MUNCH

Day 1 - Monday - March 21 2022

08:30-09:00	Opening session
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 1
09:00-09:30	Keynote Speaker – Patricia Berman Why is the Scream always in the present tense?: Motif, materials, meanings.
09:30-10:00	Keynote Speaker – Petra Pettersen The Scream and its motif.
SESSION 1 - ART HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND AUTHENTICATION STUDIES ON MUNCH AND HIS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
10:00-10:15	Mille Stein Commetersche kunsthandlung's munch catalogue from 1906. the conditions of the paintings related to Rolf Stenersen's assertion about the "kill-or-cure" remedy.
10:15-10:30	Nica Gutman Rieppy The challenge of Munch attribution: interweaving materials and imaging analysis, technical art history and provenance research.
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	Petru Ovidiu Tanasa Authentication of a painting by Rene Magritte.
11:15-11:30	Hilde Bøe Counting the museum's Munch paintings.
11:30-11:45	Václava AntuŠková Originals vs.forgeries. Significance of characteristic pigments for unambiguous determination.
11:45-12:00	Jin Ferrer Investigating Edvard Munch's paintings from Warnemude period.
12:00-12:15	Francesca Izzo A secret ingredient in tempera formulations at the turn of XIX and XX centuries: the identification of flaxseed mucilage in paintings by Cesare Laurenti (1854-1936) and his pupils.
12:15-12:30	Discussion of oral presentations
12:30-15:00	Lunch break Guided visit to Aula Magna - UiO included: 13:20-14:10
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 2
15:00-15:30	Keynote Speaker – Ida Bronken Investigations into 20^th century painting materials: using studio studies and archival research methodology to recreate material history.
SESSION 2 - MODELLING AND TECHNICAL ART HISTORY RESEARCH ON MODERN PAINTING MATERIALS
15:30-15:45	Inez van den Werf Early Mondrian (1912-1914) painting materials
15:45-16:00	Elke Cwiertnia A study of German printing inks from the early 20^th century
16:00-16:15	Rika Pause Colourful Avantgarde - A non-invasive exploration of the palette
16:15-16:30	Francesca Izzo Between tradition and experimentalism - Technical studies on artistic materials and techniques of a series of paintings dating 1880-1930 from the Ca'Pesaro collection in Venice.
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-17:15	Charlotte Stahmann Nano-computed tomography as a tool for morphological characterisation and validation of paint mock-ups.
17:15-17:30	Kidane Gebremariam Elemental mapping and multivariate data analysis using portable xrf data: the cases of two paintings by Lars Hertervig.
17:30-17:45	Ekaterina Morozova Titanium dioxide whites in XX century works of art: occurrences and composition study.
17:45-18:00	Abed Haddad Separated at birth, reunited at MOMA: a multi-analytical exploration of Vincent van Gogh's starry night and olive trees.
18:00-18:15	Irina Kadikova Primers of the modern Russian artists: composition, structure, and dating.
18:15-18:30	Discussion of oral presentations
Poster Sessions 1 and 2
19:15	Piano concert by soloist Dragos Cantea & Welcome cocktail

