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''Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995'' (1995), also known as "The Tent",〔Brown, p.83.〕 was an artwork created by Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July 1963), an English artist and a leading member of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). The work was a tent with the appliquéd names of, literally, everyone she had ever slept with, but not necessarily in the sexual sense. It achieved iconic status,〔 was owned by Charles Saatchi, and was destroyed in the 2004 Momart London warehouse fire. She has refused to recreate it. ==History== Tracey Emin calls ''Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995'' "my tent"〔Didcock.〕 or "the tent"〔Wade.〕 and considers it to be one of the two "seminal pieces" she has created (the other being ''My Bed'');〔 she has described both pieces as "seminal, fantastic and amazing work".〔 ''Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995'' was a tent appliquéd with 102 names of the people she had slept with up to the time of its creation in 1995.〔 The title is often misinterpreted as a euphemism indicating sexual partners and the work termed "a list of all the people that Emin has ever had sex with", but is in fact intended more inclusively:〔 The names include family, friends, drinking partners, lovers and even two numbered foetuses.〔 The name of former boyfriend, Billy Childish, could be seen prominently through the tent opening. The tent was square and coloured blue; its shape was reminiscent of the Margate Shell Grotto, with which Emin was very familiar from childhood; inside on the floor of the tent was the text, "With myself, always myself, never forgetting".〔Brown, p.84.〕 The work was created during a relationship she had in the mid-1990s with Carl Freedman, who had been an early friend of, and collaborator with, Damien Hirst and who had co-curated seminal Britart shows, such as ''Modern Medicine'' and ''Gambler''. In 1995 Freedman curated the show ''Minky Manky'' at the South London Gallery, where the tent was first shown. At that time Emin had not achieved the level of fame which she was to later, and was mainly known in art circles; she was fortunate to be able to exhibit alongside much better-known artists such as Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George and Sarah Lucas.〔 Emin described the genesis of the work, which turned out unexpectedly to be the highlight of the show:〔 At that time Emin refused to sell work directly to Charles Saatchi because she disapproved of his advertising work for Margaret Thatcher, whom she accused of "crimes against humanity".〔Gleadell.〕 Instead Saatchi bought it on the secondary market from a private dealer, Eric Franck, at a premium price of £40,000 – Emin had sold it originally for £12,000.〔 She reconciled with Saatchi in 1999.〔SHOWstudio〕 Art world gossip in 2001 was that Saatchi had been offered £300,000 for it; Emin's comment on this was, "He won't re-sell, but the art is his. He can do what he likes with it."〔 While the tent was installed at Charles Saatchi's home in 2002, Emin remarked, Saatchi exhibited the tent in the 1997 ''Sensation'' exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London; public outrage was centred on Marcus Harvey's portrait of Myra Hindley and, at the later staging of the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, on Chris Ofili's ''The Holy Virgin Mary'' with collaged pornographic images.〔Barnes.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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