The Moluccan artwork, which would be unveiled this month at De Nieuwe Kolk in Assen, has been put in the waiting room for the time being. Forced. The Cultuurcentrum is fighting the place. The management is ‘a wrong choice’ on the access stages to DNK.
Last month the case came for the administrative court. Only in April will judge. The dispute initially revolves around that DNK was officially a day late with her protest against the placement of the Moluccan sculpture group. Too late and therefore ‘inadmissible’, the municipality of Assen ruled as the permit. DNK director Hanneke Bruggeman found that unjustified, and went to court with it.
As a result of the whole issue, the Moluccan working group has set the artwork, which consists of three life -sized figures, ‘on hold’. The initiators have also had to cancel the unveiling, initially planned on the historic day of 21 March. On March 21, 1951, the first group of Moluccan soldiers arrived with their families in the port of Rotterdam. Then eleven crossings with Moluccans followed.
Work group member Djodjie Rinsampessy is disappointed in the state of affairs. “I really don’t understand that this is now such a problem for the new Kolk. And such a revelation on that historic day of March 21, that could have been so beautiful. A wonderful connection between past and present in the Moluccan story. But we can now wait and wait.”
The new artwork must tell the story of the Moluccan population group in our country, based on three life -sized figures from Moluccan history. Man, wife and child, with symbolic objects from Moluccan culture in their hand. The figures are made from corten steel, and represent the past, present and future.
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