Conservation and Reproduction of Plaster Bust of "Yamamoto Teijiro" (work of Huang Tu-shui) -
Commissioned by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts National Taiwan Museum

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Conservation and Reproduction of Plaster Bust of "Yamamoto Teijiro" (work of Huang Tu-shui) - Commissioned by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Participants

Visiting Specialist: MORI JUNICHI
Professor: CHANG, YUAN-FENG
Assistant Conservator: LIAO YUNG-CHEN
Consultant of Analysis: Prof. LIN, CHENG-HUANG

Execution Period

2022

Introduction

The conservation project of the "Plaster Bust of Yamamoto Teijiro", created by celerated artist Huang Tushui's was made possible by Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, Ministry of Culture, R.O.C. and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. It is currently a collection from Sado city, Japan, the official entrusted RCCCR to perform conservation treatment and mold reproduction of this object by protective and safe techniques.

Within 6 months, RCCCR developed new techniques and materials for the conservation treatments and made a reproduction of the vulnerable cultural relic, especially a new mold-making technique that will not damage the original item, and safely reproduce a plaster bust from original work of art.

Photo citation: The plaster bust of Huang Tusui’s "Yamamoto Teijiro" returned home and had an unpacking ceremony at the National Taiwan Museum.