History
Vojin Bakić is one of the greatest figures in Croatian modernist sculpture, who introduced Croatian sculpture and monumental sculpture into the realm of high modernist abstraction.
With the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia, which was solemnly unveiled in 1968, Bakić decisively breaks with the previous canons of depicting monuments dedicated to the National Liberation Struggle (NOB). In a monumental form, he achieves a unique synthesis of pure abstract form and symbolic content, elevating it to the status of a universal symbol of victory.
After the initial presentation of Vojin Bakić’s evolution in sculpture, text “The typology shift in Vojin Bakić’s solution for the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia,
in Kamenska” delves into the change in typology in Bakić’s approach to monument design, the process of conducting the public competition, the critics’ reception, the genesis of the plastic solution, and the symbolic significance of the monument’s form and materials. Since documentation on the construction and project was not found, the text includes an extensive testimony from the sole surviving designer of the monument, Boris Medja, PhD, regarding the design and construction process.
During the war, the monument was mined several times on February 21, 1992, and its parts were blown up and used as secondary material. There was a lack of interest from the relevant institutions in its preservation and restoration, and the perpetrators were neither found nor punished.
Nataša Ivančević
The article by Nataša Ivančević, “The typology shift in Vojin Bakić’s solution for the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia, in Kamenska” is an original scientific paper published in Problem spomenika: Spomenik danas [The Problem of Monument: Monument Today] Collection of Works (2015) Klanjec: Anali Galerije Antuna Augustinčića, Vol. 32– 33/34– 35, p. 405-426.
With the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia, which was solemnly unveiled in 1968, Bakić decisively breaks with the previous canons of depicting monuments dedicated to the National Liberation Struggle (NOB). In a monumental form, he achieves a unique synthesis of pure abstract form and symbolic content, elevating it to the status of a universal symbol of victory.
After the initial presentation of Vojin Bakić’s evolution in sculpture, text “The typology shift in Vojin Bakić’s solution for the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia,
in Kamenska” delves into the change in typology in Bakić’s approach to monument design, the process of conducting the public competition, the critics’ reception, the genesis of the plastic solution, and the symbolic significance of the monument’s form and materials. Since documentation on the construction and project was not found, the text includes an extensive testimony from the sole surviving designer of the monument, Boris Medja, PhD, regarding the design and construction process.
During the war, the monument was mined several times on February 21, 1992, and its parts were blown up and used as secondary material. There was a lack of interest from the relevant institutions in its preservation and restoration, and the perpetrators were neither found nor punished.
Nataša Ivančević
The article by Nataša Ivančević, “The typology shift in Vojin Bakić’s solution for the Monument to the Revolutionary Victory of the People of Slavonia, in Kamenska” is an original scientific paper published in Problem spomenika: Spomenik danas [The Problem of Monument: Monument Today] Collection of Works (2015) Klanjec: Anali Galerije Antuna Augustinčića, Vol. 32– 33/34– 35, p. 405-426.