Appel à contribution : « Lacuna. Conservation, Law, and the Ethics of the Incomplete », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 2-5 décembre 2026, date limite le 11 mai 2026
In conservation practice, a lacuna is a site of rupture – a gap in the painted surface where figure and ground have been severed, where the material continuity of a work has been broken. Conservators have long understood this rupture as a form of violence, a visual disruption that prevents the viewer from apprehending the work as a coherent whole. Yet the practice they have developed in response is not simply one of repair. Following the...



