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Conserving a kinetic "rotor": Light Dynamo by Heinz Mack

Autore: P. IAZURLO, G. DE CESARE, M. MARGOZZI

Anno: 2018

in: Keep it moving? Conserving kinetic art

a cura di: Rachel Rivench and Reinhard Bek

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The paper present the study and treatment of Light Dynamo, a "rotor" by Heinz Mack (b. 1931), which was carried out by the Laboratorio di Restauro Materiali dell'Arte Contemporanea (Conservation Department of Contemporary Art Materials) of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro - ISCR in Rome.

Light Dynamo is an assemblage of wooden panels forming a box. Inside is an aluminium-coated disc connected with an electric mechanism, which allows its slow rotation. The work is in the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM), which acquired it from “La Salita” gallery in Rome in 1986. It had nbever been exhibited because of its poor condition. The treatment focused on the conservation of the constituent materials and the refunctionalization of the kinetic system, made possible with the collaboration with the artist’s studio.