Dayamis Hernandez and Daymis Hernandez are the founders and chief conservators of D & D Art INC.
With particular expertise in Old Masters' paintings, they have been conserving artwork for over twenty years extending it to artwork executed on other substrates like paper, wood or masonries, Sculptures and Kinetic Art.
Their career as conservators began in Cuba were they studied Art Restoration graduating in 1995 at the school Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, which was established as part of an agreement between Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Office of the Historian of The City of Havana, in particular with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain, in the specialty: Mural Paintings Restoration. The school's name pays tribute to the famous Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and main figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.
After that period they continued studies in the Gabinete de Conservación y Restauración at the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana for the profession Oil Paintings Restoration and Conservation. In this center they were involved in a restoration project undertaken by the French restorer Pierre-Antoine Heritier to the triptych of the French Master Jean Baptiste Vermay, who depicted the village's foundational ceremony and Havana's Bishop at the time, as he gave his blessings to the city.
While working at the Museum of the City of Havana, they learned the best techniques to be used in our climate, that have been so useful here in Miami, as it happens to be very similar, proved to be safe on the very different substrata, which include paper, and also enrolled in some courses at the Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología (CENCREM) to perfect our knowledge on the use of Chemistry in the field of Restoration and Conservation of Fine Art.
They left Cuba in 1999 and since then been working as freelancers conservators for many Galleries and Private Collectors while receiving a Bachelors Degree in Art in 2004.
Throughout the years they have been constantly involved in research activity which also contributed to make them familiar with the state-of-the-art restoration techniques and tendencies.
Their career as conservators began in Cuba were they studied Art Restoration graduating in 1995 at the school Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, which was established as part of an agreement between Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Office of the Historian of The City of Havana, in particular with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain, in the specialty: Mural Paintings Restoration. The school's name pays tribute to the famous Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and main figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.
After that period they continued studies in the Gabinete de Conservación y Restauración at the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana for the profession Oil Paintings Restoration and Conservation. In this center they were involved in a restoration project undertaken by the French restorer Pierre-Antoine Heritier to the triptych of the French Master Jean Baptiste Vermay, who depicted the village's foundational ceremony and Havana's Bishop at the time, as he gave his blessings to the city.
While working at the Museum of the City of Havana, they learned the best techniques to be used in our climate, that have been so useful here in Miami, as it happens to be very similar, proved to be safe on the very different substrata, which include paper, and also enrolled in some courses at the Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología (CENCREM) to perfect our knowledge on the use of Chemistry in the field of Restoration and Conservation of Fine Art.
They left Cuba in 1999 and since then been working as freelancers conservators for many Galleries and Private Collectors while receiving a Bachelors Degree in Art in 2004.
Throughout the years they have been constantly involved in research activity which also contributed to make them familiar with the state-of-the-art restoration techniques and tendencies.