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TRACEY EMIN

MARGATE - KENT

Tracey Emin’in sanatına, yaşanmış travmalar ile beden mülkiyeti arasındaki ilişkiler yön vermektedir. Emin’in giderek dramatikleşen yaşam öyküsü, bazen yaratıcı bir güce dönüşmekte, kimi zaman ise, tam bir kayıtsızlık içinde davranmasını sağlayarak kendini özgür kılmaktadır. “I followed you to the end” adlı son sergisinde de açıkça görüleceği üzere; resimlerinde boyalar katmanlaşarak etrafa saçılmakta, akışkan ve dinamik bir görsel etkinin peşinde, ham yüzeylerde bulanık alanlar yaratılmaktadır.

Tracey Emin's art is shaped by the relationship between trauma and ownership of the body. Emin's increasingly dramatized life story sometimes becomes a creative force, and at other times, it liberates her by allowing her to act with complete indifference. As can be clearly seen in his latest exhibition “I followed you to the end”, the paints in his paintings are layered and scattered around, creating blurred areas on raw surfaces in pursuit of a fluid and dynamic visual effect.

TRACEY EMIN IN SAGLAMART.COM

sorrow compressed into naked bodies
çıplak bedenlere sıkıştırılmış hüzün
I followed you to the end
hayatta kalma pratiği olarak resim
tracey emin painting as a practice of survival
I followed you to the end (turkish version)

EXHIBITIONS

TRACEY EMIN

I followed you to the end

Solo Exhibition, 19 September – 10 November 2024, White Cube 144 – 152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ 

LAST EXHIBITIONS

TRACEY EMIN

A Fortnight of Tears

Solo Exhibition, 6 February – 7 April 2019, White Cube 144 – 152 Bermondsey Street, London. SE1 3TQ 

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Lovers Grave

Solo Exhibition, 4 November 2023 – 13 January 2019, White Cube, New York.

TRACEY EMIN

Living Under the Hunters Moon

Solo Exhibition, 25 October 2020 – 13 February 2021, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London.

TRACEY EMIN & EDWARD MUNCH

the loneliness of the soul

Thematic Exhibition, 18 May – 1 August 2021 , The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

PUBLICATIONS

Tracey Emin: I followed you to the end,  Editor: Honey Luard, Text: Martin Grayford, Design: Maria Amaro, English, Hardback, 136 page, Printed in Italy, White Cube Publishing, October 2024. 

Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave,  Editorial: Honey Luard and Harry Weller, Text: Harry Weller, Design: Fuel, English, Hardback, 104 page, Printed in Italy, White Cube Publishing, May 2024. 

Tracey Emin: A Fortnihgts of Tears, Editor: Honey Luard, Texts: Rudy Fucs and Jonathan Jones, Design: Fuel, English, Hardback, 136 page, White Cube Publishing, May 2022. 

ARTWORKS

Installation, 1995, factory-made tent of variable sizes with hand-embroidered patches on the inner surface (destroyed in a fire at Momart warehouses in 2004).

TRACEY EMIN

Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, 1963-1995

At Sensation, which Tracey Emin participated in at the beginning of her career, she exhibited a tent in which she had embroidered the names of family members, friends and lovers she had slept with. In this work, which attracted a great deal of attention, Emin openly expresses her sexuality and her view on the issue of sexuality in a reactive language and a transparent approach. On the other hand, this work, structured within a discourse of confession, is considered a controversial performance that presents the privacy of an extraordinary personality in the public sphere through a visual language integrated with embroidery aesthetics.

TRACEY EMIN

My Bed / 1998

Installation, 1995, factory-made tent of variable sizes with hand-embroidered patches on the inner surface (destroyed in a fire at Momart warehouses in 2004).

Tracey Emin exhibits her bed, soiled with bodily fluids and in a disorganized state, as a medium for expressing her anger and pain. This traumatic scene, presented as a direct and jarring reality with its emphasis on illness and sexuality, is characterized by its post-feminist discourse. Declaring an uncomfortably private and personal experience, My Bed is an iconic work with a power of influence that defines Emin’s overall approach to art. Nominated for the 1999 Turner Prize, a version of My Bed was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2021.

TRACEY EMIN

I Want my Time With You / 2017

I want my time with you, Installation, LED,  length: 20 m. St. Pancras International Station, Terrace Wires, Running until 2020, the scheme will be implemented in London. (Photos © Tim Whitby)

This work was installed by Tracey Emin on the station’s Victorian glass roof to celebrate the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts.

SENSATION

Some of the yBa artists in the exhibition: Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Ron Mueck, Rachel Whiteread, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Marcus Harvey, Jenny Saville, Gavin Turk, Mona Hatoum and Gary Hume.

YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS FROM THE SAATCHI COLLECTION

Sensation

Group Exhibition, September 15 – December 28, 1997, Exhibition Arrangement: Norman Rosenthal, Production: Charles Saatchi / Saatchi Collection, Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Comprising 116 works by 42 artists, the exhibition was also held at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin from September 30, 1998 to January 30, 1999 and at the Brooklyn Museum in New York from October 2, 2999 to January 9, 2000)

Young British Artists is the name of a group movement initiated in 1992 by students at Goldsmith College in London. This movement soon attracted the attention of experts such as academics Michael Craig Martin and Norman Rosenthal, and was supported by the famous advertiser and collector Charles Saatchi. Unabashedly using found objects, unusual objects and images that disturb the viewer, the YBAs artists made their big breakthrough in 1997 with a comprehensive exhibition called Sensation, held at the Royal Academy of Arts halls. The YBAs movement and the Sensation exhibition made London one of the most important centers of world art once again.

GALLERY

Opened in 2011, White Cube Bermondsey is the largest gallery space in Europe. The space has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, and has held major solo exhibitions by Michael Armitage, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Jeff Wall, Tracey Emin, Ibrahim Mahama and Doris Salcedo. [ 144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3TQ

WHITE CUBE

Founded in 1993 by Jay Jopling, White Cube is a major contemporary art gallery representing over 60 international artists. It operates from galleries on three continents: New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Seoul. White Cube has a long history of publishing award-winning books based on innovative design and rigorous scholarship. Respected in the art scene for its commitment to identifying and nurturing new talent, including the generation of British artists who came to prominence in the early 1990s, White Cube is one of the few galleries to have been instrumental in the rise of an art movement.

STRANGELAND

Tracey Emin: Yaban Vatan, Translation: Teri Ebeş ve Mehmet Öznur, Popcore Publishing, May 2007 İstanbul.

Yaban Vatan (Wild Homeland) is a book written with the uncensored intimacy of a camera following Tracey Emin throughout her life. It witnesses her drunkenness on the streets where she was raped at a young age, in her stinking apartment, her search for self-satisfaction, her unconventional sex life, her traumatic abortion experiences, her deepest fears and passions, her attempts to hold on to life.

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He continues his work in design and arts management based in London. He also focuses on independent publishing experiences.

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