From November 16 to February 25, 2013, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA, 3415 Figueroa Alcorta Avenue) hosts an exhibition by the avant-garde British artist Tracey Emin. It is called “How it feels” and presents five controversial videos produced between 1995 and 2000. Emin is considered one of the most important contemporary artists, once part of the famous YBA’s (Young British Artists).
In this exhibition, you can see the following videos:
“Why I Never Became a Dancer” (1995), “How It Feels” (1996), “Homage to Edvard
Munch and All My Dead Children” (1998), “Riding for a Fall” (1998), and “Love
is a Strange Thing” (2000). Tracey Emin is known by its personal and emotional
style. His work is characterized by immediacy and authenticity hard to find in
the modern art panorama.
Her fist videos were produced in the early nineties
and soon became a success in the British art scene. She amazed by her capacity
of telling her own life in a transparent honest way. The combination of a solid
performance and exhibitionist acting out defined her artistic production and
its public figure. Many of the work that made her the most valued British
artists of these days is to be seen on these five videos.
On the works you can enjoy the wide range of her
voice, the lyric beauty and the poetics of her images which contrast with the
taboo topics she depicts: the early sexual discovering, abortion, gender
politics and class structures. A great chance to see one of the best
avant-garde artists in the world in Buenos Aires.
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