My essay on the Malcolm For Mayor campaign in DB Burkeman’s Stickers Vol 2: More Stuck-Up Crap
//My essay on Malcolm For Mayor with stickers by Scott King and Matthew Worley//
“The sticker may be the most efficient art form ever invented”
Jeffrey Deitch, 2019
I have an essay in DB Burkeman’s just-published follow-up to his 2010 survey of the use of audacious and eye-catching stickers in art, design, fashion, music and social activism.
//Jeffrey Deitch//
Subtitled More Stuck-Up Crap, Stickers Vol 2 is as hefty as its predecessor at 260-plus pages with sheets of fresh stickers in the back provided by contributors such as Jenny Holzer, Invader, Anthony Lister and Shepard Farey.
//Left: Marilyn Minter; right: Maurizio Cattelan//
//Mark Mothersbaugh//
Jeffrey Deitch, one of America’s most prominent art dealers and curators, has provided peppy introductory text, and there are also contributions a diverse range of sticker connoisseurs and proponents from Don Letts and Mark Mothersbaugh to Stretch Armstrong and Nobu Kitamura of Hysteric Glamour.
//Hysteric Glamour//
New York resident Burkeman writes about the importance of stickers since his teenage years in London while I investigate the promotional campaign produced by artist/designer Scott King and academic/author Matthew Worley for the late Malcolm McLaren’s run for Mayor of London at the start of this century.
//Fiorucci//
Sickers Vol 2 is published by Rizzoli and available at all good booksellers and online here.