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  翠西·艾敏1963年7月3日生于一个英国的艺术家家庭。虽然出生在伦敦,但她是在一个叫Margate的小镇长大的。翠西很小的时候,她父亲抛弃了她们一家娶了另外一个女人,这直接导致了翠西之后的不幸遭遇,除了生活的贫困之外,她14岁的时候不幸的被强奸了。成年后的翠西继续延续着混乱和历经痛苦的生活,酗酒,抑郁症,滥交,数次流产,等等,这些痛苦的经历成了她艺术创作的直接来源。

  翠西·艾敏的作品使用的媒介很广泛,包括针线手绣,雕塑,素描,绘画,摄影,霓虹灯,视频和装置等。作为90年代初英国著名的YBA(英国青年艺术家)群体代表性的成员之一,翠西的才华和她引发的争议在英国是无与伦比的。英国媒体曾经说过,“翠西·艾敏的作品必须参照着她的个人一起看。”可见,人们对她这个人的好奇程度甚至胜过了她的作品。

  翠西的作品是一种日记体式的表达,如果把她所有作品放在一起,看起来就像她的一部自传。翠西对讲故事非常迷恋,她的作品里常常都出现她手写的只言片语,这些文字以一种任性的方式出现,带着翠西标志的特殊拼写错误和词序,像是一个自相矛盾,但又是对这样的存在确信不疑的声明。

  Everyone I Have Ever Slept With( 1963–1995)是翠西在1997年完成的作品,这件作品的主体是一个蓝色帐篷,在帐篷里翠西写下从1963年到1995年期间和她睡过的所有男人的名字,这些人包括她的性伴侣,她的双胞胎哥哥,和她的两个流产的孩子。这件作品在Charles Saatchi举办的那个著名展览Sensation上展出并产生了强烈的反响。尽管它的题目容易令人遐想,但这并不是像人们想象那样是一件传达出性意味的作品,这是翠西的个人世界,是她和那些与之生活过的人们的关联性感受,这是一件让人看了之后心生暖意的作品。

  这种日记式的表达方式对翠西本人来说就像是一种对过往的清理和洗涤,就像她说的:“这就像清洗我的灵魂。这不仅仅是摆脱过去的精神重负,或者是赤裸裸的呈现,没有那么简单——确实有实实在在的事情发生在我身上。”

  根据她自己的真实生活,翠西常常在揭示痛苦的时候表现出一种毫无保留的坦诚。她把自己经历过的痛苦以一种简单,坦率,甚至是残酷的方式传达了出来,叛逆不羁却又充满自我怀疑。就像1999年在英国的Tate美术馆展出的那件来自翠西的著名装置作品“床”,在这件作品里,她把别人视为肮脏或者是羞于见人的东西全部都展示了出来,一张乱糟糟的还没来得及整理的床,用过的避孕套,有血污的内裤,卫生巾,伏特加酒瓶,药盒,空烟盒,破拖鞋,床下是一条脏兮兮的蓝地毯。这些物品揭示了这张“床”的主人混乱不堪的夜生活。这张“床”一经出现就引发了英国民众的观念大战,除了媒体的大加报道之外,一位居住在英国威尔士的家庭主妇知道“居然有这样一件作品存在”之后,立即从家里出发,千里迢迢的来到伦敦,到了Tate博物馆之后,她二话不说,从行囊里拿出洗洁精和抹布就要对这张床进行打扫,好在美术馆的保安行动即时,这件作品才免遭清扫,但她带来的洗洁精还是滴了一滴到那张床上。在被保安带走的途中,她高声说,“打扫卫生是我的责任,翠西是坏女孩的榜样”。事后证明,她的这一行为和那一滴洗洁精绝妙的成为了这件作品的一部分,这张“床”在当年获得了英国特纳奖的提名,这件作品也成了翠西最具代表性的作品。

  对于人们对自己的作品产生的强烈反应,翠西说:“我奇怪那些人的道德感和完整性来自那里,我的作品没有任何值得让人震惊的。我并没有要让人震惊的意思,我只是想和人们达到对话的目的。”

  确实是这样,翠西的作品并不是为了制造“噱头”,也不是赤裸呈现那么简单。事实上,她总是能巧妙而直接地将作品的主题与形式充分地融为一体。虽然她的创作常常被认为是大胆和挑衅的,但她的作品更应该被注意到的是她作为一个女性所体现出来的细腻,敏感和易受伤害的特质。她通过自己普通或者不普通的生活经历,通过打破禁忌展示出来的不妥协的诚实,使观众突然进入了一个直面生活真相的情境。通过这种表达方式,她个人的经验和感受不再局限在个人表达的范畴,而成了真正意义上被表达的人类情感,这使她的艺术创作有了更广泛的语意,进入了一个更有意味的层面。

