I'll Never Ask You
Kazuna Taguchi
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne & Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, 2025, 64 pp. (b/w ill.), 15.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Kazuna Taguchi’s exhibition I’ll never ask you at MUMOK, Wien, 13 June–16 November, 2025.

Taguchi’s meticulously composed monochrome photographs convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes that resonate with the surrealist tradition concerning the questioning of the photographic representation of the female body. This can be moments of the phantomic or Yūgen*-like, images that capture a figure in a state between appearance and disappearance.

*According to the Japanese poet Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), yūgen is a feeling that is not openly expressed in words, but symbolically indicated by images.

Designed by HIT.

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Catalogue Raisonnable
Jef Geys
Published by MER Books, Ghent & Wiels, Brussels, 2025, 464 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/Dutch
Price: €65

The first total survey of Jef Geys’ work. Art critics commonly describe the work of Belgian artist Jef Geys (1934–2018) as “unruly, and impossible to categorize in conventional art-historical categories.” Despite Geys’ subversive and critical attitude towards the art world, this ambitious publication shows that his work is not only deeply engaged and socially critical but also funny and sensory.

Since the early 1960s Geys had compiled an archive of everything he considered part of his artistic practice in to form of his “List of Works” serving as his oeuvre’s index. With a total of 844 entries, Catalogue Raisonnable, is the first total survey of Jef Geys’ work. Through access to the artist’s archive, close collaboration with Geys’ next of kin, and thorough art-historical research, this publication offers a rare opportunity for understanding and appreciating the fascinating practice of one of Belgium’s greatest artistic figures.

Designed by Joris Kritis & Adriaan Van Leuven.

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Potty Mouth
Violet Bartley
Published by Unbidden Tongues, Rotterdam, 2025, 44 pp. with stickered cover (applied by the author) (b/w ill.), 8.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €5

Unbidden Tongues #9: Potty Mouth is a collection of what could be described as concrete poetry, written over the past two years by our niece Violet Bartley, now aged five. Typed at a computer and sent exclusively via e-mail, the poems stand as clear evidence of a person in the beginnings of grasping (at) language. Throughout, characters are repeated uninterrupted until margins break them, keys pushed down by a finger not yet strong enough to lift itself up.

Over the years, as her written vocabulary grew and these attempts at communication slowly stacked up into the collection printed here, Violet delivered poem after poem within which different mutations of the word ‘poo’ were uttered in type: poo, poobum, bum poo, ipoo, poop. While simple, often illegible and definitely isolated utterances (she never replies when you send a poem back in turn), they are decipherable examples of someone learning defiance through language.

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On Charles Burnett's The Horse
Andrew Christopher Green
Published by Jacqueline, Athens, 2025, 24 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €8

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Burnett, Faulkner, Evans, curated by Andrew Christopher Green at Jacqueline, Athens, 26 September–25 October, 2025.

Burnett, Faulkner, Evans is centred around a film Charles Burnett made in 1973 called The Horse. It is shown alongside works that Burnett has recognised as its primary influences, namely photographs by Walker Evans and the writing of William Faulkner. The exhibition also explores the influence Evans and Faulkner had on one another, and an exchange that took place between them in the magazines Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Designed by Robert Milne.

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Food chain incl. prehistoric animals
Henrik Olesen
Published by Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, 2025, 16 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €11

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Henrik Olesen: Food chain incl. prehistoric animals at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, 22 February–20 April, 2025. More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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A Work will be Shown: Artist’s Invitations and Announcements 1960–2020
Published by Viaindustriae, Foligno, 2025, 352 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 18 cm, Italian / English
Price: €28

For decades, Maurizio Nannucci has preserved exhibition invitation cards. The collection comprises both invitations and announcements from artists whose approaches to art are close to his own. Yet many also come from wider circles of artist friends, colleagues, galleries, and museums, allowing a chronology of relationships and information exchanges to emerge. The selection in this volume makes visible how this kind of communication – often conceived by the artists themselves – superimposes the purely informative value of the printed matter with the freedom of artistic expression; evidence of a holistic practice where such cards can become artworks in their own right.

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