Day 2 - Tuesday - March 22 2022

08:30-09:00	Opening of the second day
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 3
09:00-09:30	Keynote Speaker – Tine Frøysaker & Francesco Caruso Munch's monumental aula paintings.
SESSION 3 - CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION STUDIES ON MODERN PAINTINGS
09:30-09:45	Thierry Ford Bridging the gap between The Munch Room display and the conservation narrative. A decision-making model.
09:45-10:00	Valeria Murgia Sealing effect of aliphatic solvents and cyclododecane solutions during adhesion of flaking paint with methyl cellulose.
10:00-10:15	Antonio Candeias Salt efflorescences on canvases by Edvard Munch - results and hypotheses for their formation.
10:15-10:30	Karolina Soppa Flaking paint on absorbent canvas - approach, possibilities and challenges.
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	Charlotte Stahmann Low-molecular-weight cellulose ethers as aerosols for the consolidation of cohesively weak paint layers.
11:15-11:30	Lena Stoveland Re-visiting (re-assessing) the condition of Munch's monumental canvas paintings in the Aula of Oslo University.
11:30-11:45	Geert van der Snickt Vincent van Gogh's variability in view: comparing the elemental make-up of two versions of Joseph Roulin (aka the Postman).
11:45-12:00	Jan Cutajar Hyperspectral-based documentation of cleaning tests on Munch's monumental Aula paintings: PCA, NDI and NMF maps.
12:00-12:30	Discussion of oral presentations
12:30-14:30	Lunch break Guided visits to Monumentalen Hall/Conservation sections: 12:30-13:00.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 4
14:30-15:00	Keynote Speaker – Maria Perla Colombini Molecular Fingerprints to tell the story of a painting.
SESSION 4 - AGEING AND DEGRADATION MECHANISMS IN MODERN PAINTING MATERIALS
15:00-15:15	Andrea Pataki-Hundt Ageing and surface characteristics of natural and semi-synthetic adhesives for pigment consolidation.
15:15-15:30	Letizia Monico A multi-technique approach to study the historical cadmium yellow paint tubes from the MUNCH Collection in Oslo.
15:30-15:45	Tomasz Lojewski Lightfastness studies with MFT.
15:45-16:00	Jacob Thomas The changing face of Munch's Scream.
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-16:45	Silja Meyer Colour Change and Flaking in Blue Areas of Augusto Giacometti's "Farbkreis" (c. 1907).
16:45-17:00	Emma Chan Light-induced color changes on "The Scream" versions in the Munch museum collection.
17:00-17:15	Nathalie Debono Not just simple water drips: the case of an early 1900s oil painting on stone.
17:15-17:30	Laura Fuster The role of pigment-medium interaction in the film forming, ageing and degradation mechanisms of modern oil white paints.
17:30-17:45	Élise Pheulpin Asbestos cement panel paintings - Degradation issues.
17:45-18:00	Eva Tveit & Erduran Mechanical loads caused by handling, storing in deposit, and in exhibition, with main focus on Munch's porous paintings.
18:00-18:15	Discussion of oral presentations
Poster Sessions 3 and 4
19:15	Dinner

Day 3 - Wednesday - March 23 2022

08:30-09:00	Opening of the last day
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 5
09:00-09:30	Keynote Speaker – Costanza Miliani E-RIHS, the Pan-European infrastructure for heritage science.
09:30-10:00	Keynote Speaker – Klaas Jan van den Berg The royal talens production archive. Explorations in support of paintings studies.
SESSION 5 - HISTORICAL ART REFERENCE COLLECTIONS AND THEIR STUDY
10:00-10:15	Irina Sandu Colours, brands, labels and other fancy stuff in the original art historical materials collection at Munch.
10:15-10:30	Patrick Dietemann History and composition of Fritz Behrendt's artists paints Behrendt-Farben (1903-1939).
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	Ljiljana Puskar Studies on artist's materials using far-infrared spectroscopy.
11:15-11:30	Hartmut Kutzke A study in violet.
11:30-11:45	Milene Gil The painting materials of Almada Negreiros (1893-1970): analysis of powder pigments found at his studio.
11:30-11:45	Erika Sandbakken Powdery pigments from original materials collection of Munch: conservation treatment and analytical characterization.
11:45-12:00	Joy Mazurek Binding media analysis of tube paints from Edvard Munch.
12:15-12:30	Discussion of oral presentations
12:30-14:30	Lunch break Guided visits to Monumentalen Hall/Conservation sections: 12:30-13:00.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - SESSION 6
14:30-15:00	Keynote Speaker - Nikita Mathias & Christian Sivertsen & Signe Endresen Poison. Sinergies between art meditation, academic research and applied sciense.
SESSION 6 - MUSEUM EDUCATION AND DIGITAL INNOVATION FOR DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
15:00-15:15	Lin Stafne-Pfisterer/Ingvild Hammervol Digital dissemination as part of a permanent exhibition.
15:15-15:30	Sofia Pescarin Beyond colours in artworks: an interactive media participatory design perspective.
15:30-15:45	Sivert Thue Constructing new "Munchs": does the database in a monographic museum have a special significance in the social construction of an artist?.
15:45-16:00	Lucian Ratou Revealing hidden early compositions by Hans Mattis-Teutsch using corroborated imagistic and spectroscopic techniques.
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-16:45	Aneta Pawlowska Museum education and digital innovation as a medium of integration for non-standard art audiences. case studies from Lódź, Warsaw and Poltava.
16:45-17:00	Irina Sandu Scientific research on the Edvard Munch's collection: past - present - future.
17:00-17:15	Discussion of oral presentations
Poster Sessions 5 and 6
Closure of day 3 and visit to National Museum in Oslo