Art conservator Eva Matysek
Art conservator Eva Matysek in Poland, restoring muralsThe rejuvenating touch Eva Matysek breathes new life into old or damaged art by Bondo Wyszpolski In 1929, two years after he’d designed the murals for Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, John Gabriel Beckman was commissioned by William Wrigley, Jr., to create the murals for the Avalon Theatre inside the Catalina Casino. The auditorium is spacious; it was built to accommodate nearly 1,200 patrons. In 1994, as part of an extensive restoration, which included reupholstering the seats, arts conservator Eva Matysek was hired to clean and restore the murals to their original condition. It took the Walteria resident a full year to complete the project. Art conservator Eva Matysek. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolski“That was the biggest job that I’ve done,” Matysek says. It was an enormous task, with a scaffold having to be built for her. Visually, if you can imagine Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, then you can picture Matysek high in the air, all but hidden in the upper shadows of the interior. The primary challenge, however, wasn’t the scale of the work, but the fact that the murals weren’t painted on wood or…
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