Item: Silver gelatin print photograph by listed artist Ari Marcopoulos (Dutch / American, born 1957) -- copyright Ari Marcopoulos -- depicting an intimate portrait of feminist artist Kiki Smith (Am., born 1954) sitting before her work entitled All Souls. The photograph was taken in the late 1980's. It was subsequently printed ca. 2008 in a small limited edition of 15 w/ 1 artist's proof. The photographer, Ari Marcopoulos, is quite famous today but back in the 80's he started out as Assistant to Pop Art painter Andy Warhol. According to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) website Kiki Smith's All Souls was influenced by Andy Warhol's screenprints, hence the relation here. Provenance: The Project (art gallery owner: Christian Haye), 37 West 57th Street, 3rd Fl., New York, NY, 10019, USA. This photograph is framed and protected under Ultraviolet Filtering Acrylite Op-3 by City Frame, NY. Attention International Buyers: Item ships via USPS Express Mail Int'l only & With your purchase price declared on Customs Forms (for insurance purposes).
Markings: Unsigned; comes with a (damaged) computer printout from The Project.
Age: Late 80's (ca. 1989) photograph printed ca. 2008.
Condition: Photo not examined out of the frame, but shows nicely. May be laid down, mounted, loose, hinged, taped, or what have you (?) -- perhaps City Frame would remember the job? Please consider the framing, acryllic/plexi, and backing to be imperfect free throw-ins. Re-frame if you see fit.
Dimensions: Photographic paper size: approx. 19 7/8 x 16 inches. Overall with frame : approx. 20 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches.
Origin: I purchased this item several years ago along with 4 other Marcopoulos photos of Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, David Hammons and Jean-Michel Basquiat (all with Provenance from The Project gallery in New York which at the time worked closely with Marcopoulos in exhibiting his work).
Features: From the net: “Ari Marcopoulos (1957): Ari Marcopoulos arrived in New York from the Netherlands in 1979, and started taking pictures. He documented the relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, making some of the last images seen of both. He recorded the legendary downtown skateboarding scene in '90s New York from the street, making some of the first images ever seen of, among others, the teenaged Harold Hunter and Justin Pierce. Through the past decade he has proven to be one of America's only firmly established artists playing by no established rules—despite, for example, his two appearances in the Whitney Biennial, the survey exhibition considered the most important bellwether of contemporary American art. Marcopoulos takes very little interest in today's gallery system and its business of wealth, canonization and the market. Marcopoulos' practice these days is very much about what he sees on a daily basis. Composing and distributing work in the form of publications is a constant part of his public output, so the most recent work is always what is focused on."
Background: Bio (from the net): ARI MARCOPOULOS (b. 1957, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Lives and works between Sonoma, California and Brooklyn, New York. Selected Solo Exhibitions – 2012: Here and Now, V1, Copenhagen, Denmark; Midway, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL; Ari Marcopoulos: Wherever you go, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY; Here and Now, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2011: This Week, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France; Abandoned Sleep, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA. 2010: Ari Marcopoulos: It Might Seem Familiar, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL. 2009: Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm's Reach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. 2008: Fear God, The Project, New York; The Chance is Higher, Gallery White Room, Tokyo, Japan; Always and Never, Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan, Italy; Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans. 2007: The Chance Is Higher, MC, Los Angeles, CA. 2006: Under Penalty of Perjury, Someday Gallery, Melbourne; Flow, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands; New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California. 2005: Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked, PS1/MOMA, New York, NY. 2004: No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 2002: Pass The Mic 1991-1996, Shibuya Tower, Tokyo, Japan. 2001: Alleged Galleries, New York, NY; The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC. 1990: Midtown-Y-Gallery, New York, NY. Selected Group Exhibitions – 2014: Hindsight, V1 GALLERY, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2013: le Futur commence ici, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France; Absolut, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO, United States. 2012: Eagles, Marlborough Madrid in Collaboration with Marlborough Chelsea, Madrid, Spain; Portrait of a Generation The Hole, New York, NY, United States; 3: Selections from the 101 collection, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, United States; People – Set 9 from the Collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. 2011: Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000- 2010, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI. 2010: Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. 2010, The Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. 