Dubai seeks to perpetuate and enhance the sustainability approach in the field of plastic arts, especially the three-dimensional sculpture and design sector, through the use of artists and young talents with materials that have been recycled from natural resources, which reshape the contemporary design map and its approaches in a manner consistent with global environmental systems and human values.
Material recycling
Khalil Abdul Wahed, Director of the Fine Arts Department at the Culture and Arts Authority in Dubai, says: Sustainability is an important concept in the modern world, and it is at the forefront of the interest of many fields, including the artistic field. environment in sculpture and art production processes in general.
This means using natural and organic materials that do not harm the environment, as well as reusing recyclable materials in artistic production processes, by converting materials used in artistic production into new materials, such as recycling wood in producing new works of art.
ingredients
Ceramic and pottery artist Asmaa Al-Areed believes that the ceramic work, which is part of the sculpture and composition sector, is no longer limited to the traditional form known to it. Through which he was able to express the features of ancient civilizations while dropping some of the features of the modern era.
It is possible to observe the stylistic shifts from one generation to the next, and to touch the heritage sources of contemporary creativity on the one hand, and the modern trends of this art, given that the material in postmodern arts is not static, but pulsating and moving, as it contributes to directing the creative activity of the artist, who now prefers sustainable materials.
Contemporary thought
Richard Wilson, founder and creative director of the “Colab” library of environmentally friendly technical materials, says: There are many recent technical developments that have touched on the issue of producing and manufacturing materials and their ability to simulate the structural and morphological characteristics of natural materials, and even exceed them in many cases to more effective and compatible properties. For human health and the environment, especially with “nano” technologies.
Which provided us with completely new materials with unique and strange characteristics, which recently opened the door wide for the entry of such technologies, and others in the field of reproduction and creation of sustainable works of art and sculptures, promoting the reinvestment of wasted natural resources and recycling them for the benefit of the creative scene in Dubai, and as one of the requirements Contemporary Thought of Fine Arts.
