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When it was over in 1995, the former republics were independent countries and Tito's bunker was a huge white elephant owned by Bosnia's armed forces, eager to hand it over to someone to get rid of the maintenance costs. Enter Edo Hozic and other artists from Sarajevo, who in 2007 had the wild idea to transform the bunker into a gallery. They knew the Army found no use for it and authorities in Konjic had no idea what to do with it "except perhaps to grow mushroom in it," he said. Artists are to visit the bunker throughout the year, come up with concepts and costs and present them to the Council of Europe. The opening is scheduled for May 27 and if there is enough interest, it may become a permanent gallery. "We figured that this place could become a new hotspot on a cultural map of this region," said Hozic, a painter. ___ Online:
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