Book Launch and Signing with Ari Marcopoulos
Book Launch
Book Launch and Signing with Ari Marcopoulos
Wednesday, May 24
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST
Join Aperture, Dashwood Books, and Gucci Wooster Bookstore for a book signing with Ari Marcopoulos to celebrate his newly published photobook project Ari Marcopoulos: Zines (Aperture, 2023).
Ari Marcopoulos: Zines is the first overview of the photographer’s committed zine practice, including a selection of recent personal zines never before released. Often self-published or created in collaboration with independent publishers, Marcopoulos’s informal, DIY-aesthetic zine creations function as sketchbook, diary, and installation space. This collection showcases an impressive array of printed zines, exploring each as an artistic object through an engaging layout of individual spreads. Beginning in 2015 and presented chronologically per year, this collected volume features more than one hundred zines—including some made during the pandemic, when Marcopoulos worked primarily on the screen, making PDF zines—punctuated by individual images presented at full scale.
This event is presented in partnership with Gucci.
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Ari Marcopoulos (born in Amsterdam, 1957) is a photographer and filmmaker known for documenting the American subculture scenes of skateboarding and hip-hop. In 1980, he emigrated from the Netherlands to the US, settling in New York and working as an assistant to Andy Warhol. Marcopoulos is an author and creator of photobooks, zines, and other printed matter, such as posters. In 2020, Polaroids 92–95 (CA) and Polaroids 92-95 (NY) were published. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions at FOAM, Amsterdam; Berkeley Art Museum, California; and MoMA PS1, New York. His work has been included twice in the Whitney Biennial.
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This project was made possible, in part, with generous support by Gucci. Additional support for the publication was made possible by Philip and Shelley Aarons, galerie frank elbaz, and Supreme.
Image: From Ari Marcopoulos: Zines (Aperture, 2023). © 2023 Ari Marcopoulos
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