Stickers are art. And they are collector’s items. Inseparably connected
to the crypto art space, they are given away for advertising, branding,
as business cards, as a gift to frens, as memorabilia of events and
get-togethers, and they are even sent around the world. Some of them are
just spam, some of them are sought-after pieces. Displayed on laptops,
computers, mobile phones, clothes and walls or stored safe and pristine at home - stickers link their owners to communities, they create
identity in the space and a sense of belonging to like-minded people.
They refer to the work of their makers, make the crypto history of their
owners visible, and document the development of the crypto space.
Stickers tell stories, they can be read like books. They shape
communities, they shape identities. They integrate and they separate.
They offer access to portfolios, contents and worlds of thought, and
they provide aesthetic input. They are colorful and fun. They are a
flex. And as art, they are defining and yet timeless witnesses of an
unprecedented digital evolution.
Through
The Crypto Sticker Box,
this project, together with the contributing artists, aims to pay
tribute to this phenomenon, which is inherent to the crypto space but by
no means exclusive, and to give this specific and still thematic niche
of Sticker Art the attention and status it deserves.
