NES - Darklight 7-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 7

Luminous sculpture

(Dia. 20x33.5 cm H)

2023
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E27)

Weight of the sculpture: 5.1 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. One-of-a-kind work signed 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 E27 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.

Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work makes a strong presence, with a definite identity drawn from a baroque world and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early, this young woman turns to artistic creation. It is in 2003, while finishing university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovers metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experiences as a real revelation, leads her to redirect her studies. She completes a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then specializes in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autodidactically, she completes her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, standing out through strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Young Challenge, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it is a true catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently solicited at regional, national and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International 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. At the regional level in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot ranking 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 of 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 devised to create so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by a look of gentleness that hides what humanity can hold 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 releasing her gesture, Nes unveils 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 born from a complex imagination. 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 soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, treating hostile materials until they are artistically guided toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron lace-maker.” An ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing 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 in themselves? What are the limits of extreme human behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, 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?”

Exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” 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 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, Lovenin, 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” (8/04–20/04/12, 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 “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (12/05–30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection at the International Francophonie Games, 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 city of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent display in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Juvenile Justice 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 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: the town 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 training with youths from the Juvenile 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 of application “le P’tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from the Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (05/09–11/05/12; 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 city 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 on 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical training with youths from the Juvenile Judicial Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project carried out with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))