Op en Uit – (1994) 2021

Franked DL window envelope with cancelled postage stamp, postcard reproduction of a romanticised portrait inserted laterally.

H11 x W22 cm

The First white Dutch East India Company Governor of the Cape Johan Anthony van Riebeeck (1652-1662) has become the subject content (and address) of a missive posted in South Africa. The Johannesburg franked postage stamp depicts a smiling Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1995-1999) father of the new democratic South Africa. Up and Out is the artist’s political reflection on ‘out with the old, in with new’