TAB Event - Ari Marcopoulos "The Chance is Higher"

Ari Marcopoulos "The Chance is Higher"

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At ac SALON
Media: Photography, Art Party

Gallery White Room Tokyo is pleased to announce The Chance is Higher, a solo exhibition of photographer Ari Marcopoulos. The exhibition presents a new series of large-scale photocopied photographs.

Marcopoulos has captured urban life through an intimate lens: in the 1980s and '90s, his chronicling of New York subcultures and hard-edged youth portrayed with poetic contrast became rage of the times. He captured the emergence of resistance movements, the world of hip hop and skateboarding, and iconic artists, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons, in the same ease as the striking portraits of his own family and surroundings.

In The Chance is Higher, Marcopoulos’ photographs are treated through photocopying, altering their size and contrast, and exploring the ephemeral, evoking the memory of lost instants. In this new body of work Marcopoulos brings together portraits of his family, of skaters and graffiti artists who transform their urban surroundings, and of the city itself. He explores the strange beauty always inherent to loved ones, to youth, to their bodies, however scratched up or bruised. His work here further blurs the relationship between the photographer and his subjects. The images are personal and autobiographical, but do not strive to be candid or unconcerned with a particular moment.

Opening Reception with the artist: June 13th (Fri) 19:00-21:30