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The Gagosian Gallery was actually one of my least favorite installations. Although artist Tracey Emin's work was trying to attemp to promote high art and popular media. The work she displays throughout drawings, sculpture, video, photography, painting, and needlework was not all that great. Because it was Beverly Hills I was expecting to see some amazing art, but I was really dissapointed. The art seemed very bland and conceptually it did not seem to evoke any type of interest.
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I didn’t necessarily think the work at Gagosian Gallery was horrible, but I didn’t think it was that great either. To hear that one of the pieces was selling for over $100,000 is ridiculous. It really does show how corrupt the art world is. The quality of work doesn’t necessarily determine the cost of the work, but rather the artist’s status and who they know. The sculpture wasn’t that interesting. They simply looked like welded metal piece that were then scraped with plaster. One of them had a red fluorescent light attached. But I really didn’t get the point. A large portion of the work shown where hanging fabric pieces that had figurative renderings sewn in. I was actually impressed with how the figures were sewn, because they did appear very gestural, which seems difficult to capture from a sewing machine. They were accompanied by quotes, but many of them were pretty stupid. One of them said, “First I wanted you to fuck me, then I wanted you to love me”. Talk about cliché, and not very thought provoking.
-Drue-Ann
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA, Nov 17 2007.
I thought that I pieces at the Gagosian Gallery by Tracey Emin, were more interesting then other pieces that I’ve seen. I thought her theme of love could easily be relatable to audiences young and old. When you enter the gallery, you see the words, “You left me Breathing,” and you automatically get a sense of passionate allure. Her passionate allure was represented in unique ways which involved some that were not easily understandable such as her sculptures, video, photography, painting, and needlework. However, her drawings left a fascinating impression on me. One in particular had words that said, “…I wanted you to F*** me. And then I got greedy, I want you to love me.” This exhibition's title plays on a certain ambiguity of a woman left abused, half-dead, yet still breathing, or a woman left breathless after making love. "You Left Me Breathing" treats the full breadth of Emin's activities. I believed the concept was beautiful, and its representation creative.
-Rebecca L.
Strange was probably the first word that popped in my head when I saw the works.
Many of the artist' work related to sex, and there are many artists that used the idea "sex" into their artworks, I just don't think this artist's works is more successful than any other artist.
We realized that the artworks are very expansive and I believe the main reason is because of the artist' name and the location of the gallery is at Beverley Hill.
~Carol Huang~
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