NES - Clé de sol n°5

Treble clef No. 5
22.5 x 9.5 x 33 cm
Weight: 577 g
2025
Varnish
Work signed on the base by NES, French female sculptor artist working in metal
Sculpture in Steel/ metal
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity
Excellent condition
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Metal sculpture technique, welding
Career
Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist living in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recycled metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and strongly inspired by punk iconography.
Early on, this young woman shifted toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing her university studies with a degree in Foreign Languages Applied, 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 an industrial and spatial welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autodidactically, 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 articles in the press (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a genuine 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 Competition of the Jeux de la Francophonie 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 in 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 the age of 5, I visited with my parents the Torture Museum under the Inquisition of Santillana del Mar. The capacity of the human being to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man devised to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by a surface of gentleness that hides what humanity can have 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 himself, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By liberating her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the strength 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 converge toward the same objective: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, working with hostile materials until guiding them artistically toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from a chainsaw, led the press to nickname her the “iron lace-maker.” An ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of the plastic language, misappropriation 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 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?”
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 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 the SNBA Fine Arts Fair 2018 (13/12–16/12/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts of Fire” 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, Louvain-la-Neuve, 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 sculpture display “Carpe Diem”: private collection of the Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (since 14/05/11, Corniche El Manara, P.O. Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of new works produced during the Riviera Fusion art symposium (12/05–30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection at the International Jeux de la Francophonie competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saida. (27/09/09–06/10/09, UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)
Public orders / Public collections
Public commission from Lacanau Town Hall: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent display in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Juvenile Justice Protection (DIRPJJ) – South-West -(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 Caillau media library/art library (10/05/16)
Public commission: Lacanau Town Hall – Urban welding art residency and public performance (03/05–12/05/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33 – Practical training with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Departmental Council of Gironde – “Agenda 21” Mission Trophies (15/10/2012, Gironde Departmental Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33 – creation of panels for the restaurant training “le P’tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection, aiming at social and professional insertion (May 2012 and May 2012 sessions across multiple dates, 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, Cussac-Médoc town hall (33))
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration 10/09/11, Beychac et Caillau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical training with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection, aimed at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))