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April 23, 2022 - Antifascists attacked a shop of the neo-Nazi clothing brand Thor Steinar in Magdeburg, Germany. The group of antifascist men and women attacked the fascist store owner, and covered the store and merchandise with bitumen paint. [video]

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Hideaki Yamanobe - Klangassoziationen

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collage 2022 012

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Eugène Delacroix St. George fighting the Dragon, also known as Perseus delivering Andromeda

Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 cm, 1847

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National Library of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 1991 (source)

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Philadelphia oil refinery explosion, 2019.

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Control rooms, power stations, control panels—Soviet era mostly, and a few more modern ones.

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Kraftwerk Hochwuhr (1999-2004) in Feldkirch, Austria, by ARTEC Architekten. Photo by Margherita Spiluttini.

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Dear friends ,

We are happy to announce that ”Socialist Modernism in Bulgaria”, the seventh photo album/digital guide of @_BA_CU ‘s planned series, will be available in 800 copies, starting the 4th of September. The photo album includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Bulgaria – from the 1950s to 1980s. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies, it presents – in color photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing you up to date with their current state of conservation. At the beginning of the book, a map shows the location of each of the buildings described. The 71 socialist modernist landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into five sections. The book contains the authors’ view on Bulgarian modernist architecture.

Print run 800 Pages 192 +1 Spread/ BULGARIA -SOC MOD Map Bulgarian and English Size 26×28.5 cm Weight 1.25 kg

Designed and published by @_BA_CU Association

Those who are interested in #SocialistModernism are able to order the book on👉🏻 @UrbanicaGroup @ushopamazon distributor page, (Link in our profile👆🏻) ; link: http://urbanicagroup.ro/ushop/ or AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/s?me=A33QJE9SPOCVM4&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER

by selecting the Photo album from among the books listed. (Shipping worldwide with DHL) #SocialistModernism #_BA_CU

1, 10 Park-Monument to the Soviet Army, Varna, 1979 architect Kamen Goranov sculptors Alyosha Kafedzhiiski and Eugene Barumov

5 City Hall, Ruse, 1985 Architect Alexander Georgiev Barov

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Pantheon to the Heroes in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, Gurgulyat, 1985, architect Georgi Stoilov. © BACU

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Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, (Buzludzha Monument), entrance to the complex, Shipka Pass, 1981, Architect Guéorguy Stoilov

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Tower Bloks 67-68, (modified type series Bs-69-Sf-UD) Druzhba 1 development, Iskar District Sofia, 1977-1983 Designed by SOFProect

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the Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria. Shumen, (1981) Artists Semeon Venov, Vladislav Paskalev architect G. Gechev et al.

© BACU https://www.instagram.com/p/CSbTfAsDQtf/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Moshe Lufenfeld and Giora Gammerman, The Drawer Tower, Be'er Sheva, Israel 1962

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NYC, 2017

Weronika Dudka

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ph by kento mori for huge mag, april 2011

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Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 13: Twin-Shadowed Knight, Parts 1 & 2

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Broken Wings

Today, the entire former Yugoslav territory is left without authentic poetics. With his skill and unusual gift to embody masterpieces of sculpture in public space Miodrag Živković created opus for admiration, respect and gratitude. 

In Živković’s most exceptional work in Sutjeska are engraved faces of fallen partisans. | Photo © Miodrag Živković Archive

Živković created powerful public monuments and memorial complexes throughout the Former Yugoslavia, among which those in Šumarice, Kadinjača, Sutjeska, Prishtina and many others stand out. 

In mid-March 2019 Gallery DESSA, ab-Architect’s Bulletin magazine and  Architectuul started the project Architecture. Sculpture. Remembrance. The Art of Monuments of Yugoslavia 1945–1991, where the curatorial team selected the number of monuments to be presented on the basis of high architectural and artistic value as well as the exceptional contemplative qualities of their spatial designs. The material for the exhibition was prepared in collaboration with experts, that is authors, photographers, and institutions from the former Yugoslavian region and beyond, which has also laid the foundation for future co-operation. 

The bird with broken wings, a metaphor for inhabitants, pupils and their teachers of Kragujevac executed in 1941. | Photo © Roberto Conte

It was at the opening of the exhibition in Piran, when Jelica Jovanović from Docomomo Serbia delivered me a blue box with original Živković’ slides for the exhibition in Ljubljana. 

In memory of the Battle of Sutjeska one of the best sculptural memorials in the former Yugoslavian territory was created. | Photo © Roberto Conte

The monument dominates over the Valley of the Heroes representing two Partisan columns breaking through the Nazi encirclement, the two white-concrete wings appear weightless. | Photo © Miodrag Živković Archive

Miodrag Živković was part of the exhibition in the Yugoslavian pavilion at the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980 together with Bogdan Bogdanović, Dušan Džamonija and Slavko Tihec. Monuments to the victims of the People’s Liberation Struggle stand out and through their extraordinary artistic language, they remind us of the dignity of human life and death. They are powerful markers of the once common state’s public open space. Their unique architectural and artistic design has placed them on a field of timelessness, which is not constrained by geographic and cultural borders, age, race, or political views. Instead of the regime’s symbolism, their creations combined both the present and the past as well as mystique, the elements of antique necropolises, ethnography, and spatial poetics. They shall be a remembrance, a reminder that something like that shall never happen again. 

Today has left us a soul with the exceptional, progressive, and still-contemporary creative language. There are masterpieces of sculpture in public space he created in his opus for admiration, respect and gratitude. 

Miodrag Živković (1928-2020) | Photo © Rajko R. Karišić

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What appears like a cathedral is a former cattle market hall:

Giuseppe Davanzo: Boario Forum, Padova, Italy, 1965–1968

http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/18876365

Photos: © Paolo Mazzo 2017-18