TAILIEUCHUNG - TEN YEARS OF SCULPTURE AND MONUMENT CONSERVATION ON THE MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL MALL

The first bronze, Marie, 1982, was made by wrapping plaster soaked burlap around itself to form an elongated, cigar-shaped mass. There are no preparatory sketches or models which are then enlarged. Since scale and spontaneity are of central importance a model can have no place in the creation of the sculptures. “I make things the size the are”. The methodology of the first sculptures is a direct extension of Schnabel’s wish to produce a shape as the result of a process rather than as the rendering of a precise vision in his head | TEN YEARS OF SCULPTURE AND MONUMENT CONSERVATION ON THE MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL MALL Paul S. Storch Senior Lead Objects Conservator Daniels Objects Conservation Laboratory Minnesota Historical Society St. Paul MN Art is among other things both the terrain of and often a weapon in the culture wars that course through societies. This is of course especially true of public art- the art chosen self-consciously by public institutions to symbolize the public order and to inculcate in its viewers appropriate attitudes toward that order. Although occasional museum curators may devote themselves to art for art s sake I think it fair to say that this concept makes no sense to anyone concerned with the art that is found in those spaces that are most truly public in a political sense such as the space surrounding capitol buildings city halls national cemeteries and the like. - Levinson 1998 I. Introduction This paper focuses on the organization management and methodologies developed over the course of a decade to deal with a diverse set of sculptures and monuments in a harsh Upper Midwestern climate. The Minnesota Historical Society MHS has had statutory and fiduciary responsibility for the sculpture and monuments on the 36 acre State Capitol Mall since the founding of the MHS in 1849 See Fig. 1 . It has only been since the late 1980 s that the various administrative agencies and entities in the state government have fully recognized and enabled this role by including the MHS as a full partner and advisor in the long-term care of these monuments. As a by-product of managing and conserving the monuments in partnership with the Capitol Area Architectural Planning Board and the State Department of Administration Architect s Office the author and other MHS conservators have participated in the conservation and maintenance of nine sculptures and monuments Fig. 2 . During this time the de facto State Capitol Mall Sculpture Conservation Program was created. Products of this program .

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