[Ruggs]

If you’re making the trip to Margate I’m looking for a kind UAA member to pick me up a Tracey Emin ‘A Journey to Death’ exhibition poster and tote bag from the Carl Freedman Gallery. Will pay extra for your troubles. Please PM me if you can help!

[nobokov]

These taste absolutely delicious. I crumbled pieces of my print over a salad and it was perfection

[Dungle]

Apr 23, 2022 17:57:58 GMT 1 u%hdjfka c said:

Apr 23, 2022 17:52:58 GMT 1 Dungle said:

These are amazing in the flesh. Absolutely beautiful. Quite possibly her finest work yet

🤡

Solid response well done 👍

[vic]

Apr 23, 2022 23:09:14 GMT 1 Dungle said:

Apr 23, 2022 17:57:58 GMT 1 u%hdjfka c said:

🤡

Solid response well done 👍

Far from her best

[Dungle]

Apr 24, 2022 7:15:06 GMT 1 vic said:

Apr 23, 2022 23:09:14 GMT 1 Dungle said:

Solid response well done 👍

Far from her best

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

[Love Is In The Air]

I haven't been yet Dungle so I hope you are right and it is up there with her best work. For me that would include her powerful large scale blankets and neons, and even the large scale paintings in bright reds I thought worked so well hung up against the Munchs in the Royal Academy fairly recently.

These new works in Margate seems to be primarily in black so look quite morbid on first glance of the photos of the show which I think explains some of the reaction, but at the the same time I think most Emin fans are just delighted to see her painting again. I will reserve judgement until I have been to the show and am excited to see them and what she does next.

As an aside I thought her last big show at White Cube in around 2019 was strong too and was very emotive about the loss of her mother. And although it is like choosing a Greatest Hits album as a best, I have happy memories of viewing her retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art on a sunny weekend in Edinburgh a few years back now which obviously showed off a lot of her great works from over the years.

I'm hoping to get down to Margate in the next week or so but look forward to hearing what others think.

[Hubble Bubble]

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

Apr 24, 2022 7:15:06 GMT 1 vic said:

Far from her best

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Completely agree in terms of art discussion , Dungle.

It’s become so binary… ‘I don’t like it so it must be shit and I’ll ridicule anyone who likes it’. It’s very odd and smacks to me of a deep seated insecurity.

I’ve seen the prints in the flesh - unframed and presented together. I found the scale, range, intimacy and, of course, the subject matter right up there with anything I’ve seen by the artist. Unlike Love Is In The Air (above) I didn’t particularly enjoy the works I saw in the Mumch/Emin show - I found them rather ‘obvious’ and ‘grand guignol’. With these works, using a ‘sad’ blue, she has (for me) achieved a melancholy that I’ve rarely seen in her work. A true glimpse into her soul, if you like.

I very much look forward to seeing the full show now that it has opened. And it’s good to be discussing the work of a leading artist rather than staring at snide comments and wondering why folk bother.

Looking forward to an ice cream In Margate

HB

[Random Ginger Bloke]

Apr 24, 2022 9:07:02 GMT 1 Love Is In The Air said:

I haven't been yet Dungle so I hope you are right and it is up there with her best work. For me that would include her powerful large scale blankets and neons, and even the large scale paintings in bright reds I thought worked so well hung up against the Munchs in the Royal Academy fairly recently.

These new works in Margate seems to be primarily in black so look quite morbid on first glance of the photos of the show which I think explains some of the reaction, but at the the same time I think most Emin fans are just delighted to see her painting again. I will reserve judgement until I have been to the show and am excited to see them and what she does next.

As an aside I thought her last big show at White Cube in around 2019 was strong too and was very emotive about the loss of her mother. And although it is like choosing a Greatest Hits album as a best, I have happy memories of viewing her retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art on a sunny weekend in Edinburgh a few years back now which obviously showed off a lot of her great works from over the years.

I'm hoping to get down to Margate in the next week or so but look forward to hearing what others think.

