Gallery FUMI will host a “Pop-Up” exhibition in Porto Cervo, celebrating the gallery’s long-standing relationship with the Sardinian destination and its central Promenade du Port location.“Set against the spectacular backdrop of the seaside scenery, the show marks a significant first-time collaboration with Athens-based design studio Voukenas Petrides. Driven by the desire to test the limits of form and function, the works in the exhibition, belonging to their new ‘Gypsum’ series (2018), are striking in their compositional minimalism, informed by the designers’ fascination with architecture, materiality and space,” the gallery says.The selection is further punctuated by an ambitious suite of glass artworks by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche. The subject of internationally acclaimed museum exhibitions, most recently Glasstressat 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Gasch-Muche creates visually arresting works, which, unparalleled in execution, ignite a dramatic interplay of light and shadow.Displayed within an elegantly curated setting, other standout works include projects by atelier lachaert dhanis, Glithero, Federico Uribe, Francesco Perini, Johannes Nagel, Lara Bohinc, Lukas Wegwerth, Max Lamb, Rowan Mersh, Sam Orlando Miller, and Study O Portable.Both of the Belgian artist duo atelier lachaert dhanis — Sofie Lachaert and Luc d’Hanis,  graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp. Out of their years of artistic collaboration, they created a symbiotic language that seamlessly interweaves conceptual, applied and visual arts, philosophy and craftsmanship.Glithero are British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who met and studied at the Royal College of Art. From their studio in London they create product, furniture, and time-based installations that give birth to unique and wonderful products.Federico Uribe transforms common objects, such as sneakers, into colorful figures that stretch the limits of a given material’s original use and value by using readymade materials in innovative ways; golf balls, for example, serve as the fleece of sheep in some sculptures.Francesco Perini was born at San Giovanni Valdarno, just outside of Florence, in 1966, in a territory deeply rooted in the noble Tuscan tradition of craftsmanship.The work of Berlin-based designer Lukas Wegwerth explores tensions — the tension between the natural and the artificial, between organic growth and creative intervention, and between the unexpected and the controllable.Based in London, Lara Bohinc is one of the most innovative and exciting jewelers working in fashion today. She has designed fine jewelry for Cartier in Paris, Gucci, Lanvin, Exte, Guy Laroche, Julien McDonald and Costume National.Lamb merges different hand processes within his unique works: the wire-cut slabs of expanded polystyrene of his ‘Poly’ and ‘Poly Scrap’ furniture series are assembled into chair forms then coated with high-gloss spray-painted plastic; the eccentricity and raw grain texture of a cleft chestnut stool is finished with the highest quality lacquer, applied by the Urushi master craftsmen of Wajima in Japan.Rowan Mersh’s experience in experimental textiles is immediately apparent in his wall-mounted, sculptural assemblages, which use hard construction to achieve a soft aesthetic.British sculptor Sam Orlando Miller grew up surrounded by silver and the highly skilled practitioners of the family silversmithing business. He uses craftsmanship as a means of thinking, and resolving issues through the manipulation of materials.Study O Portable is a London-based design practice which started creating accessories and other small objects. The studio was founded by Bernadette Deddens from the Netherlands and Tetsuo Mukai from Japan, who met while studying at ArtEz in Arnhem, the Netherlands.The exhibition will be on view from August 6 through August 26, 2018 at Gallery FUMI, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy.For details, visit: https://galleryfumi.com/                Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/                              Founder: Louise Blouin Read more