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This book documents Thomas Zipp's (born 1966) contribution to the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. For the occasion, the German artist constructed a replica of a psychiatric unit, playing the part of both patient and doctor himself.

This publication gathers together the many facets of German artist and scenographer Anija Seedler's (born 1974) 20-year oeuvre. Her works in ink, watercolor and acrylic are characterized by their simplicity of both line and color, as well as by fragmented, filmlike image sequences.

In Color Cubed, the three renowned but stylistically different abstract artists Yuji Takeoka, Werner Haypeter and Christian F. Kint discuss their respective approaches to painting as a physical and sculptural three-dimensional medium, and share relevant examples of their own work.

This publication reveals for the first time the extensive oeuvre of non-commissioned drawings, paintings and collages by international set designer Martin Rupprecht. Characterized by the artist's shorthand and textual scribbling, these works were created alongside and between Rupprecht's numerous theater projects.

Marcel Odenbach (born 1953) is known as a pioneer of video art, but this is the first catalogue to examine his work as a draftsman and collage artist. It begins with drawings from the 1970s and includes his collages of the 1980s, which act as both studies for his video installations and autonomous works.

Inspired by the renovations of Giotto's fresco cycle in the Cappelladegli Scrovegni in Padua, Evgeni Dybsky (born 1955) spent seven years creating a massive cycle of paintings, watercolors and drawings--220 works in all--which this volume documents.

This publication assembles still lifes, landscapes, individual and group portraits by Berlin-based painter Jörn Grothkopp (born 1969). Sidestepping photorealism, Grothkopp creates striking images of weddings, parties and Koi fish that resemble out-of-focus snapshots with soft, blurred edges.

Archaeologist's Collection, a project by Russian-American artist Grisha Bruskin (born 1945), is set in a future world in which an archaeological dig has unearthed Soviet civilization and attempts to comprehend its mysterious remains.

This catalogue provides a first overview of the work of Turkish sculptor Yasam Sasmazer (born 1980), featuring her wooden sculptures from 2006-2011. These include slightly larger-than-life figures of children and young adults, as well as the shadow figures from her Dark Twin series.

Placed is the third volume on the collection of Heiner Wemhöner, and includes works by Horst Antes, Enrique Asensi, Stephan Balkenhol, Roberto Barni, Reinhard Buxel, Chen Guangwu, Sandro Chia, Girolama Ciulla, Tony Cragg, Michael Croissant, Frank Dornseif and Dietrich Klinge, among many others.

Beauty and the Beast offers a provocative juxtaposition of California-based Pop artist Mel Ramos (born 1935) and German graphic artist Richard Müller (1874-1954). Ramos famously juxtaposes immaculate, self-assured women with consumer goods, while Müller portrays unreserved, naturalistic nudes.

1000 Pawnees Are Not Enough introduces the intergalactic world of German painter Kinki Texas (born 1969)--a cosmos of wild disjunctions populated by cartoonlike imagery of zombie cowboys, clones and cannibals. This publication includes numerous illustrations and an interview with the artist.

Before museums, wealthy collectors displayed eclectic assortments of artworks and natural objects in Wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosities. Daniel Spoerri's Historia Rerum Rariorum is inspired by this precedent, and unites works from the past two decades with recent pieces.

German artist Sabine Mohr (born 1956) creates installations, objects and works for public spaces and the theater on the theme of metamorphosis. Alchemical Explorations is Mohr's first monograph, presenting a cross-section of her work alongside texts by art historians.

Over the last 60 years, German sculptor Emil Cimiotti (born 1927) has produced a substantial oeuvre that varies from landscape to figurative, rough to detailed, representational to abstract. Structures presents a retrospective take on Cimiotti's sculptures and drawings, including his most recent works.

Painter, printmaker and ceramicist Bernd Kerkin (born 1951) paints a range of subjects, from travel impressions to works based on symbols from various cultures and even appropriations of other artists. This volume is a 30-year survey of his work.

Fiction Landscape compiles Hungarian artist Szilard Huszank's (born 1980) paintings of the past three years, including the series Landscape Collages and Imaginary Landscapes. Huszank's landscapes portray a natural world rich in hidden scenes and layers of imagery.

New York-based sculptor Anne Chu (born 1959) draws on the motif of the putti--angelic cherubs beloved of Italian Renaissance painting--to instigate a dialogue between Western and Asian cultures. Her putti are polychromatic, battered creatures, often suspended midair on poles.

Founded in 1947, and employing more than 50 hairdressers, the Astor Place barber shop in New York is a veritable time capsule. Nicolaus Schmidt's loving portrait of this lively hub is accompanied by an essay by celebrity hairdresser Udo Walz.

Although perhaps best known for his sculptural work with wood, Berlin-based artist Hans Scheib (born 1949) has also produced an impressive oeuvre of bronze pieces, many of which are the artist's personal interpretations of myths. This opulent catalogue surveys these works.

German artist Gerwald Rockenschaub (born 1952) creates large works from synthetic industrial materials that utilize Pop aesthetics and reflect contemporary fashion and lifestyle. This catalogue presents Rockenschaub's Color Foils, which appear as both purely abstract constructions and familiar images or objects.

This first monograph on Norwegian artist Kristina Braein (born 1955) covers her works from 1998 to the present. Her sensitive and meticulously constructed installations make use of everyday materials such as scotch tape and carpet.

As visual symbols increasingly populate electronic communication, this volume looks at the influence of Otto Neurath's Isotypes on contemporary art, in works by Anthony Burrill, Bernhard Cella, Ilse Chlan, Erdal Duman, Hazem El Mestikawy, Harun Farocki and many others.

The geometric, brightly chromatic abstract paintings of Elisabeth Sonneck (born 1962) often extend beyond their canvases to absorb entire rooms. This volume documents the works created for her exhibition at the Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf, Germany.

Time Out From the Brain presents a cross-section of Austrian artist Ronald Kodritsch's (born 1970) work from 1994 to 2012. His abstract as well as more figurative paintings make use of irony, subversive humor and kitsch imagery to comment on current events and society.

Grisha Bruskin's new sculpture project H-Hour examines the idea of 'the enemy' in broad terms: the hostile state, class enemies, "the other" as enemy and even time and death as enemies. The sinister plaster sculptures, abundantly illustrated in this volume, embody a myriad of familiar tensions.

Together, Karl Karner (born 1974) and Linda Samaraweerová (born 1977) span the visual and performing arts, developing choreographic works out of sculpture, video and dance. This publication illuminates their collaborations on the theme of metamorphosis.

Berlin-based artist Bernd Trasberger (born 1974) deals with the transformation of urban space through his sculptural works, installations and collages, utilizing recycled and reappropriated architectural fragments. Modern Times provides the first overview of the artist's works from 2000 to 2012.

Argentinan artist Mario Asef (born 1971) creates videos, photographs, collages and installations that address social discourse. The artist's new video work Crossfade, presented here, addresses the two-way migration between South America and Europe through personal and poetic imagery of his homeland.