Yugostalgia

Yugostalgia, oil on canvas, Ljubljana/New York, 2008/09

After the collaps of the state of Yugoslavia, the memory of its former president Josip Broz Tito is very much alive among young generation of former Yugoslavs. Their appretiation of the historical figure is neither political nor nostalgic, but resembles very much our todays approach to the revolutionary Che Guevara.