NOTES ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE NEW WAVE OF MODELING MATERIALS USED IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Beyond the extreme increase of art materials offered on the market, contemporary artists continue to push the limits of art creation, the concept and artistic intention overcoming traditional media and techniques in a process that can be seen as a quest towards new forms of artistic expression. In this context, modeling materials as those used in industrial 3D printing can be easily found among the choices of modern artists, the objects generated by this new entry level technology receiving their artistic values by projecting them within a dedicated art environment - museum, galley, exhibition. In this preliminary study we discuss the color stability of this new class of modeling materials under controlled accelerated ageing and integrate the obtained data onto the implications surrounding the preservation of these unconventional works of art.