MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION AND SYNTHESIS IN SAŠA TKAČENKO’S ETERNAL FLAME
MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION AND SYNTHESIS IN SAŠA TKAČENKO’S ETERNAL FLAME

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses how contemporary artist Saša Tkačenko integrates the Museum of Yugoslav People’s Revolution into his hybrid work Eternal Flame (2018). As the Museum has never been built, Tkačenko appropriates architectural model of the Museum, designed by Vjenceslav Richter, applying the process of synthesis which Richter promoted by the end of 1950s. In terms of meaning, Tkačenko turns to the significance of this Museum which was supposed to be a centrepiece and monument to the idea of revolution in former Yugoslavia. In order to analyse semantic layers of the Eternal Flame, the paper also contains a chapter which focuses on Richter’s oeuvre and a chapter which gives historic overview of disappearance and metamorphoses of museums of revolution after the fall of Yugoslavia and changed socio-political context.

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