Musée Mobile Art

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Mobile Art is a travelling contemporary art museum designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid on an original idea by Karl Lagerfeld and built on the initiative of the Chanel High-Cut House. The artists were selected by Fabrice Bousteau, editor of Beaux Arts magazine. The soundtrack was recorded by actress Jeanne Moreau.

The size of this museum is 29 m wide, 45 m long, 6 m high, with a total surface area of 720 m2. An access terrace spreads over 128 m2 and the central atrium-well of light extends over 65 m2. The museum is in fact a precise assembly of 700 unique pieces with a maximum size of 3 cm thick and 2.25 m long, in order to be transportable in container.

The material used is a polymer sandwich and zenithal openings are air cushions. Once dismantled, the Mobile Art fills exactly 56 containers and its assembly requires 15 days of handling work. It contains twenty installations and works of art inspired by the mythical bag 2-55 and produced by so many artists of different nationalities.

Among them: photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, Daniel Buren...