TRACEY EMIN AND WILLIAM
BLAKE IN FOCUS
UNTIL 3 SEPTEMBER 2017
Continuing our In Focus
series, this free exhibition compares important works from the Tate collection,
demonstrating a shared concern with birth, death and spirituality in both
artists’ work.
At the heart is one of
Britain’s most renowned artworks of the past 20 years, Tracey Emin’s (b.1963)
My Bed 1998. This will be the first time My Bed has been displayed in the north
of England. Featuring Emin’s own bed, it offers an unflinching self-portrait in
which the artist herself is absent.
My Bed, along with drawings
by Emin from the Tate collection, will be shown alongside those of the
visionary British poet and artist, William Blake (1757–1827). Presented in the
context of Emin’s empty bed, and symbolising the absent figure, highlights
include Pity c.1975 and The Crucifixion: ‘Behold Thy Mother’ c.1805.
Blake stood against the
hypocrisies of his age championing liberalism, sexual freedoms and above all
freedom of expression. This new display affirms Blake’s Romantic idea of
artistic truth through existential pain and the possibility of spiritual
rebirth through art, shared in the work of Tracey Emin.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/tracey-emin-and-william-blake-focus
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