Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois
Known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork, Tracey Emin has been at the forefront of British art since the 1980s.
But the focus of this video is not Emin, but of her inspiration, her friend, and collaborator, Louise Bourgeois.
Emin discusses how the intellectuality of Bourgeois work has enabled it to maintain its relevance across generations, and how she maintained her own individual approach despite a life lived through so many different artistic directions. And Emin talks of meeting and working with Bourgeois, and the impression that made on her.
‘Louise knew Andy Warhol. Léger was her tutor. Monet was alive when she was alive. Picasso was alive when she was alive. Louise lived through all these different periods of art history, yet continued to make her own work, with her own sense of vision’.
Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois