‘I’m the biggest content I’ve ever had’: Tracey Emin in Italy at the show, he lost libido and why he had to do it from painting – art newspaper

British artist Tracey Emin was diagnosed in aggressive bladder Cancer in 2020, when about six months in 2020, he wanted two things: an important institutional show in the US and another in Italy. These two dreams become true I love you until morning The British Arts Center of Connecticut, the first institutional show in the US (opens March 29), and Sex and loneliness in In the Renaissance Renaissance in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the exhibition debut of the Italian Museum.

This week he spoke to the public Florence show: “It’s not better than this: architecture, the city, everything. This is it.”

Sex and loneliness There is no survey or retrospective, but rather It expands the entire emin career and works in almost every media that has worked: Appliqué, needle, neon, monoprinter, painting, bronze. It also includes three-week and half-naked room (length of his menstrual cycle) in 1996. The three of his video works are visible in the Gucci garden, in a small velvet upholstered cinema.

Emin has labeled the UK to Britain’s art scene “Enfant Targible”. To expel from direct television discussion in the late 1990s. He is sober today (“I haven’t been drinking for five years”) and gave a lady last year, the distinction being used, especially in the past past the past past. “There aren’t many people to do the origins of the decrees,” he noted. “But what I wanted to have this note is quite achievement.”

If it hangs in British psycho related to Emin in the 1990s, it is certainly known for his art. The artist believes the Italians also about his work and his work, as well as under a right government, also under a government that has just turned a row on the safe abortions of the country. “They judge me here for the integrity of my work and where it comes from, because of suffering,” says Emin. It refers to the abundance of the city’s religious and renaissance: “It is to be his emotional nature. No hard lips in Florence. It is very released for me.”

Florence and his long history was echoed as a rapturative center of Bronze, as Lorenzo Ghiberti took the doors of Paradise in Ghiberti when the Florence Baptist has created the latest national portrait of London. There are many large-scale bronze sculptures during the Strozzi exhibition, including what is shown in Cube Bermathsey White, I’ve followed you the last (2024), spread in the inside of the Palazzo’s inland dead, to avoid confusing Florence’s already tourist streets.

Emin has shown several times in Italy, with the Roman Gallery of Lorcan O’Neill and the Venice Biennale in 2007 When he became a third woman to represent Great Britain. The presentation of his British pavilions was a mixture of existing works, drawings and measurements of existing works, as well as newer paintings. But Emin was confident to show a series of large-scale canvas. “I had a gagosian show [in Los Angeles] At the time, many of my great paintings went there. It was a mistake; I should show you in Venice. Emin said it’s a “very complicated” white cube in London, although in the white cube of London. His loyalty tried his loyalty between the two.

The painting is now at the forefront of Emin’s practice, although the artist’s relations spilled and spilled throughout his career. The painting painted the painting in the late 1980s in the late 1980s.

“When I was pregnant, oil paintings and terps were physically ill; it’s like poison,” he remembered. After abortion, a feeling of guilt passed. “I’m very picked for the record, but because you don’t have a chance, it doesn’t mean if you had an abortion, that you don’t experiment with things,” Emin says. His vision about his art changed. “I was able to put the essence of the painting. After that I couldn’t justify paint, guilty and weird.”

As the painting falls, Appliqué prevailed in the practice of Emin; The artist said it is very similar to the process of building layers and textures on his sheets. It is among the textile of Strozzi show I don’t expect (2002) “I hope I don’t have moms, but I hope only to die” Thoughts about motherhood illuminated early.

“I didn’t think I would be the mother because I had never had anyone with the son, and I didn’t want to do it on my own,” he explains. “I am also a selfish thing to do things: mother and not the only artist or I would never be in danger. As I am in age, I realize that I want to sacrifice my time.”

In 1996, EMIN was created Exorcism of the last box I have done As a way of returning to paint. To achieve work, Emin blocked her naked in a room in a Swedish gallery and began the work of Schiele, Edvard Munch, Yves Klein and Pablo Picasso artists who adapted the paintings and drawings.

Harry Weller has given his creative director to work today the artist’s artist emin his artist. “That was home [her] Painting, “he said Art diaryAlthough the paint would be another five years before he hugged.

At the time, Emin did not intend to keep the space carried out Exorcism of the last box I have done And he intended to burn, but the gallery had other ideas and sold in full Asan facilities. It has been sold for twice as much as auction, 2001 £ 108,250 and 722,500 in 2015, and now lives in the collection of the Farschou Foundation in New York. “I never benefit [the work] Economically, but I never assumed, “Emin says,” but it doesn’t matter, and today is in Florence today. ”

Fresh feelings

Sex is one of the permanent and major issues of Emin’s work and sometimes presented as a force that has had the power to cancel its creative flow. 2020. From the St. Stozzi since the year, he wanted to read the following. Emin says he still wanted to be sex after cancer diagnosis, but since it has disappeared. “I don’t have librosa, I don’t agree,” he explained. “I did after the cancer now, but now I don’t even hysterectomy and my vagina. I feel more and I’m very well in my life. I feel like I’m doing the right thing.”

Opinions about being lonely are also not lonely altered, as Emin became older. He went to paint across the pandemia and setting up a new feeling of tke in the town of Tke Studios.

“I am surrounded by the best people surrounded in my life, they are very straight and they don’t fuck around, I love it,” he explained. “Being a big studio causes the difference, I’m free to make free mistakes.” The art students and young artists have also proven that it is also enriching through his studios.

“It’s where my money is, and not in the saints, but in a practical way, it’s a good feeling,” says Emin. “I like it a lot of things, especially teaching my cats and the pancake. I can’t explain the number of pleasures that give me. The little things and big things are feeling very well.

• Tracey Emin: Sex and LonelinessPalazzo Strozzi, Florence, until July 20