Between quantum foam and tangible tangibility – Mongi Higgs’ painted transformations are created in this gray area.
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 consciousness. When reality emerges from nothing, you can recognize the essence and truth of being human in this brief moment. And I want to expose this with the power of art,” says Higgs.
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twelve - shortly before and shortly after.
In the spirit of Bertold Brecht: “Reality is not what things really look like, but what they really are.” Higgs’ art condenses the “quantum foam” into “reality”, in which the essence of creation in its original form emerges. The search for the moment between the real existing nothingness and becoming aware/being aware and what remains of it in the course of life – this characterizes his powerfully painted reductions. The 12 is the symbol for this, the materialization point of reality, so to speak, which must be found. Just as the 12 on the clock separates night from day and the 12th month divides the years, 12 stands for Mongi Higgs as the zero point of creation in which everything becomes conscious. Twelve – just before and just after: His works are rooted in this microcosmological chronography. The identification with this period goes so far that Mongi Higgs now only signs his pictures with the number 12 – in the form of 12 beer marks.
Artist mongi higgs
- Internationally successful
- Traded internationally
Exhibition 13-10-2022 Munich, ArtSpace GroupShow
Publications “twelve – shortly before and shortly after.”, 2021.
163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print publishing house “FERMENT.”, 2022.
163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print publishing house
Mongi Higgs in his studio in Brandenburg; 2021.
In the background blurred “Last Lampions – the end of summerlove”.
Photo by Liv Lehmann ; © konsum163
twelve - more than just a symbol.
The magical 12 beer lines.
Decisive and perfect.
The 12 is the symbol – the zero point of this transformation – like 12 o’clock as the separator of the day, usually symbolized by 12 beer lines, but also in many other forms of expression.
Because there is not just one reality.
Decisive and perfect.
The 12 is the symbol – the zero point of this transformation – like 12 o’clock as the separator of the day, usually symbolized by 12 beer lines, but also in many other forms of expression.
Because there is not just one reality.
Mongi Higgs in the studio; 2022.
Photo by Conny Gabora; © konsum163
"I paint according to the intention of my picture. Sometimes full of power, sometimes very devout. That's why painting always involves intensive preparation. The mood of the subject must be in you. Otherwise it won't be a painting.
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Mongi Higgs’ art condenses the “quantum foam” into a “reality” in which creation is revealed in its original form.
Luminous, clear and clean, real consciousness is not superimposed here by the garbage of civilization.
The moment – between the actually existing nothingness and the reality that emerges from it – is the decisive factor for art and, above all, for his personal work.
When your body wants to disco (li), 2022, Ink, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 160 cm The examination of the honorable James Watt or the blue piston is fine (re), 2022, Ink, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
Mongi Higgs explains the “twelve” concept; 2022.
Photo by Heike de Fries; © konsum163
Mongi Higgs during the interview in his studio in Munich; 2022.
Photo by Liv Lema; © konsum163
interview munich
2021
Meryth with boots; Hans had already left, 160 x 180 cm, 2020. © konsum163
"Reality is not what things really look like, but what they really are."
nertold brecht
Meryth with boots; Hans had already left (detail), © konsum163
what is reality?
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alive
2022
Meryth with boots; Hans was already gone 160 x 180 cm, acrylic and chalk on canvas, 2020
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White 100 x 160 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2020
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The examination of the honorable James Watt, or the blue piston is fine 200 x 150 cm, colored ink, acrylic and crayon on canvas, 2022
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Drizzle, 5 degrees.
