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Spomenik

2024-09-11 23:33:37.369649+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means

Alongside this, many contemporary artists have made work on these monuments that is considerably more thoughtful. Pupovac points to David Maljkovic’s work in sculpture and film, such as Scenes from a New Heritage, which “asks the question of what is left of the monuments when all of the necessary tools for understanding have been stripped away; and one of the answers is the position that Kempenaers takes — the awe”.

Via MeFi, where the comments delve into some of the complexities of framing the narrative around large public art works, and the legacy of Tito in Yugoslavia, and...

Anyway, next time you see one of those surrealist big sculptures, this may help contextualize it.

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