Commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito and designed by famous post war architects and sculptors in the 1960s and 70s, futuristic Spomeniks (monuments) were built in the former Yugoslavia to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, or where concentration camps stood.
In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, but today they lie abandoned their symbolic meanings lost.
From 2006 to 2009, Jan Kempenaers using a 1975 map of Spomenik memorials, travelled Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina documenting these forgotten sculptural masterpieces.
For more info visit www.jankempenaers.info
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