NES - Darklight 21-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 21

(23x26x39.5 cm)

Luminous sculpture

2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 4.1 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French sculptor artist working in 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 cable 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 and insured with tracking.

Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, as she completed 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 followed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented 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, standing out for their strong singularity and earning her several articles in the press (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program run 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 at the international competition of the Francophonie 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 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 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 5 years old, 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 frightened by the ingenuity with which man has demonstrated to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides the violence that humanity can carry within it. 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 liberating her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the power of metal to draw the spectator into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Strength in the material, fragility in the airy forms emerging 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 objective: to give back a 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 through the use of chainsaw chains, has earned her the press nickname the “iron lace maker.” Ambivalence between form and material, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that each person may harbor a part of monstrosity within themselves? 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 masking this dark part 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, relinquish?”

Exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of 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 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 at the 2018 SNBA Fine Arts Fair (12/13–12/16/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at the 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” (05/07–05/12/12, 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 competition. Residence. Intervention in a school in Sidon. (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-Libanais (since 10/06/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public orders / 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 municipality 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: Soulac-sur-Mer town 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 youth from Judicial Protection of Youth, 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 rooms “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical training with youth from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration (05–06/07/12; 11–12/13–14/15/18–19/06/12, Listrac-Médoc workshop)
Public commission: Avensan town hall: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Avensan 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 youth from Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project carried out with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))