Cape art pick: December 2 2011
What sets Cameron Platter's work apart is his distinct aesthetic, non-conformist approach and wonderful humour.
Satirical depictions of the “failed” African state are de rigueur these days with everyone from artists Kudzanai Chiurai and Anton Kannemeyer to Motswako hip-hop MC HHP and Nando’s filling our mediascape with so-called Chic Afrique spectacles of decadence, violence and corruption.
At first glance Cameron Platter’s new exhibition of drawings, titled Fucking Hell, seems to conform to the trend with a press release promising everything from “Chicken Licken” and “military history” to “CNN, Isandlwana, the Arab Spring, gospel singers, ATMs, Wolf Blitzer and political sloganeering”.
Whatiftheworld, 1 Argyle Street, Woodstock, until January 28. Tel: 021 802 3111. Website: www.whatiftheworld.com.
