ROYAL Academy of Arts in London working together with Tracey Emin has opened an exhibition (7 December–28 February 2021), where Emin has selected 19 works by Edvard Munch – one of the erstwhile YBA’s key art-historical touchstones – to show alongside her own works, demonstrating the convergent ways in which both artists have explored loss, longing and loneliness.
The exhibition features more than 25 of Emin’s works including paintings, some of which will be on display for the first time, as well as neons and sculpture. These works, which explore the loneliness of the soul, have been chosen by Emin to sit alongside a carefully considered selection of 19 oils and watercolours drawn from MUNCH’s rich collection and archives in Oslo, Norway.
Emin was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1999 and is one of Britain’s best-known and most celebrated artists, she recently announced her operation this summer after a cancerous tumour was found in her bladder.