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Being curious by nature and having a «technical maintenance» job, or as my mother calls me an «academic repairman», I do not hesitate to «attack» other objects than paintings. Artworks are universal, mostly made by man and have therefore many similitudes. A medieval polychrome european sculpture is technically not far away of a northamerican indian, southamerican, african or australian aboriginal wooden cult object. Therefore I had the chance to restore objects from all periods such as: a bronze vase of the period « Tchou », 2000 BC, shattered after a too hard landing, as well as greek, roman, medieval and up to the 20th centuries, a plaster sculpture made and signed by Rodin himself and blackened by a several decades long stay near the coal oven in the basement of a parisian house on Montmartre. I treated ethnographic and archaeologic objects from around the world, paintings on wood, stone, bone, ebony, amber, pearls, parchement, cardboard, leather, plaster, alabaster, metals, thankas from Tibet, bouddas from Thailand … The problems range from children scribblings on a marble sculptures from the 1930ies up to the prehistoric obelisc run over and fractured by a bulldozer and spraypainted by «creative» youngsters. That is why I am often consulted when others «loose their latin».  “The Miraculous drought of fishes”, Russian, end of XVIIIth c.Icon painted on unusual support: a skull of sturgeon. 
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