1991, En Passant 25 installation windows. Location 20: Serpentstraat 26. each artist has two pages in the catalogue at their disposition, to the right a picture of their presentation and to the left a free contribution, so to speak.
Rein Willem Gloudemans' 'free' contribution - if I'm not mistaken he has just graduated from 3D KASK, later to be renamed in Multimediale Vormgeving - is a replica of an obituary card 1:
IL MAGO DELL'ANDALUSIA
TUTTI LO IMITANO, NESSUNO LO SUPERA
(freely translated: has been imitated by many, no one has surpassed him)
Riceve ad AGRIGENTO
il MARTEDI dalle ore 9 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 19
VIA CICERONE, 49 (difronte Posta Centrale)
Riceve a CALTANISSETTA
il MERCOLEDI dalle ore 9 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 19
VIA BORREMANS, 179 - Palazzo La Placa
(accanto distributore AGIP)
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Below the photogram of the deceased is:
ALFIO LEONE
ESORCISTA
ASTROLOGO CARISMATICO
At closer inspection, seeing the photogram, it could have been a travelling saleman, a movie star or a bank clerk.
1 In many European countries, small obituary cards, printed for the occasion and typically showing a picture of the deceased and some pious epigrammatic texts, are distributed to the mourners at the burial. The cards are eagerly collected by... obituary card collectors.