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http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/23-fas ... ugoslavia/
SPOMENIK BY JAN KEMPENAERS
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War called ‘Spomeniks’ were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA.
In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted.
Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in the book Spomenik as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer’s enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.

i say, those are bloody brilliant. am going to nick that link...

Any Stargates?

See it a lot, but it never gets old.

Wowsa. I'll give that an in-depth look later!

Seen 'em a few times as well, but I never get bored looking at them. Thx, James!

James Blast wrote: largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted.

because people are rubbish. Thanks for the link Mr B

Awesome! Cheers for this.

Think the Star Trek people need to get their filming over here, ready-made locations!

Er...anyone else looking at Podgaric (the first pik in the series) and thinking, "Coo look - they ripped off the gun turret from the Millenium Falcon"..?

nope

Fantastic sculptures

James Blast wrote:nope

That's because you're looking at the pictures on a Mac, so what you see is a GIF of Steve jobs leaning some fanboi over his skateboard and buggering him repeatedly. Probably.

you say that like it's a bad thing

tell ya what, get a PB and smear the keys with capsicum then click this - http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 794#560794 -, I ken ye like a 'difficult' life

What's a PB?

it's like a computer but not

Anybody happens to know an exact location for at least one of these monuments?
I just got an email with these photos a couple of days ago from a photographer I work with sating that he wants to shoot there.
So if anybody knows and could write it for me, that would be a huge help! :.D

Visiting some of these monuments as a kid I never imagined that once they will be seen as a work of arts. I must say that seeing them on these photographs they appear quite impressive.
Salome, they are scattered all over former Yugoslavia, but if one comes to Zagreb it can reach some of them easilly (Ilirska Bistrica, Sisak, Brezovica, Jasenovac, Petrova gora). Others are also reachable, but in other countries in the vicinity (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro).

The one in Mitrovice is in Kosovo ... I've seen it once in about 1987 ... a funny feeling ...

Thanks guys! :.D