CURRICULUM VITAE

VERONICA BARBERA

I am a person willing to learn new aspects of this job, always ready for collaboration and teamwork. I want improve my skills not only in restoration: I am interessted in temporary exhibition, preventive conservation management and computer databases, for organized large museum collections . I am open to all kinds of news, interested in research and ready to putting my knowledge into practice.

Education

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Degree II level (Five Years), Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Code DASLQ01 equated LMR-02 (2012 – 2018)
(Restoration of wooden panel, painting on canvas, wooden sculpture and structure, Contemporary Art)
Vote: 110/110 e lode with mention of pupplication
Thesis:
_ V. Barbera, Revisione conservativa del modello ligneo del Monumento funebre a Benedetto XIV di Pietro Bracci, del Patrimonio dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, tesi di laurea – prova pratico-laboratoriale, supervisor: prof.ssa Graziella Accorsi; prof.ssa Lucia Vanghi, prof. Michele di Foggia, Accademia Belle Arti di Bologna, A.A. 2016-17
_ V. Barbera, La conservazione preventiva tra restauro e manutenzione, una proposta di metodo, tesi di laurea – prova teorico-metodologica, supervisors: prof.ssa Lucia Vanghi; prof.ssa Anna Medori, Accademia Belle Arti Bologna, A.A: 2016-17

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Diploma of II level, school of Art, Liceo Artistico statale di Vicenza – triennal path in Restoration and Catalogation (2007-2012)
Vote: 100/100

Professional Experience

Collaboration – Giovanna Portinari (March 2022 – February 2023)
_Decoration and restoration interior rooms of private villa in Corte San Giacomo, Desenzano del Garda, BS
_Restoration of wooden ceiling in the foresteria of Villanova’s Abbay, San Bonifacio, VR
_Restoration of marble altarpeace, cappella della Madonnina, Monteforte d’Alpone, VR
_restoration of various objects in lavoratory, in particoular frames painting on canvas, wooden panel and Russian icon.

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Courier for temporary Exhibition – direct engagement by Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna(22-24 June 2022)
_Condition report, document’s management and courier for the exibition “La grande bellezza. L’Art à Rome au XVIII siècle, 1700-1758” Work of art:
• Pietro Bracci, Wooden Model of Benedict XVI memorial, 1759;
• Filippo Della Valle, Memorial for Benedict XVI, 1759;
• Bernardino Ludovisi: Bust of Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi, marble.

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Collaboration – SOSart of Carlotta Scardovi (October 2021 – March 2022; 8-20 July 2022)
_Condition report in preparation and dismantling temporary exhibition Maddalena, il mistero e l’immagine, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, 27 March- 10 July 2022;
_Courier for a masterpeace of Savoldo, in exhibition, for the first part of retourning travel for Bearkley, USA;
_Restoration of variouns work of art, and partecipation in several restoration building site of Affresco, Mural paintings and Wooden Cealing;
_Conservation of large format’s paintings and frames of Guido Cagnacci, Andrea Sacchi and Francesco Albani, Pinacoteca comunale di Forlì, Palazzo del Merenda (RA);
_Restoration: Giovan Battista Barbieri detto Guercino, San Francesco d’Assisi riceve le Stimmate, 1646, oil on canvas, Cesena, altar of the Cappuccini’s church;
_Restoration: Alessandro Tiarini, Morte della Vergine, 1612, oil on canvas with gilding frame, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna;
_Restoration: Luigi Folli, Ritratto di Maria Teresa Gozzadini, oil on canvas, 1862, private collection;
_Restoration: Crocifissione, wooden panel, sec. XV , private collection;
_Restoration: decorative external fresco of Casa Neogotica, Carducci square, Bologna (BO);
_Restoration: wooden and painted Ceiling, Via Santo Stefano, Bologna;
_Restoration: sandstone windows of residential palace in Via Garofalo, Bologna (BO);

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Collaboration – Restorer Giovanna Portinari (June – July 2021)
_Restoration of fresco’s facade, Villa Cavalli Peverelli, Colognola ai Colli (VR);
_Restoration of painted wall in the Church of Roncà (VR).

