Il quarto ed ultimo stadio dell'architettura sovietica
Frédéric Chaubin è l'editor-in-chief della rivista francese Citizen K. Chaubin è anche un fotografo. Il suo progetto più famoso ruota intorno all'architettura sovietica degli anni '70 e '80, una serie di foto che documentano le quasi-deliranti strutture che verso la fine del regime apparvero in vari paesi dell'Unione. Dal 2001 al 2010 ha raccolto un vasto numero di fotografie che sono state esposte in vari paesi del mondo, dal Giappone alla Germania - dove la scorsa settimana, al Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe was inaugurated Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP - Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed , the most comprehensive exhibitions that have taken place in recent years. On this occasion the Taschen has published a book / catalog will be available starting this month.
photos into a world almost surreal, alien, lonely and melancholy. The clash between the nostalgia evoked by the visual images and the futuristic, almost sci-fi structures depicted, is the aspect that makes this body a lot more than just a 'catalog of architecture'. If the influence of the 'lesson' Bernd and Hilla Becher is strong, the subjective component, intimate, almost emotional images, adds some nuances that are difficult to find in architectural photography. Monumentality and science fiction. According Chaubin this chaotic and irregular flowering of different forms in the late 70's, was a clear expression of the near collapse of the regime. If in Soviet history had always been a strong penalty in architettotico, from this point on is no longer a model, a dominant style. E 'then these buildings that he recognize the first signs of the unexpected collapse of the USSR. 
Many of the authors of these unexpected 'monsters' that stand the sober monotony of Soviet architecture are unknown. Some of the structures photographed by Chaubin (the first to systematically classify them) have since been demolished.
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