ANNE FRANK BY MARIETTE & DIANA COPPENS (2022)
Diana is presently working on a project around a scetch that her mother made prior to the creation of the bust of Anne Frank.
In honor of her mother, Diana is preparing an exhibition based on her mother’s work in combination with the branches of the chestnut tree that Anne describes in her diary.
Via the non-profit organization, HET BEELDENHUIS got the hold of five original branches.
During her visit to Siesta Key, Florida, visting friends, Diana gets inspired by the beauty of nature on the one hand, but on the other hand she finds the role of humans destroying this nature very confronting. In particular the problem of The Red Tide in the Mexican Gulf, touches her deeply. She creates the sculpture “A Tribute to Florida”.
This individual exhibition marks a milestone: Diana exhibits earlier and new work in eight chapters about her artistic life's journey. It is no coincidence that the exhibition took place at the venue the “Lindepaviljoen” in Zoersel (Belgium), where the sculptures of her parents, the recreators of the centuries-old linden tree (see www.toerismezoersel.be en https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindeboom_van_Zoersel ), can be visited.
On the occasion of Diana's mother’s 90th birthday on June 13, 2021, a solemn inauguration of the bronze bust made by Mariëtte of Anne Frank took place in the Jewish Cemetery in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. Earlier this bust was on display in the garden of the famous Achterhuis – where Anne lived and wrote her diary – in Amsterdam. Anne Frank is a symbol of human injustice and the right to freedom, equality and humanity and a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust, but also of other genocides past and present. Anne symbolizes the danger of anti-semetism and any form of race or other hatred. the outrage against any form of extremism, no matter how it is expressed. global themes such as peace, a healthy environment and the right. All of these were inspirational for Mariëtte Coppens.