Domagoj Hmura: Continue the story with a drawing

The workshop "Continue the story with a drawing" is a concept with only one rule – the one from the title. After the first line has already been drawn, every visitor who wants to participate should draw a line on the drawing and thus continue the creative process that his predecessors have created until then. The drawing is completed when there is no more space on the canvas, that is, when the last line is drawn. We can't, ... Read More

The workshop "Continue the Story with a Drawing" is a concept with only one rule – the one from the title. After the first line has already been drawn, every visitor who wants to participate should draw a line on the drawing and thus continue the creative process that his predecessors have created until then. The drawing is completed when there is no more space on the canvas, that is, when the last line is drawn. However, we cannot know which line it will be, as the rest of the process is unknown.

The first idea of this project is pedagogical – the awakening of the instinct for artistic expression, artistic creation and leaving traces, an instinct that is suppressed in most adults for one reason or another. The goal, therefore, is to overcome the shame and discomfort of "mistakes" in drawing and achieve a state of free artistic association in the artist.
For today's civilization, drawing is an infantile phenomenon – drawing is not useful, it does not make a profit, so – only children and idlers draw. This workshop shows that drawing – that is, communicating through drawing – is only one of the ways of communication that is as inherent to a human being as, for example, speech. As for the technique, participants will draw with a marker. Since the concept is participatory, a technique is chosen that is assumed to be close to most potential visitors (or in any case closer than,
for example, oil on canvas). The second important aspect of the workshop is the question of authorship and the artistic process itself. As already mentioned, the workshop is participatory – the audience also participates in it. However, in this case, participatory is taken to the extreme: the lines in the drawing can be drawn by any visitor. The first co-author will be greeted almost by a tabula rasa: only one line will be drawn on the canvas. No one, therefore, can predict what kind of drawing will be created (what shapes, compositions, etc.). None of the participants will know what they are actually drawing until the drawing is finished, because there is always the possibility that a future draughtsman will go in a completely different direction. There are countless possibilities – let's conclude – but only one will be realized. Which one – depends on the authors. Only – on which authors?

Ivan Tomašić

BIOGRAPHY

Domagoj Hmura was born on July 27, 1988 in Slavonski Brod.
After completing his education at the School of Applied Arts
He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts at
A teacher who is still in the class of Prof.
Ante Rašić. He participated in one independent and several
group exhibitions: Night of Museums, Đurđevac City Museum (2016);
Discovering Portugal, Flordopassarinho Gallery, Braganza,
Portugal (2015); Graça Morais, Museum of the City of Braganza,
Braganca, Portugal (2015); Grisia, Rovinj (2014); Savska
14, The Crooked Path, Zagreb (2014); 17th Exhibition of Miniatures, Zaprešić
(2014.); 6th Symposium – Media in a Different Way (2014). In addition to
exhibitions, actively organizes and participates in art workshops:
Savica Cvijeta, Zagreb (2016); Night of Museums, City Museum
Đurđevac, Đurđevac (2016); Continue the story with a drawing, Academy
Fine Arts, Zagreb (2016); He continues the story with a drawing,
Faculty of Law, Zagreb (2016); On the Front Line of Health, Zagreb
(2016.); On the Front Line of Health, Zagreb (2015);

Contact: domagoj.hmura@gmail.com