ABOUT
Thierry Job is a French artist who has worked and lived in Barcelona, New York and Bordeaux, and is currently settled in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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He uses materials without discrimination, materials such as iron, wood, aluminum, bronze, cardboard and resin. His themes are varied: transportation, architecture, animals and the human form. His sculptures express lightness, mobility and often humor.
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He often designs furniture, lamps and useful objects. For several years, he operated a gallery-boutique, Lulared, in Bordeaux, where he features his designs and collaborated with Cha Cha, an artist shop in Barcelona.
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Thierry's artistic career began in Spain after having graduated from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. He was an instant success and was named amongst the most noteworthy artists of 1982. His work is in the collections of The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. as well is in Barcelona, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. In the U.S, he was commissioned to do a 40 foot sculpture for the Packard Building in Detroit.
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He is currently working towards a show for the Octavia Gallery in New Orleans for 2023, focusing on his surprising take on superheroes. This will be a joint show with his wife Carmen Almon.
SCULPTURE
sculpture
can lose its
gravity.
Pere Joan on Thierry Job's work, Mareas, Intervenciones Sobre El Espacio
90 x 70 x 15 cm
GHOSTWRITER
Kissinger’s biography, chromed steel, synthetic grass, magnets
60 x 60 x 30 cm
SICARIO
tornillo wood, plastic toys, truck ornaments (horse and horns), belt buckles, acrylic paint, silver leaf, synthetic grass, ex votos
PICASSO
52 x 33 x 33 cm
AND BRAQUE
WERE FRIENDS
tornillo wood, steel, magnets, acrylic
75 x 80 x 20 cm
BREATH
nylon, steel, wood, tinplate, magnets, acrylic
70 x 65 x 30 cm
SURFING ALONG ALONE
mesquite wood, chromed steel, plexiglass, diagrams, magnets, enamel
65 x 25 x 35 cm
PHYTOSANITARY:
JACK THE GARDENER
Steel, wood, magnets, steel ball
60 x 40 x 35 cm
ROYALTY
wood, acrylic, gold leaf
60 x 30 x 20 cm
polyester resin, translucid blue, magnets, steel, magnetic supports for cellphone, glitter, silver leaf
ARE WE ALONE
IN THE UNIVERSE?
40 x 40 x 65 cm
CHAMPION!
ebony, tornillo wood, steel, magnets, aluminum, resin, survival blanket, acrylic paint, wicker, tin
51 x 125 x 45 cm
THUNDERBIRDS
pine wood, enamel, chromed steel, silver leaf, gold leaf
80 x 20 x 35 cm
DOCTOR FREUD'S PATIENT
transparent polyester, pink resin, cow leather, chromed metals
98 x 40 x 15 cm
VENUS
pine wood, steel ball, silicium sand, glitter, motorcycle air filter, ebony
20 x 20 x 9 cm
JANE ASLEEP
painted bronze, ebony
40 x 40 x 40 cm
AI, ELIZA, FOR $79.99 PER YEAR I LOVE YOU
polyester resin, gold leaf
19 x 18 x 14 cm
MR. A
painted bronze, ebony
20 x 25 x 8 cm
LONE RANGER
painted bronze, ebony
MILOU,
SNOWY,
MILÚ,
50 x 39 x 20 cm
polyester resin, ebony, marble
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ノ
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21 x 15 x 20 cm
LIDER MAXIMO
resin, rubber, cement, bamboo roots, steel ball, pigment, gold leaf
Thierry Job is not an
architect;
he is a spectator of
architecture.
He is interested in the occupation of space through architecture, whether it be as shelter, as a monument to faith or power, or as simply functional.
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120 x 110 x 61 cm
328,000,000,
ONE PART OF THE AMERICAS
steel, wood, nylon, acrylic
LAKE
97 x 70 x 50 cm
PONTCHATRTRAIN
steel, lead, nylon, acrylic
180 x 123 x 176 cm
BEACH TOWN
wood, corrugated sheet, steel
51 x 125 x 45 cm
HIGHWAY EXIT
650
steel, wood, survival blanket, acrylic
41 x 60 x 40 cm
MY HOUSE
wood, steel, plastic pipe, acrylic
30 x 212 x 30 cm
MOBILE HOME
steel, aluminum, wood, paper, acrylic
75 x 157 x 60 cm
CROSSING
steel, acrylic
61 x 21 x 31 cm
SCAFFOLDING
wood, marble
93 x 75 x 51 cm
NOMAD
palm tree, wood, ochre pigment
55 x 75 x 45 cm
MOTEL
steel, wood, acrylic
40 x 35 x 10 cm
WINTER SLEEP
wood, acrylic
40 x 40 x 40 cm
MOVIE SET: "THE LAST SUNSET"
mesquite wood, wicker, sandpaper, acrylic
PACKARD PROJECT
In 2015, Thierry Job was approached by the developer of Detroit's old Packard Plant, the vestige of what was once the epicenter of the automobile industry. The task: to create a piece capturing both the rebirth and the history of the Motor City. After working on a dozen models, the sculpture that was finally chosen, a golden monument of two tons crossed by a flash of hot red, was fabricated in collaboration with a Detroit metalworking shop.
It was a very hard project for me to make. Packard was a very conservative car, the Rolls Royce of America, but I didn’t want to represent it like that. I like better the late 1940s, so I chose a model from then. I tried to preserve the genius of Packard. I just took the lines.
