Tracey Emin - Contemporary Art Evening London Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Lehmann Maupin, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Tracey Emin is an avenging angel, swiping at both high-art pretensions and mass culture. Her background is not about money or privilege; she makes the work because she loves to do it, and it’s a love affair she wants to share. For her, art is at the centre of things, not in the lost world of academies and connoisseurship, nor is it an enemy of the people. For Tracey, art belongs. All she asks is that you get involved – be part of it, not outside it. It has to be her and her work, because Emin doesn’t separate the two. The importance of this cannot be underestimated; at a time when we are drowning in reality TV and live confessionals, when everything in life is about display, Emin had managed to turn the popular agenda into a new kind of cultural challenge. Why do we make so many separations in our lives? Do we insist on reality and confession because we have lost the capacity to imagine and invent? Emin is able to imagine and invent within the context of her own life. By refusing all her own separations, she questions ours. By refusing to disentangle art and life, by fusing her autobiography with her artistry, Emin creates a world where personal truth-telling moves beyond the me-culture and into collective catharsis.”
     
    (Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to P. Miles and H. Luard, eds., Tracey Emin: Works 1963–2006, New York, 2006, p. 6)

43

I promise to love you

2007
Clear red neon.
145.8 x 143 cm. (57 x 56 in).
This work is from an edition of three plus two artist’s proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for £85,250

Contemporary Art Evening

12 Feb 2010
London