Rockella x RRASP Present:
UNFOLLOW, Opening May 1st
May 1 – 31
111 Broadway, New York, NY
Hours: Monday-Sunday, 12-6pm
OPENING NIGHT: May 1, 6.00 pm until late!!
Curated by Robert Storr, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, and Marco Boggio Sella.
Executive Producer: Rebecca Reyes Rock
Music on opening night by Greg Paulus Live Band and Stretch at La Noxe Trinity
Rockella Space, in collaboration with Falcon Art Collective and RRASP, is proud to support UNFOLLOW, an upcoming exhibition opening on May 1.
Bringing together a group of contemporary artists, UNFOLLOW examines how we engage with image culture today, exploring systems of visibility, authorship, and the increasingly complex relationship between the digital and physical worlds.
As part of Rockella’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists beyond the studio, this exhibition reflects a broader investment in public programming, collaboration, and cultural exchange.
Through RRASP, Rockella continues to partner with curators and organizations to activate space through exhibitions, workshops, and events that invite deeper engagement with contemporary practice.
Unfollow Participating Artists
Amy O’Neill, Andy Robert, Asher Liftin, Austin Lee, Austin Martin White, Bertrand Lavier, Cecily Brown, Chibuike Uzoma, Carrol Dunham, Craig Kalpakjian,Dana Schutz, David Brody, Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Diego Perrone, F P Boué, Hollis Robison, Huma Bhabha, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, Josh Smith, Jules de Balincourt, Ljiljana Blazevska, Marcus Jahmal, Marco Boggio Sella, Marianne Vitale, Maurizio Cattelan, Michaela Eichwald, Michael Wetzel, Merlin Carpenter, Morteza Khakshoor, Olaf Breuning, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Patrick Thomas Coklin, Rachel Harrison, Ragnar Kjartansson, Reena Spaulings, Robert Storr, Rudolf Stingel, Sangram Majumdar, Shoji Yamasaki, Spencer Sweeney, Su Su,Tatiana Grigorenko, Uri Aran, Vitaly Komar among others.
About the exhibition
Unfollow builds on Falcon Art Collective’s inaugural presentation, R U Still Painting???, which debuted last year and established its commitment to probing the relevance, elasticity, and endurance of painting and its expanded field in contemporary practice.
As with its first edition, FALCON Art Collective activates vacant commercial real estate, transforming unused retail and office spaces into temporary exhibition sites. By repurposing storefronts that might otherwise sit empty, the collective fosters dialogue between creative and commercial communities while demonstrating how art can catalyze new forms of civic engagement.
UNFOLLOW is inspired by two metaphysical thresholds. In Western theology, “Limbo” denotes a suspended realm between salvation and damnation. Its Eastern analogue, the Buddhist “Bardo,” describes an intermediate spiritual state— one that entered contemporary literary consciousness through George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Together, these concepts frame the exhibition’s central proposition: that our present cultural moment occupies a similar in-between condition.
As conceived by the curators, this condition is also aesthetic and historical, evident in the unresolved tension between Modernism and Postmodernism. From Francis Picabia’s shadowing of Pablo Picasso’s formal affirmation to Marcel Duchamp’s strategic negation, the “isms” of the last century have continually collided and destabilized one another. We find ourselves once again in a charged interval where inherited categories no longer hold.
The exhibition foregrounds practices that resist easy classification, neither wholly declarative nor purely ironic, neither utopian nor nihilistic.
If R U Still Painting??? asked whether the medium persists, UNFOLLOW broadens the inquiry: where, historically and conceptually, do we stand now? Rather than resolving the tension between inheritance and rupture, the exhibition inhabits that suspended space—where doubt becomes method and uncertainty becomes form.
Presented by Falcon Art Collective, Produced by Rrasp Org and Rockella Space
About Falcon Art Collective
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.
For more information visit:
FALCONNYC.com
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About RRASP
RRASP is a non-profit organization established to support exhibitions, residency programs, and cultural collaborations across the fields of art, entrepreneurship, and real estate in New York City. Its mission is to foster the circulation of independent, high-quality cultural initiatives, support emerging talent, and serve as a catalyst for dialogue between creative and commercial communities.
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Special thanks : Rebecca Reyes Rock, Reed Morrisey, Antonella Rodriguez Boccanelli, Omni Collective