HELLO!!
Welcome back me from a wonderful and relaxing summer time break!!
Wasn't going to start blogging until next week but I was hanging out at Perimeter Books today and discovered this book Spomenik, by the photographer Jan Kempenaers...and I just had to tell you all about it (if you didn't know already)
It blew my mind!!!
"During the 60s’ and 70s’ former president of Yugoslavia, Tito wanted to show the world the strength and confidence of the Socialist Republic by having sculptors and architects building those (very futuristic) monuments commemorating the Second World War. This series entitled Spomenik was photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Today these sculptures now in ruins are located in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia."
"These works are the result of sculptors and architects such as Dušan Džamonja , Vojin Bakic , Miodrag Zivkovic, Jordan and Iskra Grabul , names mean little to most of us, but at the time were at the center of Slavic cultural movement ."
these sculptures are A-mazing! really make you think about space and the present moment.
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