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Max Pinckers in full collaboration with masterprinters at Stockmans - Antilope De Bie<br />
person or company, loaded with history and life stories.<br />
The value and emotion that is related to the production<br />
process and the final result, is unique in the world<br />
of printing. It demands a very specific approach and<br />
competence, which Stockmans has built up during its<br />
history.<br />
As makers, the publishing house and the ateliers create<br />
added value, putting the creativity of the authors into<br />
our own energy and design to reflect the creator’s vision,<br />
passion and story. Bruno Devos, who has been in the<br />
printing business since 1991, and is engaged in several<br />
international art projects, tries to feel and encapsulate<br />
these compelling stories into a publication. He specifically<br />
created his own function to describe what he does and<br />
loves to do, curating art books. Taking care of the artists<br />
is part of his role. Today, many artists create books that<br />
are an integral part of their practice. The book is another<br />
medium for the artist to experiment and build his artistic<br />
story. Many publications at Stockmans go beyond the<br />
regular exhibition catalogue or monograph and are<br />
connected as a presentation tool to a specific artistic<br />
approach or series of an artist. This creates an extra<br />
dimension for both the artist and for Bruno and his team.<br />
Books like Margins of Excess, self-published by the young<br />
Belgian photographer Max Pinckers, or Wesley Meuris’s<br />
book Exhibition Types are compelling examples of this<br />
approach. Jeroen R. Kramer’s photo novel Une Femme<br />
is also a beautiful example of the book as an artwork. It<br />
is the only comprehensive tool for the artist to tell his<br />
artistic story. Older publications full of adventure are also<br />
an illustration of Stockmans’ vision, for example Lost<br />
Angels by Italian photographer Alfredo Falvo, who spent<br />
4 months photographing in Skid Row, Los Angeles. But<br />
also an historic book on the history of Cuban cacao or<br />
the rediscovery of Flemish artworks in the Museum of<br />
Fine Arts in Havana are projects that were initiated in the<br />
house. The most recent publication, A layer for my throat<br />
came out 11 March. This vegetarian extravaganza between<br />
a food stylist, a fashion photographer, a typography geek<br />
from Amsterdam, and the Stockmans team, finds its<br />
inspiration in recent opera plays performed on stage by the<br />
Flemish Opera House. “These projects are so wonderful<br />
because they bring creative people together, all enjoying<br />
and creating what we are best at. The sum of all of us<br />
brings such an energy to this latest project, the book itself<br />
is a joy to all senses,” comments Bruno Devos.<br />
In the same trend, recent limited edition art publications<br />
include Danielle van Zadelhoff’s series Survivors, which<br />
is filled with portraits of AIDS survivors from the late<br />
eighties that were recently presented at the London City<br />
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