METAMORFOSE 2: “VERBLINDENDE VERBONDENHEID” (Blinding connection”) (2024, Galerie20 Conscience, Antwerp, Belgium)
In August 2024, Diana has a very successful exhibition in Galerie Conscience20, Antwerp, Belgium, https://www.instagram.com/p/C-NMxqMNm5w/?img_index=1 together with glass artist Nadja Verhulst https://www.glassitbeadit.com/, titled “Blinding Connection”.
Inspired by the question how human kind will develop itself when leaving the earth to another planet, Diana exhibits sculptures on Icelandic lava.
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The two artists feel a strong affection to each other’s works and are currently making plans for their next exhibition “FUSION”, combining ceramics & glass (2025).
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.