NES - Darklight 27-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 27

(Diam.20x44.5 cm)

Luminous sculpture

2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 6.6 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A 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

Good functioning and safety checked

The item will be carefully packed and shipped via Colissimo with tracking and insurance.

Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a distinctive identity drawn from a baroque universe heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on, this young woman turned 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 trained in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then specialized in 2006 as a welding technician with industrial and space applications. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation as a self-tudier, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly drew attention in the art world, noted for their strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007 she won a Young Challenge, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. Since then, she has been frequently commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the international competition of the Jeux de la Francophonie, and exhibited at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. In 2010, she was invited to UNESCO in Paris to present her work in an individual exhibition. As a national laureate of the Envie d’Agir program, she received second prize in cultural creation awarded by the high commissioner for youth. Regionally, in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the second prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot market 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 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 managed to create so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry in terms of violence within it. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to conceal the horror he hides deep inside him, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By unleashing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the force of metal to immerse the viewer in her world of scrolls, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy shapes 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 objective: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, working with hostile materials until she artistically guides them toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron dentellière.” An ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, subversion of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how can I show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a part of monstrosity in them? What are the limits of extreme human behaviors? How can I detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception to ease this suffering, to stop hiding this dark part of ourselves? How can we free ourselves 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 HR 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 “Salon 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 newly created works produced 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 Saïda school (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 Lacanau town hall: 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 Youth Judicial Protection (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 Vic-le-Comte town hall and the Puy-de-Dôme Departmental Council (Le Trampoline, place de l’Olme, Vic-le-Comte (63) (11/13/21))
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Charente-Maritime Departmental Council (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 media library/art library (10/05/16))
Public commission: Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: sculpture created during the urban residence 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 Judicial Protection of Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion (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 applied restaurant “le P’tit Creux”. Practical training with youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion (05-10/11/12; 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: Avensan town hall: 20th anniversary of the 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 youths from Judicial Protection of Youth, aiming at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))