German-born artist Thomas Mullenbach plays with our everyday perception of the normal and well-known and undermines ourcollective ideas of sense, value, and purpose of the visible world. To this end, the now Zurich-based artist explores the discipline of art history and puts the possibilities and limits of painting up for discussion.This lavishly illustrated new monograph features a range of Thomas Mullenbach's paintings and drawings. Published inconjunction with a recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich, it focuses on Mullenbach's more recent works, many of which hecreated especially for this show. Essays by Elke Bippus and Juri Steiner and a conversation between curator Beatrix Ruf and Thomas Mullenbach complement the illustrations.