Lehmann Maupin
Tracey Emin – Stone Love
“[It] is about love and the reflection of love; the desire
to melt into the image of someone else, the fantasy of love. There are many
different kinds of ways of loving, but as humans we are restricted to the
purely physical and never have the confidence to leap into other worlds.”
Stone Love, a solo
exhibition of new works by Tracey Emin, CBE, at Lehmann Maupin, until June 18, includes
paintings, bronze sculptures, neon, embroidery, and works on paper. Emin’s
practice is the result of an intense process of self-discovery in which she
transforms her profound and personal anecdotes into universal narratives.
Above. Tracey Emin – Its
difficult when you are in love – neon. In her neon works, which the artist
regards as “missives,” she renders wistful phrases in her own handwriting.
Emin, also a prolific writer, views the texts she composes for her neons as
more akin to drawing, the quality of the line unique to each work.
Tracey Emin
Lehmann Maupin
Tracey Emin – Stone Love
The title of the
exhibition, Stone Love, comes from the first line of David Bowie’s song Soul
Love, which explores notions of romantic, physical, and familial love.
David Maupin and Prue O’Day
Anthony Gormley
Lehmann Maupin
Tracey Emin – Stone Love
Though Emin has
historically been regarded for her use of various media within a conceptual
framework, her new body of work represents a pronounced return to painting. A
modern day Expressionist continuing in the tradition of painters like Egon
Schiele and Francis Bacon, Emin uncovers personal narratives in self-reflective
paintings that examine both the emotional and physical states of human
relationships. In creating paintings, Emin upholds the timeless legacy of
figurative artworks, often modeled on her own body or on historical
photographs, while developing a pictorial language and style that distinguishes
her within this genre.
Selfie
Xavier Hufkens and Tracey Emin
Jenny Laird, Stefano Tonchi and Trey
Laird
John Richardson
Lehmann
Maupin
Tracey Emin
– Stone Love
Emin views her bronzes as
three-dimensional approaches to drawing. In emotionally and physically charged
sculptures, the artist often depicts a lone, softly mottled figure.
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