VALENCIA - As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother's own area of expertise.
Jose Luis Regidor, restorer and director of the project, Pilar Roig Picazo, IRP-UPV lecturer in charge of the restoration and Pilar Bosch Roig, microbiologist, IRP-UPV researcher pose under the apse and the scaffolding as they are members of the multidisciplinary team of the Heritage Restoration University Research Institute of the UPV who restore the Church of Santos Juanes, in Valencia, Spain, on Sept 16, 2024.
She was finding it particularly difficult to remove glue that had been used to pull the frescoes from the walls of Santos Juanes church during restoration work in the 1960s. She did her PhD on that project. And more than a decade later, daughter and mother have joined forces on a 4-million-euro project, funded by local foundations, to use some of the techniques to restore the artworks in Valencia.
The family team then mixes the bacteria with a natural algae-based gel and spread it on the paintings - which were taken from the walls in the 1960s, then nailed back on, still covered in glue."In the past, we used to work in a horrible manual way, with warm water and sponges that took hours and damaged the painting," said Roig, now 75, whose father and grandfather along with other relatives also worked in art conservation.
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