Painting Conservator’s Tour of the Latin American art exhibition
Carlos González Juste, the Paintings Conservator of The Phoebus Foundation, Kumu’s collaborator for the exhibition “History and Mystery: Latin American Art and Europe”, will lead a guided tour of the exhibition in Kumu’s Great Hall.
Art conservation not only makes it possible to preserve and restore artworks, but also, with the support of technical studies, to understand the materials, the techniques and the history of pieces. This tour will guide you through the restoration processes of various selected pieces from the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, dating back to the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. Through them it will be possible to discover, among other things, the dynamics of artists’ workshops, fashion and the relationships between objects, miracles and representation, as well as a few well-hidden secrets.
This guided tour will be led in English.
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Carlos González Juste has earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in conservation. He has undertaken internships at the Hamilton Kerr Institute (Cambridge) and the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid). In 2019, he took up a full-time position as Paintings Conservator at The Phoebus Foundation, and is responsible for the collection of Viceregal Latin American Art.
This event is a part of the public programme of the exhibition “History and Mystery: Latin American Art and Europe”. This is the first major exhibition of Latin American art in Estonia, presenting a large number of masterpieces from the collection of The Phoebus Foundation. The exhibition “History and Mystery: Latin American Art and Europe” features religious art and portraits from the Spanish Colonial period, as well as works by renowned 20th-century artists from Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Mexico and Cuba. At the heart of the exhibition are the connections between Latin American and European art, the cultural transfers and entanglements.
