• yperrealist painted relief of a male head in right profile, warm flesh tones, bird form at shoulder. Title 'fractured figure' in plain black lowercase type across lower half. 29.21 × 37.46 cm oversized paperback.
  • Black-and-white photographic collage of two hands holding a small landscape reproduction, layered over torn paper and circular stain. ISBN 9780981577128 at lower right.
  • framed relief in gallery with directional lighting. Right: seated female figurative sculpture with cracked painted surface on patterned tile floor.
  • Basquiat Untitled (1982), raw expressive head in crayon. Right: Basquiat mixed-media work (1985), dense composition of figures and text fragments.
  • Tim Noble & Sue Webster The Chipmix Remixes (2003) and shadow projection. Right: Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover (1998), grid of fifty ink drawings framed together.
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Deitch Projects / DESTE Foundation

FRACTURED FIGURE: Vol. II — Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deitch Projects / DESTE Foundation, 2008

FRACTURED FIGURE: Vol. II — Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deitch Projects / DESTE Foundation, 2008

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Exhibition book. 29.21 × 37.46 cm. 216 pages. Paperback, oversized. Illustrated throughout in colour. Edited by Urs Fischer with Cassandra MacLeod. Exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch. Published by Deitch Projects / DESTE Foundation, 2008. Distributed exclusively by D.A.P.; out of stock indefinitely.

Published in connection with Fractured Figure, the DESTE Foundation project drawn from the Dakis Joannou Collection and staged in Athens, 2007–2008. Part of a two-volume book project, with Fischer extending the exhibition into a designed printed form. The publication brings together a dense field of contemporary figuration: Basquiat, Cattelan, Fischer, Gober, Kippenberger, Koons, McCarthy, Mutu, Noble & Webster, Prince, Schutz, Wekua and others.

The cover reproduces a hyperrealist painted relief — a male head in profile, rendered in flesh tones against a warm beige ground, with a small bird or animal form at the shoulder — with the title fractured figure set in plain black lowercase type across the lower half. The back cover carries a black-and-white photographic collage: two hands holding a small reproduction of a landscape painting, layered over torn paper and circular marks. The interior moves between sculpture, drawing, painting and installation, with full-bleed colour plates and minimal captioning.

A collection catalogue that behaves like an exhibition apparatus. Private holdings are converted into public sequence: bodies, fragments, monsters, celebrities, wounds, jokes, market signs. The figure appears not as stable subject but as inventory — damaged, reproduced, installed, circulated. The object records a moment when contemporary figuration, private collecting and exhibition design were folded into one oversized printed support.

Condition: good used condition. Visible rubbing, scratches, edge wear, softened corners and handling marks to wrappers. Interior clean and well-bound. Wear consistent with a large, heavily handled art book.

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