Andrés Reisinger explores the futuristic realm with Odyssey at Nilufar Gallery

Earlier this year, Andrés Reisinger captured the attention of the design world with The Shipping, a collection of born-digital furniture that announced the arrival of a new mode of practice. With this new presentation at Nilufar Gallery entitled Odyssey–an allusion back to the historical origins of epic narrative - he extends his reach further still, offering a beguiling and complex interplay of virtual and physical experience.

Three furniture works appear in the exhibition, both in the guise of fabricated objects and as the charismatic subjects of accompanying films. These seem to document other worlds, suggestively free of attachment to any partícular time and space. The overall effect is to plunge the visitor into a futuristic realm, staging an encounter with new narrative possibilities for design. Immediately compelling as a visual, immersive experience, Reisinger's work also operates at other levels, sensitively exploring the emotional terrain and theoretical implications of digital-led design. This exhibition at Nilufar–Reisinger's most ambitious to date-further establishes him as an essential new voice in contemporary design dialogue, who is leading the way to the future.

The pieces of the Odyssey collection are configured as a union between physical and digital, in fact the physical work cannot exist without its digital image. All the pieces realized by the designer sold out within the first days, demonstrating that innovation and digital representation can really be a new focus of interest for the gallery.

Complicated Sofa

The surface of the ground, covered with moss, is marked by several craters resulting from collisions with meteoroids and comets. To the human eye, the irregular surface appears as graphite with an emerald green hue. Bright silver spots emerge, revealing fine particles of crushed rock and metallike agglomerates. Weather conditions are extreme and fluctuate between hot and cold peaks, as there is no atmosphere to retain heat. For this reason there is currently no living being. The functional sculpture is made from elastic fabric and recycled polystyrene (EPS)

Crowded Elevator

The surface is characterised by mountains, valleys and plains. The mountains look like large blocks of frozen water, covered with snow while the plains observed on the surface seem to be made of frozen nitrogen gas and show no craters. The temperatures are extremely cold. There are some architectural buildings scattered in brutalist style, testimony of a past life. It is possible that volcanic eruptions of ice have erased many settlements as well as the climate has extinguished the civilizations once present. The functional sculpture is made from Inox, leather and expanded polystyrene (EPS)

Bold Chair

A hot and dusty world with a thin atmosphere blanketing a landscape of arenic soils and dried Eryngo flower fields. Vivid aurorae are generated by a strong magnetic field, which It pervades the horizon with a lavender tint. The geological study of the territory suggests the presence of an ancient network of river valleys. Now the climate is hot and dry. The largest object in the asteroid belt now completely dried, is the only tangible testimony of the past life. The temperatures, pressure and materials that characterize this environment are too hot and volatile to allow organisms to adapt. The functional sculpture is made from wood, fiberglass, fabric and expanded polystyrene (EPS).