CAMERON PLATTER‘s work in drawing, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and video, appropriates and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amount of information available today. Blurring the distinction between high and low, his postmodern and multi-disciplinary approach to art making typically draws from sources as disparate as art history, ecology, psychedelics, fast food, advertising, therapy, collage, and consumerism. Platter has had numerous solo exhibitions in South Africa and internationally. His work is part of the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, The Zietz MOCAA Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, The Margulies Collection, and the Iziko South African National Gallery. The Everyday People (White Chair) was exhibited in collaboration with KOMBI.
Everyday People (White Chair)
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Everyday People (White Chair)
This unique artwork, carved to look like a cheap plastic garden chair, is situated within an ongoing body of work by Cameron Platter in which he 'totemifies' throwaway consumer objects and asks us to reconsider the line between the high and low, between what is trash and what is precious. To make each chair sculpture, Platter locates a worn and half-discarded plastic chair and ask its owner to exchange it for a new one. The worn chair becomes Platter's reference for his sculpture.
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