NES - Darklight 17-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #17

-(11x11x28 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 3.2 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 metal sculptor.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits warm ambient light.
Brand new
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
Black 1.5 m cable 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, a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
From an early age this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, when she completed her university studies with a bachelor’s 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 specialization in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autonomously, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, establishing themselves through a strong originality and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From there, she is frequently commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Competition of the Francophone Games, and she 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 valuation during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At five years old, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of a human being to cause suffering to others horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has devised to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can harbor of violence within itself. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to hide the horror part buried deep inside, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By freeing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the strength of metal to draw 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 guiding them artistically toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from chainsaws, earned her the press nickname “the iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and material, subtlety of plastic language, subversion of materials.
“The questions driving me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a portion of monstrosity within them? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How can one detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception to ease this suffering, to stop hiding this dark side of ourselves? How can one free oneself from prejudices and challenge appearances? How to live with this dark side of the soul? Meditate, accept, deny, rebel, renounce?”

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 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 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)
Capa Esculturas gallery exhibition (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Step by Step” (09/05-09/06/14, Louver, 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 installation 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 “Riviera Fusion” (12/05-30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for the international competition of the Francophone Games. Residency. Intervention in 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-Libanais (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” made in tribute to the heritage site “La Forge” – Permanent display in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Judicial Youth Protection (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 Beychac et Caillou media library/art collection (10/05/16))
Public commission: 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 of UEAJ 33: practical workshop with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aiming at social and professional insertion (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission of the Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (15/10/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission of UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the restaurant training “Le P'tit Creux”. Practical workshop with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aiming at social and professional insertion (Multiple 2012 dates, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission of the mairie of Avensan: 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 Caillou)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical workshop with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aiming at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))