Services
Services
Conservation Treatment
Each object has a different history, showing diverse deterioration problems and damages. Followed by careful examination, we propose various treatments, considering its originality and aesthetic quality and suggest appropriate conservation housing. Treatment methods and techniques used comply with the professional guidelines of The Japan Society for the Conservation of Cultural Property and Code of Ethics and guidelines for practice of American Institute for Conservation.
Conservation Treatment
Survey
We perform condition surveys for individual object and collections, providing condition reports and treatment proposals, and evaluations for housing and storage. We do inspection and record condition for touring exhibitions. Condition reports are available in Japanese and English. Various tests and analysis, fumigation can be arranged with specialized institutions.
Survey
Preservation
We provide services on preventive conservation and collection care for objects and advise on housing, storage, framing and exhibition. We use materials which passed PAT (ISO 18916 Imaging materials-Processed imaging materials- Photographic activity test for enclosure materials) for photographic collections.
Preservation
Specialized areas
Works on paper
drawings, watercolour, etchings, engravings, lithographs, prints, Japanese works on paper such as Ukiyoe prints, scrolls, etc.
Paper based documents
historical documents, maps, certificates etc.
Photographic materials
photographic artworks and photographic documents from 19th Century process to Contemporary, including cased photographs and albums
Conservation treatments
•Removing object from acidic mount
•Removing tapes and adhesives
•Cleaning and bleaching
•Removing mould
•Repairing tears, creases, losses and consolidation
•Pressing and lining
•Inpainting and retouching
•Mounting and Housing
List of artists previously treated
Photographs
Shigeo Anzai, Ei-Q, Hakuyo Fuchigami, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Osamu Kanemura, Kikuji Kawada, Kazuo Kitai, Michiko Kon, Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori, Daido Moriyama, Fujio Matsugi, Iwata Nakayama, Ikko Narahara, Koyo Okada, Koshiro Onchi, Yuki Onodera, Gen Otsuka, Issei Suda, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kunie Sugiura, Tsugio Tajima, Yutaka Takanashi, Shomei Tomatsu, Shoji Ueda, Noboru Ueki, Sanshichiro Yamamoto, Noriaki Yokosuka, Senzo Yoshioka, Hitori Yoshizaki, Tomoko Yoneda
Eugène Atget, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Lewis Hine, Yousuf Karsh, André Kertész, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Jock Sturges, Wolfgang Tillmans, Edward Weston
19th Century Photographs and albums including Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Albumen prints.
Works on Paper
Katsura Funakoshi, Arata Isozaki, Toshimitsu Imai, Yayoi Kusama, Shiro Kuramata, On Kawara, Shunsuke Matsumoto, Shiko Munakata, Kazuo Shiraga, Kishio Suga, Jiro Takamatsu, Shuzo Takiguchi, Atsuko Tanaka, Lee Ufan
Marc Chagall, Léonard Foujita, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo, Andy Warhol