That show in Edinburgh was amazing, looking forward to her exhibition at Jupiter Artland this year too, the sculpture looks great

[Love Is In The Air]

That is the beauty of art re: Munch show - we can all like/buy different things! You guys are both so positive about these new ones it intrigues/excites me more to see the show. If no one has done it by time I go I'll add some photos to the thread too.

[Hubble Bubble]

Apr 24, 2022 10:03:17 GMT 1 Love Is In The Air said:

That is the beauty of art re: Munch show - we can all like/buy different things! You guys are both so positive about these new ones it intrigues/excites me more to see the show. If no one has done it by time I go I'll add some photos to the thread too.

Completely agree LIITA. Some of my most enjoyable afternoons have been spent discussing the merits or otherwise of work whilst stood before a piece with someone who doesn’t see it in the same light that I do.

[Random Ginger Bloke]

If anyone goes to Margate and is able to pick me up a exhibition poster it'd be most appreciated (will compensate all costs plus shipping and send a gift in return as appreciation)

[vic]

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

Apr 24, 2022 7:15:06 GMT 1 vic said:

Far from her best

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

[Reader]

Apr 24, 2022 12:42:29 GMT 1 vic said:

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

Tracey's Bed and the tent, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 will be her defining legacy, really did change the course of contemporary art and alongside the other YBA's really opened the doors for thousands and thousands of others to consider art school and being an artist as a viable career/life/study option, for Emin to do it with raw autobiographical work was unheard of at the time. Sadly it was short lived, the Tories killing access to Uni with increased fees and now no one but the affluent middle class can afford to take similar risks and their biographies are simply not as interesting. Banksy's rise and rise could be considered as a logical response to this lack of access with many taking to the streets to find (and create) value outside the institution. Always thought their was a linear logic between the YBA's and Bansky long before their first collab.

[Hubble Bubble]

Apr 24, 2022 12:42:29 GMT 1 vic said:

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

I’m not sure anyone in their right minds would buy these thinking they could flip them?

[Horatio Nelson]

One of the things I love about Tracey’s work is that she creates work which is heartfelt and not over-worked on. The drawings are spontaneous and raw. Sometimes (often) that results in things produced which aren’t to everyone’s aesthetic taste, but the images are all very honest.

They are also important milestones in her oeuvre in an autobiographical sense. We will look back in decades to come knowing that 2020-202[X] was the period where she produced self-portraits that looked like this. Hard to put that into context without retrospect, but I just love the fact that we’re living through this period of productivity, even if not every image has “buy me” screaming out from it.

[vic]

Apr 24, 2022 14:04:36 GMT 1 Reader said:

Apr 24, 2022 12:42:29 GMT 1 vic said:

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

Tracey's Bed and the tent, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 will be her defining legacy, really did change the course of contemporary art and alongside the other YBA's really opened the doors for thousands and thousands of others to consider art school and being an artist as a viable career/life/study option, for Emin to do it with raw autobiographical work was unheard of at the time. Sadly it was short lived, the Tories killing access to Uni with increased fees and now no one but the affluent middle class can afford to take similar risks and their biographies are simply not as interesting. Banksy's rise and rise could be considered as a logical response to this lack of access with many taking to the streets to find (and create) value outside the institution. Always thought their was a linear logic between the YBA's and Bansky long before their first collab.

Absolutely right. I would add the opening of the Tate Modern in 2000 was another factor in the attitudes to art and accessibility

[Dungle]

Apr 24, 2022 9:36:42 GMT 1 Hubble Bubble said:

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Completely agree in terms of art discussion , Dungle.

It’s become so binary… ‘I don’t like it so it must be shit and I’ll ridicule anyone who likes it’. It’s very odd and smacks to me of a deep seated insecurity.

I’ve seen the prints in the flesh - unframed and presented together. I found the scale, range, intimacy and, of course, the subject matter right up there with anything I’ve seen by the artist. Unlike Love Is In The Air (above) I didn’t particularly enjoy the works I saw in the Mumch/Emin show - I found them rather ‘obvious’ and ‘grand guignol’. With these works, using a ‘sad’ blue, she has (for me) achieved a melancholy that I’ve rarely seen in her work. A true glimpse into her soul, if you like.

