Well not really from the future but actually from the past, think cold war era. These amazing sculptures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Tito in the 1960s and 70s. They are commemorative of WWII battle losses and even where concentration camps stood. Why? To point to progress and of a utopian future. To point out that where death and despair once washed over the country now their is growth and unity. To show the strength and confidence of the Socialist Republic.
They are usually of mass scale with strange angular geometry representing shapes of crystals, flowers and up close views of viruses or DNA. They were done by a collection of sculptures and architects including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković just to name a few. They had millions of visitors per year in the 1980s but after the Republic dissolved in the early 1990s they we’re abandoned, forgotten about and even graffitied.
We luckily have this collection of pictures thanks to a photo book by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers called “Spomenik: The End of History” which he made from his 2006 – 2009 tour of the ex-Yugoslavia region (now Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ect.) We hope these sculptures can be preserved and be known as one of the most awe-inspiring outdoor cross country sculpture exhibits.
source: www.cracktwo.com
Seen a few of these. Albania has some v interesting communist/brutalist style sculptures too…