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CAMERON PLATTER
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www.cameronplatter.com
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Biography
Cameron Platter (born 1978 Johannesburg) lives and works in Shaka's Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (BAFA)
His work is an intoxicating vision of Good vs. Evil, documenting contemporary morality through the telling of simple stories drawn and appropriated from the media, TV, films, art, history, pornography, battle scenes, politics, music, and religion.
His targets and influences include Lamborghinis, Kawasakis 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, Platter creates a tableau that is a sincere homage to historical themes, an ironical take on contemporary Africa, and an ultra primitive, anti-aesthetic view on what it means to be alive today in South Africa.
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. |
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The old fashion. 2010. Video Still.
The old fashion. 2010. Video Still
Jetski/ Cooler Box/ Coffin. 2008.
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