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← Back Transitions , Rhodes University Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum, National Arts Festival, Makhanda (formerly known as Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa, 2 – 11 June 2009 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the fifth showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008) Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. A full-colour publication with writings by André Croucamp and Robyn Sassen was published by project managers, Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back The Lost Men Grahamstown , Counter-memorial, tenth anniversary of South Africa’s democracy, 1820 Settlers National Monument, Gunfire Hill, Mkhanda (formerly known as Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1 – 10 July 2004 This once-only counter-memorial was temporarily installed adjacent to the 1820 Settlers’ National Monument , Grahamstown, South Africa in July 2004 on the 10th anniversary of South Africa's democracy. The installation formed part of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival's main programme. Sourced from public archives, the names and military ranks of men who had died in the 1779 – 1879 Xhosa Wars fought in the Grahamstown area, were pressed into Emmanuel's skin. Xhosa names however, could only be sourced from the journals of white soldiers and were each recorded as a single name only. Supported by The National Arts Council of South Africa and The Grahamstown National Arts Festival . Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Transitions , Sylt Foundation, Rantum, Sylt Island, Germany, 18 February – 24 April 2011 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the eighth showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. A full-colour publication with writings by André Croucamp and Robyn Sassen was published by project managers, Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Transitions , KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA Gallery), Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, 2 – 21 June 2009 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the 4th showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project. A full-colour publication with writings by André Croucamp and Robyn Sassen was published by project managers, Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Transitions Multiples , Goya Contemporary, Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 8 September – 5 November 2011 Transitions Multiples formed part of Emmanuel’s Transitions project in which he explores the way society constructs perceptions and performances of a masculine identity. The exhibition comprised a suite of hand printed, hand coloured ‘manière-noire’ stone lithographs as well as the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). A 16 page publication was produced and published by Goya Contemporary Gallery and project managers, Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Rising-falling, 2021, Single-channel, high-definition video, stereo soundtrack, 3 min 45 sec Rising-falling , General Louis Botha monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa, 15 June 2021 On 15 June 2021, the day before South Africa's Youth Day commemoration, Emmanuel's existing video work Remember-dismember (2015) was projected publicly onto the pedestal of the equestrian monument to General Louis Botha at the Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa. The intervention was documented live by Latitudes Online and simultaneously recorded on video to create a new video artwork. Rising-falling premiered on his solo exhibition Substance of Shadows installed at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery in September 2021. Supported by Diversity Art Forum and The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back After-image , The Old Fort, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 17 January – 10 February 2005 The second showing of this touring solo exhibition comprising early etchings and lithographs, photographs from The Lost Men Grahamstown (2004) and a major drawing also entitled After-image (2004). This drawing is permanently housed in the main reception room of Villa Arcadia as part of the Hollard Collection of South African Contemporary Art. After-image was exhibited in South Africa at the US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, The Old Fort at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State and Villa Arcadia, Hollard House, Johannesburg, Gauteng. An illustrated, colour catalogue with text by Julia Charlton was printed and published by US Art Gallery. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Transitions , Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State province, South Africa, 5 February – 8 April 2009 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the second show of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008) Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. A full-colour publication with writings by André Croucamp and Robyn Sassen was published by project managers, Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Pages from Cathexis , The Open Window Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 30 April – 27 May 2000 Emmanuel's first solo exhibition comprised small, intimate copperplate etchings from the Sleep Series as well as his first landscape lithographic work Vault of Breath (2000). Page proofs from his artist’s book in progress Cathexis , were also on view. His artists book Nomina sunt Numina (1993) which was submitted for the partial fulfilment of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1993, was also displayed. The exhibition was extended by an educational display of lithographic and etching equipment. Three skills-transfer printmaking workshops were also held at the gallery with young participants from The Ipopeng Project, supported by a grant from the National Arts Council of South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Remnants , The Reservoir, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 25 May – 9 July 2017 First exhibited at South Africa's Freedom Park Museum and then at Boston University's 808 Gallery USA, this solo, museum exhibition features artworks related to Emmanuel's counter-memorial, The Lost Men France which was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in 2014. The Lost Men France , the 3rd in his The Lost Men series, comprised 5 large silk banners depicting the artist's body bearing names of WWI servicemen from all nations pressed into his skin. The exhibition underscores concepts of loss, memory and memorialisation in an installation centred around the ‘remnants’ of The Lost Men France banners, torn and battered by the winds of the Somme. The banners are complemented by videos, drawings, prints and plaster casts of the artist's body. A 4 page publication was produed and published by Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Boston University Art Galleries and project managers Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back The Lost Men France , World War One Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France, 1 July – 1 October 2014 The Lost Men France was a once-only counter-memorial and an official feature of the 2014 – 2018 First World War Centenary. It was temporarily installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France as an intervention in the Somme Circuit of Remembrance. In the battles that were fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, thousands of South African servicemen took part and died alongside the Allies but white and black South African men were valourised differently. The Lost Men France depicted these names alongside those of the Allies and Germans. Supported by La Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale, Paris, Institut Français Paris / Johannesburg and The National Arts Council of South Africa. Project managed by Art Source South Africa. Related content ←Previous Next→

← Back Air on the Skin , Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 28 January – 15 March 2003 The Standard Bank Gallery hosted an exhibition of the major drawing Air on the Skin (2002) (Standard Bank Collection) in their ground floor exhibition space. The Johannesburg public also had the chance to view a sister work of the same title and year from the Sasol Collection. Air on the Skin won first prize at the Schumann-Sasol Wax in Art competition (2002). The show also featured a selection of lithographs and etchings as well as page proofs from the artists’ book Cathexis . A private viewing of this show was also mounted at Fordsburg Artists Studios from 13 to 20 September 2002. Artist’s statement For me, Air on the Skin is – among many other things – about exposure. Clothes are our outer coverings; they determine what we want the world to see of us, either by circumstance or choice, forming first impressions. They are an outer ‘skin’, which, like the dried remnants of an insect exoskeleton or snake scales, are shed, washed, re-worn or replaced. They are intricately involved in our evolution and transformation. Shoe polish reflects the light and changes the surface appeal of shoes, bags, belts and other human accoutrements. Shoe polish also absorbs the light when left in its untampered form. In this work it has been layered over acrylic to create the deeply recessive matt blackness which gives this work its depth. I think of these landscapes not as depictions of physical spaces, but as renditions of inner landscapes. Related content ←Previous Next→