SCIENTIFIC AND RESTORATION ACTIVITIES IN THE ARTISTIC DISCOURSE: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to outline the scientific-restorative European integration experience as an important component on the path of the art history discourse of identification and preservation of architectural and artistic heritage beyond geopolitical understanding and territorial features. According to the goal, the task is to analyze one of the many examples of generative cooperation of scientific institutions and personalities of Ukraine in the sector of the cultural industry, in particular, the scholarship program of the Minister of Culture of the RP Gaude Polonia. The implementation of complex Ukrainian personal projects on the basis of prominent Polish institutions, supervised by experienced tutors, generates qualitative exchanges and the integration of new conceptual and methodological approaches in the scientific and restoration field. The experience of approbation of a high-tech creative approach to the preservation of painting layers from different periods on one basis – the process of transfer (layering) – which was implemented on the basis of the scientific research unit "Transfer of works of easel art" under the leadership of Professor Marta Lempart-Heratowska, conservation and restoration department of the Krakow Academy of Arts (RP). In the historical context, a significant part of movable and immovable sacral heritage is geographically preserved or constitutes museum collections outside the boundaries of previous historical ethnolocations, and constitute, to a certain extent, pan-European cultural and spiritual heritage. From this review, the observance of common principles and non-destructive methods of preservation and scientific processing of these objects, with the use of the latest technologies, becomes an important humanitarian factor on the way to European integration in the scientific and research sector. An in-depth study of monuments, in particular monuments of icon painting and common sacred architectural heritage, allows to change and improve the art history discourse, identify and classify movable and immovable monuments and introduce them into the scientific circulation of the European community, forming a new progressive humanitarian factor in the interpretation of architectural of artistic heritage beyond the narrow historiographical and territorial context, which is evidenced in the practice of UNESCO’s activities, Centrum Architektury Drewnianej, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa (Рoland).