Different Shades In The Sand 2011
Frans Baake, Netherlands
| Looking for elements that could
possibly fit into an inventory, Frans
Baake decided to stay close to his interest
in basic shapes and forms, meanwhile thinking of a typical atmosphere
that the Middle-East landscape represents to him. In 8 more or less
abstract forms, sten-cilled on sandpaper, he used the roughness
of the paper itself. These shadows are reflections of forms; they
belong to each other. While the object might have disappeared, the
shade remains as a memory. Each picture has been introduced by the
letterpress-pressure of the title of the book. Hardly visible -
but still there - on the dark red velvet surface, meant to remind
as well as to soften the roughness of the paper. Frans Baake (The Netherlands,1958) studied Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede. Afterwards he followed a course of Graphics at the Rijkacademie in Amsterdam. Based on travels to islands (Aleutians, Falklands f.i.) he usually makes printings and artists’ books, containing photographs, woodcuts, collages, texts, associations. He often prints, binds and publishes them in a small edition. Books can be found in (international) collections.  http://fransbaake.nl |
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