NES - Darklight 18-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #18

-(11,5x11,5x29 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 3.8 kgs
Signed unique piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. Signed unique work by the artist NES, a French metal sculptor.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits a warm, ambient light.
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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 Breton-born artist living 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, heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early she oriented herself toward artistic creation. In 2003, while finishing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, she discovered metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she perceived as a true revelation, led her to change her studies. She completed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and a 2006 specialization as a welding technician with industrial and space-oriented aims. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autonomously, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works, quickly noticed by the art world, are marked by strong singularity and earned her 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 propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she was frequently sought after at the regional, national and international level. In 2009 she represented France in the International Francophone 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 show. As the 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 art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal at the auction sale “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“When I was 5, I visited with my parents the torture museum under the Inquisition of Santillana del Mar.
The capacity of humans to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which humans have developed so much monstrosity. 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 he buries deep inside himself, 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 power of metal to lead the viewer into her world of arabesques, curves and chains. Strength 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 goal: to give soul to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, treating hostile materials until they are artistically guided toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed by the use of chains from chainsaws, earned her the press nickname “the iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, subversion of materials.

“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a share of monstrosity in 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 hiding this dark side of ourselves?
How to free oneself from preconceptions 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 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 Beaux Arts Fair (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)
Capa Esculturas gallery exhibition (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05-09/06/14, Louvergine, 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 exhibition 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 “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (12/05-30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection at the international competition of the Francophone Games. Residency. School intervention 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-Libannais (from 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent exhibition in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for 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 town hall 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 Charente House, 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 Cailleau Media Library/Art Library (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: UEAJ 33. Practical workshop with youths from Youth Judicial Protection, aiming 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)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the restaurant training “le P’tit Creux.” Practical workshop with youths from Youth Judicial Protection, aiming at social and professional integration (05-10-11/05/12; 14-15-16/05/12; 05-06-07-08/06/12; 11-12-13-14-15-18-19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission: Lacanau 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 Cailleau)
Réalisation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical workshop with youths from Youth Judicial Protection, aiming at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking areas. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))