Neo smoke is considered today as the most important painter of its generation. This becomes not only clear by the numerous honours in the recent past, but particularly at the international operational readiness level of its work and the continuous discussion over its works. On the occasion of the retrospective in the art museum wolf castle appears now the first overview volume to its fascinating work. In the pictures of the 1960 in Leipzig of born painter one meets peculiar shapes from past times, which puzzled itself in surrealen landscapes and Interieurs to together-found, in order to stories from the now to tell. Between Comic and history paintings the artist in its unmistakable colour develops dream-like picture sequences, which appear as historicalpregnant equally timeless. Exhibition and catalog offer a comprehensive view of the work of this Leipziger of painter from 1993 to today. The publication feels questions after, those from its peculiar picture cosmos out urge: About what do these pictures act? Which roles are played there? Which meaning is attached to the colors in these pictures? With a preface of Markus Brüderlin and catalog contributions among other things of Harald customer, Gottfried Boehm, Holger Broeker and Wolfgang Bü.