It’s a Good Idea to Keep Going

Steven Emmanuel has turned the artist’s studio in the hotel into his playground and performs philosophical gymnastics in small exercises here every day.

He creates ‘Studio Posters’, poetic slogans in black ink on white drawing paper – melancholically aggressive (self-)reflections and flashes of inspiration from the artist’s everyday studio life. The ongoing series ‘A quiet sculptural proposition for something not yet understood but felt’ is extended on site by a further object, a pencil-maltreated block of clay from the studio’s material pool. Ad hoc sculptures made of stretcher frames, Post-it notes, ladders, adhesive tape and other useful materials from the artist’s studio are precisely placed in the space and play with aesthetics, function and meaning.

The artist’s studio is a free and uncensored place for a critical examination of the art business, making art, viewing art and exhibiting art. How does the artist feel, how does art feel?

Steven Emmanuel says: Biscuit.@biscuitarchive.  Let’s have some tea first.
In the Open Studio, Steven Emmanuel and message salon embassy present the new fanzine “It’s a good idea to keep going”, with a selection from the Studio Posters Series.

Steven Emmanuel

Studio Poster Series

2020-ongoing
limited edition, 50 copies, 2024

Artist in Hotel Residence is a wonderful opportunity for Madame l’Ambassadeur to cultivate her long-standing artist friendships. The Welsh artist Steven Emmanuel has lived in Nuremberg, Germany for many years. He was invited by message salon to hold a solo exhibition at Perla-Mode on Langstrasse in 2012.
https://messagesalon.ch/exhibition/somewhere-along-the-way/