Jan Kempenaers
Spomenik
concept and photography Jan Kempenaers ; text Willem Jan Neutelings

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Author(s)

Willem Jan Neutelings

Editor(s)

Jan Kempenaers

Publication, year

Amsterdam : Roma Publications, 2010

Scope

64 Pages, illustrated, 24 x 31 cm.

ISBN

9789077459508

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Spumeniks are memorials to the Second World War found everywhere in the former Yugoslavia. They were built in the 1960s and 70s during the communist regime, but their symbolism has been lost in translation as the visual language changed because of a shifted worldview. They were objects of blind fury in the 1990s and after that of indifference, abandoned to the natural elements. The Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans to photograph a series of these mysterious objects.

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Person as subject

Jan Kempenaers

Keywords

fotografie / photography , monumenten / monuments , oorlog / war

Location

Cabinet 25 - 2: Kunst in de openbare ruimte ; Monumenten / Art in Public Space ; Monuments