I very much look forward to seeing the full show now that it has opened. And it’s good to be discussing the work of a leading artist rather than staring at snide comments and wondering why folk bother.

Looking forward to an ice cream In Margate

HB

I was lucky enough to go yesterday and the show is incredible. The scale of the works is breathtaking. Given what she has been through over the last few years, the underlying power and message is even more remarkable.

[Dungle]

Apr 24, 2022 12:42:29 GMT 1 vic said:

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

Having never flipped a print, that’s not what’s going on here.

Personally I believe that Tracey’s legacy will be considerably larger than the bed and tent pieces. Yes they helped launch a career and a movement, but that doesn’t make them the best work.

[Dungle]

Apr 24, 2022 12:42:29 GMT 1 vic said:

Apr 24, 2022 8:48:20 GMT 1 Dungle said:

What would you consider to be her best?

It’s all about opinions and these threads tend to actually mean something if people elaborate on their opinions.

This place has really died a death in terms any art discussion. People only get excited by how much they can flip something for.

Bed? I think her sculptures and embroidery are as important as her paintings.

As for these prints they're great but not her best work let's get real.

Agreed this forum is pretty much useless these days unless like me, you get immense pleasure reading posts by people talking up the latest print they purchased in the hope of flipping it.

That's what's going on here and it fools no one

What I will say is that finally we have some discussion surrounding the art which is perfect 👍

[doncarlos45]

SOLD

[Happy Shopper]

Apr 24, 2022 11:20:36 GMT 1 Random Ginger Bloke said:

If anyone goes to Margate and is able to pick me up a exhibition poster it'd be most appreciated (will compensate all costs plus shipping and send a gift in return as appreciation)

I went today around lunch and their batch of posters had already sold out.
More will be printed, but tricky to get your hands on… at the moment at least.

[ignition0]

Apr 24, 2022 19:32:32 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

Apr 24, 2022 11:20:36 GMT 1 Random Ginger Bloke said:

If anyone goes to Margate and is able to pick me up a exhibition poster it'd be most appreciated (will compensate all costs plus shipping and send a gift in return as appreciation)

I went today around lunch and their batch of posters had already sold out.
More will be printed, but tricky to get your hands on… at the moment at least.

Are they selling the Counter Edition prints from the exhibition?

[Happy Shopper]

Apr 24, 2022 19:42:29 GMT 1 ignition0 said:

Apr 24, 2022 19:32:32 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

I went today around lunch and their batch of posters had already sold out.
More will be printed, but tricky to get your hands on… at the moment at least.

Are they selling the Counter Edition prints from the exhibition?

Yes. They’re all on display too.
Very nice… but the originals make them look a little weak… which you’d expect I suppose!

[Happy Shopper]

[Random Ginger Bloke]

Apr 24, 2022 19:32:32 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

Apr 24, 2022 11:20:36 GMT 1 Random Ginger Bloke said:

If anyone goes to Margate and is able to pick me up a exhibition poster it'd be most appreciated (will compensate all costs plus shipping and send a gift in return as appreciation)

I went today around lunch and their batch of posters had already sold out.
More will be printed, but tricky to get your hands on… at the moment at least.

Thanks for letting me know, was always gonna be tricky to get one without making it down to Margate. Hope you enjoyed the exhibition

[u%hdjfka c]

I was initially delighted to have purchased this print, however I've even more delighted to have sold it for profit.

[wave100]

Apr 24, 2022 19:57:24 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

Thanks for posting these!

Any chance Tracey will release some large-scale prints as an open edition, similar to Hirst and Heni?

[paintwar]

If anyone based in Margate is able to pick up an extra exhibition poster, happy to cover costs and return the favour with a Paul Insect ‘Peace’ paste up poster.

[kindhearts]

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[andug]

Apr 27, 2022 11:17:26 GMT 1 kindhearts said:

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Crazy price for a screen print. That makes the counter editions seem like a very good deal