NES - Darklight 23-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #23

(15.5x20x45.5 cm)

Luminous sculpture

2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without light bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 2.3 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. One-of-a-kind work signed by the artist NES, a French metal sculptor.
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 cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

Good working order and safety checked

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

Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist residing in the Médoc. Born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a distinctive identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early on, this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing a university degree in Languages, when during a trip to Cuba she discovered the art of working with metal. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She undertook a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, followed by a 2006 specialization as a welder-technician with an industrial and spatial vocation. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation as a self-taught artist, she completed her training by becoming a licensed pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention and established a strong singularity, earning several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Young Challenge, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she was frequently requested at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophonie 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 (Aquitaine and Charente), she received the 2nd prize in Rotary District 1690 design art.
Drouot valuation 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 under 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 scared by the ingenuity with which humanity has demonstrated the ability to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that conceals the violence humanity can harbor within. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the capacity of man to hide the horror he buries deep inside, 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 emerging from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to lace of steel…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge toward the same goal: give soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Play on appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts, treat hostile materials until guiding them artistically toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from chainsaws, earned her the press nickname the “iron tatter.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, détourning (misuse) of materials.
“Questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that each person can 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, relinquish?”

Exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residence (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 Fine 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)
Galería Capa Esculturas exhibition (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05-09/06/14, Louveigné, 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 display “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 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 from the Lacanau town hall: 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 Vic-le-Comte town hall 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 Cailleau Media Library/Art Library (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 training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, 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 training rooms “le P’tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration (05-11/05/12; 14-15/05/12; 05-08/06/12; 11-19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission: Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: realization of an artwork for the 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)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical training with youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project carried out with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))