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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-tracey-emin-willi
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SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Tracey Emin and William Blake in Fo
 cus
DESCRIPTION:Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus\nTate Liverpool\n\n16 Se
 ptember 2016 to 3 September 2017\nFREE\n\nThis autumn Tate Liverpool focus
 es on the work of Tracey Emin (b. 1963) and William Blake (1757-1827) to 
 reveal surprising links between the two artists. The free display juxtapo
 ses important works from the Tate collection\, demonstrating a shared con
 cern with spirituality\, birth and death in both artists’ work. At the 
 heart of the display is one of Britain's most renowned artworks of the pas
 t 20 years\, Tracey Emin’s My Bed 1998. This will be the first time My 
 Bed has been displayed in the north of England.\n\nFeaturing Emin’s own
  bed with stained sheets\, personal objects and detritus\, it offers an u
 nflinching self-portrait in which the artist herself is absent. Combining 
 public with domestic realms\, this iconic work expresses ideas of contain
 ment and isolation while asserting the artist’s thematic preoccupations
 \, including birth\, death\, dreams and sex.\n\nMy Bed\, along with drawin
 gs by Emin from the Tate collection\, will be presented alongside those o
 f the visionary British poet and artist\, William Blake. Presented in the
  context of Emin’s empty bed\, and symbolising the absent figure\, works
  include The Blasphemer c.1800 and The Crucifixion: 'Behold Thy Mother' c
 .1805 and other figurative works.\n\nBlake stood against the hypocrisies 
 of his age and was vocal in his support of liberalism\, sexual freedoms a
 nd above all advocated for unrestrained imaginative freedom of expression
 . The new display affirms Blake’s Romantic idea of artistic authenticit
 y through existential pain and the possibility of spiritual rebirth throug
 h art shared in the work of Tracey Emin.\n\nFollowing the display of My B
 ed 1998 at Tate Liverpool\, the work will be shown at Turner Contemporary
  in Margate\, Emin’s home town. This will provide a unique opportunity 
 for audiences across the UK to see one of the most defining works of Brit
 ish art in recent years. The Duerckheim Collection acquired the work in ea
 rly July 2014 and it is now on loan to Tate for 10 years.\n\nTracey Emin 
 and William Blake in Focus is curated by Darren Pih\, Exhibitions &amp\; 
 Displays Curator\, Tate Liverpool.
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