Stick It With 4dhesive 4ddict

Negeri Jerman sekali lagi mengirimkan salah seorang seniman mereka untuk kami wawancarai. Adalah 4dhesive 4ddict dari Berlin yang bersedia membagi ceritanya bersama museum. Ternyata ia adalah seorang kawan dari Oli, direktur kepala bos besar dari Hatch Kingdom, museum stiker pertama di dunia. Dunia sempit sekali. Mari saja kita simak bersama Stick It With 4dhesive 4ddict.

Please introduce yourself.

Hi, I´m Pierre Bonse from Cologne, Germany. I´m 30 years old and since I can think I´m fascinated by and addicted to stickers. It started at school with filling a sticker album and trading stickers. Later, when I started skateboarding, my sticker passion grew with me. Like almost every skater I had a shoebox under my bed with some skate and street wear stickers in it. About five or six years ago I decided to buy more and more stickers and to put them in frames to hang them on my walls. Today my collection comprises over 6000 pieces and I´m still running into skate shops asking for stickers, buying them on eBay or Facebook or just trading with other freaks.

What's the story behind your street art name?

Well, I like to call myself 4dhesive 4ddict, which perfectly reflects what I am. No, I´m not sniffing glue. I´m just addicted to these little pieces of art, which you can stick everywhere you want. The 4´s instead of A´s is just a little gimmick to keep it a bit abstract.

 

How is the sticker scene in your city or country?

I´d say that the sticker scene in Germany is pretty big and versatile. There are many graffiti and street artists, especially in big cities like Cologne and Berlin you can see pretty nice pieces on nearly every traffic sign and things like that. Moreover there´s the Hatch Kingdom in Berlin, also a sticker museum and mail order service for stickers. And then we have a lot of private collectors who keep their stickers just like a treasure. There are some German Facebook groups where you can buy, sell and trade with like-minded persons.

How you make your artworks, using what kind of technique?

I don´t create stickers myself, but I´m into collages and arranging stickers in frames. What I like most are cut out forms instead of just rectangles and circles. I love to arrange different forms so that they fit together perfectly. It´s always tricky to get as much stickers as possible in one frame. 

How did you play with your stickers on the streets, did you quite often make a collaboration?

Most of my stickers will never be peeled off. If I have some doubles, sometimes I stick them to my furniture, Notebook, skateboards or on my car.

What's the most important, quantity or quality?

Definitely quality! I´m not a big friend of thin paper stickers. In my opinion they have to be strong and waterproof.

Can you share us your opinion about sticker art?

Sticker art is so fascinating to me. Stickers are so simple and easy to handle but can also have such a strong message. You can create pieces of art of almost every object just by putting some stickers on it. I love it!

Terima kasih kepada 4dhesive 4ddict yang bersedia kami wawancarai. Sukses untuk dunia kesenimanannya. Tetap berkarya dan temukan ia di Facebook dengan nama akun Stitch Banzai. Bagi macan-macan Nusantara yang ingin tampil di fitur Stick With It, silahkan mengubungi kami untuk tampil di liputan blog selanjutnya.

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