A selection of photographs by the French artist complements the exhibition "The Spirit of Past Future" with images of late Soviet architecture that combine futuristic science fiction with concrete monumentalism. Born in 1959, Frédéric Chaubin is an internationally acclaimed author and photographer. As editor of the lifestyle magazine Citizen K, he developed a strong interest in architecture as a cultural statement in the late 1990s. From the 2000s onward, he published works combining text and photography in this context. Chaubin documented buildings from the 1970s to the 1990s in a total of 14 former Soviet republics, capturing forms that appear simultaneously futuristic, utopian, monumental, poetic, and decaying. His 2011 work, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (CCCP), has been widely exhibited. In 2021, he published Stone Age, a book about medieval fortresses in Europe.
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