Philosophy(ies) of Restoration

Abstract

The conservation and restoration practice of cultural objects is a modern curiosity, gives testimony about the transformation of time concept.Th ere is a relationships-net that determines the meaning of cultural objects. The conservator’s job would be giving a hypothesis of sense, a possible equilibrium between all values included. Even if objects transform themselves and degrade themselves inevitably with passing time, the importance we give to them resides in their lasting time and no more in their belonging to a determinate historic moment. Restoration criteria are claiming a critical consciousness, and that because of the cultural objects ontology is temporary and always changing. Whatever you will begin in this field, is decided in conditions that belong to a present, necessarily transitory. A few unquestionable notions as the integrity and others usual rules of treatment might be considerate dissenting to approach the problems of contemporary art, because they lay in a kind of art that vanguards unsettle and in a philosophical positions combined that are no longer effective. Conservation and restoration practices were different and they still are, because of the uncertainties of the new technologies.