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Didactics Assistence – Fondo Storico, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna (March 2019 – March2021)
Collaboration for the inventary of the internal collection; preventive conservation management and digitalization of documentation with a personal project;

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Collaboration – Laboratorio SOSart di Carlotta Scardovi, Bologna (3 – 14 February 2020 / 2 – 10 November 2020)
Condition report in preparation and dismantling temporary exhibition Ulisse, l’Arte e il Mito, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, 15 February, 21 June 2020

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Collaboration –  Laboratorio degli Angeli srl, Bologna (November 2019 – Jenuary 2020)
Conservation of masterpeace of Maurizio Bottarelli for temporary exhibition “Maurizio Bottarelli, Il nudo trasfigurato” edited by Leonardo Regano, Laboratorio degli Angeli srl, 24 Jenuary -7 February 2020, Artefiera event.

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Stage in Restoration’s Laboratory of Paintings and wooden materials of Vatican Museum (1 April- 31 Settember 2019)
_Study of ancien mural decoration, with tempera, affresco, watercolour and hand made pastel;
_realization of false marble and architectural tromphe l’oeil; study for the recogniction of ancien decorative marble;
_Project and realization of folder indication with false marble and tromphe l’oeil, for remove the contemporary museum indication;
_Restoration and conservation of several paintings of Vatican Pinacoteca, and digitalization of documentation:
• Luca di Tommè, La Resurrezione di Lazzaro, tempera and gilding on panel, 1362
• Luca di Tommè, La Crocifissione, scomparto di predella, tempera and gilding on panel, 1362
• Scuola di Benozzo Gozzoli, La Deposizione, scomparto di predella, wooden panel, sec XV
• Vincenzo Fradiani, Un francescano si sottomette alla prova del fuoco per difendere la fede nell’Immacolata concezione, wooden panel, predella, 1505-10
• Bartolomeo Cincani detto il Montagna, Madonna col Bambino, oil on panel, 1503
_Application of the ordinary activity in Vatican Museum.

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Stage – laboratorio SOSart di Carlotta Scardovi, Bologna (15 Dicember 2018 – 29 March 2019)
_restoration of various objects in lavoratory, in particoular:
• Francesco Hayez, Prete Orlando da Parma inviato da Arrigo IV di Germania e difeso da Gregorio VII contro il giusto sdegno del sinodo Laterano, 1857, oil on canvas and gilding frame;
• Gaetano Previati, Cesare Borgia a Capua, il Valentino, 1879 oil on canvas and gilding frame;
• Enrico Butti, Il minatore, Bronze 1888).
_Condition report for temporary exhibition Ottocento. L’arte dell’Italia tra Hayez e Segantini, Forlì, 9 February-16 June;

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Photographer, video-editing and social media manager for a.s.d Real B.C. Volley (September 2017 – Sicember 2019)

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Condition report for temporary exposition MODUS, Biennale di Venezia 2017 (9/11 May – 28 November 2017 )

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Stage 300 hours – Restorer Roberta Notari, Reggio Emilia (RE) (6 March- 5 May 2017)
restoration of various objects, in particoular wooden sculpture, papier mache, and gilding frame, in particoular the Madonna delle Grazie (1650 ca) and Madonna del Rosario (1800), Duomo di Guastalla (RE)

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Stage 150 hours – Dozza Imolese (BO) (20 August – 20 September 2016)
Building site for conservation and restoration of outdoors contemporary art
• Catalogation and digital mangement of the documentation of the different work of art, with my personal project;

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Stage 100 hours – conservation of Mizzau-Contento’s collection, Amilcar Cabral library of Bologna in collaboration with Istituto Beni Culturali dell’Emilia Romagna, (11 – 23 July 2016)
Conservation and restoration of demo-ethno-antopological and African objects, presents in the Mizzau-Contento collection.

