David Gill Gallery, London presents an exhibition titled “Intuitive Gestures” by the kings of avant-garde design Fredrikson Stallard.The title of the exhibition references the studio’s instinctive design approach. Since founding their studio in 1995, Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard have become renowned for their unique ability to transform materials into otherworldly forms through a combination of digital and craft processes.“Fredrikson Stallard’s take is to allow the material’s natural qualities to come through but in a strictly controlled way. We exert our dominance on nature while allowing its true qualities to exist,” said Fredrikson. The duo continually test the limits of what might be possible to achieve with acrylic, steel, bronze, and alabaster, with results nothing short of spellbinding.“Antarctica” is a new dining and coffee table made entirely of glacial blocks of clear acrylic. “We often work with translucent materials such as glass and acrylic because of our intense relationship with refraction and reflection. We create not only an inner life within the works themselves but also in the way we use reflection within an environment as a way of painting with light,” said Stallard. Also on view is a set of new blackened steel and bronze shelves entitled “Scriptus” that measures 5 meters high. The wavering shelves that stretch across its width are like gentle strokes of hand-drawn calligraphy. “Our work with metals has their soul in the intense masculine depths of the raw material such as mass, surface, and patinations,” Stallard explained of their mysterious surface.The exhibition marks 11 years of collaboration between David Gill and Fredrikson Stallard, and will be on view through September 28, 2017. Fredrikson said, “They [David Gill Gallery] have supported our dreams and ambition from the first day we started to work together – not by tying our hands as slaves to commercialism, but by opening our eyes to the immense possibilities and other dimensions achievable in the progression of our work,” noted Wallpaper.   Read more