NES - Tableau n°4

Wall sculpture

Tableau No. 4

(27x24.5x3.5 cm) - 2025

Weight 1,644 kgs

Unique piece signed on the back by the sculptor artist NES
Steel - Shielded electrode welding technique - Anti-rust treatment
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity

Wall-mounted sculpture, possible to install in two different positions thanks to two long grooves at the back of the panel
Brand new

Artwork shipped in Colissimo with insured tracking

Career

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist living in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from reclaimed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
From an early age this young woman pursued artistic creation. It was in 2003, while finishing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovered metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She completed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then a 2006 specialization as a welder technician with an industrial and space-oriented vocation. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation in a self-taught manner, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works, quickly noticed by the art world, establish themselves with a strong uniqueness and earn several articles in the press (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Youth Challenge, a program implemented by the Ministry of Youth. For her, this was a true catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the international contest of the Francophone Games 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 rating during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“When I was 5, I visited with my parents the torture museum under the Inquisition in 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 shown to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of softness that hides what humanity can hold 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 hides deep inside, in order to highlight the shift from shadow to light.”
By releasing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the strength of metal to take 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 lace of steel…
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 guiding them artistically toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “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 each person can have a share of monstrosity within 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 defy appearances?
How to live with this dark side of the soul? Meditate, accept, deny, rebel, give up?”

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residency (09/09-06/11/21; residence: 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 di 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 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, Louverdigne, 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” (08/04-20/04/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón Internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (06/03-22/03/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent display of the sculpture “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 art symposium