NES - Darklight 27-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 27

(Diam.20x44,5 cm)

Luminous sculpture

2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 6.6 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French sculptor working with metal.
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. Supplied without bulb

Good working order and safety checked

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

Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-based 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 clear identity drawn from a baroque universe heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on, this young woman turned toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing her 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 underwent a qualifying course in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, followed by a 2006 specialization as a welding technician with industrial and space-oriented aims. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation as a self-taught artist, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, establishing a strong individuality and earning several articles in the press (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a scheme set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. From then on, she has been frequently sought after at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the international competition of the Jeux de la Francophonie 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. Regionally in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize for design of art from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal at the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At 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 humans have devised to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity with an appearance of gentleness that hides the violence humanity can harbor 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 buries deep inside himself, 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 bring the spectator into her world of arabesques, curves and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy forms emerging from a complex imaginary. From darkness to light, from chain to lace of steel…
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 they are guided artistically toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaws, led the press to nickname her the “iron lace maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, misappropriation of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone can have a share 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 hiding 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 the 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 2018 SNBA 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 “Pas à pas” (09/05-09/06/14, LOUVEIGNE, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (7/05-12/05/12, 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” (6/03-22/03/12, 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 Jeux de la Francophonie competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saïda. (27/09/09-06/10/09, UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations et 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 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 Vic-le-Comte town hall and the Puy-de-Dôme Department Council (Le Trampoline, Place de l’Olme, Vic-le-Comte (63) (11/13/21))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Charente-Maritime Department Council (Atrium of the Maison de la Charente, La Rochelle (17) (08/20/18))
Acquisition of the sculpture “The Dark Tower” by the town hall 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: 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 workshop with young people from Youth Judicial 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 training rooms “le P’tit Creux.” Practical workshop with young people from Youth Judicial Protection, 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: Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: cross anniversary 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 workshop with young people from Youth Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))