The Music of Ramón Raquello …
The Music of Ramón Raquello
and his Orchestra & Other Stories
Eric Baudelaire
Eric Baudelaire’s work engages with histories of images, cinema, radical militancy, and violence by or against the state. He is a storyteller with a keen eye for breaking down political narratives and using their visual modes of representation to piece them together into something of his own. Following his exhibitions The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra at Witte de With and Tabakalera, this artist book brings together research, images, and texts that have informed the artist’s work process.
The book is broken into three work sections: a collection of charts and models fabricated by social science to make sense of terrorism; a chronology around the fictional orchestra in Orson Welles’ radio play The War of the Worlds from 1938; as well as found images of artists’ works reflecting on the question what can an image do and what is the relationship between words and images. Each of the sections is designed with their own aesthetic to feel like a collection of found materials which is further emphasized by the roughly trimmed fore edge.
Year: 2017
Client: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Co-publisher: Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián
Artist book, 16.5 × 23 cm, 224 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz
The Music of Ramón Raquello …
The Music of Ramón Raquello
and his Orchestra & Other Stories
Eric Baudelaire
Eric Baudelaire’s work engages with histories of images, cinema, radical militancy, and violence by or against the state. He is a storyteller with a keen eye for breaking down political narratives and using their visual modes of representation to piece them together into something of his own. Following his exhibitions The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra at Witte de With and Tabakalera, this artist book brings together research, images, and texts that have informed the artist’s work process.
The book is broken into three work sections: a collection of charts and models fabricated by social science to make sense of terrorism; a chronology around the fictional orchestra in Orson Welles’ radio play The War of the Worlds from 1938; as well as found images of artists’ works reflecting on the question what can an image do and what is the relationship between words and images. Each of the sections is designed with their own aesthetic to feel like a collection of found materials which is further emphasized by the roughly trimmed fore edge.
Year: 2017
Client: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Co-publisher: Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián
Artist book, 16.5 × 23 cm, 224 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz