The project on the Today Show and the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/.../23haiti.html
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/historians-work-to-restore-haitian-murals/6wolcrd
The stabilization and removal of the celebrated murals at Ste. Trinité Cathedral in Port-au- Prince damaged during January 12 earthquake, 2010 in Haiti
Three murals survived the tremors: “The Last Supper” by Philomé Obin, “Native Procession” by Préfète Duffaut, and “the Baptism of Christ” by Castera Bazile, renouned artists from the Centre d’Art that painted the mural cycle depicting New Testament Scenes in 1950-51.
. The Haitian Cutlural Recovery Center (HCRC), with permission from the Episcopal, and funded by the Smithsonian Institute, contracted wall painting conservators Viviana Dominguez from ArtConservationLA and Rosa Lowinger of the Miami and Los Angeles architectural conservation firm Rosa Lowinger and Associates
Samples of each mural were sent for binder analysis to the Getty Conservation Institute and the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute.
The conservation team had to innovate processes for the removal of the wall paintings
Conservators concluded that the best method for removing the wall paintings was through the stacco technique, involving detachment of the painting and the layers of rendering/mortar immediately beneath it.
Local artists are being trained to work on the conservation treatment under the professional art conservators guidelines.
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