Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Amnos , (detail), 1993. Copperplate mezzotint etching. Image 9 x 7 cm. Edition 10 Open Bite: A New Look at Intaglio Printmaking , Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 1994 A group exhibition installed in the Civic Gallery (later known as The Gallery Premises) at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Related content Exhibition ‘Pages from Cathexis’, 30 April – 27 May 2000 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Platform number 5 , 2011. Manière noire stone lithograph, hand printed, hand coloured, signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Black lithographic ink and watercolour pigment on 285 gsm Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper, 80 x 156 cm. Edition 35 International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition , Taimiao Art Gallery, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China 25 September – 10 October 2017 This international exhibition showcases printmaking works with perspective and constructive features recommended by Alliance members as well as the latest creations based on national culture, history, literature or other materials. Participating artists from South Africa: Dominic Thorburn, Bevan de Wet, Sara-Aimee Verity, Christine Dixie, Vuli Nyoni, Mongezi Ncaphayi, Paul Emmanuel, Vusi Kumalo, Sam Nhlengethwa, Nhlanhla Xaba, Diane Victor, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Thama Kase, Michael Taylor, Ina van Zyl, Katherine Bull, Zola Toyi. The South African contingent was curated by Professor Dominic Thorburn of Rhodes University, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Platform number 5 (2011) was selected for this exhibition. Related content Exhibition ‘Transitions Multiples’, 2011 Exhibition ‘Transitions Multiples’, 2011 Publication ‘Transitions Multiples’, 2011 Publication ‘Transitions Multiples’, 2011 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. The Lost Men Grahamstown 2 , 2004. Photograph, archival pigments print on 300 gsm photo-rag paper. 100 x 203,5 cm. Edition 5. Photographed by Andrew Meintjes. Courtesy of Grahamstown National Arts Festival and Art Source South Africa Bag Factory Artists , UNISA Art Gallery, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 6 July – 26 August 2005 A group show of permanent artists from Fordsburg Artist’s Studios, also known as The Bag Factory. Two editioned photographs and a documentary from The Lost Men Grahamstown (2004) were shown. Related content Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men Grahamstown’, 1 – 10 July 2004 Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men Mozambique’, 24 April – 12 May 2007 Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men France’, 1 July – 1 October 2014 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Air on the Skin , (detail), 2002. Incised original drawing, shoe polish, acrylic on 285 gsm Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper. 70 x 304 cm. Standard Bank Corporate Art Collection SASOL Wax in Art Competition , SASOL WAM! Festival, Sasolburg, South Africa, September 2002 A group show, curated by Lesley Cohn, of selected artworks submitted nationally for the competition. Sasol Corporation – the competition sponsor – is the largest producer of wax in the world and the competition was unique in that it challenged South African artists to create work in or through wax. The two categories: ‘Wax as the medium’ and ‘Wax as part of the process’ constituted the criteria by which works were judged. Air on the Skin (2002) – a one-off work – won the ‘Wax as the medium’ category. This 70 x 3 040 mm triptych was created by layering black shoe polish over pva-treated paper. The images were then scratched into this surface with a fine blade, gradually working from dark to light. Related content Press article ‘Paul Emmanuel Perfects the Fine Art of Turning Oddness into Transcendence, March 2003 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Scar , (detail), 2015. Hand-printed, Chine-collé photogravure etching on 300 gsm Hahnemühle paper. 40 x 92,5 cm. Edition 8 Wounds and Relics , Gallery 2, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1 – 22 September 2018 The exhibiting artists explore the paradox of simultaneously forgetting and remembering the social scars of violent conflicts and how we carry these with us, whether as traces or wounds, or as recovered objects from the past. Related content Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men France’, 1 July – 1 October 2014 Documentary video ‘Remembering a Counter-Memorial: Making The Lost Men France’, 2014 ←Previous Next→

Official website of Paul Emmanuel, South African artist working across drawing, installation, photography, film, public art and counter-memorial projects. Untethered/Retethered (تائه في العدم/مستعيد جذوره ) (detail) 2025, featured in Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art , Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 23 January – 23 August 2026. See more→ Untethered (detail) 2024, featured in MICA Grad Show III , Maryland Institute College of Art, 27 September – 13 October 2024. See more→ Parade of shadows featured in If You Look Hard Enough You Can See Our Future, Newcomb Art Museum, 10 March – 20 June 2025. See more→ Substance of Shadows, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery. 11 September – 2 October 2021. See more→ The Lost Men Mozambique featured in Cartographies of Becoming, The Sylt Foundation, 24 December 2021 – 30 December 2022. See more→ Rising-falling, General Louis Botha Monument, 15 June 2021. See more→ Paul Emmanuel, published by Wits Art Museum, 2020. See more→ Men and Monuments, Wits Art Museum, 3 – 18 March 2020 and 6 – 30 April 2021. See more→ Impermanence, Fried Contemporary Gallery, 8 March – 7 April 2018. See more→ The Lost Men France, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, 1 July – 1 October 2014. See more→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Vault of Breath (detail) 2000. Manière noire stone lithograph on 250 gsm Arches paper, 34,5 x 280 cm. Edition 10 Making Waves: A Selection of Works from the SABC Art Collection , Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, 3 November 2004 – 8 March, 2005 This was the second exhibition of artworks from the SABC art collection, primarily exhibiting works acquired since 1996. The show included Vault of Breath (2000) and was curated by Koulla Xinisteris and Graham Neame. Making Waves was also shown at Iziko Good Hope Gallery at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town from September 6 to October 28, 2007 as well as The Grahamstown and Military Galleries, and The Albany History Museum from June 29 to July 8, during the 2006 Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Related content Exhibition ‘After-image’, 5 – 29 April 2005 Exhibition ‘Pages from Cathexis’, 30 April – 27 May 2000 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Still from 3SAI: A Rite of Passage , 2008. High-Definition, single-channel video, stereo soundtrack, 13 min 58 sec 5th Sardinia International Film Festival , Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 22 – 26 June 2010 The final day of the Sardinia Film Festival 2010 , opened with the last projections of short films in competition. From 17.30 to 20.00, were screened the works in Fiction, Animation, Documentary and V-Art/Experimental categories. The ceremony began at 21.15 in the courtyard of the Quadrangle. Prizes were awarded by a jury of experts composed by Lorenzo Saglio, president of New Circle Cinema, Piero Livi, dean of Sardinian directors, Maisetti Massimo, president of the National Federation of Film Clubs, Adriana Casu, cultural worker, Marino Canzoneri, Head Humane Society Iglesias, and Nando Scanu. Awarded the best works in Animation, Italy Fiction, Fiction International, Documentary, V-Art/Experimental, Showcase Sardinia, Fedic Gold and Fedic School categories. 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008) was officially selected for this festival and won the Best Experimental Film award. Related content Short film ‘3SAI: A Rite of Passage’, 2008 Exhibition ‘Transitions’, 27 September – 31 December 2008 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Still from Remember-dismember , 2015. Hi-definition, single-channel video, stereo soundtrack, 3 min 45 sec (looped). Edition 5 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam , Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 27 January – 7 February 2010 The International Film Festival Rotterdam is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the end of January. It is one of the larger film festivals in Europe, arguably in the Big Five, alongside Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno. The festival uses a tiger as its mascot. 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008) was officially selected to be screened at this festival 2010. Related content Short film ‘3SAI: A Rite of Passage’, 2008 Exhibition ‘Transitions’, 27 September – 31 December 2008 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Rough collar , 2018, hand incised, perforated carbon paper, carbon residue, perspex display case, wooden plinth, 45 x 40 x 40 cm Ampersand Foundation 21 Years Celebration Exhibition , University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa 11 September – 9 October 2019 This extensive show, curated by Gordon Froud, senior lecturer at FADA (UJ) showcased the depth of South Africa's art scene and included works by numerous Ampersand Fellows like Diane Victor, Paul Emmanuel, Gabrielle Goliath, Mbongeni Buthelezi, Penny Siopis, Nicholas Hlobo, Senzeni Marasela, Stephen Hobbs, Alan Laing and Heidi Fouri. The Ampersand Foundation has had an immense impact on the country's fine art landscape over the last 21 years by affording visual arts practitioners exposure to the wider international arts landscape of New York. Rough collar (2018) was selected by the curator for this exhibition. Related content Exhibition ‘Substance of Shadows’, 11 September – 2 October 2021 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. Lesion , 2015. Hand-printed, Chine-collé photogravure etching on 300 gsm Hahnemühle paper. Paper size 40 x 71,5 cm. Edition 8 FNB Joburg Art Fair , Artist Proof Studio Booth, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 – 13 September 2015 The FNB JoburgArtFair returned to the Sandton Convention Centre, presenting 50 modern and contemporary exhibitors from 8 countries. Two photogravure etchings, Scar (2015) and Lesion (2015) were exhibited by Artist Proof Studio. Related content Exhibition ‘Remnants’, 25 May – 9 July 2017 ←Previous Next→

Related content– Group exhibition featuring artworks by Paul Emmanuel. The Lost Men Grahamstown 1 , 2004. Photograph, archival pigments print on 300 gsm photo-rag paper Image 10,5 x 14,8 cm. Edition 20 Photographed by Andrew Meintjes. Courtesy of Grahamstown National Arts Festival and Art Source South Africa Waldsee, 1944 , 2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, April 2004 The 2B foundation and the Alma on Dobbin Foundation invited selected artists to participate in this touring exhibition with a postcard size work that reflected on these events of 60 years ago. The show featured The Lost Men Grahamstown I (2004). “... The letters of Holocaust victims are today preserved in archives. The postcards, letters and scraps of paper are unique documents of forced labour and deportation. They were written in the shadow of death, in most cases in the last moments of their authors’ lives. (Waldsee 1944 catalogue). In the summer of 1944, recently deported persons sent postcards to Budapest from a certain place called Waldsee. The postcards were handed to the Jewish Council in Budapest to be distributed by them to the addressees. The text of the postcards would read: ”I am doing fine, I am working.” or ”I have arrived safely. I have got work in my occupation.” or ”We are doing fine. Follow us here!” It was later discovered that the postcards came from Auschwitz...” (Hedwig Turai) Waldsee 1944 also toured to Florida Holocaust Museum, Florida, USA; St. Petersburg, Russia (Sept – Dec 2006); Hibel Museum, FAU-Jupiter, Florida, USA (Jan – March 2007); Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK (Autumn 2007); and Alper JCC, Miami, Florida, USA (April – June 2008). Related content Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men Grahamstown’, 1 – 10 July 2004 ←Previous Next→