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In the early 1980s, Athena Tacha created drawings and models for architectural monuments intended for "Monuments of Massacres," dedicated to events that marked modern history. The drawings, which belong to the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, concern: 1) The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Monument, 2) The Holocaust Memorial, 3) The Central America Monument, and 4) The India-Pakistan Monument. These proposals, realised in 1983 but never implemented, aim to commemorate the victims of these tragedies and attempt to heal their wounds by keeping their memory alive. Her goal is to provoke the viewer's memory through physical experience and by creating a personal journey within the monument's forms. This entire approach showcases how the sculptor perceives her art in the public domain and how she desires to make it accessible to everyone, not just to a cultural elite who may visit museums or acquire it.
Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus
Title: Central America monument
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In the early 1980s, Athena Tacha created drawings and models for architectural monuments intended for "Monuments of Massacres," dedicated to events that marked modern history.
The drawings, which belong to the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, concern: 1) The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Monument, 2) The Holocaust Memorial, 3) The Central America Monument, and 4) The India-Pakistan Monument.
These proposals, realised in 1983 but never implemented, aim to commemorate the victims of these tragedies and attempt to heal their wounds by keeping their memory alive.
Her goal is to provoke the viewer's memory through physical experience and by creating a personal journey within the monument's forms.
This entire approach showcases how the sculptor perceives her art in the public domain and how she desires to make it accessible to everyone, not just to a cultural elite who may visit museums or acquire it.
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