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Création Jerk 45 pour l'exposition Sang 9

Print
ca. 2004 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This sticker by the street artist Sang 9 is an interesting example of contemporary sticker ephemera. Overlapping printing and angry stylised faces come together in a bizarre vision.

Stickers like these are a part of the street art phenomenon, usually stuck on walls alongside stencil work and tag graffiti in urban areas. The simplicity and cheapness of the medium makes it attractive for young artists, and stickers crop up not only in graffiti sites but on buses and tube trains. Twenty-first-century psychedelia, demented cartoon characters, recycled film stars and a wild variety of visual references come together in a visual riot.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCréation Jerk 45 pour l'exposition Sang 9
Materials and techniques
Digitally printed sticker
Brief description
Sticker by Sang 9, USA, ca. 2004.
Physical description
A sticker showing four cartoon heads, with overlapping printing of orange spots, and rubber stamp like symbols, including a red cross, and lettering in red, white, green and brown, and logos in brown, orange and white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.7cm
  • Width: 19.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • CAINK (Top right, one of the 'logos')
  • sang9 (In oval, left, sideways on, one of 'logos')
  • EPIDEMIC (Repeated in white in various directions as though stamped over image)
  • EPIDEMIC . MIXED (In two different orientations within a green circle as though stamped onto image)
Credit line
Given by Riikka Kuittinen
Object history
Displayed in the Link Corridor in Aug-Oct 2005 in the 'Street Art' display.
Production
The corners are curved
Summary
This sticker by the street artist Sang 9 is an interesting example of contemporary sticker ephemera. Overlapping printing and angry stylised faces come together in a bizarre vision.

Stickers like these are a part of the street art phenomenon, usually stuck on walls alongside stencil work and tag graffiti in urban areas. The simplicity and cheapness of the medium makes it attractive for young artists, and stickers crop up not only in graffiti sites but on buses and tube trains. Twenty-first-century psychedelia, demented cartoon characters, recycled film stars and a wild variety of visual references come together in a visual riot.
Collection
Accession number
E.326-2005

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Record createdMay 26, 2005
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