French artist Mathilde Rosier creates atmospheric environments which draw on her interest in the occult, Freudian analysis and ancient rites and rituals. This full-color exhibition catalog, Rosier's first monograph, brings together the artist's exquisite paintings with her sculptural assemblages, installations and film. These specially constructed environments evoke a journey between conscious and unconscious realms, using motifs like a bed or a cat representing a threshold to buried psychic states. The dreamlike elements transport the viewer into a heightened sensual state. The book combines drawings and text to provide direct access to this richly imaginative artist's intellectual world. With commentary by curator Claudia Emmert.

From the art duo Marc Weis and Martin de Mattia, an exhibition catalog and first comprehensive overview of their oeuvre, including photographic, film and installation work. And as in their previous volume, Pie Bible, the work relates to the intimate promises, synchronous levels of meaning and different identities standing for current trends in our society. The duo's work is deeply influenced by childhood television programs, such as Bonanza or Get Smart, then later by other films which became embedded in the collective consciousness. This complicated book, with extensive color reproductions and odd-sized bound pages, includes a long interview with the artists, discussing their approach to narrative and ''the morality of pictures.'' A fascinating presentation of Weis and de Mattia's works, which often produce discomfort, and always provoke new ideas.

This volume explores the many applications of irony in art, from matters of gender to depictions of nature and self-reflexivity. The contributing artists are John Bock, Shannon Bool, Thorsten Brinkmann, Mark Dion, Anton Henning, Brigitte Kowanz, Ragnar Kjartansson, Peter Land, Patrick Mimran, Ahmet Ogut, Sener Ozmen and Claude Wall.