanton Museum of Art. “The Fabrication and Disintegration of Contemporary Art” begins at 2 p.m.
Scheidemann’s lecture coincides with the acquisition of several new works for the Blanton’s collections as well as a new exhibition of prints by Andy Warhol.
Image: Andy Warhol
Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean), from Ads, 1985
Screenprint, printed in nine colors from nine screens
Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1985
Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art.
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