NES - Darklight 14-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #14

-(12x12x28 cm)-
Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight 3.4 kg
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French female sculptor working in metal.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits a warm ambient light.
Brand new
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

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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 and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early on, this young woman turned toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing 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, followed by a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented 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 with strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Young Challenge, a program established by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she was frequently commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the international competition of the Francophonie 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 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 in art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal during 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 of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of humans to cause suffering to others horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was scared by the ingenuity with which man has worked to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity with an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can hold of violence inside 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 strength from metal to lead 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, treating hostile materials until they are artistically guided toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron laceworker.” 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 part of monstrosity inside them? What are the limits of extreme human 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, give up?”

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 Capa Esculturas gallery (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” (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, El Manara Corniche, 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, El Manara Corniche, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection at the international competition of the Francophonie Games. 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 Lycée Franco-Libanais (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created 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 the Protection of Juvenile Justice (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 Caillau library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: the town hall of Soulac-sur-Mer: sculpture created during the urban residency and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03-12/05/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33. Practical workshop with youth from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional insertion (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of panels for the restaurant training “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical workshop with youth from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional insertion (05-11/05/12; 14-15/05/12; 05-08/06/12; 11-19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission: Lacanau town hall: anniversary of the 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 workshop with youth from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking. Project with the participation of the children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))