Dutch design duo Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job are showing a new series of work titled Industry at Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The exhibition includes highly ornamented pieces which contain dark, satirical, and bravely confrontational comments on the modern world.

STUDIO JOB, 18th March – 8th May 2010

CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY

3 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HE (020 3051 5939)

The Industry series indulges in elaborate imagery of death and destruction, represented in bold silhouettes in white maple inlaid within Indian rosewood. Animals and insects mingle with industrial buildings, warfare weaponry and other such products of capital. Featuring hummingbirds, seahorses, dragonflies, skeletal figures, and butterflies alongside tanks, helicopters, pylons, smoke, grenades, fighter planes and gasmarks, the viewer is forced to recognise the uncomfortable relationship between the natural (or organic), and the manmade (or destructive).

The irony comes not simply from their opposition but also from the fact that the natural and the artificial are very much cohabitants in the twenty first century.

To compliment the five Industry pieces (details shown above) and further develop the dialogue, Carpenters Workshop Gallery has commissioned Studio Job to create two new light-works entitled Crane Lamp and Wrecking Ball Lamp (sketch above).