NES - Table lamp - Steel - Darklight 26 - Sculpture

Darklight #26
(13x13x50,5 cm)
Luminous sculpture
2025
Unique signed piece
Stainless steel
Varnished sculpture
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.

Contemporary design lamp. Luminous sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French sculptor specializing in metal.
Gives off a warm ambient light.
Brand new, excellent condition. Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cable with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb (flame-shaped elongated bulb recommended to screw in from underneath)
Good functioning and safety verified
The item will be carefully packaged and shipped via Colissimo and insured with tracking.

Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recycled metal parts. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawing from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on, this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. It is in 2003, while finishing university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovers metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experiences as a revelation, leads her to redirect her studies. She completes a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then specialized in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autodidactically, she completes her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, standing out for their strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently solicited at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the International Francophonie Games competition, and exhibited at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. In 2010, she was invited to UNESCO in Paris where she presented her work in a solo exhibition. As national laureate of the Envie d’Agir program, she received the 2nd prize in cultural creation awarded by the High Commissioner for Youth. At the regional level Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize in art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot valuation during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At five years old, I visited with my parents the torture museum under the Inquisition of Santillana del Mar. The capacity of humans to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was scared by the ingenuity with which man has managed to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry of violence within it. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to conceal the horror he buries deep inside, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By freeing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the strength of metal to lead the viewer into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy forms emerging from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to steel lace…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge toward the same objective: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, treating hostile materials until artistically guiding them toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the nickname by the press as the “iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, misappropriation of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone can have a part of monstrosity in them? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception to ease this suffering, to stop concealing this dark part of ourselves? How to break free from prejudices and challenge appearances? How to live with this dark side of the soul? Meditate, accept, deny, rebel, renounce?”

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residency (09/09-06/11/21; residency: 21-25/09/21, Le Trampoline, Vic-le-Comte (63))
Exhibition and selection at the “3rd International Sculpture Competition” of the Biennale Europea d’Arte Fabbrile de Stia (02/09-05/09/21, Stia, Italy)
International symposium “Metal sympozium” and exhibition on the “Metal Trail” (11/06/18-15/06/18, Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Exhibition during the SNBA 2018 Beaux Arts Fair (13/12-16/12/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at the H.R GIGER Museum (17/10-23/10/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Gallery Capa Esculturas exhibition (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05-09/06/14, Louveigné, Belgium)
Exhibition at “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (07/05-12/05/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at “FIARTE 2012” (8/04-20/04/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (06/03-22/03/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Carpe Diem”: private collection of Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (from 14/05/11, Corniche El Manara, P.O.Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of fresh works created during the art symposium