Tracey Emin Art

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Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want at Hayward Gallery until 29 August 2011 This major survey exhibition covers every period of her career, revealing facets of the artist and her work that are often overlooked. The exhibition features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture, in works that are by turns tough, romantic, desperate, angry, funny and full of longing. Find out more: www.loveiswhatyouwant.com

shocktube.net | Opening reception of the exhibition Tracey Emin. 20 Years at the Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts) in Bern, Switzerland. With statements by Tracey Emin and curator Kathleen Bühler.

Images of Tracey Emin‘s works.

www.vernissage.tv | Opening reception of the exhibition Tracey Emin. 20 Years at the Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts) in Bern, Switzerland. With statements by Tracey Emin and curator Kathleen Bühler. Tracey Emin is one of the most famous and controversial British contemporary artists. Tracey Emin (born in London in 1963) became known in the field of Young British Artists (YBA). She gained a degree of notoriety with her uncompromising personal works. In her home country Tracey Emin is a celebrity. Her works are being collected by famous personalities and she is a welcome guest on parties and an interviewee on TV. There are even Tracey Emin songs. The current retrospective, 20 Years, at the Kunstmuseum Bern is the most comprehensive Tracey Emin exhibition to date. This first big retrospective, put together by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, is also Tracey Emins very first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The show charts her career from the late 1980s to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition include My Bed, perhaps the artists most celebrated work (comprising her unmade bed, surrounded by the debris of her everyday life), which caused a scandal when it was shown on the occasion of the Turner Prize-exhibition in 1998. Other works in which she refers to her sexual past, her lack of schooling, her abortions as well as her affinity with alcohol are not less provocative. The exhibition shows the full range of Emins work in an exceptionally …

I took Lady Anne to Ms Emin’s retrospective. She’s quite the culture vulture. Between you and me I fink Tracey actually sleeps in the art gallery. We came across a bed that had just been slept in. Being such a good person, Lady Anne decided to tidy it up a little bit and put all the cigarette ends, wrappers and tissues into the bin. Stone the crows! The security geezers only went and threw us out!!!
I’m going to complain to my mate Charles Saatchi over this!

Oi Minki!

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