Part of the ISA Topic 2020 – “Il falso”
Project: “Art of fake, fake in art and in the art market”
https://artmarketfakesworkshop.wordpress.com/
Fakes and forgeries are items that characterized the art sector since the birth of the art market. Artwork copies, fakes and forgeries (almost) freely circulate in the art market and affect the way price is formed, the way the discourse on artists takes place, and the way art market institutions and agents choose their strategies. This effect consists in an increase of the uncertainty about the authenticity value of the artworks, a value which is part of the cultural value, that in turn affects the artworks’ economic value. This makes the existence of fakes an important issue, which should be analysed with an interdisciplinary view. Art market scholars, including economists, art historians, sociologists, management and marketing scholars, historians, among the others, analysed the influence of fakes in the market under different points of view, but the need to link together these views in a holistic analysis of the issue of fakes in the art market is now necessary.
This workshop wants to be a way to start this process of creation of an interdisciplinary framework of analysis of the art market fakes, welcoming approaches and arguments of different academic fields, so as to enucleate the differences and similarities in the approaches used.
The workshop will consist of the intervention of a series of invited speakers from international renewed universities, together with 3 sessions for contributed works by scholars and researchers from national and international research institutions. The workshop will also host the presentation of the multimedia database on fakes curated by Professors Donatella Biagi Maino and Giuseppe Maino, that will be followed by a roundtable moderated by Professor Donatella Biagi Maino where invited experts, practitioners and scholars will highlight the policies adopted and to be adopted in researching the fakes in the art market.
Detailed programme
First Session – Art frauds: social sciences and law perspectives (9.15-10:30)
Attribution Stigma and Contagion: How did the art auction market react to Australian ‘Black art scandals’?
Tim R.L. Fry (RMIT), Erica Coslor (University of Melbourne)
From Fortunes to Fakes: Forgeries that Created an Awareness in the Art Market
Saskia Hufnagel (Queen Mary University)
The impact of changes in attribution on returns
Elena Stepanova (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Fighting fakes and forgeries to protect the legitimate interests, of whom?
Anna Pirri Valentini (LUISS Guido Carli)
Keynote Speaker: Elisabetta Lazzaro (University for the Creative Arts) – (10:30 – 11:00)
From analogue to digital art market: Some economic implications of copies and fakes
Second session – Forgery across centuries and arts (11:15 – 13:00)
“The Man in the Gold Helmet”: Bode’s restored “Rembrandt”
Dorothee Wimmer (Technische Universität Berlin)
Fakes in the Art Market: the case of pre-Columbian arts
Ninon Bour (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
Fake to Boot: Forgeries of Russian Avant-Garde on the Italian Peninsula
Konstantin Akinsha (Russian Avant-Garde Research Project)
Giovanni Bastianini in the Making: an Iconographic Account
Virginia Magnaghi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Faking copies? Counterfeits and disloyal production of plaster casts in the Atelier de Moulage du Musée du Louvre under the direction of Eugène Arrondelle (1880-1907)
Milena Gallipoli (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
Detection & Predictability: Fakes & the Florentine Dealer Stefano Bardini
Lynn Catterson (Columbia University)
Keynote Speaker: Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Université Libre de Bruxelles) (14:00 – 14:30)
Revisiting the Early Modern Economics of “Fakes”: A Historiographical Perspective
Third Session – Detecting forgery: scientific approaches (14:30 – 16:00)
Using science to unmask fake Order of the Cincinnati decoration on Chinese export porcelain
Shirley M. Mueller (Indiana University)
The Forger’s identikit: a multi-technique approach to detect fakes on art market based on Pippo Oriani’s case study
Chiara Manfriani (Università di Firenze), Gilda Guerisoli (Comando CC TPC), Ludovica Ruggiero (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Chiara Lucarelli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Luca Tortora (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Stefano Ridolfi (Ars Mensurae), Giuliana Calcani (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Armida Sodo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Artistic forgery in Portugal and its relationship with laboratory expertise
Diana de Almeida Ramos (University of Lisbon)
Developing rigorous protocols of authentication: the future of science and AI
Denis Moiseev (Hephaestus Analytical)
Establishing proof of forgery in varying contexts: the challenge of the historian of art technology
Jilleen Nadolny (ArtDiscovery)
Keynote Speaker: Naomi Oosterman (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Centre for Global Heritage and Development) (16:15 – 16:45)
“Deauthenticating” cultural objects: The use of forgeries and replicas for the trafficking of cultural objects
Roundtable – Keeping track of art market fakes: can different sources be integrated? (16:45 – 17:45)
Andrea Bacchi (Fondazione Zeri and Università di Bologna), Francesca Marini (International Studies Institute Florence), Raffaella Morselli (Università di Teramo), Maria Cristina Paoluzzi (Dorotheum Wien/Rome), Carme Ruiz (Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí)
Invited Speakers
Prof. Elisabetta LAZZARO
Full Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries Management at Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts, UK
Dr. Naomi OOSTERMAN
Permanent lecturer at Department of Arts and Culture Studies – Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Affiliated researcher “Heritage under Threat” at the Centre for Global Heritage and Development, NL
Dr. Anne-Sophie RADERMECKER
Tutor/Lecturer at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication – Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Research Associate at the Department of History, Arts, and Archaeology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE
The International research workshop will be hosted online, via Zoom. The participation to the workshop is free of charge. The registration to the workshop can be done here
Please see the leaflet here for more info.