Overview
Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence, dedicates the largest exhibition ever held in Italy to Tracey Emin, a provocative and controversial living artist.
British but of Cypriot father, she lives in England in Margate, a seaside town where she has set up her studio and an art promotion project called TEAR (Tracey Emin Artist Residency), a free art residency.
Her first successes date back to the 1990s with works such as The bed or the Tent, which caused a sensation but propelled her into the Olympus of art.
Hard hit by the events of life - the latest a devastating tumour - she infuses her works with very physical and bodily aspects such as sex, abortion, illness, thereby linking art to life. All this is expressed in different artistic disciplines, from drawing to painting, from photography to video, made explicit in the exhibition with 60 works, from the 1990s to today.
The exhibition "Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude" will be open from March 16 to July 20 in the rooms of Palazzo Strozzi and is recommended for a public over the age of 14.
