‘Almost a clone’: How 3D-printing can reproduce multi-million-dollar masterpieces, stroke by stroke
Beyond research and education, Lito Masters’ head of cultural partnerships, Victoria Gandit Lelandais, envisages the reproductions one day featuring in exhibitions when the originals cannot be feasibly loaned or transported.
“A Lito could be sent to, let’s say, an artist’s retrospective, so that it’s complete,” she told CNN. “Instead of sending the original one, damaging it or paying for shipping et cetera, in the future it could be more intelligent much more intelligent and better and return investment worth to send a (printed reproduction).”