Culture Chanel: The Sense of Spaces
Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in the South Korean city of Seoul will house the latest edition of the Culture Chanel exhibition.
Titled The Sense of Places, this exhibition has been entrusted to Jean-Louis Froment, the curator of the previous editions of Culture Chanel. The exhibition has been held successively in Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum for Fine Arts in 2007, in Shanghai at the Museum of Contemporary Art and in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China in 2011, and more recently in 2013 at the Opera House in Guangzhou and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
The Sense of Places approaches Chanel’s creative language through the locations that greatly inspired Gabrielle Chanel. Each of the exhibition’s ten sequences acts as a particular landmark in Mademoiselle Chanel’s life story. The exhibition seeks to highlight the strong influence these places she lived in and loved had in forming her stylistic language.
The DDP museum was inaugurated in March 2014. Home to a selection of public spaces including exhibition and conference halls, the space was designed to act as a creative hub.
Culture Chanel – The Sense of Places will be on display from Saturday 30 August until Sunday 5 October 2014.
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