  最近几年,翠西开始尝试在她的作品里注入更多的母性情怀,就像她最近在接受采访时对自己状况的描述,她说,活到45岁这个年纪,觉得“比以前轻松多了”。也许在这样一个放松的状态下,翠西有了更柔和的心情去感受自己的母亲和想象自己成为母亲的情景。比如她最近创作的作品“感受怀孕”系列和“与我妈妈的对话”,都着力表现了对母亲这一女性角色的探询,表达了拥有孩子,成为母亲的渴望。从她的这些作品里我们可以看到她极度渴望爱,同时又能施与爱的女性灵魂。

  经过这么多年的创作,翠西的艺术才华和她作品的意义已经受到了充分的肯定,即便是以往或现在人们对她作品和个人的争议都没能影响这一点。2007年,翠西代表英国参加了威尼斯双年展。2008年的8月2日至11月9日,苏格兰国家现代艺术馆举办了“翠西-艾敏20年回顾展”,这是她艺术生涯中的首次大型个人回顾展,借着这个展览,人们得以全面的了解这位英国当代最具知名度和争议性的女性艺术家的日记性创作和她的过往。

  翠西曾经说过,作为一个艺术家不仅是制作出看起来美好的东西,或者获得人们的夸奖,它是某种形式的交流,是她向外传达出的一种信息。在她的回忆录中,她这样描述自己,“这就是我,无耻,疯狂,厌食症患者,酒鬼,美丽的女人。”而作为她作品的阅读者,我们体会到的翠西不仅是一个美丽的女人,还是一个拥有浪漫而深刻世界观的艺术家。

