Chanel Mobile Art Show
How long must we wait to see the much anticipated Chanel Mobile Art Show. It looks like another year. The iconic container is not due to land on our shores until June 2009 – how will I contain my excitement until then?
The show, featuring works based on Chanel’s iconic quilted handbags is housed in a giant, UFO-like, futuristic pavilion designed by the award-winning British architect Zaha Hadid, who is designing London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre. The 180-ton temporary structure was built in Yorkshire in northern England and has to be painstakingly dismantled and reconstructed in 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 based on its famous bag. The artists were taken to Coco Chanel’s Paris apartment and shown how the bags were made in order to inspire their creations. The resulting work is an imaginative mix of photographic, video, sound and sculptural installations.
It has been parked on a rooftop next to Hong Kong’s famous harbour and is now in residence at the Yoyogi Stadium Olympic Plaza in Tokyo. For those that can’t wait, like myself, get a cheap flight across the pond and experience the show in New York from October. Otherwise it’ll be a long winter until the grand unveiling in London next summer.
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