Monuments like the wreckage of an alien civilization

War memorials in Yugoslavia in the style brutalism looked strange when already built - in the 1960s and 70s. Today they look like relics of an alien civilization. Photographer Ian Kempeners refers to them as art objects. He first saw the pictures of monuments in the encyclopedia, and then to learn that many of them are destroyed and abandoned, decided to capture those that remained.

Thousands of monuments in memory of the resistance during World War II ordered to build a dictator Josip Broz Tito. Abstract style contrasted with socialist realism and served a political purpose. "Tito could not erect statues or busts of generals, because I did not want to give preference to some of the ethnic groups, because he decided to build these things," - says the Belgian Kempeners (Jan Kempenaers), who is studying at the School of Arts Ghent. Monuments made of reinforced concrete, steel and granite. Once very popular, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav wars, they were abandoned and forgotten. When Kempeners told locals that he photographs they took him for a madman.

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Monument in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia, Janez was designed Lenassi (Janez Lenassi) and built in 1965. He honors the memory of Slovenian soldiers who died in World War II.



The monument in the Petrova Gora in Croatia designed Warrior Bakic (Vojin Bakić), he was raised in 1982. The monument commemorates the residents of Kordun and Banovina, who died during the Second World War. It was dismantled in 2011.



The memorial complex "Susanyar" in Bosnia and Herzegovina was built in memory of the thousands of people killed by the Germans during the Orthodox feast Elijah's Day in 1941.



Monument "Krusevo Macedonium" Macedonia is dedicated to the Ilinden uprising in 1903 - then the Macedonian population was against the Ottoman Empire.



This monument in the Serbian city of Nis was erected in 1963 in memory of the 10,000 local residents who died in World War II. Three clenched fist were designed by sculptor Ivan Sabolichem (Ivan Sabolić).



This monument is dedicated to the soldiers who liberated from the Nazis Croatian town of Knin.



The author of this monument in memory of the Case Black, the bloodiest battle of the Second World War on the territory of the former Yugoslavia - Miodrag Zivkovic sculptor (Miodrag Živković).



Kossuth Monument commemorates the fallen in World War II and the war in Croatia (1991-1995).



Memorial Complex in Kadinyache honors the memory of those killed in the battle for Kadinyachu.



The author of this monument, built in 1949 in memory of the fallen soldiers of the Yugoslav Front - Warrior Bakic (Vojin Bakić).



This sculpture was designed in 1973 by Bogdan Bogdanovich (Bogdan Bogdanovic). It is dedicated to mining in Kosovo.



Monument to Kosman in Serbia built in memory of kosmayskih partisans of the Second World War.



Last photo:
This monument to commemorate the victory of Yugoslavia in World War II stands in Korenica, on the border between Croatia and Bosnia. According to reports, he had already been dismantled.



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