Ari Marcopoulos

Book with 192 stills of a 3.2 seconds film clip of Haku Shimasaki performing a Cab Double 1080˚. In October 2022 Ari Marcopoulos went to Saas-Fee in Switzerland to work on his short film Butter. The film was shot on the glacier where a halfpipe was made for professional snowboarders to kick off their competitive season. After finishing the film Ari asked a group of snowboarders to send him their favourite clips of tricks which resulted in another film: Black Snow. He had desaturated and inverted the clips so the stills looked like black-and-white negatives, connecting the relatively new technique of multi-channel video to the beginnings of photography. In this process the clip by Haku Shimasaki stood out and has been made into this publication.  With text by Canon Georges LeMaire, Lucy Raven, and Ari Marcopoulos. Design: Roger Willems. Edition of 300 copies in a box with a risograph, signed and numbered by Ari Marcopoulos.

« This book is a new look at photographs from the time Marcopoulos shot Brown Bag, a short super-8 film of skateboarders in New York in 1993. The film, photographs from that time, plus a small selection of recent work, appear in this book, and as a large collage in the exhibition BEWARE at the Musée Art Moderne de Paris (April 5–August 25 2024). » From the publisher’s website

Ce livre d’artiste présente une série de photographies de l’artiste new-yorkais, prises durant ses fréquents voyages en avion : depuis le tarmac jusque dans les airs, Marcopoulos propose une expérience poétique du transport aérien.

Né à Amsterdam, Ari Marcopoulos vit aujourd’hui entre New York et la Californie loin de son frère Solon, resté aux Pays-Bas. Ce livre offre une galerie de portraits intimes de Solon Marcopoulos dans la pure tradition du style photographique d’Ari.