Embroidery art

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Pasted window on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin

Stickerkunst ( English sticker for "sticker") is a form of street art in which stickers are attached in public spaces . The classification between accepted street art and unauthorized spoiling is fluid. Since the early 2000s in particular, this phenomenon has often been seen in large cities on, for example, garbage cans, traffic signs or house walls.

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Typically, stickers consist of printed, labeled or painted self-adhesive paper. For example, postal parcel forms or other adhesive paper that is available free of charge are painted and / or labeled. Templates for the stickers can be emailed and printed at low cost; they are easier to apply than graffiti . Therefore, many motifs are applied several times in different places in one or more cities in order to have a subversive effect on passers-by and to influence them unconsciously with their presence. This effect has already been discovered by industry, which is why commercial stickers are increasingly being seen in public spaces. Smaller stickers often contain left-wing political or other political slogans or comments. Stickers with the slogan "[ citation needed ]" refer to the English-language Wikipedia maintenance module of the same name and were therefore also called "Wikiffiti" by Boing Boing .

The Strich-Code project in Hanover represents an artistic advancement to temporary art in public space , in which as an artistic contribution based on the concept of swarm art, millions of price labels are permitted on mostly prepared areas in public space such as benches, columns, trees, the sidewalk or even the tram were glued.

The art of embroidery is also a popular processing method for artists to create collages. Components of a later work of art are cut from vinyl foil and foamboard with a scalpel and glued together. With this technique it is possible to add a 3D effect to works of art.

In contrast to graffiti , this form of intrusion into public space does not fall under the criminal offense of property damage , as it (as a rule) changes the appearance only temporarily and does not damage the underground substance. Instead, the sticker is punished as " wild poster " and thus constitutes an administrative offense if there is no special usage permit.

Hatch Sticker Museum

One institution that has been dealing with the art of embroidery since April 17, 2008 is the Hatch Stickermuseum in Berlin. This is the first museum in the world that deals with sticker culture. The curator Oliver Baudach has been collecting stickers from various fields since 1983. His collection now has well over 30,000 stickers from all over the world. The Hatch Stickermuseum has a permanent exhibition of 5000 stickers. The exhibits presented show excerpts from culture, creativity, advertising material, commerce and street art.

The museum is also in international exchange. For example, in 2014 it presented the “Paper Bullets” exhibition with 500 stickers by Catherine Tedford, a gallery owner from St. Lawrence in New York State.

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"Don't get stuck!"

The action is supported by the professional footballer Christian Clemens of 1. FC Köln.
Poster: “Your love? Your city? Don't stick up! "

The city of Cologne , RheinEnergie , Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB), Abfallwirtschafts-Betriebe (AWB) and 1. FC Cologne started the “Don't stick to!” Initiative on March 20, 2012 against “wild sticking” on public roads . The population should be made aware of the problems of sticking over place and information signs, information boards for gas and water connections ( hydrants for the fire brigade) and illegible traffic signs that lead to a traffic hazard . A KVB tram was designed to support the campaign with the poster motifs.

  • Glued traffic signs. The additional sign (left) and the direction arrow (right) are no longer directly recognizable

  • Cologne City Director Guido Kahlen demonstrates ...

  • ... how difficult it is to remove the stickers

  • Christian Clemens of 1. FC Köln is interviewed by FC-TV about the campaign

  • A light rail of the Cologne transport company

See also

literature

  • Andreas Ullrich (ed.): Stickers! ... from the first international sticker awards , Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-89955-151-6
  • Claudia Walde: Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art (Street Graphics / Street Art) . Thames & Hudson, 2007 ISBN 978-0-500-28668-5

Web links

Commons : Sticker art  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [citation needed] sticker photos on flickr , accessed February 15, 2013
  2. ^ Wikipedia: Citation needed
  3. ↑ Boing Boing : Wikiffiti - stickers that read [citation needed] , accessed February 11, 2013
  4. ↑ http://whatsart.de/blog/2014/10/20/making-of-sticker-art-collage/
  5. ^ Hatch Stickermuseum - Street Art Berlin. Retrieved on May 7, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ Museum - Museum - Hatch - Sticker Mailorder. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Sticker Exhibition - The Power of Stickers . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on May 7, 2018]).