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    Frederic Chaubin will exhibit photographs of startling architectural artifacts from the former Soviet Union at Storefront for Art and Architecture from April 24 to June 16. Over the past five years, Chaubin documented buildings constructed in the last two decades of the Cold War in Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Architects working in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc enjoyed surprising creative freedom and drew inspiration from diverse sources to produce imaginative buildings that stand in stark contrast to stereotypical Soviet architecture. The exhibition traces the intellectual undercurrents behind these overlooked structures and maps the complex history of this period in 20th century design.

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    Frederic Chaubin will exhibit photographs of startling architectural artifacts from the former Soviet Union at Storefront for Art and Architecture from April 24 to June 16. Over the past five years, Chaubin documented buildings constructed in the last two decades of the Cold War in Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Architects working in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc enjoyed surprising creative freedom and drew inspiration from diverse sources to produce imaginative buildings that stand in stark contrast to stereotypical Soviet architecture. The exhibition traces the intellectual undercurrents behind these overlooked structures and maps the complex history of this period in 20th century design.

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    Frederic Chaubin will exhibit photographs of startling architectural artifacts from the former Soviet Union at Storefront for Art and Architecture from April 24 to June 16. Over the past five years, Chaubin documented buildings constructed in the last two decades of the Cold War in Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Architects working in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc enjoyed surprising creative freedom and drew inspiration from diverse sources to produce imaginative buildings that stand in stark contrast to stereotypical Soviet architecture. The exhibition traces the intellectual undercurrents behind these overlooked structures and maps the complex history of this period in 20th century design.

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    - PRESS RELEASE -

    CCCP – Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed


    Frèderic Chaubin

    On view April 24 - June 16

    Storefront for Art and Architecture


    97 Kenmare Street
    New York, NY 10012
    Telephone 212.431.5795
    [email protected]
    Hours: Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm

    Over the past five years, during the course of his travels in the former Soviet Union, French
    photographer Frederic Chaubin has documented an extensive collection of startling
    architectural artifacts born during the last two decades of the Cold War. Architects in the
    peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc countries, working on governmental commissions
    during the ‘70s and ‘80s, enjoyed a surprising degree of creative freedom. Operating in a
    cultural context hermetically sealed from the influence of their Western counterparts, they
    drew inspiration from sources ranging from expressionism, science fiction, early European
    modernism and the Russian Suprematist legacy to produce an idiosyncratic, flamboyant and
    often imaginative architectural ménage. Unexpected in their contexts, these monumental
    buildings stand in stark contrast to the stereotypical understanding of late Soviet architecture
    in which monotonously repetitive urban landscapes were punctuated by vapid exercises in
    architectural propaganda.

    The subjects of Chaubin’s photographs, scattered throughout Armenia, Estonia, Georgia,


    Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, were all constructed during the last two decades of
    the Soviet era. Very few of their designers achieved anything more than local recognition, and
    until now these buildings have never been collectively documented or exhibited. The authors
    of many works remain unknown, and some have been destroyed since Chaubin’s
    photographs were taken. Conceived and executed during a moment of historical transition,
    they constitute one of the most surprising and least known legacies of the former USSR.

    As well as presenting the architecture itself, CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions


    Photographed traces the intellectual and political undercurrents that act as a backdrop, and at
    times inspiration, for the work of these Soviet architects. The exhibition, a compendium of film
    stills, drawings, magazine articles and historical timelines maps out the complex genealogy of
    this overlooked but compelling chapter in the history of 20th century design.

    Frédéric Chaubin lives in Paris, France. He is editor in chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K.
    - PRESS RELEASE -

    CCCP – Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed


    Frèdèric Chaubin

    "Druzhba” (Yalta, Ukraine, 1985). Architect Igor Vasilevsky


    Image courtesy of Frederic Chaubin

    Polytechnic University (Minsk, Belarus, 1981)


    Image courtesy of Frederic Chaubin

    For high-resolution images please contact [email protected]

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