EMIN tells EMIN - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

On the occasion of the exhibition Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude, Fondazione CR Firenze and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi are promoting a special series of guided tours to get to know the artist’s work through her own words: extracts from interviews and conversations to discover her way of telling her story.

Tracey Emin’s art always starts from an autobiographical narrative: desire, love, violence, the relationship with the body, as well as her deep interest in artists of the past such as Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch and Louise Bourgeois. Her life finds expression in paintings, sculptures, neon, embroidery, different languages that always lead back to her interiority.

Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 and My Bed are two disruptive works from the 1990s that defined Emin’s direct way of telling her story, generating admiration, but also scandal and revulsion. Since then, Emin has given dozens of interviews in which he talks about herself, her frailties, difficulties and successes, emphasising how her experience has always had a profound centrality in her artistic production.

EMIN tells EMIN is a special tour format in which the works are presented through the words of the artist, from past interviews and quotations to the recent dialogue with Arturo Galansino, curator of the exhibition and General Director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, published in the Palazzo Strozzi exhibition catalogue. A journey through the works on display that will allow visitors to enter inside the artist’s work, reconstructing its themes and exploring its language without filters.

Booking required.

Fondazione CR Firenze offers free admission and free activity to residents of the Metropolitan City of Florence.

Schedule

Tuesday April 8, 6 p.m.
Tuesday April 15, 6 p.m.
Thursday May 15, 6 p.m.
Wednesday May 21, 6 p.m.
Wednesday June 11, 6 p.m.
Wednesday June 18, 6 p.m.

The visits will be led by Martino Margheri, head of educational activities and public programmes at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, together with Maria Caterina Frani.

Maria Caterina Frani is an actress, performer and speaker. She also works on the conception and coordination of cultural projects ranging from theatre, cinema and radio, with a particular interest in contemporary languages. She has deepened her study of vocality with personal artistic projects and training groups, and has cross-media skills that also embrace the figurative arts. Since 2024 she has been author and presenter of the radio programme ‘Aria in gola, di pensieri parole e persone intorno all’arte’ broadcast on Novaradio. From 2009 to 2014, together with Caterina Poggesi and Maria Pecchioli, she was artistic director of the Fosca project and the Frau Frisor Fosca activities.