Book Signing with Ari Marcopoulos
Book Signing
Book Signing with Ari Marcopoulos
Sunday, June 18
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. JST
Join Aperture and T-Site (Tsutaya) Daikanyama for a book signing with Ari Marcopoulos to celebrate the release of his new book, Zines (Aperture, 2023).
Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a unique insight and overview into an essential part of this influential artist’s daily practice. Often self-published or created in collaboration with boutique and independent publishers like ROMA, Dashwood Books, and PPP Editions, these informal, DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook, diary, installation space, and a means of processing Marcopoulos’s daily practice of photographing his life, his family, his neighborhood, and the rarified cultural milieu in which he operates.
This event is presented in partnership with T-Site (Tsutaya) Daikanyama.
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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 a prolific 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 publication was made possible, in part, by the generous support of 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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