Baake, Frans. — ICI. Westerbork - NL Drente 97.
One-off artists book, no place (Enschedé), self-published, 1997, leporello in 30 sections (recto only) with pencil illustrations on blank laid paper, total size ca. 27,5 x 445 cm., titled in pencil in manuscript on first double-page and signed and dated 97 in pencil, original artist made board panels covered with handmade paper, quarto (27,8 x 15,2 cm.). = During his travels, Frans Baake makes sketches, photos and notes. The journey is then translated into a work of art, namely an artist's book, which he publishes himself in a small edition. In artists' books, the image usually dominates. The countless artist books that Baake has made are full of photos, woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, collages and texts. The books are not literally about his travels and are therefore not comparable to the way we make our photo album or diary after a holiday. Baakes way of working is similar in general: he prepares for his voyage, at the actual trip he will make drawings, writings, photographs; in his studio back home these together with his thoughts and ideas will be transformed into books, prints, sketches, portfolios, articles.