If you look closely in Drenthe, she sees them more and more often, black and white stickers on electricity cabinets, wooden panels and walls. Often with a familiar face of a local phenomenon: Johan Derksen, Boer Harms or like this week: Jack Middelburg.
A bucket of wallpaper glue, a paper with a large drawing and an orange vest. More, the originally Rotterdam, Jimmy Granti does not need to stand out, or not. For example, he appeared at the TT Camping in Assen, where he stuck a sticker from Motorheld Jack Middelburg on the bar. “It’s a tribute and I just like to do it.”
“Cor is what it all started with,” says Granti about boxer Cor Eversteijn. “I once saw an exhibition about him, by photographer Carel van Hees. That man radiates something and then I knew, this will be my icon.” The ‘pseudonym’ Jimmy Granti also comes from that, which was the fighters’ vine name from Eversteijn.
Granti started the sticker hobby twelve years ago. Without an art academy, but with inspiration from a film. “After seeing the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop from Banksy, I thought: I can do this too. Just take out the street.”
Since then he has been sticking more than one hundred thousand stickers, first especially abroad, and in recent years in the Netherlands. “Because of Corona I started cycling through the Netherlands and also sticking stickers there.” And recently, he also sticks it in Drenthe because he has moved here.
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