Speaker Profile | Ensuring Legitimate Collections: Provenance and Authentication
Date：2022-05-14
The Second Dialogue of the China-Europe-America Museums Cooperation Initiative: Protection of Our Cultural Heritage will be launched on May 19. The first session of the dialogue will be structured around the theme of “Ensuring Legitimate Collections: Provenance and Authentication”. Globally recognized experts will explore shared principles that support the legal and ethical collection of ancient art and artifacts, highlighting best practices for provenance research and authentication, in the hopes of fighting the growing market in fakes, forgeries, and looted antiquities.
The event will be held on Zoom at 15:00 on May 19 (Beijing Time). Audience should register in advance via the link below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LuKzCPuzRHOmBLdpt0Dg8A
Click on the picture to watch the video: Message from Louis Godart
Speaker Profile
Louis Godart
Louis Godart, an Italian archaeologist, has served as a cultural advisor to three Italian Presidents. He is an expert in Mycenaean archaeology and philology and the author of 29 books and 141 scientific articles on topics relating to the civilizations of the Mediterranean.
Roberto Riccardi
Roberto Riccardi was born in Bari (Italy) in 1966 and is currently in charge of IT Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. He has been Commander of Carabinieri Units in several towns, including several assignments in Sicily and Calabria acting against mafia and other organized crime networks and a specific experience in drug enforcement in Rome; Peacekeeper (NATO missions in Bosnia and Kosovo), Director of Carabinieri monthly magazine; Press officer and Press unit chief in Carabinieri HQ; member of Working Groups in the framework of EU OLAF (Anti Fraud European Office) and EUROPOL (European Union agency for Police cooperation). He is a journalist and has written several books (history essays, crime fiction, novels), awarded with national literary prizes. Some of them have been translated into foreign languages, one into Chinese.
Vivian Jia
Vivian Jia is an art collector and patron of art and culture. Since 2009, Vivian and Alex Fan have been devoted to protecting and collecting art treasures around the world, including important historical jewelries, European court treasures, Himalayan art, Dunhuang posthumous papers and historical manuscripts. In 2018, Vivian and Alex curated an exhibition themed “Yinian: Dunhuang Xie Jing” at the Guanshanyue Art Museum of Shenzhen. It displayed 4 long scrolls of Xie Jing from Tang Dynasty that were discovered in the Dunhuang Library Cave. From 2019 to 2020, their exhibition Awaken: Royal Jewellery Arts from Renaissance to the 20th Century was on display in Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning. The exhibition features 160 pieces of historical jewelry and royal treasures from over 20 countries and regions spanning 400 years, including the gold leaf from Napoléon’s crown and the collections from the French Bourbon Dynasty.
Colette Loll
Colette Loll is the Founder and Director of Art Fraud Insights, a consultancy dedicated to art-fraud related prevention initiatives, exhibitions, lectures, training, and specialized investigations. She has been involved in several independent projects in fine art forgery and art forensics including serving as a lead researcher in attribution and authentication investigations, conducting forensic investigations for private collectors on suspected artworks and artifacts, participating in documentary film projects and curating several exhibitions. In addition to lecturing widely at universities, museums, and forensic institutions in the U.S. and Europe, she also has trained Federal agents in forgery investigations for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cultural Heritage Protection Program. Dr. Loll also works closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Art Crime Team to train international law enforcement teams on strategies to combat cultural racketeering.
Victoria Reed
Victoria S. Reed was named the Curator for Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in July 2010. In this role, she is responsible for the research and documentation of the provenance of the MFA’s encyclopedic collection, the review of potential acquisitions and loans, and the development of due diligence policies and practice throughout the curatorial division. Previously, she was the Assistant Curator for Provenance (2008–2010) and Research Fellow for Provenance (2003–2008) in the MFA’s Art of Europe department. Reed has lectured widely and published extensively on matters related to provenance research, museum ethics, and restitution. She received her MA and Ph.D. in art history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and her BA in liberal arts at Sarah Lawrence College.
Marie-Cécile Zinsou
Marie-Cécile Zinsou is the President of the Zinsou Foundation that she founded in June 2005 in Benin. The Zinsou Foundation aims to promote contemporary art in Africa and leads cultural, educational and social actions. So far the foundation has hosted 32 exhibitions and has received six million visitors. It houses 6 libraries, an exhibition space, and a museum. Marie-Cécile Zinsou was born in Paris in 1982 and grew up in France and England. She comes from a family of Beninese politicians and intellectuals and has dual French and Beninese nationality. Marie-Cécile is a member of the board of the Institute of Islamic Culture in Paris and the Maison Maria Casares, she is also Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Mariarosaria Barbera
Mariarosaria Barbera is an archaeologist. In the Archaeological Superintendency of Rome, she worked as a museum curator mainly in set-up projects and as an inspector. As a Superintendent in Sardinia, Tuscany and Rome, she reopened various monuments and museums, especially on the occasion of the Bimillennium of Augustus (2014), thus obtaining prizes and awards. As Director of Ostia Antica, she reopened some archaeological areas and monuments, coordinated the project of the reopened Museum of Ships in Fiumicino and of the new Museum of Ostia, published in 2022 and now under construction. She pursued the constant effort to bring the local community closer to the ethical and cultural values of the Institute, obtaining in 2020 the European Heritage Label from the EU European Commission. Former President of the Technical-Scientific Committee for Archeology at the Superior Council of the Ministry of Culture Heritage, she represented the Ministry at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
This event is co-organized by the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, and the Antiquities Coalition, with strategic partners including Yi Tsai and East Langkun, and media partner Tencent Video.
