HAYWARD GALLERY, SOUTHBANK CENTRE - TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT
WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2011 - MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2011
On Wednesday I went to Tracey Emin's "Love is What You Want".... described as a major survey of one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists, the exhibition covers every period of her career and features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture...
some good some bad some just odd...but worth a visit just to see all her blankets in one place...
Since the early 1990s, Emin (b.1963) has used her own life as the starting point for her art, exposing the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, her work resonates with the 'personal political' legacy of feminist art while at the same time speaking to relationships in general. Disarmingly frank and yet often profoundly private, much of Emin's art - as this show makes clear - is also animated by her playful and ironic wit...
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