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TOURISM&CREATIVE INDUSTRY WORKSHOP
Sustainable tourism, cultural tourism, creative tourism, culinary tourism, heritage & tourism
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Departamento de Conservación y Restauración
de Bienes Culturales. Instituto Universitario
de Restauración del Patrimonio. Universitat
Poltècnica de València.
*Corresponding autor: jvalcara@crbc.upv.es
Cataloguing the 20th century murals of
Uruguay. Value enhancement for tourist
advertising
Valcárcel-Andrés
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,*, J.C., Martínez-Bazán
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, M.L., Mas-Barberà
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, X., Sánchez
Pons
1
, M.
Keywords:
cataloguing, tourism, conservation, documentation, mural
painting con-temporary.
This study is part of the Research Project 11 CAP1-0136 of the Spanish Agency
of International Cooperation for Development of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. The part of the project presented in this
communica-tion includes the cataloging of a total of 20 murals located in
the cities of Montevideo, Punta del Este and San Gregorio de Polanco. These
murals have been selected by the UPV Mural Painting team in collaboration
with the Committee on Culture of Uruguay based on a previously conducted
comprehensive inventory and comprising more than 500 murals, mostly on
social issues. In particular, the works selected in this study are carried out
with different techniques: among others fresco, temper, mixed techniques and
mosaics, and by prominent authors such as Eloy Boschi, Torres García Díaz
Yepes, Zelayeta or Novoa. The cataloging consisted in completion a pre-
designed cards which records information on the state of conservation of the
murals and their environment. In this regard, photographic records were made
within the visible and non-visible light spectrum, colorimetric examination of
the pictorial palette; surface temperature records, measurements of relative
humidity at the surface and ambient environmental, received luxes at the
surface and acoustic measurement. Also, sam-ples were taken to study the
composition of mortars, binders and pigments, as well as materials added in
interventions after its execution. Similarly, it includes information on property
damage resulting from, location, aspects of the technique used by the author
and the direct action of man and other living beings.