NES - Darklight 6-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #6

Luminous sculpture

(Diameter 20x33.5 cm H)

2023
One-off signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E27)

Weight of the sculpture: 6.7 kg


Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A signed unique work by the artist NES, a French sculptor working with metal.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits a warm, ambient light.
Mint condition
Equipped with a black E27 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

Good functioning and safety checked

The item will be carefully packaged and shipped via Colissimo with tracking and insured.

Parcours

Nes is a Bordelaise artist based in the Médoc. Born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from reclaimed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a distinct identity rooted in a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on this young woman steered toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, as she finished university studies earning a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that during a trip to Cuba she discovered metalworking. This discovery, felt as a true revelation, led her to reorient her studies. She undertook a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and spatial 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, marked by a strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press kit). In 2007 she won a Young Challenge, a program established by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true 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 at the International Francophonie Games and exhibited at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. In 2010 she was invited to UNESCO in Paris to present 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 (Aquitaine and Charente), she received the 2nd prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

"At age 5, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in 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 man devised so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity with an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry 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 hides deep inside, 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 on the strength of 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 goal: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, treating hostile materials until artistically guided toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from a chainsaw, 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, considering that each person may have a part of monstrosity inside 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 side of ourselves?
How to free oneself from prejudices and defy 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 the Sainte-Chapelle and artist residence (09/09–06/11/21; residence: 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 Beaux Arts Fair 2018 (12/13–12/16/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at H.R GIGER Museum (10/17–10/23/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Exhibition at Capa Esculturas Gallery (09/12–10/21/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (05/09–06/09/14, Louveigné, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (05/07–12/05/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at “FIARTE 2012” (04/08–04/20/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (03/06–03/22/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection of the Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (since 05/14/11, 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” (05/12–06/30/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for the International Francophonie Games. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saïda. (09/27/09–10/06/09, UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanese (from 10/06/09, 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 exhibit in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for the 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 the Beychac et Cailleau media library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: Lacanau 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 internship 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)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the restaurant classrooms “le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths from the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (Various 2012 dates in Listrac-Médoc)
Public commission: Avensan Town Hall: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Avensan, 33)
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical internship with youths from the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))