Mireia Xarrié (Barcelona, 1970)

My family has a long tradition in art conservation (since 1929). My grandfather was one of the first painting conservators in Barcelona's museum Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya MNAC.  Whereas, I learnt  this discipline from my father, who studied in ICCROM (1972) and became the chief director of the public Conservation Institute. While I was at the university, I had some mural painting conservation practices in Switzerland and in Egypt.

Professional career  

BALAAM    1995-2009

In 1995, I  founded  Balaam which  at the beginning was a bookstore about conservation publications. But later on, I started  to organize international conservation seminars  with teachers from London and Amsterdam and participants from America and Europe. I also did all the translation work English to Spanish.

Then I also teached some courses about easel painting conservation and technical language for conservators (English and Spanish).

Information about the courses:

• http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/2004/0057.html
• http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/2005/0277.html
• http://www1.icom-cc.org/Documents/WorkingGroup/Leather/Icom-ccLeatherWgNewslet­ter03-2005.pdf

• http://icom-cc.icom.museum/Documents/WorkingGroup/Textiles/ICOMTextilesNewslet­ter2005-8.pdf

STUDIES

I have a bachelor degree in Art History (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). My Ph.D lectures were at the Information and Communication Technology Faculties within the program "Information and documentation in the digital age" (Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Actually, I'm pending to defend this 2012 my Ph.D about "Art conservation terminology, education and the Information and Communication Technologies" at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 

My interest in terminology has brought me to write several dictionaries and a Ph.D. 

TermDoc is the name of my last terminology project: a multilingual online dictionary about art conservation. I  designed it to be a helpful tool for translation and documentation tasks.

I also have written:

Glossary of art conservation 1 (A-Z), 978-84-89321-01-4, 2005.
Glossary of art conservation 2 (A-Z), 978-84-89321-02-1, 2006.
Glossary of art conservation 3 (A-Z), 978-84-89321-03-8, 2006.

Diccionario de conservación y restauración  de obras de arte  1 (A-Z), 978-84-89321-07-6, 2007.

The past twelve years, I have been translating many documents for my books and research. Though,I have studied Catalan, Spanish, Italian, English and German. Currently, I'm studying Dutch and French.

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At the end of the 19th century, Josep Xarrié  Moragas (1880 – 1962), carpenter, studied drawing at l’Escola d’Arts Aplicades de Llotja in Barcelona. Josep Xarrié  Moragas´s greatest achievement was to provide his son, Domènec, with the necessary and vital foundations in craftsmanship to become an art restorer.

Domènec Xarrié Mirambell´s (1909-1984) first assignment from the then general director of the Junta de Museos de Barcelona, Joaquim Folch i Torres, was to conserve and restore his personal collection of musical instruments. This was in 1929, the year of  Barcelona’s World Exposition. In the year 1932, after having finished Joaquim Folch i Torres´ assignment, Domènec Xarrié Mirambell worked in Barcelona’s museums in the impromptu workshop of the Museu d’Art del Parc de la Ciutadella, under the direction of Manuel Grau i Mas who had just returned from Italy where he had learned the latest restoration techniques at the time. In 1934 the MNAC Museu d’Art de Catalunya workshop was created, and he became the second paint restorer of the group.

Twenty-six years later, in October of 1960, his son, Josep Maria Xarrié  Rovira (1943) became a restorer for the MNAC Museu d’Art de Catalunya workgroup. This was until 1974, when he became the academician of the Conservation Department of the Fine Arts Faculty (University of Barcelona).

After 1981, he left the academic world to fully dedicate himself to conserving objects of cultural heritage for the Catalan public administration, where he became Director of the S.R.B.M de la Generalitat de Catalunya, where he worked until January 2009.

He has been a restoration consultant for UNESCO in various Latin American countries, as well as founding member since 1976 of the organizing committee of the congress on restoration of cultural objects in Spain, promoted by ICOM.

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