Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK
24th September – 17th October 2020
The third and final stage of this curated exhibition brings together 60 contemporary artists who have created new artworks in response to a postcard version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, Las Meninas, for an exhibition that launched at General Practice, Lincoln, in 2019 and subsequently travelled to Oceans Apart, Salford, UK.
Enough is Definitely Enough features a wide variety of artistic responses to the Spanish painter’s masterpiece – arguably the most widely interpreted of all paintings.
Andrew Pepper has produced an altered postcard which removes the back of the large canvas (on the left of the painting) and replaces it with a reflection hologram that reveals a space recorded in the past.
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, Francisco 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, whichh explores how contemporary artists have used and appropriated existing paintings by others through the metaphor of the parasite and of 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: 24th September – 17th October 2020
Title: Enough is Definitely Enough
Location: Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK
Notes: The third iteration of an exhibition curated by Andrew Bracey as part of his PhD research at the University of Lincoln, UK.
