While visiting a local supplier today, he asked me my opinion on a piece for which they'd sold the customer Museum Optium.
It was a mixed media rooster cut-out applied to a mat. There were spacers and then the Optium. The workup was from 2012, and the customer returned the piece to them to show them that all exposed surfaces had faded. (They had removed the rooster and indeed the exposed mat surfaces were faded while the area under the plant-on was not.)
The piece hung in an interior hallway, a ceiling incandescent canlight on only occasionally, no direct sunlight. We assumed no more than usual heat or chill in the hall.
The mat was not conservation: it was just a plain old paper mat. Could that have that much to do with the egregious fading? Outgassing yes, but that seems quite severe.
The supplier is wondering if they sold the wrong type of acrylic, but they don't have the original piece. (I'd sure want to check that first were I going to complain to TV.)
Will one of you gurus please weigh in on this and help with some reasons for this?
Cathie
It was a mixed media rooster cut-out applied to a mat. There were spacers and then the Optium. The workup was from 2012, and the customer returned the piece to them to show them that all exposed surfaces had faded. (They had removed the rooster and indeed the exposed mat surfaces were faded while the area under the plant-on was not.)
The piece hung in an interior hallway, a ceiling incandescent canlight on only occasionally, no direct sunlight. We assumed no more than usual heat or chill in the hall.
The mat was not conservation: it was just a plain old paper mat. Could that have that much to do with the egregious fading? Outgassing yes, but that seems quite severe.
The supplier is wondering if they sold the wrong type of acrylic, but they don't have the original piece. (I'd sure want to check that first were I going to complain to TV.)
Will one of you gurus please weigh in on this and help with some reasons for this?
Cathie