Studio Job - Chinese Pagoda

Studio Job was founded in 1998 by Job Smeets in the renaissance spirit, combining traditional and modern techniques to produce once-in-a-lifetime objects. At once highly specific and yet entirely universal, personally expressive and yet experimental, Studio Job has crafted a body of work that draws upon classical, popular and contemporary design and highly visual and sculptural art.

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Chinese Pagoda

Studio Job’s sculpture for the art show “Utopias/Heterotopia: Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition” in Wuzhen, China. The room sculpture based on the Great Wall of China featured a crystal encrusted globe made form over a million hand-placed Swarovski crystals.

  • Year
  • 2016
  • Material
  • Wood, paint print, Swarovski crystals, metal
  • Location
  • Wuzhen, China

Chinese Pagoda

Studio Job created the Pagoda, in their continuous style of transcending boundaries between art, architecture and design.

The participating artists provided new proposals specically for the exhibition in Wuzhen 2016; with some artists commissioning local workers to assemble site-specic works, thus adding to them a avour of Wuzhen, one of China’s ten most important historic riverside towns.

 

Due to dierences in culture, gender, and social background, artists chose dierent focal points. Their understandings of the theme and their own technical backgrounds helped make abstract international and contemporary art more specic and visual.

 

The installation features a small scale model coming out of a white case in front of the full scale one that features a Swarovski crystal globe hanging in the middle with over a million hand placed crystals.

 

The exhibition totalled 130 works, from such artists as Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei in a wide range of media such as installation, performance, sculpture, sound, video, and animation.

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