NES - Clé de sol n°6

G-clef n°6
26.5x10x29 cm
Weight: 585 g
2025

Varnish

Artwork signed on the base by NES, French female sculptor artist working with metal
Sculpture in Steel/ metal

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Excellent condition

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Technique: sculpture in metal, welding

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 strongly inspired by punk iconography.
Very early on, this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, as she finished 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 undertook a qualifying metallurgical training at IFIP in 2004, then a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and spatial 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 eye, marked by a strong singularity and earning her several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Young 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 was frequently sought after at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the International Francophonie Games competition, 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. Regionally in 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 five years old, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of human beings to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which humans have proven themselves to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity with an appearance of softness that hides what humanity can hold of violence within. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to conceal the part of horror he hides deep inside himself, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By releasing her gesture, Nes unveils 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 born from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to iron lace…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge in the same objective: to give back a soul 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 matter, subtlety of plastic language, subversion of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a part of monstrosity within 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?”

Some 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, Bohemia Central, Czech Republic)
Exhibition during the SNBA Fine Arts Salon 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)
Exhibition Capa Esculturas gallery (12/09–21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05–09/06/14, Louvergne, 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” (8/04–20/04/12, 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 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 at the international Francophonie Games competition. Residency. Intervention in a Saïda school. (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 by the city of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created 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 Protection of Youth (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 Cailleau media library/art gallery (10/05/16)
Public commission: Lacanau city hall — sculpture created during the urban residency and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03–05/12/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33. Practical training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde Departmental Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde Departmental Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33 — creation of panels for the application restaurant “Le P'tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed 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 city hall — creation of a monumental cross for the Cussac-Mérinum mission (02/2012)
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 training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, for social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Réalisation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Lacanau town hall (33))