Ari Marcopoulos: Zines

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Ari Marcopoulos: Zines assembles a unique selection of zines by Ari Marcopoulos, many previously unreleased, offering insight into this influential artist's daily creative process. These self-published and collaborative DIY-style zines serve as sketchbooks, diaries, and artistic spaces, capturing moments from his life, family, and cultural surroundings. Spanning from 2015 onwards, the book features key works including pandemic-era digital zines, complemented by full-scale images, an interview exploring the personal nature of the work, and an essay situating it culturally.
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This volume appeals to enthusiasts of contemporary art, photography, and zine culture, as well as readers interested in personal artistic practices and DIY publishing within the arts and culture scene.

Description

Ari Marcopoulos: Zines 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 neighbourhood, and the rarified cultural milieu in which he operates.

This collection showcases an impressive array of printed zines, exploring each as an artistic object through an engaging layout. Beginning in 2015 and presented chronologically per year, key zines are featured—including some made during the pandemic, when Marcopoulos worked primarily on the screen, making PDF zines—and punctuated by individual images presented full scale.

An interview with Hamza Walker underscores the role of zines as an essential part of Marcopoulos's artistic practice, emphasising the personal, diaristic element within the work, while an essay from Maggie Nelson meditates on the work's position within a wider social and cultural context.

Ari Marcopoulos: Zines is a must-have for anyone interested in this prolific artist's personal practice and zine culture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597115551

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: 800 four-color images

Contributors:

Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos
Text by Maggie Nelson
Interviewer Hamza Walker
Designed by Roger Willems

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 336

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

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, and his work has been included twice in the Whitney Biennial.
Maggie Nelson is the author of the national bestseller On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021), the National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), Bluets (2009), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007). She writes frequently on art, and in 2016 received a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
Hamza Walker is the director of LAXART, an independent nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Previously, he served as the director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.