Netherlands-based Studio Job has created a curved bronze-and-glass sculpture named The Embrace for Dutch art institute KunstKerk as a humourous update on traditional stained-glass windows.
The largest sculpture ever created by Studio Job, The Embrace was based on the outline of the facade of KunstKerk, which is located in a former church in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
The large bronze sculpture is located in front of the KunstKerk art institute in Dordrecht
"The architect, Andries Lugten, and the developer, Dudok, asked me to create something to help with their proposal for the redevelopment," Studio Job founder Job Smeets told Dezeen.
"So my idea was to use the back of the building, which was an unused space but had potential to be a connection between the art church and the art cinema." Smeets hand-crafted the 13-metre-tall sculpture, described by the studio as a "surrealist take on classical church windows," from bronze and pigmented glass.
The final design features two undulating "windows" that seem to stretch towards each other above a smaller, central window.
Each is housed within the same large, textured bronze frame, which culminates in a decorative two-metre high cockerel sculpture at the top weighing 300 kilograms.
It was designed to be a modern take on traditional stained-glass windows
The choice to use bronze was based on the fact that the studio has often worked with the material, which Smeets said was also both complete...