Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art
Or, the coolest thing ever inspired by a handbag.
This is a mobile exhibition venue (actually a 700sqm pavillion) designed by Hadid for Chanel, which will be touring the world, kicking off this week on a rooftop in Hong Kong. From there it will be taken apart and rebuilt in Tokyo on the second leg of a two-year world tour that will take it to New York, London, Moscow and Paris.
Chanel commissioned around 20 artists, including Yoko Ono and the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, to produce works for the show loosely based on its famous bag. The artists were taken to Coco Chanel’s Paris apartment and shown how the bags were made. The resulting works include sound installations, sculpture and video.
There’s a nice rendering of the design on Youtube
and also a short clip of what it actually looks like in situ
