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UNFOLLOW

curated by: Robert Storr, Marco Boggio Sella, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi

executive producer : Rebecca Reyes Rock

May 1st Opening at 6.00 pm ’til late

111 Broadway, NY, NY

GREG PAULUS LIVE BAND & STRETCH at La NOXE Trinity

UNFOLLOW EXHIBITION DAYS & HOURS

May 2nd to May 31st

from 12 – 6 pm

111 Broadway, NY, NY

a project by @falconart_nyc

According to most accounts Limbo is a region between Life and Death, Heaven and Hell. Humans temporarily occupy it while the ﬁnal verdict of the celestial jury that decides their eternal fate based on their earthly conduct, a harrowing condition so long as that jury remains out. It is a Western concept and, an unsurprisingly a harrowing one. Its Eastern equivalent is the Buddhist idea of a similarly ambiguous spiritual waiting room known as the Bardo, which may be familiar to American readers since it appears in the title of George Saunders best selling novel. “Lincoln in the Bardo” potentially less bleak than Limbo , the Bardo is a place where ﬂashes of supernatural insight and visions of an exalted afterlife can break through the pervading gloom of the end of our existence in this world. A place where the sound of a great door closing is echoed by that of others opening. Such an existential hiatus may also be detected in the zone separating Modernism and Postmoderism – which in practice have since the advent of the former (inasmuch as Picabia shadowed Picasso (that is to say formally aﬃrmative Cubist Abstraction) as well as Duchamp (absurdist collaging of words and forms, not to say mocking contrariness and negation) and their spawn. We are once more adrift in a nether region right now. Accordingly, the overriding criteria for the works in the exhibition is a healthy skepticism about or indiﬀerence to the normative “isms” of the last century’s revolutions in methodologies and taste, production and reception.

Produced by Rrasp Org & Rockella Space

special thanks : Rebecca Reyes Rock, Reed Morissey, Antonella Rodriguez Boccanelli, Omni Collective, Valdo Spumanti, H0l0, LIFE Hospitality Solutions

FACTS:

FALCON Art Collective is a group of New York–based artists and curators dedicated to reactivating urban spaces through independent cultural initiatives. FALCON’s mission is to promote contemporary art while cultivating meaningful relationships among artists. The collective takes a pragmatic view of the New York art market — using it as a tool, not as an end in itself. FALCON was founded by Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Marco Boggio Sella, and Rebecca Reyes Rock.

RRASP is a non-profit organization established to support exhibitions, residency programs, and cultural collaborations in New York City. Its mission is to foster the circulation of independent, high-quality cultural initiatives and support emerging talent.

CONTACTS: +1 212 300 54 14
@FALCONART_NYC
info@falconnyc.com

Curated by: Falcon Founders Marco Boggio Sella and Paololuca Barbieri Marchi

Produced by: RRASP

Opening: Tuesday, May 6, 5-9PM

Opening hours: from May 7 to June 10th, 12 to 6 pm,

Music by : GREG PAULUS LIVE BAND

520 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018, 15th Floor

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Justin Adian, Uri Aran, assume vivid astro focus, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Sam Barsky, Marco Boggio Sella, Bryson Brodie, Edgar Bryan, Merlin Carpenter, You Ni Chae, Patrick Concklin, Rob Davis, Maia De Estal, Andre Ethier, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Justin John Greene, Heather Guertin, Johanna Hickey, Chris Hood, Marcus Jahmal, Robert Janitz, Bill Komoski, Kosuke Kawahara, Sadie Laska, William Latta, Austin Lee, Justin Lowe, Alastair Mackinven, Charles Mayton, Servane Mary, Alissa McKendrick, Elizabeth Neel, Valerio Nicolai Alessandro Pessoli, Blake Rayne, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Hollis Robison, Hanneline Rogeberg, Sally Ross, Adrianne Rubenstein, Gibb Slife, Robert Storr, Su Su, Spencer Sweeney Cheyney Thompson, Josh Tonsfeldt, Kon Trubkovich, Marianne Vitale, Michael Wetzel, Viola Yesiltac.

“R U STILL PAINTING???”

FALCON Art Collective, a group of New York-based artists and curators dedicated to reactivating urban spaces through independent cultural initiatives, is pleased to present their inaugural exhibition, R U STILL PAINTING???, an arbitrary, non-national, non-rational, unofficial, and incomplete painting survey.
The show will transform 40,000 square feet of corporate, under-construction space in Midtown into a sprawling exhibition. The curators’ choice of a gutted, raw space expresses the will of an artist community to reclaim agency in a landscape where independent creative space is vanishing at speed.

With R U STILL PAINTING???, FALCON carries onward the spirit and playfulness of New York’s early 2000’s art scene.

R U STILL PAINTING??? is not a question posed to the artists, but a provocation drawn from online culture both a meme and an ironic response to a digital visual world where the human hand is allegedly no longer required to generate multiple imaginaries....