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Karl Lagerfeld, the late fashion icon known for his avant-garde vision, left an indelible mark not only in fashion but also in the realm of design. His fascination with the bold, geometric aesthetics of the Memphis design movement is the focus of an upcoming exhibition at Almine Rech Monaco. Titled Francesco Vezzoli presents: KARL GOES TO MEMPHIS Tribute to a historic encounter in Monte Carlo, the exhibition will showcase Lagerfeld’s extensive collection of Memphis furniture alongside archival imagery and personal artifacts that illuminate his unique aesthetic sensibility.Founded in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass, the Memphis Group disrupted conventional design with its vibrant colors, asymmetrical shapes and playful irreverence. Lagerfeld, captivated by its radical departure from traditionalism,...

Emma Webster’s solo exhibition, Vapors at Perrotin Hong Kong marks her debut in the city and features 11 ethereal landscape paintings, created during the January wildfires in Los Angeles. Through misty grays and delicate brushstrokes, her work explores themes of impending disaster and aftermath, blending plein-air landscape, still life and virtual reality into a new artistic genre. The title draws on the fleeting nature of vapor itself, symbolizing the transient qualities of change and the collision between the inner and outer worlds.Webster’s artistic process merges traditional methods with advanced technology, combining sculpture studies, virtual reality and digital rendering. She begins by crafting wax and plaster objects, which are scanned and incorporated into digital dioramas to crea...

London-based Toxic Arts is on a mission to shake up the contemporary art experience. Helmed by Harry Barratt and Alex Isthikhar, the online gallery is trading traditional white walls for something grittier, more immersive and delightfully raw. Housed in an old industrial space, just blocks beyond London’s financial district you’ll find their latest group exhibition, The Garage, showcasing an international lineup of 20 emerging voices, each as provocative, thoughtful and electric as the next.Much like their debut show, Public Life, which transformed the former public toilet-turned-nightclub into an exhibition space, The Garage embraces its industrial backdrop — something akin to a "disused Underground station" — as an extension of the work on display. “It’s got a really factory kind of feel...

For hand papermakers, an “occlusion” describes when strands of hair or flecks of dust find their way onto a sheet, disrupting its otherwise clean existence by an unexpected obstruction. In Lyric Shen’s latest solo presentation at Silke Lindner, the artist delves into this concept as a metaphor for how (often unintended) experiences become embedded in the greater fabric of life, exploring exile and transference through intricate veils of ink and paper.There is an occlusion pairs the ancient craft of porcelain and stoneware with contemporary techniques like inkjet printing and digital media. Underscoring ideas of memory, privacy and the passage of time, the exhibition culminates in the heart of the gallery with a poignant reconstruction of a room from a Japanese colonial house that once belo...