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Submission to Death from Black Crucifixion

Charles Nkosi. Submission to Death from Black Crucifixion 1976

Charles Nkosi (South African, born 1949; lives Johannesburg). Submission to Death from Black Crucifixion. 1976. Linoleum cut. Composition: 12 7/8 x 8 11/16" (32.7 x 22 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 x 9 3/4" (39 x 24.7 cm). Publisher: the artist, Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal. Printer: the artist at ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal. Edition: artist's proof before the edition of 14. Gift of the Associates of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, 2007. © 2011 Charles Nkosi

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Many artists at Rorke’s Drift expressed Christian themes in their work, offering innovative readings of the Bible that echoed political tensions in South Africa. Charles Nkosi was also heavily influenced by the Black Consciousness Movement founded by Stephen Biko in the mid-1960s, which encouraged the expression of black culture and taking pride in the same. This print is from a series of thirteen linocuts that convey messages of hope, suffering, and liberation through dramatic depictions of the suffering of a black Christ.