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 Âartists Kudzanai Chiurai and Anton ÂKannemeyer to Motswako Âhip-hop MC HHP and Nando’s filling our mediascape with so-called Chic Afrique spectacles of Âdecadence, Âviolence and corruption.
At first glance Cameron Platter’s new Âexhibition of drawings, titled ÂFucking Hell, seems to conform to the trend with a press release Âpromising everything from “Chicken Licken” and “military history” to “CNN, Isandlwana, the Arab Spring, Âgospel singers, ATMs, Wolf Blitzer and political sloganeering”. What sets Platter’s work apart, however, is his distinct aesthetic, non-conformist approach and wonderful humour.
Whatiftheworld, 1 Argyle Street, Woodstock, until January 28. Tel: 021 802 3111. Website: www.Âwhatiftheworld.com.