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.