THE SHIPPING

A bubble-gum-pink office chair swivels against a desert-like landscape. A table of bulbous proportions standing on three legs and one sphere floats and twists in the wind. A tangled twist of drawers and legs in metallic opens and shuts. These are just a few of the digital furniture pieces created by the artist and visual designer Andrés Reisinger for the collection “The Shipping.”

That series was made up of 10 digital objects, five of which had physical counterparts. That balance of virtual and material is at the heart of Reisinger’s studio. While embracing the ever-expanding possibilities of technology in design, he also explores the possibility of bringing his otherworldly—but not too otherworldly—designs to real life.

Reisinger’s designs and dreamscapes have one foot in this realm and one in the metaverse, offering a context to imagine the possibilities of what’s next.

“For most of history, our understanding of reality, of cultural experience, has been tethered to the physical world. Corporeality, temporality, and tangibility were what gave something its value, whether attending a vernissage or owning an art object. Over the past decades, that has begun to change. Technological advancements, cultural shifts, and, more recently, societal necessity, have accelerated the rise of the digital world, ushering in new modes of creation: playful, flexible, and limitless. The physical and the digital are gradually merging toward unity. Their fusion points to a new hybrid era of extended reality, in which art and culture are freed from spatial and temporal constraints, and the rules of experience are rewritten.” Reisinger.

Release Date: February 19, 2021