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Jazz clubs, cocktail bars, circuses and magic shows pervade the erotically charged paintings of British Pop artist Allen Jones (born 1937). Jones developed an aesthetic centered on the eroticism of glossy magazines, advertisements and cartoons. These latest paintings continue Jones' pursuit of eroticism, and feature images of entwined dancers and lovers, surging with palpable energy and seductive color, caught up in the dance of eros that is Jones' Nietzschean vision of human vitality.

Jan Davidoff's paintings originate in his travels: quick impressions of different cultures and everyday gestures are captured in photographs which then undergo a process of re-composition and re-contextualization in paint, as Davidoff both layers and reduces the motifs to their fundaments. Storyboard contains works from the last four years.

In garish Pop-ish colors, Heiner Meyer's painting explodes the superficiality of contemporary life in images of pop-media consumerist glamour, with which Meyer conflates images from the history of European art. Reeking of saturation, greed and excess, Meyer's canvases capture our garish present, haunted by a distant dream of nobler aspirations.

In his photorealistic paintings, Martin Schnur (born 1964) presents an image within another image, contrasting two different scenes to suggest simultaneous but divergent realities. Opening up space for reflection, these works align the subjectivity of personal experience with that of painterly expression. Martin Schnur: Bipolar surveys the work of the Austrian artist made since 2002.

California painter and California State University professor Daniel Douke meticulously recreates the product packaging of everything from vintage toys to iPhones in three dimensions with his photorealistic paintings and drawings. The near-perfect illusion is only broken in views of pieces that have been turned upside-down, revealing the edges of the stretched canvas.

In the multilayered works of Nina Annabelle Markl (born 1979), recurrent motifs assume many forms--installation, sculpture, drawing. Permeable Entities gathers sculptures in which humans merge with machines.

Combining collage-like self-portraits with old-master-style examinations of props from her studio, Bettina van Haaren (born 1961) creates carefully observed works on human perception. This monograph presents her work from the last four years.

The Musiktheater in Gelsenkirchen is a postwar architectural masterpiece by architect Werner Ruhnau.In this volume, Anita Ruhnau offers insight into the art scene of the '50s and '60s alongside previously unpublished letters and photographs of those who made the theater come to life.

The sculptural landscapes of Düsseldorf-based artist Stefan Löffelhardt (born 1959) have been exhibited and admired widely in recent years. For his installation "Tal Grund: The Valley Floor," Löffelhardt produced a multi-perspectival work that reflects upon the relationship between people, nature and culture using ordinary recycled materials and living plants.

Croatian artist Jadranka Kosorcic's drawings fall somewhere between the generic look of a wanted poster and the loving craft of an amateur portrait. Likening the experience to a blind date, Kosorcic (born 1972) finds her subjects through newspaper advertisements and chance meetings. Not quite likenesses of specific individuals, her works are immediate reproductions of the tension between artist and unknown sitter.

This is the first substantial monograph on acclaimed Indian multimedia artist Ranbir Kaleka (born 1953), whose work is born of an unusual overlap between painting and video projection. Five writers reflect on the formal and the metaphysical aspects of Kaleka's art.

Since 1992, German artist Jürgen Durner (born 1964) has created fantastically disorienting paintings on mirrored panes of glass. Depicting a mélange of architectural elements, these works, with their layered superimpositions, simulate the effect of looking into a window at night. Cast in the sickly glow of neon lights, Durner's works induce thought-provoking distortions of urban life.

During his residency at Tobacna 001 CC in Ljubljana, Bulgarian artist Ivan Moudov (born 1975) developed an interactive exhibition of book pages, each of which reproduced a work by the artist or an accompanying text, written in part by exhibition visitors. The pages are compiled in this artist's book.

Anne Hoenig's paintings place single female figures in what seem to be either destructive or sexual situations about to happen. A superb modeler of the female form, Hoenig pays homage to the shadowy seductions of film noir for her similarly ominous scenarios. Existing on the lip of anticipation, her paintings inhabit an enigmatic state of suspense.

