Sacha Goldman: Opening Speech (Frédéric Chaubin: CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed)

Frédéric Chaubin: CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions
Photographed | Ausstellungseröffnung


ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art
01/29–03/27/2011


Opening Speech by the Curator of the Exhibition, Sacha Goldman,
held at ZKM_Lobby 01/28/2011.
»Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP – Cosmic Communist Constructions
Photographed«


The exhibition »Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP – Cosmic Communist
Constructions Photographed« comprises a set of ninety photographs
by French publicist Frédéric Chaubin. Over the course of several
journeys to Eastern Europe and Asia since 2003, Frédéric Chaubin
has been searching for and photographing atypical examples of
architecture dating from the late Soviet era. Largely located in
regions on the periphery of the former USSR, such buildings are
defined by a utopian formal language uncharacteristic of the
standard paradigms of Soviet state architecture.