NES - Table lamp - Steel - Darklight 26 - Sculpture

Darklight #26
(13x13x50.5 cm)
Luminescent sculpture
2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture
Sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity.

Contemporary design lamp. Luminescent sculpture. Signed unique work by the artist NES, French female sculptor working in metal.
Emits warm ambient light.
Mint condition, excellent condition. Supplied 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. Supplied without bulb (flame-shaped elongated bulb recommended to screw in from the bottom)
Good functioning and safety verified
The item will be carefully packaged and shipped via Colissimo with tracking and insurance.

Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal parts. Her work has a strong presence and a distinct identity rooted in a baroque Universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on, she turned to artistic creation. In 2003, while completing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, she discovered the art of working metal during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experienced as a revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She undertook a qualifying training in metallurgical engineering at IFIP in 2004, followed by a 2006 specialization as an industrial and spatial welder technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation as a self-taught artist, she completed 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 press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program run by the Ministry of Youth. For her this was a real catalyst propelling her into professionalism. From then on, she was regularly commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at 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 show. As a 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 for design of art from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal at 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 of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of humans to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at once. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has sought to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of softness that hides what humanity can carry in terms of violence. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the capacity of man to hide the horror he buries deep inside, in order to highlight the journey from shadow to light.”
By liberating her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the power 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 goal: to give back a soul to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts, treating hostile materials until they are artistically guided toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from chainsaws, earned her the press nickname “the iron lacemaker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of the plastic language, misappropriation of materials.
“The questions that fuel me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may 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 free oneself 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 in 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 Beaux Arts Salon 2018 (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)
Capa Esculturas Gallery Exhibition (12/09–21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05–09/06/14, Louveigné, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “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” (6/03–22/03/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent sculpture display “Carpe Diem”: private collection of the 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 “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (12/05–30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for the international Francophonie Games competition. Residency. Intervention at a school in Saïda. (27/09/09–06/10/09, UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanese (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the city of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent exposed in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Juvenile Judicial Protection (DIRPJJ) – Southwest - (Trophies for the “Parcours du goût” -(13.5x17x35 cm-11.5x16x29.5 cm-11.5x14.5x26.5 cm)-(07/23))
Acquisition of the sculpture “La Force d'âme” by the town of Vic-le-Comte and the Departmental Council of Puy-de-Dôme (Le Trampoline, place de l'Olme, Vic-le-Comte (63) (11/13/21))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Departmental Council of Charente-Maritime (Atrium of the Maison de la Charente, La Rochelle (17) (08/20/18))
Acquisition of the sculpture “The Dark Tower” by the town of Aiguillon (47) (12/10/16))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Les Trois Portes” by the Beychac et Caillou Media Library/Art Library (10/05/16))
Public commission: Lacanau town hall – sculpture created during the urban residence and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03–12/05/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission of UEAJ 33. Practical training with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission of the Gironde General Council. “Mission Agenda 21” Trophies (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission of UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the application restaurant “Le P'tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (05/09–11/05/12; 14–15/16/05/12; 05–06/07–08/06/12; 11–12/13–14–15–18–19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission: Avensan town hall: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Avensan town hall (33))
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration on 10/09/11, Beychac et Caillau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical training with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project completed with the participation of children (2009, Avensan town hall (33))