Victoria Miro, London Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, USA Today, New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, 6 October- 4 November 2006
Literature
Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, published by the Saatchi Gallery and Koeing Books, 2005 USA Today, New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, published by Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, p 125
Catalogue Essay
In Pup Tent, Inka Essenhigh shifts to a more realistic style with poetic sensitivity, translating her graphic designs into a softly rendered 3D world. Her mythological scene unfolds with the compositional order of her earlier enamel paintings: compacted configurations, affiliated by trailing ephemera, engulfed by a swooping mass of flowing motion. In this new painterly language, Essenhigh gives real tangibility to form: her figure comes to life with porcelain-like delicacy, and the fabric flows with defined texture rather than calligraphied patterns. Trading her factitious palette for gothic monochrome, Essenhigh capitalises on the richness and depth of the medium to create a painting that is elegant and haunting.