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2015-04-27
The Leopold Museum will present the first comprehensive exhibition in Vienna featuring more than 80 works by the British artist Tracey Emin (born in 1963), a leading figure of the “Young British Artists”. Tracey Emin, a superstar and enfant terrible of contemporary art, will engage in a fascinating artistic dialogue, as she will not only present her own works but will also incorporate a personal selection of drawings by Egon Schiele into the exhibition. This exploration of the Austrian Expressionist’s oeuvre allows Tracey Emin to venture into unchartered territory with her art and to draw interesting parallels.
Tracey Emin’s pictorial language is direct and trenchant. Her art is an art of exposure and her own biography provides her with an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Her titles form an integral part of her works and speak of unrequited love, suffering, longing and desire.
The exhibition at the Leopold Museum affords insights into the various techniques and materials used by Tracey Emin and features acrylic paintings, gouaches and videos, installations made from neon lamps, wood, metal and textiles as well as photographs and bronze sculptures.
In her candid and sometimes sharp-tongued oeuvre, which is shaped both by tragedy and humor, Tracey Emin lays bare her own hopes, humiliations, failures and successes.
The themes of provocation and sexuality repeatedly surface in Tracey Emin’s work, as her oeuvre is firmly rooted in the tradition of feminist discourse.
Opposite – Humiliated, 2013
Exhibition runs through to September 14th, 2015
Leopold Museum
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
Austria
www.leopoldmuseum.org
