Matthew Higgs: Art Is To Enjoy

04.Jul.08 - 10.Aug.08
Thu-Sat 11-6, Sun 12-6 or by appt

Wilkinson Gallery
50-58 Vyner Street
London E2 9DA
020 8980 2662
info@wilkinsongallery.com
www.wilkinsongallery.com
Tube Bethnal Green, Hackney / Bethnal Green

For more than 12 years Higgs has worked within these self-consciously defined - but almost infinite - parameters. Rooted in countless hours spent in second-hand bookshops Higgs' re-contextualization of existing printed matter seeks to consider questions of authorship, uniqueness, labor (or lack thereof), vandalism, linguistics, typography, design (and its relationship with late-modernist abstraction), amongst other things.

Often making direct reference to the condition - and reception - of art Higgs' ongoing project formally acknowledges the presence and role of the viewer, while simultaneously addressing the physical reality of the art object.

The exhibition's title is derived from the 1965 book 'ART IS TO ENJOY' by Donald Walton.