Restorer Travelogue

<p>Restoration works worldwide are unfortunately limited by various circumstances of their professional and social functions. Of these countless limitations many represent insurmountable barriers which separate professional interventions by restorers curators and conservers from the artisan artistic and antique objects which require intervention. We will emphasize four easily noticeable limits which are dominant and stand in the way of professional interventions by restorers conservers and curators on valuable creative artisanal objects. Firstly transience and a change in the characteristics of the matter where the natural process which cannot be influenced more significantly; secondly general ignorance of the basic principles of restoration and conservation work and an undefined place and role of that profession within the societies of various political economical and other features worldwide. Thirdly western civilization as well as most of the rest of the world basis its existence upon the private ownership legal system which basically defines the right to private possession of every object inclusive of the right to destroy the objects.  Unfortunately because of this well known legal maxim dating from Roman law the obligations of private owners regarding the preservation of valuable artistic objects are not defined; these objects apart from their monetary value which represent the historical genesis of human creative work go beyond egotistic financial every day value. This egotistic authoritarian capital-relation often at work in the richest communities of the world is the cause of international interest and selective negligence towards human creativity and is used as the basis for our socialization worldwide.  Fourth limitation; often against their will restorers are exposed to imperative compromises by the owners of artistic and artisan objects.  New York 2018 Boro Stipanovi��</p>