Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
33 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

Culture


RSS FeedsExhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein presents works from Tito’s bunker
(Artdaily.org)

 
 

27 may 2017 03:47:51

 
Exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein presents works from Tito’s bunker
(Artdaily.org)
 


The point of departure for this exhibition, on show at the Württembergischer Kunstverein from May 27 to August 6, 2017, is a particular place, Tito’s bunker in Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), which is equally negotiated as concrete location and as open-ended metaphor. From 1953 to 1979, the former head of state in Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, initiated the top-secret construction of a gigantic and—at least theoretically—nuclear-safe bunker in Konjic, a town situated around 40 kilometers south of Sarajevo (and today located in Bosnia and Herzegovina). This shelter, drilled 300 meters deep into the mountain and occupying a space of 6,500 square meters, was conceived for the survival of 350 chosen representatives of the country’s political and military elite of that time—including just one woman: Jovanka B. Broz, Tito’s wife. Tito himself outlived the accomplishment


 
31 viewsCategory: Culture > Art
 
`Cross-Pollination` examines floral imagery in European textiles and porcelain
(Artdaily.org)
Mead Art Museum honors Michael Mazur, distinguished artist and Amherst College alumnus, with exhibition
(Artdaily.org)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten