Studio Job: Industry
26th November '08 - 10th january '09
Mitterrand+Cramer
52, rue des Bains, Geneva
Mitterrand+Cramer present « Industry », an exhibition featuring the latest work by Design duo Studio Job.
From the seven works exhibited, five are marquetry objects: a cabinet, a screen, a dressoir, a table and a pedestal inlaid with white dyed bird’s eye maple and black dyed tulip tree veneers.
Depicting an “end of the world” scenario where man is clearly guilty, Studio Job have created a collection of objects, 5 of which are inlayed with subjects that act as a deadly inventory of our capitalism.
White dyed bird’s eye maple helicopters, nuclear power plants, high voltage pylons, guns, bullets, hunting knives, submarines, satellite dishes, tanks, missiles, bombs, radio towers, cranes, planes, grenades, tools, AK-47’s, sperms, depiction of surviving animals (snakes, flies, cockroaches, birds, butterflies, mice, salamanders) as well as skeletons of others unable to escape (turtles, lizards, toucans, antilopes, taurus, fish, ostrich) decorate the black dyed tulip tree veneers, representing a rebellion against the absence of social-political implications.
Although different compositions are used on each object they all share a Rorschach aspect as if a mirror had been placed in the absolute center of the piece. The installation is completed with a 24K gilded bronze hanging Mirror and Centrepiece.
Studio Job, Industry, Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva
Studio Job, Industry, Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva
Studio Job, Industry, Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva
