Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914–1990), CAVELLINI 1914 – 2014, Venezia - Palazzo Ducale, 7 Settembre - 27 Ottobre, sticker, 10.5cm (diameter), approx. 1974–1980.

As part of his “Autostoricizzazione” [self-historicization] project, the mail artist printed thousands of stickers. He promoted an imaginary exhibition in Venice on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The stickers were distributed worldwide from 1974.

Lender: Archive Center for Artist Publications in the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art.

 

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OBEY/Shepard Fairey (*1970), Andre the Giant has a posse, Los Angeles, 1989.

The international sticker campaign was initiated by the skate punk Fairey - inspired by John Carpenter's film “They Live” (1988). There, the main character uses special glasses to expose outdoor advertising as a national brainwashing of aliens who demand obedience (OBEY).

Lender: Archive Double-H.

 

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Deutschland Kaput. Germany is kaputt!, sticker, Masłav, reprint of a sticker from around 1942, Warsaw, around 1995.

The earliest examples of illegal stickers are the postage stamp-sized Polish anti-Nazi stickers placed by “Little Sabotage” resistance fighters. The stickers were called Motyle [butterflies]. The term shows the proximity to the flyer - before it was stuck, the sticker was a small leaflet.

Photo: Vlepkronika Archive.

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