This volume surveys 11 Chinese artists born between the '60s and '90s, working in installation, photography and new media: Birdhead, Chen Xiaoyun, Han Feng, Jiang Pengyi, Lu Lei, Shao Yi, Shi Yong, Sun Xun, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong and Zhang Ding.

Berlin-based painter Sylvia Goebel (born 1952) creates austere, muted, gestural abstractions, variously subtle and luminous. This volume presents an exemplary overview of her oeuvre; a compilation of 47 paintings--with a focus on her newest works--reveals her artistic development.

In this artist's book from Vienna-based artist Sissa Micheli (born 1975), items of clothing are thrown into view in the former textile district of East London as the camera captures their brief flight.

The aquarium was invented in 1850, just as Impresssionism was beginning to gather steam, a curious indoor counterpart to that movement's espousal of "plein air" painting. Under Water is a historical overview of art that has drawn on the model or form of the aquarium. It begins with prints from around 1900, and closes with contemporary photographic and video works.

In her invented, contemporary-seeming pictorial worlds, German figurative painter Susanne Kuhn (born 1969) combines the precision of the old masters with elements from comics and fantasy. This volume focuses on Kuhn's large-format drawings.

Using solid square-bar steel, German sculptor Robert Schad (born 1953) creates drawings of movement in space. Rather than bend or shape the material, Schad welds together straight limb-like sections of varying lengths and strengths, imparting a paradoxical weightlessness to the works. Recalling human gestures such as sweeps and arches, these remarkable sculptures seem perpetually on the verge of dancing.

Working in sculpture and performance, Berlin-based Andreas Geiner (born 1979) creates work that addresses the natural sciences and their relationship to consumer society. This volume explores the horrors of meat production.

The painter Miwa Ogasawara's pictures are sparsely populated, almost ghostly images of figures and interiors, which (despite their muted coloring) quietly leak out light. Drawing on--and countering--a tradition of Japanese shadow aesthetics, Ogasawara gives only the most minimal visual clues, which lends the paintings a simultaneous clarity and obscurity.

After a long immersion in abstract painting, Hans Georg Koehler's art has stepped into the starkest of figurative expressions, disclosing human figures that evoke Francis Bacon in their vulnerability to the painterly voids that surrounds them, and in their aura of indefinable anguish. Koehler defines this tension as a "correlation between the precisely planned and defined picture and the representation of cricking figures tearing lumps off themselves."

Climbing to the Upper Wild-Goose Trail surveys the ultra-detailed, fantastical drawings of Berlin-based artist Katrin Gunther (born 1970), in which an impenetrable tangle of rods, tubes and panels spreads out before the viewer.

From large-format sculptures to installations and art-in-architecture projects, Antagomorph presents Gereon Krebber's (born 1973) newest works. Texts, drawings and an annotated index of material offer a detailed overview of the Cologne-based artist's sculptural work of the last five years.

Who would expect to find latex gloves flying like birds or a Christmas tree dripping with white glue? In his paintings, German artist Eckart Hahn (born 1971) places everyday objects into entirely unfamiliar contexts in order to create surreal connections. The deliberately leftfield logic of his scenes contradicts the artist's exacting photographic representation of them.

The catalogue's title conveys the premise of German artist Till Ansgar Baumhauer's art: connecting or overlaying elements that seem strange at first sight. Baumhauer uses recollections of purportedly well-known cultural history and collective oral history, and recasts them in unexpected contexts.

Romanian artist Florian Doru Crihana uses a fine brush and oil paints to conjure up meticulous idylls that, upon closer inspection, expose the cracks in society, technology and the environment. Buildings and domiciles seem particularly at risk, often lifted into the air, exposed as the fragile constructions they are.

Munich painter Clemens Kaletsch came of age with the 80s generation of figurative painters, but steered clear of inclusion in any trendy group by consciously locating his art within the Modern European context. This exhibition catalogue collects works from 2003 through 2008.

The sculptures of Gereon Krebber (born 1973) may remind us of something--a cloud, a giant button, a slice of something meatlike--but the everyday materials of which they are composed such as balloons or plastic wrap, are always radically transformed from their original function. Based in London, Krebber regards the spirit of his work as "seriously flippant."