Whatiftheworld / gallery

Cameron Platter currently has a solo exhibition on show at Hilger Contemporary in Vienna, Austria until 23 February, 2010. Titled I am Lonelyness, it is Platter’s second solo presentation at Hilger Contemporary, following the sell-out success of Too Much of Anything is Very Dangerous in 2008. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo presentation at VOLTA NY in March 2010 with Whatiftheworld, as well as a major solo exhibition in Cape Town scheduled for launch in June 2010.

Cameron Platter (born 1978 Johannesburg) lives and works in Shaka’s Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (BAFA). His work is an intoxicating vision of Good vs. Evil, documenting contemporary morality through the telling of simple stories drawn from the media, TV, cinema, art, history, pornography, war and peace, politics, music, and religion.
His targets and influences include Lamborghinis, Kawasakis, Krug champagne and beautiful women in fishnets; megalomania and the mass media; James Bond and Richard Pryor; corrupt politicians; penis extension machines and strip clubs; children’s stories, crime fiction and gangster films; Southern African woodcut and craft masters; tabloid horror stories; wildlife, real life and things falling apart…
Mixing traditional and new mediums, his is an ultra-primitive, anti-aesthetic view on what it means to be alive today in South Africa.
Platter works in the time-consuming mediums of pencil crayon drawing, video animation, and carved sculpture to create comedy-noir, interactive installations filled with sex, irony, cynicism and approaching love.

He has been called, amongst other things: “the delinquent love child of Quentin Tarantino and Dr Seuss”, “the undisputed king of Afro-bling,” and “an agent provocateur with a sinister agenda”. His work has been exhibited extensively around the globe, and is included in collections in South Africa, Europe and the United States.