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Studio Job
"I think that artists should have their own version of freedom of speech — freedom of form." — Job Smeets
Soulmates Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel founded Studio Job in 2000. In the fifteen years since they graduated from the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven and formed the studio, they have become contemporary cultural pioneers who are slowly revolutionizing common preconceptions about the distinct realms of art and design.
Striving towards the creation of Gesamtkunstwerk, which translates poorly to “aesthetics” but more precisely means a ‘synthesis of the arts’ or “universal artwork”, Studio Job often reference the German composer Richard Wagner’s aesthetic ideals in their practice as they seek and move toward the clearest and most profound expression of the stories and mythologies with which they engage and bring to life.
At once highly specific and yet entirely universal, personally expressive and yet experimental, Studio Job is crafting a body of work that draws upon classical, popular, and contemporary design and visual art. Job likes to call their style ‘New Gothic’ as evidenced by the perfectionism and uniqueness that have become one of the studio’s defining features. Nynke often speaks of the work by referencing a symphony orchestra, aligning their process of creation with the way that a cohesive piece of music is created from an abundance of different sounds.
The studio itself includes traditional craftsmen and contemporary industrial professionals from sculptors, furniture makers, and painters to specialists in cast bronze, stained-glass, laser cutting, and 3D printing. The flexibility of application and realization frees the studio from the confines of any one particular medium and allows for the artwork to speak for itself on an aesthetic and conceptual level prior independent of its physicality.
Studio Job has collaborated with various like-minded brands, including Bulgari, Swarovski, Bisazza, Venini, Land Rover, Viktor & Rolf, and Moooi.
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