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In photos: Show off your drawing skills in this monthly workshop at Expo 2020 Dubai's Romania Pavilion

Romania's Tradition Reloaded workshop will run throughout the world fair with artists

Published: November 09, 2021 17:10 Staff Report

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Walk into this workshop, pick up a charcoal or graphite stick and get a chance to exhibit your masterpiece at the Romania Pavilion. Visitors can experience a unique human experience not found anywhere else around the Expo 2020 Dubai site at the pavilion’s Tradition Reloaded workshop, according to Romanian artist and sculptor Daniel Rădulescu. Image Credit: Supplied

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Since October the pavilion has been inviting Romanian artists and artisans, one allotted to each month, to showcase traditional crafts reinterpreted in a contemporary way to produce artworks made with natural materials. Image Credit: Supplied

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Throughout November, Rădulescu will offer visitors a chance to replicate famous sculptures from Romania with charcoal and graphite. Individuals can then display their work – personalised with either a signature or the name of their own country – at the pavilion. Image Credit: Supplied

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Rădulescu said: “I have been to many pavilions, which are amazing.... You are very human here [at the Romania Pavilion]. You can touch, you can get your hands dirty, you can interact. You see people. You see emotions. A couple of people [who participated in the workshop] were actually very emotional. It is incredible to see so many hands from so many countries contribute.” Image Credit: Supplied

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Sustainability and the responsible use of resources is a major theme in the artworks of the selected artists. Rădulescu uses three welding techniques to melt steel – which can be infinitely recycled without losing its quality – and creates powerful artworks that are a metaphor of a synergy of human states, emotions and feelings. Rădulescu said: “Sustainability is very important [to my artwork]. For example, steel is 100 per cent recyclable. We [are also using] natural charcoal [at the workshop]. It’s a very incredible technique to draw with. Even Michelangelo, his first [sketch for] the Sistine Chapel [ceiling] was done with charcoal.” Image Credit: Supplied

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