Spomeniks of former Yugoslavia.
Jan Kempenaers takes the credit for compiling an excellent photo- journalistic book that documents these structures that are spread around the regions that were part of former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The curiosity, within the neglect of these Spomeniks, is that they, at the time when these structures were commissioned (1980s), were to show communist Yugoslavia as a testament to strength via political systems, which as we know, is a vapor in time. Yet these brutalist structures remain, it is as though when they were created by the sculptors and architects at the time - was to be eternal in their design, devoid of any real meaning except longevity. In which they have outlived, not only man (surviving the horrific civil war of the 1990s), but the political, social and now environmental impacts. A perfect example of structure that in representation should be designed to immortalize humanity and defy his destructive nature and also nature it's self.
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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