Mongi Higgs / Recent Works
Mongi Higgs / Recent Works

Between quantum foam and tangible thinghood - this is the grey zone in which Mongi Higgs' painted transformations emerge.

Where or what is reality is the core question of his art? „The decisive moment for me is the phase of the emergence of being, of being conscious. When reality emerges from nothingness, one can recognise the essence and truth of being human in this brief moment. And that is what I want to uncover with the power of art,“ says Higgs. In the spirit of Bertold Brecht: „Reality is not how things really look, but how they really are.“ Higgs’s art condenses the „quantum foam“ to „reality“, in which the essence of creation emerges in its primordial form. The search for the moment between the real existing nothingness and becoming/being conscious and what remains of it in the course of life – this characterises his powerfully painted reductions. The 12 is the symbol for this, the materialisation point of reality, so to speak, which has to be found. Just as the 12 on the clock separates the night from the day and the 12th month divides the years, so 12 stands for Mongi Higgs as the zero point of creation in which everything becomes aware. Twelve – shortly before and shortly after: his works are arrested in this microcosmic chronography. The identification with this period of time goes so far that Mongi Higgs now only signs his pictures with the number 12 – in the form of 12 beer strokes.

Between quantum foam and tangible thinghood - this is the grey zone in which Mongi Higgs' painted transformations emerge.

Where or what is reality is the core question of his art? „The decisive moment for me is the phase of the emergence of being, of being conscious. When reality emerges from nothingness, one can recognise the essence and truth of being human in this brief moment. And that is what I want to uncover with the power of art,“ says Higgs. In the spirit of Bertold Brecht: „Reality is not how things really look, but how they really are.“ Higgs’s art condenses the „quantum foam“ to „reality“, in which the essence of creation emerges in its primordial form. The search for the moment between the real existing nothingness and becoming/being conscious and what remains of it in the course of life – this characterises his powerfully painted reductions. The 12 is the symbol for this, the materialisation point of reality, so to speak, which has to be found. Just as the 12 on the clock separates the night from the day and the 12th month divides the years, so 12 stands for Mongi Higgs as the zero point of creation in which everything becomes aware. Twelve – shortly before and shortly after: his works are arrested in this microcosmic chronography. The identification with this period of time goes so far that Mongi Higgs now only signs his pictures with the number 12 – in the form of 12 beer strokes.