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 female sculptor 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

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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 definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and strongly inspired by punk iconography.
From an early age 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 in Cuba the art of working with metal. This discovery, which she experiences as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She pursued a qualifying metallurgical training at IFIP in 2004 and then a 2006 specialization as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. 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 attention of the art world, claiming a strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From there she was frequently sought after at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophone 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 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 valuation 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 torturer’s museum under 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 mankind has pursued monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by presenting a softness that hides the violence that humanity can harbor. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of humans to conceal the horror buried deep inside itself, in order 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 lead the viewer into a 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, and another more playful one, both converge toward the same objective: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts; transforming hostile materials and 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 lacemaker.” An ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, détournement of materials.

“The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society, knowing that each person may 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, renounce?”

Exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500-year 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 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 SNBA 2018 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 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 for the international Jeux de la Francophonie competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Sidon. (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 town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created in homage to the patrimonial site “La Forge” - Permanent display in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for the 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 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 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 the Beychac et Caillau media library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: the town of Soulac-sur-Mer: sculpture made 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 internship with youths of the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission of the Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (15/10/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission of UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the training restaurant “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths of the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (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: Town hall of Avensan: anniversary of 20 years 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 Caillau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical internship with youths of the Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33 (Gironde JJAU))
Creation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))