The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg
2007
Artist book
Edition of 1,000 copies
Published by Book Works
and Casco Art Institute
Book Works Fabrications series
Edited by Gerrie van Noord
The artist book marks the first English translation and publication of Albert Meister's 1976 fictional text "La soi-disant utopie du centre Beaubourg." Written under the pseudonym Gustave Affeulpin, Meister's text coincided with the opening of the Centre Beaubourg in Paris and imagined a radical libertarian space existing seventy-six stories below. Luca Frei undertook this project to revitalise a significant cultural treatise and reflect on his subjective role in transferring ideas from one cultural framework and era to another.
Further reading
Elizabeth Schambelan, “The view from below,” Artforum, 2007