Alongside a retrospective of Ari Marcopoulos photos are the screenings of 2 films of the artist. It was just earlier this year that Marcopoulos made that amazing downhill skate film Claremont for Adam Kimmel’s last collection, heres a chance to see much more captured over the last 20 years.
“With camera in hand, Ari Marcopoulos walks among the denizens of what you might call the subcultural sublime—delirious hotdoggers, rapturous artists, bruised boarders, avant rockers, and the many nomads of adrenal bliss. Marcopoulos doesn’t document the inhabitants of the ecstatic outlands so much as he infiltrates the energy enveloping them, snowboarders on maniacal drops, artists in the whirl of creation, musicians communing with the visceral hum. As a consequence, there’s a celebrity factor to many of Marcopolous’s works. Who else to pursue but those who excel to the extreme: rad riders like Craig Kelly and Terje Håkonsen, or that great prevaricator Jeff Koons; high-velocity skaters like Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo, or noise noodlers Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Marcopoulos has the markings of a musician himself—he’s got a keen ear for the quiet between the notes. Tracking prodigious snowboarders in Transitions and Exits and Where the Wind Blows, the mood oscillates between the elation of rising powder and the down of waiting for weather. In Larry White, a street drummer pounds paint cans in search of the miraculous roll, knowing the solo must always recede into silence. In conjunction with a retrospective of the artist’s photographs in the BAM galleries, we offer two evenings of films by Ari Marcopoulos, all stillness and passion, presented in a fiercely free style.”
Steve Seid
Video Curator
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7:30 p.m. Black Eyes and Blue Skies
Ari Marcopoulos (U.S., 1990–2009). Ari Marcopoulos in person. Marcopoulos captures rapturous and radical characters including artists Jeff Koons and Dave Muller, snowboarder Chris Brunkhart, and frequent collaborators the Beastie Boys. (95 mins)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:30 p.m. Loud and Clear
Ari Marcopoulos (U.S., 1991–2009). Ari Marcopoulos in person. Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, skaters, snowboarders, and others figure in six exhilarating works. (96 mins)
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