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2021
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The Best Conversation I ever had – Laughter, (from A Journey To Death), 2021
Colour lithographs on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm
Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist
In mint condition
With certificate of authenticity
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A Journey To Death is Tracey Emin’s latest work that explores the trauma of surgery for the cancer that almost claimed her life.The artist has been painting, drawing and photographing herself for a long time, but these latest nudes are her grandest and most painfully resonant work yet. Emin has always made art about her physical existence and subjects that had felt unspeakably private, from sexual assault, devastating heartbreak, ambivalence around motherhood, grief and longing, to the adolescent sexuality and menopause.Her work offers companionship for many women going though difficult and pailful experiences. Made in 2021, in these spindly blue-black pictures she is feeling her way through to a route back into art. Most express pain, though there is also hope:the faces of her kittens Pancake and Teacup appear Then I Wasn’t Alone Life Was Here, as emblems of life that will go on.Text also makes its way into her work, as it so often has in the past. “It was inside –always inside,” she writes, the words hovering above her head in Even Saying Nothing is a Lie. It’s a vivid, horrifying expression of a haunted body: the realisation that a hostile presence has manifested within, attacking silently from the inside.In making herself the subject of her work, and concentrating intensely on figuration, Emin creates bridges with the rich art-historical tradition of the female figure and female nudes. She shows strong emotive force in these pictures, as seen for example in the work of male painters Munch and Schiele, which Emin admires and studied throughout her artistic oeuvre.
Tracey Emin uses all aspects of her life in her art, turning her autobiography into broader statements about sex, love, death, freedom, and everyday life. This audacious and confessional approach earned her a nomination for the Turner Prize in 1999. The artist received notable acclaim, among others, for her installation My Bed, featuring her unmade bed surrounded by personal items, which explored the allegorical qualities of a bed as a place of birth, sex, and death.
"If I’m not making art, I don’t feel alive. A big part of me will feel dead: I’m not Tracey, I don’t exist. I felt so much better after this work. It’s like, ‘Ah –ah –ah –I’m alive!’”
–Tracey Emin
- Creator:Tracey Emin (1963, British)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 37.01 in (94 cm)Width: 29.14 in (74 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 50Price: $21,315
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- Gallery Location:Zug, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1562212976852
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