At first glance, Johannes Kahrs' dramatic paintings and drawings seem to carry forward the clear, everyday truths of snapshots; on closer inspection they become intricate, mysterious, fictional worlds. Kahrs manipulates found imagery from film stills, newspapers and personal photographs and liberates figures from their original contexts into dark, uncanny atmospheres. Through an intense pursuit of detail, he works to transplant into the viewer his own initial fascination with the image for its own sake. On top of all this methodology and maneuvering, he distances the viewer from the works by presenting them behind glass, so that their glazed surfaces throw back light and reflection. Kahrs, born in Bremen in 1961 and currently based in Berlin, has shown widely in Europe, at the Drawing Center and P.S.1 in New York, the Phoenix Art Museum and Miami's Bass Museum of Art.

Text by Ziba de Weck, Michael Glover, Bruce Hainley.

Edited by Ziba de Weck. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Edited by Ziba de Weck Ardalan. Text by Ziba de Weck Ardalan, Philippe Pirotte.

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski's paintings are a wild hallucinatory journey into strange and often frightening universe. Skeletons battle soldiers in murk swamps; towers of eyeballs goggle cartoonishly; flesh peels wetly off bare bones. Ziolkowski has an unflinching attitude To The corporeal: The body takes centre stage, at once defiled and dissected. To mark the occasion of his solo exhibition, Parasol unit has produced a unique and comprehensive publication. This catalogue is hardcover and in colour throughout and features insightful essays by Parasol unit's Director/Curator Ziba Ardalan and Jakub Bana critic and curator, currently running Wydawnictwo 40000 Malarzy, a publishing project, and Kolonie Gallery in Warsaw. The second part comprises approximately 30 selected works and is a general overview of the artist's oeuvre, with images and explanatory text for his most significant works. This book will be an invaluable asset for students and admirers of his work. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Utero at Parasol unit, London, June - July 2011.

"Published 2012 by Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art on the occasion of the exhibition: Lines of Thought, 29 February - 13 May 2012." --Colophon.

Emerging Persian-born figurative painter Y.Z. Kami's canvases feature flat, matte portraits resembling Byzantine frescos or Egyptian Fayum portraits. Included here are such works from the past decade, along with abstracted collages, made from poetry and prayer texts, inspired by the whirling motions of Sufi dervishes.