NES - Darklight 17-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #17

-(11x11x28 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 3.2 kg
Signed unique piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. Signed original work 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 cable with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

Good functioning and safety checked

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Background

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 and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early she oriented toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing university studies with a license in Applied Foreign Languages, that during a trip to Cuba she discovered metalworking. This discovery, experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She followed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then a specialization in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autonomously, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the attention of the art world, standing out with a strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program 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 Jeux de la Francophonie, 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 in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize in art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot appraisal 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 of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The human capacity to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which humanity developed so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can harbor of violence inside 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 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 strength from metal to take the spectator 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 steel lace…
A baroque universe, a second, 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, working with hostile materials until she artistically guides them toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw blades, 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 show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone can have a part of monstrosity inside them? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How can one 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, give up?"

Some exhibitions

Exhibition “Re sonances” for the 500th anniversary of 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 de 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 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)
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 exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection of 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 “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (12/05-30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for 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 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 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) – 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 hall 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 hall of Aiguillon (47) (12/10/16))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Les Trois Portes” by the Beychac et Cailleau library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: 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: UEAJ 33. Practical internship with youths from 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 panels for the restaurant training “le P’tit Creux”. Practical internship with youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, 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: Lacanau town hall: 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 internship with youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, 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))