Tableau n°5

Wall Sculpture

Tableau No. 5

(24.5x26x3.5 cm) - 2025

Signed unique piece
Steel – Shielded arc welding technique – Anti-rust treatment

Weight 1.607 kgs

Signed back-by the artist-sculptor NES
Steel – Shielded arc welding technique – Anti-rust treatment
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity

Tableau sculpture to hang on the wall, with the possibility to install it in two different positions thanks to two long slots at the back of the piece
New condition

Artwork delivered by Colissimo with tracking and insured

Background

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 pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe, heavily inspired by punk iconography.
From a young age, she oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, as she completed her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovered metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This revelation led her to rethink her studies. She completed 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 as a self-taught artist, she completed her training in 2008 by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician.
Her works, quickly picked up by the art world, stand out for their strong singularity and have earned 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 that propelled her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently sought after 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 exhibition. 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 art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot rating during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

"At five, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of a human being to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which humans have demonstrated to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of softness that hides what humanity can harbor in its violence. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the capacity of man to conceal the horror he buries deep within himself, in order to highlight the transition 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 draw the viewer into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy forms born 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, transforming hostile materials into something artistically softened and light. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, has earned her the press nickname the “iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, subversion of materials.
"The questions that move me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a part of monstrosity in themselves? What are the limits of extreme human behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception to alleviate this suffering, to stop hiding 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, forgo?"

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residency (09/09–06/11/21; residency: 09/21–09/25/21, Le Trampoline, Vic-le-Comte, 63)
Exhibition and selection at the “3rd International Sculpture Competition” of the Biennale Europea d’Arte Fabbrile di Stia (02/09–05/09/21, Stia, Italy)
International symposium “Metal sympozium” and exhibition on the “Metal Trail” (11/06–15/06/18, Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Exhibition during the 2018 SNBA Fine Arts Show (12/13–12/16/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at the H.R. GIGER Museum (10/17–10/23/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Capa Esculturas gallery exhibition (09/12–10/21/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (05/09–06/09/14, Louvergny, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (05/07–05/12/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at “FIARTE 2012” (04/08–04/20/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón Internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (03/06–03/22/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection at Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (from 05/14/11, Corniche El Manara, P.O. Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of fresh works produced during the art symposium