CHANEL’s  “UFO exhibit”
Star Ferry Car Park,Central HK @ 27 February – 5 April, 2008

If you wanted a venue to start a traveling art exhibition that was transported in cargo containers and paid homage to a handbag, you couldn’t do much better than Hong Kong.
Of the 3 million-plus cargo containers offloaded onto the city’s docks this year, 56 carried a snap-together mobile gallery that will tour the world showing works inspired by Chanel’s padded bag. “Mobile Art” gathers the works of some 20 artists, including Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and Yoko Ono, widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, in a flying-saucer-shaped pavilion designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.
When Hadid and Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel got together to realize their dream of a traveling museum, they named Fabrice Bousteau, editor-in-chief of Beaux Arts magazine, as the curator.
“It’s a sort of UFO that lands for a number of weeks in the middle of some of the largest cities in Asia, the U.S. and Europe,” said Bousteau, in a statement from Chanel. Read the rest of this entry »