Shit, the eyeliner is blurred. 140 x 180 cm, acrylic on Hahnemühle, 2022
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Fier Freunde Fleischesser 270 x 140 cm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2021
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Venus in menopause with Adonis in conflict. 280 x 150 cm, acrylic, ink and chalk on canvas, 2021
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I am a queen; nothing else 200 x 160 cm, acrylic, ink and , chalk on canvas, 2022
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In my body is no soul. 70 x 100 cm, monotype on paper, 2022
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Boxer Boy 50x 70 cm, monotype on cardboard, 2022
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Self Confidence 310 x 180 cm, acrylic on Hahnemühle (300 g), 2020
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Sheep dont dance to the left 160 x 160 cm, acrylic, India ink and chalk on canvas, 2022
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Sun is a flower and love is for cosmonauts 300 x 185 cm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2021
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You can also cry in water 300 x 175 cm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2021
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The bridge; Aphrodite and Paris after the verdict 145 x 165 cm, acrylic and chalk on Aahnemühle (300 g), 2019
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The nudist doesn’t care; el campo FKK 170 x 220 cm, acrylic, chalk and ink on cardboard, 2021
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Pa de Deux 200 x 210 cm, acrylic, chalk and ink on cardboard, 2021
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Jane 160 x 180 cmm Acrylic and chalk on Hahnemühle (300 g),2 019
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Jorinde and Joringel; formerly single 160 x 200 cm, colored ink, acrylic and acrylic felt-tip pens on canvas, 2022
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Good night 140x 180 cm, acrylic, ink and chalk on cardboard, 2022
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She bit the apple 320 x 150 cm, acrylic on Hahnemühle, 2020
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Eberhard is amazed; no more magnesia there 160 x 200 cm, acrylic1 and chalk on canvas, 2021
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Turner on the floor; magnesia right 270 x 145 cm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2021
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exhibitions and bio
2023 02/2023 Group exhibition, konsum163 – contemporary art gallery “WILDE MISCHUNG EINS”; Munich Konsum Urban Galerie Isar 06/2023 Solo exhibition,konsum163 – contemporary art gallery “BEYOND PARADISE”; Munich Orangerie 10/2023 Group exhibition, konsum163 – contemporary art gallery “È INDISPENSABILE”; Rome Konsum Urban Galerie Tiber
2022 Group exhibition, Galerie konsum163 – contemporary art gallery “THIRTEEN / FREIZEHN”; Munich Group exhibition, “Zufall oder Muse”;Orangerie Munich
2021 Solo exhibition, Galerie Art-Affair Regensburg “U-MAN BE LONGINGS” Group exhibition, Galerie konsum163 – modern art gallery “the first time is the best*” Solo exhibition, Galerie konsum163 – modern art gallery “ZWÖLF – shortly before and shortly after”
2020 Group exhibition, Kunstraum Dreieich “sous vide – Imagine Vol. 2”
2016 Solo exhibition, Son Bernadinet, Campus, Mallorca “The Swimdrunkonauts”
2015 Solo exhibition, Villa Planck, Cala Murada, Mallorca “The Melkmayers at home”
2009 Solo exhibition, Gallery Litfaß, Munich “BluNa Welcome to Nivea Land”
Collections Traenckner Collection, Munich Collection Clemente, Munich Gruss-Meyer Collection/Mallorca Fernadez-Bonet Collection/Mallorca Graf Collection, Munich
The painter Mongi Higgs was born in Reutlingen / Germany in 1963 and grew up in Upper Bavaria.
Because of his outstanding talent, he is accepted at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Munich – even without the requirement for a university.
The artist Mongi Higgs completed his studies under Professor Abold with great success.
After a one-year stay abroad in Caracas, Venezuela, he successfully works as a creative director in renowned German advertising agencies in the following years before founding his own communications consultancy firm.
The reflections and references to real-life issues in his works certainly find their origin here.
From 2009 onwards, he devoted himself increasingly to art again and various solo and group exhibitions followed at home and abroad.
Painting is generally the most difficult form of art, Mongi Higgs quotes Prof. Markus Lüpertz, with whom he studies in the meantime.
In painting, there are so many possibilities to express oneself, to tell stories and to question matter.
The human being is always at the center of the artist’s figurative oeuvre.
Mongi Higgs lives and works in Munich and in his studio in Brandenburg.
