Ari Marcopoulos
‚L1032015′

New York

Marlborough Chelsea Gallery currently features New York-based photographer Ari Marcopoulos in a solo show with. Entitled L1032015, the show refers to the number and date assigned to a photograph within the artist’s archive. But even when knowing the meaning of the title, it keeps its secrecy, too. And so does the exhibition. Marcopoulos interconnects a various range of perspectives such as on city, nature, human body.

The photographs are printed on conventional and rice papers giving them a lush and painterly final effect. In black and white as well as in color, they all interfere the artistic and photographic conventions such as landscape and portrait in order to depict a new, original version of it. As a New Yorker, Ari Marcopoulos plays with the city’s symbols, dealing with the criminality, the subway, the street graffiti and the Time Square’s lights. At the cutting edge of art history, the photographer explores the codes and limits of the field in order to constantly interrogate what photographs are made of.

L1033727, 2015,Xx Paper, Framed, 45 X 61.5 X 2 Inches

Alice Temple, 2012, Carbon Pigment Print, 60 X 48 Inches

Ari Marcopoulos

Marlborough Chelsea

April 4 – May 9, 2015

545 West 25th Street
New York, 10001
USA

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