The captivating masterwork Artist Tracey Emin Working (2017) stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and witty narrative syntax of Manuel Santelices’s acclaimed Art, culture & society series. This exceptional watercolor and gouache painting intentionally challenges the flat stiffness of modern documentation, deploying premium archival paper to float a highly curated and satirical vignette based on art world icons, fame, and mass lifestyle media. Santelices coordinates precise fine-line ink drawings and fluid, translucent grey watercolor washes to build an intimate scene depicting British artist Tracey Emin in her London studio, resting inside a bedroom filled with a chaotic layout of everyday waste, snacks, a tiny dog, and a glowing TV set. Punctuated by a raw, purple handwritten sign that reads "SOMETHINGS WRONG" and a descriptive base line note, this multi-layered artwork functions as a powerful anthropological record of contemporary celebrity culture.
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
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Watercolor and Gouache Painting - Artist Tracey Emin Working, 2017
Artist Tracey Emin Working, 2017
From the series Art, culture & society
Watercolor, ink, gouache on archival paper
Dimensions: 15 H x 15 W in.
Unique
Unframed
Santelices is a chilean artist and journalist living and working in New York for the last 20 years. After writing stories about style, design, art, and politics for a number of magazines, including the Spanish editions of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Esquire, and being a fashion writer in New York for Vogue Mexico and Latin American for 7 years.
