Ari Marcopoulos: new books

June 25th, 2006

Since he first arrived to New York in 1979, dutch artist Ari Marcopoulos has shown a special hability to inmerse himself into the alternative cultural scenes of that place and capture the main names in the Skate, Snowboard or Hip Hop cultures… But his main acomplishment is not simply collecting photographic portraits of people ranging from a young Basquiat to the Beastie Boys but is in-depth look at the least known corners of the society of that country.

His work finally started to get some major recognition with his 2002 show at Whitney Biennial and since then and more recently with his two latest exhibitions: “Even the President of the United States Sometimes Has Got to Stand Naked” celebrated between october of 2005 until january of 2006 at PS1/MoMa in NY and “Flow” at the MU art center in Eindhoven (Netherlands). With the ocassion of each one of this two shows two catalogs have been published and are available in Subaquatica. The first one, “Even the President…” deviates from Marcopoulos’ usual themes and focuses on the way of life of an average american family in the world of suburbia or simply outside the city. On the other hand “Flow” compiles a selection of his photographs, mostly portraits, between 1986 and present day.

These books-catalogs are available here at Subaquatica in Madrid and also here (”Even The President….”) and here (”Flow”) through our online shop.

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