"I just stood there and looked at this painting and was kind of breathless. I sat down and stared at it. I started to cry and cry and cry. Big emotional sobs. I couldn't stop crying. I didn't understand why I had been affected by this."
"I remember going into the office and saying, 'I'm going back to Margate. Where are the black people, where are the fat people, where are the thick people? Where are the real people? There are none of them here'."
"bold reimagining of images, power and memory through painting, sculptural assemblage, and large-scale public interventions"
Tracey Emin reveals personal and professional experiences, including a cancer diagnosis and the importance of painting. Emin recounts intense emotional responses to works by Edvard Munch and Mark Rothko, describing uncontrollable sobbing when viewing Rothko and crying at the Tate at age 22. Emin recalls unhappy postgraduate experiences at the Royal College of Art and a desire to return to Margate, questioning the lack of diverse or 'real' people. Beatriz González, who died aged 93 in Bogotá, produced six decades of work that reimagined images, power and memory through painting, sculptural assemblage and large-scale public interventions. Key González works include The Sisga Suicides (1965), Kennedy (1971) and Interior Decoration (1981). An exhibition at the Barbican will travel to the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo.
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