Creating more than just an image as a mere reflection or art as visual art: Jürgen Messensee is an artist with many facets and not always easy to categorize. Therefore, the attractively illustrated volume about his current work in painting, drawing, and sculpture is more than just a documentation of his latest pieces. Rather, it illuminates the artist in all his versatility and depth. "I have always tried, initially instinctively and later consciously, to understand the emerging problem of space or spaces," says the multiple award-winning Jürgen Messensee (born 1936 in Vienna), who has a firm place in contemporary Austrian art. Behind his work always lies the question of being and what we believe we perceive as such. This primarily involves engaging with space and time, but also, as the volume beautifully demonstrates, reflecting on space and spaces. An impressive insight into the thinking and philosophy of the artist Messensee.