> artist:: mario hergueta > project name:: D_RAW > needed:: FLASH Plugin > project URL:: http://www.marioland.de/d_raw > comments:: play with hand > Artist statement:: D_RAW! A drawing instrument. Artists began not only finished paintings, but also working drawings with preliminary sketches on the support. They often used impermanent or less visible materials, like stylus, charcoal, or black chalk, to execute these underdrawings, because they intended to erase them or cover them over with more permanent media like ink, wash, or white heightening. Occasionally slight traces of the underdrawings remain visible to the naked eye. Even if they are completely covered over, researchers can sometimes see the underdrawings by means of laboratory techniques like infrared reflectography. Although less apparent to the viewer than chalk, ink, and wash, the primary material of drawings is in fact the support, the two dimensional surface on which the artist works. The drawn image consists of the intermingling and contrast of the support and the applied medium. Often artists indicate light or convex surfaces with the reserved blank paper alone. The texture and density of the drawing is determined as much by the underlying surface as the characteristics of the drawing medium. Now the emergence of new working methods required an expansion of the functions of drawing, the character of a computerscreen as a support and D_RAW as a drawing instrument encouraged flexibility and inventiveness > Artist biography:: artist and curator during 1996-1999 seasson, lecturer at university of mainz. exhibitions selection: haus der architektur - steirischerherbst¢•95 graz, kunsthalle mannheim, kunstverein offenburg, landesmuseum mainz, gallery simulakrum mainz, folkwang-museum essen , netaffects amsterdam, "am ort" berlin ... links to all projects by mario:: http://www.marioland.de/ > Emai:: drdraw@marioland.de