Tracey Emin
dal 27/11/2008 al 21/2/2009
Segnalato da
27/11/2008
Tracey Emin
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga
Artist's heralded '20 Years' retrospective will reach the museum for the penultimate venue of its international tour. The exhibition will combine installations, paintings, drawings, and videos from private and public collections the world over. She is a fundamental figure from the generation of the Young British Artists (YBAs) that came into being at the beginning of the 90s. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous.
Tracey Emin’s heralded ‘20 Years’ retrospective will reach The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Malaga on 28 November for the penultimate venue of its international tour. In the first complete retrospective of Emin’s work, which will combine installations, paintings, drawings, and videos from private and public collections the world over, visitors will have the opportunity to view a thorough variety of the work that has made Emin an icon of British art over the past 20 years.
Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous.
Emin’s work has an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse. By re-appropriating conventional handicraft techniques – or ‘women’s work’ – for radical intentions, Emin’s work resonates with the feminist tenets of the ‘personal as political’. In Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With, Emin used the process of appliqué to inscribe the names of lovers, friends and family within a small tent, into which the viewer had to crawl inside, becoming both voyeur and confidante. Her interest in the work of Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele particularly inform Emin’s paintings, monoprints and drawings, which explore complex personal states and ideas of self-representation through manifestly expressionist styles and themes.
Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963, and studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited extensively internationally including solo and group exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Japan, Australia and America. In 2007 Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale, was made a Royal Academician and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, and a Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent and Doctor of Philosophy from London Metropolitan University. She lives and works in London.
A Sleep Alone with legs open 2005. Gouache, watercolour and pencil on canvas 24 3/4 x 21 7/16 in. (62.8 x 54.5 cm) (incl. frame). Photo: Stephen White. Courtesy White Cube http://www.whitecube.com
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