During the 60s’ and 70s’ former president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, wanted to show the world the strength and confidence of the Socialist Republic by having sculptors (Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, to name a few) and architects (Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković…) building those futuristic monuments commemorating the Second World War. This series entitled Spomenik was photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Today these sculptures are located in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia.
