Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin (Croydon, England, 1963) is a British woman known for her autobiographical and confessional work. Emin works with media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, neon text, and needlework. She was the & # 34; enfant terrible & # 34; of the Young British Artists during the 1980s, and she is currently a Royal Academician.

Trajectory

Emin was born in London but grew up in Margate. He studied art at Maidstone, then returned to London where he studied painting at the Royal College of Art. In his early years, the influence of Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele is recognized; Tracey Emin destroyed all the pictures of her from the first stage of her. After her studies in painting, she began in Philosophy.

Emin is part of the group of Young British Artists, a generation of British artists recognized at the beginning of their career, Emin is perhaps the second most notorious group after the media Damien Hirst. My Bed is his best-known work, since he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999. The piece consisted of his own unmade bed, with yellow-stained sheets, and on the floor Surrounding her were items from her room, including condoms, empty cigarette packs, a pair of panties with menstrual stains, and other household detritus, including a pair of slippers. Although it did not win, this work attracted enormous attention and abundant chronicles in the international press. Her best known work, & # 34; My Bed & # 34;, was sold for two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.

Work

Early in his career as an artist, Emin opened a store called The Shop in Bethnal Green in partnership with Sarah Lucas. They were selling works by both, including Damien Hirst T-shirts and ashtrays.

In 1994 he had his first individual exhibition at the White Cube art gallery, one of the most important galleries in London. It was titled My Greatest Retrospective and was typically autobiographical. It consisted of personal photographs and photos of now-destroyed early paintings of her along with objects that many artists would not release to the public like cigarette packs her uncle was carrying when he was beheaded in a car accident. Her willingness to reveal details of her private life is one of the hallmarks of her work.

Emin became a recognized artist when in 1997 the Channel 4 television channel conducted a special interview with him. It was a program with a serious and intense debate, where she Emin she was completely drugged, partly because of the tranquilizers that she had taken to calm the pain of a broken finger; During the entire interview, she did not stop saying that she wanted to return to her house with her mother.

Two years later in 1999 Emin was part of the list of artists chosen for the Turner Prize (Turner Prize) and exhibited his bed under the title My Bed (literally "my bed" 34;) at the Tate Gallery.

One of her most notable works is Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-95, a tent adorned with the names of everyone she has ever slept with, including sexual partners, family members with whom he stayed up all night in his childhood, his twin brother and his two lost pregnancies. Once fearlessly, Emin said that this exhibition was less about her sexual conquests than about her intimacy in a general sense. The stitching that Emin uses for this piece, with which he writes the names of all the people, appears in some of his other works. This, along with many others of his and other YBA artists such as the Chapman brothers, was destroyed in a fire in London on May 26, 2004.