TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT
2011-05-23This is first major survey in London of the work of one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated artists. The exhibition features key works from all periods of the artist’s career, including seldom-seen early works and more recent large-scale installations as well as a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward.
Some of the Highlights include, a series of 16 neon art works which illuminate emotions, memories, feelings and ideas, including a new heart-shaped neon Love is What You Want (2011) are displayed along a darkened wall evoking the atmospheric nightlife of bars, clubs and amusement arcades. The ashes of The Shop, the enterprise that Emin and Sarah Lucas set up together in the East End in 1993. For six months they made and sold their own merchandise. When The Shop closed Emin burnt its remaining contents so it could never be recreated and Running Naked (2000/2011) – a new photographic work which shows the artist running naked down an East London street, reworked from a film shot originally by her ex-boyfriend the artist Mat Collishaw in 2000.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2011
Hayward Gallery
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
