About the Artist

Founded in 2000 by Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, both graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven
now based in Antwerp and the Netherlands. They redefine the decorative arts for the contemporary age.
Their collaboration has created highly expressive, mainly one-off or limited edition works, from the outset.
Often cast in bronze or, later, crafted from laser-cut marquetry, the physical potential and malleability of the
materials they use is pushed to the hilt. Their approach is more in keeping with that of traditional guilds than
anything industrial. For Studio Job, creation is pre-eminent over definition. Smeets describes it thus:

“Unlike most, we are probably not coming from Modernism. Studio Job’s contribution is that we have
rediscovered a lost path. Consciously and carefully, we are positioning decorative arts in the twenty-first century.
Is that design? Whatever. Is that art? Whatever, really.”

Opulent, intricate and ironic, Studio Job combine an extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship with extreme
ornamentation. They reference both the traditional and the topical, the organic and the artificial. This narrative
conveys a tension between good and evil, exploring the different facets of each. Their iconography is at once
heraldic and cartoon-like, monumental and yet somehow primitive. Due to this combination of elements, Studio
Job’s style has become synonymous with the term ‘neo-gothic’. This style is placed within an enigmatic,
intellectual framework by the number and complexity of symbols and signifiers it conveys.

 

 

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Established in 2005 by Parisian entrepreneurs and art devotees Loic Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, Carpenters Workshop Gallery is known for its discovery of bold and iconic design-art. Like many of the artists it fosters, the gallery takes a young, fresh and dynamic approach, primarily following its own aesthetic. They exhibit unique and limited edition works both by emerging and established artists, and designers.

Carpenters Workshop GaIlery is committed to making ambitious ideas work, through its daring and integrity it has cultivated strong relationships with the artists it works with. Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents the work of established artists including: Atelier Van Lieshout, Maarten Baas, Sebastian Brajkovic, Andrea Branzi, Wendell Castle, Demakersvan, Ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, Johanna Grawunder, Mathieu Lehanneur, Frederik Molenschot, Nendo, Marc Quinn, Random International, Pablo Reinoso, Robert Stadler, Studio Job & Charles Trevelyan.

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