Galerie Ernst Hilger at
Pulse Miami 2007
December 4 – 9, 2007
Booth D — 01
Dorotheergasse 5
A- 1010 Vienna
Tel: 43-1-512 53 15
http://www.hilger.at
Cameron Platter (b. 1978 Johannesburg) lives and works in Shaka’s Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dubbed “the delinquent love child of Quentin Tarantino and Dr Seuss” his targets and influences include corrupt politicians; megalomania and the mass media; fast cars and beautiful women; children’s stories, crime fiction and gangster films; Elvis Presley and Richard Pryor; Southern African woodcut masters; real life and things falling apart. He works in video, sculpture, drawing, and sound to create comedy- noir installations filled with sex, irony, cynicism and approaching love. His alternate universes are populated by conflicted self- pleasuring lions, hard drinking crocodiles, strippers that rise from the grave, and zebras from outer space. His vision of salvation and damnation is both particular and universal.
His work is included in the Margulies, Sagamore, and Laurence Graff Collections. Platter will present his first solo exhibition in Europe entitled “Too Much of Anything is Very Dangerous” at Hilger Contemporary in January 2008.
Artists at Pulse Miami 2007: Daniele Buetti, Oliver Dorfer, John Gerrard, Andreas Leikauf, Angel Marcos, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Kyril Rubcov, Cameron Platter, Massimo Vitali.
For further information please contact the gallery: ernst.hilger@hilger.at
Galerie Ernst Hilger — since 1971.