Jan Kempenaers - Spomenik

By Jan Kempenaers and Willem Jan Neutelings

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 this book 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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9077459502
• ISBN13: 9789077459508
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Roma Publications
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 13.3" x 0.5" x 9.7"