NES - Clé de sol

Treble clef No. 4
20x10x32 cm
Weight: 528 g

2025

Varnish

Artwork signed on the base by NES, French female sculptor working in metal
Sculpture in Steel/ metal

Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity
Excellent condition

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Technique of metal sculpture, welding

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 pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early, this young woman turned toward 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 pursued a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then a 2006 specialization as an industrial and spatial welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autonomously, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly attracted the art world’s attention, standing out through a strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press kit). 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 was frequently solicited at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophonie Games contest and exhibited at 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. Regionally, in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal at the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At 5 years old, I visited with my parents the torture museum under the Inquisition of 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 man has shown to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness 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 hide the horror he buries deep within himself, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By unleashing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the force of metal to bring the spectator 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 meeting in 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, repurposing of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone can have a share of monstrosity inside them? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception, to lighten 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, renounce?”

Some 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 of 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 Fine Arts Show (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)
Exhibition at Capa Esculturas Gallery (12/09–21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05–09/06/14, Louverigné, 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 “Salon Internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (06/03–22/03/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “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 “Riviera Fusion” (12/05–30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection at the International Francophonie Games contest. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saïda (27/09/09–06/10/09, UNESCO Palace of Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lebanese-French Lycée (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from Lacanau town hall: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent display in front of town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Public commission from the Interregional Directorate for Juvenile Judicial Protection (DIRPJJ) – South-West (Trophies for the “Itinerary of Taste” -(13.5x17x35 cm-11.5x16x29.5 cm-11.5x14.5x26.5 cm)-(07/23))
Acquisition of the sculpture “La Force d'âme” by the Vic-le-Comte town hall and the Puy-de-Dôme Department Council (Le Trampoline, place de l’Olme, Vic-le-Comte (63) (11/13/21))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Charente-Maritime Department Council (Atrium of the Maison de la Charente, La Rochelle (17) (08/20/18))
Acquisition of the sculpture “The Dark Tower” by the town hall of Aiguillon (47) (12/10/16))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Les Trois Portes” by the Beychac et Cailleau media library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: sculpture created during the urban residency and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03–05/12/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33. Practical internship with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde General Council. Trophies for the “Agenda 21 Mission” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of panels for the restaurant training facilities “le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (05/09–05/16/12; 14–18/06/12, 11–16/06/12, 12/06/12, 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 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical internship with youths from Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))