Enough is Definitely Enough
30 March – 13 April 2019
For this exhibition at General Practice, Lincoln, over 40 contemporary artists have responded to a postcard version of Velázquez’s Las Meninas, creating new works that reinterpretor, respond to, thise iconic painting.
Enough is Definitely Enough presents a diverse range of artistic approaches to the Spanish master’s composition, a work often described as the most widely examined and reimagined painting in art history.
Andrew Pepper’s adapted postcard alters the left-hand section of the original canvas, replacing it with a reflection hologram that captures a space recorded in the past, adding a temporal and spatial layer to the ongoing dialogue with Las Meninas.
Las Meninas with reflection hologram and incised lines.
Andrew Pepper 2019
Postcard detail.
Art Historian Daniel Arasse reflected many people’s view that everything, or perhaps even nothing, has been said about Las Meninas -“what’s the difference, enough is definitely enough!”.
The artists in the exhibition build upon previous interpretations by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Richard Hamilton, Francesco Goya and Eve Sussman. Artists have long been actively influenced by the centuries old painting by Velázquez; with their responses, in turn, offering influence back to Las Meninas to enable new readings. With the artworks made for ‘Enough is Definitely Enough’ there is potential for new relationships with Velasquez’s original painting to open up.
The exhibition is curated by Andrew Bracey and forms part of his PhD research at the University of Lincoln. He is exploring how contemporary artists have used and appropriated existing paintings by other artists, through a position of using the metaphor of the parasite and symbiosis in connection with painting.
Participating Artists:
Euripides Altintzoglou, Tristram Aver, Maggie Ayliffe, Sarah Bennett, Juan Bolivar, Andrew Bracey, Louise Bristow, Kate Buckley, Louisa Chambers, Fiona Curran, Gordon Dalton, Karen David, Annabel Dover, Leo Fitzmaurice, Rebecca Fortnum, Rachel Goodyear, Simón Granell, Tom Hackney, Sharon Hall, Lesley Halliwell, Simon Harris, Ilona Kiss, Geoff Diego Litherland, Alison Lloyd, Cathy Lomax, Rachel Lumsden, Danica Maier, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Andy Pepper, Yelena Popova, James Quinn, Daniel Rapley, Lucy Renton, John Rimmer, John M Robinson, David Ryan, Nick Simpson, Stephen Snoddy, Soheila Sokhanvari, Annabel Tilley, Alun Williams, Gerard Williams.
Exhibition Reference
Date: 30th March – 13th April 2019
Title: Enough is Definitely Enough
Location: General Practice in Lincoln, UK.
Notes: Curated by Andrew Bracey as part of his PhD research at the University of Lincoln, UK.