2009: An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself, SF; Camerawork, San Francisco, CA; Copy, White Columns, New York, NY. 2008: In the Company of Artists: Photographs from the DIA Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI; Mini Market, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nieves; Library, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; Gravity Art, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA; Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Marella Gallery, Milan; A Curator's Gift: Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Male, work from the collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York, NY. 2007: 7 photographers, Community Outreach, London, Ontario; Hommies, Fuse Gallery, New York; In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco; Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery(1972-1996), New York Public Library, New York; H ENGSTRöM, LEIGH LEDARE, ARI MARCOPOULOS, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York; Collectivity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Allusive Moments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. 2006: Looking Back, White Columns, New York, NY; Zine Library, No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Downtown 81, Friends of Basquiat, Agnes B. Skyline, Paris, France; In the Alps, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; JRP/Ringier-We Make books With Art, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France; Coooool Sky, The JRNL Gallery, New York, NY; Sound Zero, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy; An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY; Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, MI; Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection of Rex Capital, Rhode Island, Luhring-Augustine Gallery, New York, NY. 2005: De la comtesse de Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France; The Backroom, The Backroom, Los Angeles, CA; Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Nieves Books Exhibition, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 2004: Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Fresh: Youth Culture & Identity in Contemporary Photographs, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; The Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970's to Now, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA. 2003: Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre Danger Zone, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; My Xerox Weighs a Ton, Australian Centre for Photography, Australia; The Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York, NY; Who? Me?, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY. 2002: Mystic Mountains, Tour Fromage, Aosta, Italy; Overnight to Many Cities, The Photgraphers' Gallery, London, England; Strange Glue, Ratio 3, Brooklyn, NY; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY. 2001: Overnight to Many Cities, 303 Gallery, New York, NY. 2000: A Beastie Boys Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise Corp., New York, NY. 1999: Coup d'Etat, Alleged Galleries, New York, NY. 1995: The Happiest People in the World, Alleged Galleries, New York, NY. Screenings – 2000: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 1999 -- Captain Powder: Exploring the Snow Sport Genre, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA; The 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Film Society. Bibliography -- 2012Conner, Jill. "Ari Marcopoulos @ Marlborough Chelsea." Whitehot Magazine, August 01, 2012;m 2012Miranda, Carolina A.. "This Week: Must-See Arts in the City; Ari Marcopoulos "Wherever you go"." WNYC, May 09, 2012. Selected Press – 2014: “Hindsight” Group Show @ V1 GALLERY, Copenhagen” Juxtapoz, January. 2013: Lescaze, Zoë. "Fire in Chelsea! Family Business Gallery Burns Show," GalleristNY, January 21, 2013. 2012: Coscarelli, Joe. "Ari Marcopoulos Captures Cool Straphanger in City Riders," New York, May 8, 2012; Landers, Sean. "Ari Marcopoulos Wherever you go", Nero, May 10, 2012; Pini, Gary. "A Preview of Ari Marcopoulos's Where you go...," Papermag, May 10, 2012; Jovanovic, Rozalina. "Ari Marcopoulos Unveils New Work," GalleristNY, May 9, 2012. 2010: Feldman, Melissa, “Ari Marcopoulos”, Frieze (April, 2010); Gensler, Andy."Art + Rock | The Whitney Brings the Noise." ; The New York Times, T Magazine Blog, March 2010.; "Artists in the Exhibition: Ari Marcopoulos." Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalog for 2010 The Whitney Biennial, February 2010; Colvin, Anne. "Shotgun Review: Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm's Reach."; Shotgun Review, February 2010; Koch, Corinna. "Mit dem Strom gehen." der Freitag, January 2010. 2009: Bloom, Anna. "The Chronicler of Street Culture." The New York Times, Bay Area blog, November 2009; Melendez, Franklin. "In Memory of the Zine." ArtSlant, November 2009; Muller, Dave. "Ari Marcopoulos." Interview Magazine, September 2009; Cannizzo, Larry and Stephanie, Cannizzo. "Essays from the exhibition catalogue for 'Within Arm's Reach'." Berkeley Art Museum, September 2009. 2008: Berardini, Andrew. "Interview with Ari Marcopoulos." ArtSlant, September 2009; Licht, Alan. "Ari Marcopoulos." Modern Painters, February 2008; Satorius, Katherine. "Ari Marcopoulos at MC Kunst." Artweek, February 2008; Campagnola, Sonia. "Live from Los Angeles." Flash Art, February 2008. 2006: Helfand, Glen. "Ari Marcopoulos: Rena Bransten Gallery." Artforum, July 2006. 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