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Tracey Emin Biography 1963 Born in London 1986 Maidstone College of Art (Bachelor of Fine Art) 1989 Royal College of Art (MA) Lives and works in London Awards Honorary Doctorate Royal College of Art, 2007 Doctor of Letters, University of Kent, 2007 Doctor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University, 2007 The Jury Prize Cairo Biennale Award, Cairo, 2001 International Award for Video Art, 1997 Selected Exhibitions 2008 Summer Exhibition 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2008 You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London. 2008 Fourth Plinth, National Gallery, London 2008 Love, Touring show: National Gallery, London, Tyne & Wear Museums and Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives 2008 Tracey Emin: 20 Years, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo) 2007 Tracey Emin: Borrowed Light, British Pavillion, Venice Biennale (solo) 2007 True Romance, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2007 Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2007 The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 2007 Lights, Camera Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney 2007 Mima Collection: Selected Works, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough 2006 More Flow, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (solo) 2006 The Other Side #2 – Radical Pursuits: Delights in the subversive and sublime, Tony Shalfrazi Gallery, New York 2006 Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Capital Museum, Beijing 2006 Touch My Shadows, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006 In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murder me collection, Serpentine Gallery, London 2006 I’m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid 2006 Hot/Cold – Summer Loving, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2006 Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 2006 Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy, London 2006 Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 2006 The Devil of the Fireplace, Claudia Gian-Ferrari, La Triennale di Milano 2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 2006 For All Audiences, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2006 You’ll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie Mouse Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle 2006 LOVE!, Ferragamo Gallery, New York 2005 I Can Feel Your Smile, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 2005 When I Think About Sex…, White Cube, London (solo) 2005 IMAGINE A WORLD…, Bargehouse, London 2005 Revelation. Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and The Lowry, Manchester 2005 Death Mask by Tracey Emin, National Portrait Gallery, London 2005 Sketch in Motion: A Group Exhibition of Artists’ Animation, Sketch, London 2005 Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York 2005 The Wonderful Fund On Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech 2005 God Is Bored Of Us II, FMCG, London 2005 Super!: First Triennial for Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Z33, Hasselt 2005 Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf 2005 Realit;)t. 30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München. Von Olaf Breuning bis Sam Taylor-Wood, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon 2005 Enchante Chãteau, MAMCO, Geneva 2005 Munch Revisited, Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo 2005 On Love, Museum Het Domein, Sittard 2005 'Bock mit Inhalt' - Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2005 Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005 London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo 2005 Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2005 Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation, National Museum of Art, Oslo 2005 Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena 2005 25. Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 2005 Vivisección, Dibujo Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City 2005 Mé-tissages, MIAT, Museum voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent 2005 Women’s Film Festival, ICA, London 2005 Top Spot, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin 2005 Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool 2004 The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh 2004 Fonetography, AOP Gallery, London 2004 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Monastry of the Cartuja of Sanat Maria de las Cuevas, Seville 2004 Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Brewhouse Theatre; Arts Centre, Taunton and Park Gallery, Falkirk 2004 Seven Sins, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano 2004 Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2004 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2004 The Other Flower Show, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2004 Stranger Than Fiction, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Tulie House, Carlisle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton 2004 La Collection d’Art Contemporain d’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2004 Tracey Istanbulda, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (solo) 2004 Tracey Emin, BP British Art Displays, Tate Britain, London (solo) 2004 I’ll Meet You In Heaven, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (solo) 2004 Can’t See Past My Own Eyes, Sketch, London (solo) 2004 Fear, War And The Scream, Roslyn Oxley, Sydney and City Gallery, Wellington (solo) 2004 Tracey Emin and David Hockney Drawings, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago 2004 Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Dick Matena, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem 2004 See It…Read It, Draíocht, Dublin 2004 Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem 2004 Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York 2003 Menphis, Counter Gallery, London (solo) 2003 Tracey Emin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (solo) 2003 Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle (Indiana); University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; University Galleries, Illinois State University,Normal (Illinois); Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans and University Art Museum, Santa Barbara 2003 Tracey Emin, Luigi Ontani, Kiki Smith, Cerith Wyn Evans,Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome 2003 Flexible 4: Identities, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense and Landesgalerie Linz am Oberösterreichischen Landesmusem, Linz 2003 Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2003 Fast Forward – Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2003 FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh 2003 Just Love Me; Post-Feministic Art of the 1990s, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen 2003 A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960–2003, OCA & ITO, São Paulo 2003 Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich 2003 Independence, South London Gallery, London 2003 The Happy Couple, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford 2003 Il racconto del filo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento 2003 Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2003 Let’s See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London 2003 Tactics of the Ego, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 2003 Micro/Macro, The Budapest Kunsthalle, Budapest 2003 Words from the Arts Council Collection, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 2003 The Map Is Not The Territory III, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham and The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Franham 2003 En Route, De Hallen, Haarlem 2002 This is Another Place, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (solo) 2002 Ten Years. Tracey Emin, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo) 2002 I Think it’s in my head, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 2002 Tracey Emin Showreel, The Genesis Cinema, London (solo) 2002 Tracey Emin, Haus der Kunst, Munich (solo) 2002 Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge 2002 Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2002 The Ink Jetty, Neon Gallery, London 2002 Shine, St Pancras Chambers, London 2002 The Glory of God: New Religious Art, St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool 2002 Disturb, 1st Public School of Hydra, Hydra 2002 Die Wohltat der Kunst: PostFeministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 2002 Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens 2002 Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Offentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus, Zurich 2002 New Religious Art 1992–2002, Henry Peacock Gallery, London 2002 Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London 2002 The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2001 Tracey Emin You forgot to kiss my soul, White Cube, London (solo) 2001 Trans Sexual Express, Centro de Arte de Santa Monica, Barcelona; Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Corunna and Mucsarnok, Budapest 2001 For the Love of Dog, Pump House Gallery, London 2001 Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon 2001 Read-Only Memory, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry 2001 Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2001 Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London 2001 In Formation, Percy Miller Gallery, London 2001 For the love of dog, Pump House Gallery, London 2001 At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool 2001 Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London 2001 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2001 Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2001 Century City, Tate Modern, London 2001 Insider Trading: Profit Without Honour, Mandeville Hotel, London 2001 London Nomad, Beit Zeinab Khatoun, a seminar on Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the American University Cairo Biennale, Cairo 2001 Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Gallery, London 2001 Nurture and Desire, Hayward Gallery, London 2001 Sex and the British: Slap & Tickle – A perspective on the sexual content of British Art since the 1960s, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris 2001 Gut Aufgelegt, Kunsthaus, Hamburg 2001 Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2001 Drawings, Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels 2001 Potent Present. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco 2001 ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield, Manchester 2001 From Face to Face. Mimics – Gestures – Emotions, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2001 Out There, White Cube, London 2001 Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Mary’s Church 2001 The British Art Show 5, The Scottish National gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (National Touring Exhibitions) 2001 Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester 2000 Love is a Strange Thing, Fig.1, London (solo) 2000 What Do You Know About Love, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (solo) 1999 Tracey Emin Every Part of Me’s Bleeding, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 1998 Sobasex (My Cunt is Wet with Fear), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo (solo) 1998 Cunt Vernacular, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (solo) 1998 I Need Art Like I Need God, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (solo) 1998 Tracey Emin, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (solo) 1997 Solo Exhibition, Moo Gallery, Helsinki (solo) 1997 I Need Art Like I Need God, South London Gallery, London (solo) 1997 Istanbul Biennial, Pera Palace Hotel, Turkey (solo) 1996 It’s not me that’s crying, it’s my soul, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels (solo) 1996 Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm (solo) 1996 Solo Exhibition, Habitat, London (solo) 1995 Tracey Emin Museum, 221 Waterloo Road, London SE1 (closed 1998) (solo) 1994 Art Cologne, Sponsored Artist, Jay Jopling/White Cube, Cologne (solo) 1994 Exploration of the Soul – Journey Across America, Readings at the following locations: Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; David Klein Gallery, Detroit; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York and White Columns, New York (solo) 1993 My Major Retrospective, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London (solo) 1993 From Army to Armani, Analix Gallery, Geneva (with Sarah Lucas) 1993 The Shop, 103 Bethnal Green Road, London (with Sarah Lucas)
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