Jasenovac Memorial Site
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2007
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 2007
104 pages
53 illustrations in colour and 30 black and white
Italian edition
available on request from the Foundation
A vast open space along a bank of the River Sava near the village of Jasenovac in Croatia, until 1941 the site of a brickworks and from 1941 to 1945 a concentration camp; since then it has become a memorial site, an accretion of signs, sediments, testimonies and symbols that have been laid down in time and help us to come to terms with the question of the forms and beings of places to which communities entrust the task of keeping alive and focusing the memory of the finest or most tragic moments of their past.
Jasenovac shows us how the safeguarding and maturing of memory can find a powerful ally in artistic invention. And how memory can itself become a place.
Here, at the beginning of the 1960s, a Serbian architect, “man of letters” and Mayor of Belgrade from 1982 to 1986, the now 85-year-old Bogdan Bogdanović, accomplished an astonishing example of the art of landscaping.
Contents
Premio Internazionale Carlo Scarpa per il Giardino 1990-2007, 4
Regolamento e giuria del premio, 5
Motivazione della giuria, 6
Medunarodna nagrada Carlo Scarpa za park. Obrazloženje žirija, 10
Atlantino geografico e storico di Jasenovac, 14
Nataša Mataušić, Il campo di concentramento di Jasenovac, 41
Dorde Mihovilović e Jelka Smreka, Sulla “lista delle singole vittime”, 44
Božo Biškupić, …soprattutto la verità, 47
Nataša Jovičić, Mai più, 49
Heike Karge, Dalla “memoria congelata” allo scontro del ricordo: i monumenti commemorativi della seconda guerra mondiale nella Iugoslavia di Tito, 51
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, I luoghi della memoria: ricerca di identità e disegno del paesaggio, 65
Friedrich Achleitner, Jasenovac: un fiore per i morti, 69
Bogdan Bogdanović, Breve nota sulla vita e sulle opere, 77
Bogdan Bogdanović, Il labirinto nel labirinto e La rapina dei simboli, 78
Documentazione disponibile, 90
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens. Regulations, 99
Jasenovac Memorial Site. Jury’s Report, 100