Pubblications and articles

V. Barbera, L. Vanghi, A. Medori, Proposta Metodologica per la gestione della conservazione preventiva del Fondo Storico dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, in Lo Stato dell’Arte 18, IGIIC National Congress act (29-31 October 2020), Garzolini di Toppo Wassermann Palace, Udine, Nardini, Firenze, 2020 (video presentation, 17 December 2020)

V. Barbera, Revisione conservativa del modello ligneo del Monumento funebre a Benedetto XIV di Pietro Bracci in A. Panzetta (Edited by), Restauro in Accademia n°4, Nardini, Firenze, 2019

V. Barbera, M. Bernabiti, La raccolta documentale, in A. Salvi, E. Tripodi (Edited by), Ferro, Paglia e Fuoco, Dalla donazione all’esposizione. Progetto di restauro e valorizzazione della Collezione Mizzau Contento, Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia Romagna, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Biblioteca Amilcar Cabral di Bologna, Centro stampa regionale, Bologna, 2019, pp. 28-29

V. Barbera, G. Accorsi, M. Di Foggia, Studio dei sistemi di protezione delle cero-resine argentate nel modello ligneo del Monumento funebre a Benedetto XIV, opera di Pietro Bracci, in Lo stato dell’Arte 16, IGIIC National Congress Act (25-27 October) Buonconsiglio Castel, Trento, Nardini, 2018

Citation for partecipation at the preparation: (edited by) C. Acidini, P. Refice, F. Mazzocca, Maddalena, il mistero e l’immagine, exhibition catalogue (San Domenico museum, Forlì, 27 march– 10 July 2022), Fondazione Cassa di risparmi di Forlì, Silvana E. Milano, 2022

Citation for partecipation at the preparation: (edited by) G. Brunelli, F. Leone, F. Mazzocca, F. Paolucci, P. Refice, Ulisse l’arte e il mito, exhibition catalogue (San Domenico museum, Forlì, 15 February -21 June 2019), Fondazione Cassa di risparmi di Forlì, Silvana E. Milano, 2020

Citation for Partecipation at the preparation: (edited by) F. Leone, F. Mazzocca, Ottocento, l’arte dell’Italia tra Hayez e Segantini, exhibition cataloge (San Domenico museum, Forlì, 9 February -16 June 2019), Fondazione Cassa di risparmi di Forlì, Silvana E. Milano, 2019

Competition and Awords

• Partecipation, at Premio Nazionale delle Arti (PNA), XIII edition, Palermo 15 October – 15 November 2018, Restoration section, (thesi selectend and presented in the catalogue of exhibition: G. Filippello (Edited by), Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2018, Arti figurative digitali e scenografiche, XIII edition, Restoration, Seristampa, Palermo, 2018)

• Partecipation at Bando Miglior Tesi 2018, set up by Fondazione Paola Droghetti, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, 25-27 October 2018

Professional Skills

• I know catalogation roules and I can organize information or big data files, for example archives or database systems
• I’m good in the organization and elaboration of methodologies for managing preventive conservation, in particoular for large collection of work of art
• I know the principal informatic system for the conservation and the restoration of Cultural Heritage
• I have study History of Art, and I can analyze painting, sculture or other works of art. I can recognize the different artistical technique, in ancient, modern or contemporary art.
• I have familiarity of different tools in a restoration’s laboratory
• I have study chemistry and physics apply to Cultural Heritage and Restoration
• I’m good in art and manual work: i know the prncipal artisticalthecnique, like painting, drawing, wooden carving, gilding, engraving and modelling
• I Know the Fresco’s thecnique, mosaic and scagliola: In particoular I can realize decoration in tromphe l’oeil, mural paintings, fresco and sgraffito

Digital Skills

• I know the principal operating system, like Windows e Macintosh
• i can use productivity program like Word, Power Point, Excel, OneNote, Pages, Keynote, Numbers
• I can use several Cloud Storage platforms and Cloud Computing system
• I know how to manage diffierent electronical devices in addition to computer (scanner, printer, mobile devices)
• I can use several Adobe programs (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
• I have experience in using CAD 2D programs, in particoular AutoCad
• I have basic knowledge in digital 3D Modelling (I know Sketchup program) and Laser Scanner/ 3D print
• I can use photograph machine and I’m good in editing of digital pictures
• I have a basic knoledge in video editing
• I can use Wordppress for realize web site and blog

Managing Skills

• I can organize my personal work
• I like work with other collegue or in a teamwork
• I can organize the work in big team

Other Skills

• Illustration, comics and charicature
• Creative Writing
• Drawing and Painting

Licenses and Certification

• driver’s license B type