Luciano Pensabene Buemi

Prof. Luciano Pensabene Buemi

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Biography

Conservator at the Guggenheim for over twenty-five years. He started working with the Guggenheim New York and in 2012 he joined the Italian branch the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, where he later took the position of Senior Conservator. For the Guggenheim he organized and co-curated “Duchamp: un viaggio nella Boîte-en-valise" VE 2023, ”Pollock: exploring Alchemy" NY 2017, “ Pollock Discovering the Artist at Work” VE 2015, few didactic and scientific exhibitions designed to draw visitors into the world of an art conservator. At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection he designed and set up in the 2025 the new Conservation Lab. In ten years of work in Venice he opened the doors of the museum to the Science, making the Peggy Guggenheim Collection one of the leading international museums that does research on conservation of cultural heritage, a reference point in the field. He is one of key person for several EU-funded projects on cutting-edge science, including GREENART, new solutions based on green & sustainable materials and methods, NANORESTART, new materials and treatment methods based on nanotechnology, and APACHE, new technologies for display, storage and wrapping materials of cultural heritage. In Europe he collaboreted to the foundation of new museums: Les Abattoirs in Toulouse and the Museo Picasso Malaga. He is an Advisory Member of the "Comitato Catalogo Morandi” and of the Marino Marini Foundation.

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