Filip Matoušek↓

About the work

Historical and Present Possibilities of Bronze Sculpture Patination and Their Use in Restoration Practice • Restoration of a Bronze Figural Sculpture – Christ • Restoration of a Stone Figural Sculpture – St. Joseph • Technology and Restoration of a Figural Sgraffito Plaster

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What is your graduation work about?

Restoration of two figural sculptures, one of natural stone (the figure of St. Joseph with Jesus Child in his arms from the workshop of the Baroque sculptor F. Ringelhahn) and the other of bronze alloy (the figure of Christ with outstretched arms from an anonymous foundry, modeled on the statue of Christ by the Neo – Classicist sculptor B. Thorwaldsen), and the sgraffito plaster with a figural motif (the figure of Sarah based on a print by the Renaissance painter and illustrator T. Stimmer). Furthermore, in the theoretical part of the thesis, I deal with the patination of bronze artworks and objects, which is closely related to the above restoration process of bronze sculpture.

What do you do besides your graduation work?

The scope of the graduation work is so extensive that I can only devote my leisure time to studying professional literature on my subjects and occasionally play hockey or other sports, but more as a recreation.

In what conditions would you like to work on your graduation work?

The studio allocated for the sculpture restoration in the Modern Gallery building provides me with a sufficiently adapted space for solving my graduation work.

What would you imagine to be an alternative culmination of your studies at AVU, in place of the defense of your graduation work?

I think defending my achievements from working on my graduation work is a fitting end to my six years of study.