Conservation
Piranesi: 3D progress by voxelstudios
Factum Arte has collaborated with voxelstudios in the complex process of 3D modelling Giambatista Piranei's engraving for the exhibition The Art of Piranesi: architect, engraver, antiquarian, landscape artist, designer (Le Arti di Piranesi: architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer), to create three dimensional objects following his unrealised designs. The exhibition will be showcased at Venice Biennial of Architecture, in the Sale del Convitto on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore from 28th August until the 21st November 2010.
Conservation
A new film on the production of the 3 facsimiles of paintings by Caravaggio in San Luigi dei Francesi (in process)
Factum Arte and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reached an agreement with the Municipality of Caravaggio in December 2008 to begin work on a research centre devoted to the work of Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio). The project begun with the high resolution recording of three paintings in San Luigi Francesi in Rome. The Research Centre will open in September 2010.
Art
New work for Carlos Garaicoa
Creative collaborations with artists are inherently unpredictable, several new directions have emerged from the collaboration between Factum Arte and the Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa.
Colour proofs of Carlos Garaicoa’s tapestries made from high resolution photographs that were taken on the streets of Havana, Cuba.
These tapestries shall be showcased in a forthcoming exhibition in Matadero Madrid, in September 2010.
Conservation
Piranesi tripod sphinx
The tripod in this video has been created in 3D Studiomax by Voxel Studio and Factum Arte, the fine textures were achieved in a program called Z Brush. The tripod is inspired by one of the etchings in Piranesi's Complete Etchings by John Wilton-Ely found near Naples. This is one of the objects being made by Factum Arte for the exhibition. Work in progress.
Art
Anish Kapoor - Steel cube
The steel cube by Anish Kapoor is being prepared in three sizes: 60 centimeters, 1 meter and 1,45 meters. The 1,45 meter version was installed in it's permanent location, a private estate in Ciudad Real, Spain during December 2009.
Conservation
Recording the tomb of Tutankhamun
The High resolution recording and production of an exact facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun is part of a major initiative by the Supreme Council of Antiquities to preserve the tombs in the Valley of the Kings while making important tombs that are either closed or in need of closure accessible to the public and to scholars.
The project has been launched by Dr Zahi Hawass in collaboration with the University of Basel, The Friends of the Royal tombs of Egypt, the Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation and Factum Arte.
Conservation
Tutankhamun routing test
After all the recording of the tomb of Tutankhamun was completed, work on the processing of the data is underway and work on the facsimile of the burial chamber and sarcophagus of Tutankhamun will be completed in time for the opening of the Susanne Mubarak Children’s Museum in 2010.
This video shows the process of routing employing 3D data at a resolution of 100 microns to produce an exact relief surface of the wall of the room of Tutankhamun.
Art
Dionisio González - Transfigured Schönberg
Dionisio González and Factum Arte collaborated for the second time on Dionisio's site-specific installation for the Patio Herrerano in Valladolid, Spain. The work opened on October 2nd 2009.
Transfigured Schönberg combines a hidden structure that fixes over 300 speakers in suspension with specially prepared music inspired by Arnold Schönberg's Transfigured Night. The multi-channel sound was prepared by Nathaniel Mann.
Conservation
A facsimile of the Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese
In the autumn of 2006, the Musée du Louvre reached an agreement with Fondazione Giorgio Cini and granted Factum Arte access to record Veronese's great painting les Noces De Cana.
Art
Marc Quinn - Big Bang Pop
Factum Arte produced a series of portraits of individual pieces of popcorn. They are laser scanned, laser cut, finished by hand and finally cast in bronze. The bronze sculpture, accurate to the cracks on the husk, is painted by hand. One of these pieces can be seen in Hopkins Custot gallery.
Conservation
Facsimile of a section of the burial chamber from the tomb of Seti I
Factum Arte produced a conservation facsimile of a section the tomb of Seti I from the Valley of Kings for the Desert Valley Project. The project had the support of both the Ministry of Culture of Egypt and the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Specific emphasis was placed on installing into the facsimile sections of the tomb removed in the nineteenth century by the British, French, Americans and Italians.
Art
The Wedding at Cana. A Vision by Peter Greenaway
The second of Peter Greenaway's live projects onto a facsimile that was produced by Factum Arte. The performance took place in the original location of the great painting by Veronese: the refectory of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.
Exhibitions
Facsimile of the Tomb of Thutmose III
Commissioned by the Danish company United Exhibits Group, Factum Arte produced a 1:1 scale facsimile of the tomb of thutmose III (Valley of the Kings, Egypt). The facsimile featured as a central piece of the exhibition The Quest For Immortality at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has subsequently toured to seven other museums in the US and visited a total of twelve museums.
