On Instagram, Dennis Kardon summarizes Unfollow thus: "Last chance to see “Unfollow“ an exhibition organized by @falconart_nyc a group of artists determined to offer resistance to the real estate hegemony of the ruling class interests in the art world. They approach NYC landlords to let them use an unoccupied space in one of their buildings for a month rent free and then organize a big freewheeling group show with both famous and under exhibited artist with results that make the past week of art fairs look lame. Don’t let the fact that you aren’t in it slow you down, there’s much to discover and delight in here. My stellar former student, @kt_420 is paired with a Dana Schutz painting and I discovered the wild work of @michael_wetzel__ . There are Maurizio Cattelan pigeons, @joshiejosho grim reapers, a painting by Morteza Khakshoor, blue sculptures by Austin Lee, a major work by Carroll Dunham, not so great work by famous artists (I was amazed to see that a Cecily Brown painting out of the rarefied gallery context looked like a bunch of rando brushstrokes) and a little Buddha/Siva sculpture by Rudolph Stingel, lots to discover lots to thumb your nose at but full of much needed artist curated vigor and energy in these depressing times. And the space, owned by Trinity Church, is beautiful and strange. Last day is Saturday. There’s a party! 111 BROADWAY, NY, (WallStreet)"
Robert Storr summarizes it differently:
"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, 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 Postmodernism--which in practice has since the advent of the former (inasmuch as Picabia shadowed Picasso (that is to say formally affirmative Cubist Abstraction) as well as Duchamp (abssurdist 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.
Diego Perrone cast glass discs, forming heads filled with the world.
A powder-coated surveyor establishes the scale of this sprawling show, which spans the length of an unused office building. Josh Smith spread fliers for the show on the floor, and these coupled with the LED light bars created a precarious terrain that resonates with the show's irreverence and punk spirit.
Jules de Balnicourt (r) channeling rhythms recaling Matthew Wong and Mary Shah in an aqueous pointillism.
Dana Schutz
Jason Fox, one of several paintings and a sculpture in the show on the devil/angel theme. I have always had a soft spot for the high school aesthetic and scribbly light touch in his work.
Ljiljana Blazevska, Macedonian/Serbian painter, wonderful new discovery, represented by Alison Jacques.. Soft versions of 1930s Miro combined with folk painting, interpenetrating color and touch.
For more of this work visit https://alisonjacques.com/artists/ljiljana-blazevska
David Brody.
Michael Wetzel, whose work caught my eye on Dennis Kardon's IG post.
Susu, who in addition to this 14 x 11 inch self-portrait extrudes paint through jute in heavier, equally cartoon-esque images. See more here: https://www.artbysusu.com
In the office: crying bronze birds, part of a large collection of small bronzes.
Marcus Jamahl, new to me animal painter. Raw and exciting depictions that function equally as paintings and portraits.
Robert Storr, above- fabulous install
Cecily Brown
Maurizio Catttalan
To know more, visit https://falconnyc.com
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