IT’S A FREE CONCERT FROM NOW ON
DELAHUNTY, LONDON, 2025
Delahunty Fine Art is proud to present It’s A Free Concert From Now On, a solo exhibition by Eric Doeringer, running from 5 to 27 June 2025. Known for his incisive and thought-provoking practice centred on appropriation, Doeringer turns his lens once again on the work of Richard Prince, refracting Prince’s conceptual provocations through his own distinctly self-aware and critical perspective. Doeringer has long engaged with Prince’s work and its implications, producing “bootleg” versions of Prince’s paintings, photographs, and artist’s books.
In a time when debates over copyright, artistic ownership, and AI-generated content dominate discourse, Doeringer’s work feels especially urgent. His pieces challenge the notion of originality and offer a rebellious, reflexive statement on how art circulates, who controls it, and what it means to create in the shadow of giants.
The exhibition takes its title from a quote frequently referenced by Richard Prince “It’s a Free Concert From Now On”, a phrase layered with irony, cultural memory, and pointed critique. Famously tied to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the quote evokes both the utopian promises of 1960s counterculture and the commercial contradictions that undercut them. Through this title, Doeringer invites viewers to reconsider what is truly "free" in a cultural landscape shaped by ownership, intellectual property, and market dynamics.
In It’s A Free Concert From Now On, Doeringer pushes these questions further. What happens when the appropriator is appropriated? Can Prince's own strategies be turned back on themselves? Doeringer’s work functions as both homage and interrogation—an artistic mirror reflecting the contradictions inherent in the conceptual art world. By reusing Prince’s images, titles, and methods, Doeringer questions whether the cultural “concert” is truly free, or whether the illusion of accessibility masks deeper systems of value, privilege, and control.
