NES - Darklight 16-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #16

-(15x15x29.5 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 3.1 kg
Signed unique piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Luminous sculpture. Unique signed work by the artist NES, a French female sculptor specializing 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 cable with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

Good functioning and safety checked

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Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist, residing 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, as she completed 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 followed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary art in a self-taught manner, 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 originality and earning 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, it was a real catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophone 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 show. 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 in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize for Rotary District 1690 art design.
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 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 demonstrated such monstrousness. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry in terms of violence. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to conceal the horror hidden deep inside him, 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 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 back a soul 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 chains from chainsaws, led the press to nickname her the “iron bobbin-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing of materials.
“Questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may harbor a part of monstrosity within themselves? 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 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, give up?”

Selected 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 Fine Arts Fair 2018 (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)
Capa Esculturas gallery exhibition (12/09–21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05–09/06/14, Looigne, 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 exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection of 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 for the international Francophone Games competition. Residency. Intervention at a school in Saïda. (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-Libanese (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 installation in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for the Judicial Youth 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 Vic-le-Comte town hall and the General 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 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 gallery (10/05/16))
Public commission: Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: 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 youths from the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
UEAJ 33 public commission: creation of paintings for restaurant training “le P’tit Creux.” Practical workshop with youths from the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (05/09–10/11/12; 14–15/16/05/12; 05–06/07–08/06/12; 11–12/13–14–15–18–19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Soulac-sur-Mer town hall public commission: 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 on 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical workshop with youths from the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))