She Lay Down Deep Beneath the sea Tracy Emin at Turner Contemporary

26 May-23 Sep 2012

Overview

Turner Contemporary is delighted to be working with Tracey Emin on a one- person exhibition for summer 2012. The exhibition is conceived specially for Margate, where Emin grew up and which has provided inspiration for many of her most famous art works. The exhibition will explore the themes of love, sex and romanticism in Emin’s oeuvre. It will feature both new and existing works, including drawings, monoprints, sculptures and neon’s and will be installed throughout Turner Contemporary’s suite of first-floor galleries. The exhibition’s central themes are continued in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin, JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss will be on show at Turner Contemporary from 4 October 2011. These three very different artists have not been considered jointly before and yet their works share, to varying degrees, an interest in the sexual side of life and female sexuality in particular.