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This artwork, Shopping by Inka Essenhigh, is featured at Saatchi Gallery.
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TITLE:
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Shopping
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WORK DATE:
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2005
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PERIOD:
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21st century
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on linen
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SIZE:
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h: 178 x w: 193 cm / h: 70.1 x w: 76 in
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REGION:
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American
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STYLE:
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Contemporary
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PRICE:
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Not for Sale
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DESCRIPTION:
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"I think about [my paintings] as being about America: fake, fun, pop, violent, but also quite attractive," Inka Essenhigh explains. In Essenhigh's most recent work, images from suburbia convolute into grotesque dreamscapes; her pastoral scenes of normality belie their true nature as instances of alien horror. In Shopping, Essenhigh readily captures the greed of a chav-land mall with cartoonist's exaggeration: shell-suited blonds undulate with flirtatious curvature, arms cum tentacles slither for bargain goods. In distorting the scene, Essenhigh draws humorous caricature as well as a heightened sense of plasticity; the women resemble figurines in a themed setting, mannequins illustrating their own insincerity.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/inka_essenhigh.htm
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