Derelict Retro-Futurism In Former Yugoslavia
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In the former Yugoslavia (now Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.), are the slowly crumbling remains of a glorious retro-futurist architectural past. Monolithic concrete monuments, commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 1970s. They were created to commemorate events of WWII in Yugoslavia. The sites that they were located were places where battles took place, such as Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjača, or where concentration camps had once stood, Jasenovac and Niš. After their construction, they became famous within the country, and apparently attracted millions of tourists each year. However after the Yugoslav Republic collapsed during the Third Balkan War of 1991-2001, they were abandoned. Forgotten to the history of a country that no longer existed.
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The monuments were originally designed to convey the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. Leading modernist sculptors and architects of the time were employed to create the monuments. Sculptors include Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, to name a few. Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković were the architects.
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