NES - Darklight 19-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 19

Luminous sculpture

(21x22.5x57.8 cm) - 2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 3.3 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. 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.
Condition: mint
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
Black 1.5 m cable with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

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Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist living in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from repurposed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a definite identity rooted in a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
From an early age this young woman pursued artistic creation. It was in 2003, after finishing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that during a trip to Cuba she discovered the art of working metal. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She completed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then specialized in 2006 as a welding technician oriented towards industry and space. 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 with a strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Young Challenge, a program launched 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 in the International Francophone 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. At the regional level (Aquitaine and Charente), she received the 2nd prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot rating 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 under the Inquisition of Santillana del Mar.
The capacity of humans to cause suffering to others horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has shown himself capable of developing so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry of violence within it. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to hide the horror he buries 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 that spring from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to steel lace…
A baroque universe, a second, 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 artistically guided toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from a chainsaw, earned her the press nickname “the iron lace-maker.” An ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, détournement of materials.
“The questions that animate me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a portion 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 alleviate 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?”

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist-in-residence (09/09–11/06/21; 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, 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, 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” (08/04–20/04/12, 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 new works created during the Riviera Fusion art symposium (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 school in Saïda. (27/09/09–06/10/09, UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent sculpture display “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 town hall 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 the Judicial Protection of Youth (DIRPJJ) – South-West (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 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 “The Three Gates” by the Beychac et Cailleau media library/art collection (10/05/16))
Public commission: the town hall of Soulac-sur-Mer: 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 from the UEAJ 33. Practical internship with youths from the Judicial Protection Service for Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission from the Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission from the UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the training restaurant “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths from the Judicial Protection Service for Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion (09-10-11/05/12; 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 from the town of Avensan: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, town hall of Cussac-Médoc (33))
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration on 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical workshop with youths from the Judicial Protection Service for Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for a school parking lot. Project with the participation of children. (2009, town hall of Avensan (33))