NES - Darklight 21-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 21

(23x26x39.5 cm)

Luminous sculpture

2025
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)

Weight of the sculpture: 4.1 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. Unique piece signed by the artist NES, a French female sculptor working in metal.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Gives off a warm ambient light.
New condition
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

Good functioning and safety verified

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Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc region. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early on this young woman turned to artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing her university studies with a degree in Foreign Languages Applied, 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 completed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then a 2006 specialization as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. 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 articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Youth Challenge, a program set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling 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 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 winner 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 age 5, I visited with my parents the torture museum under the Inquisition of 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 sought to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness that hides the violence that humanity can carry within it. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to conceal the part of horror he hides deep inside, in order to highlight the transition from shadow to light.”
By liberating her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the power of metal to draw the spectator into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy forms emanating from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from the chain to the steel lace…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge toward the same goal: to give back a soul to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts, treating hostile materials until guiding them artistically toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron lacemaker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, detour of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a part of monstrosity in 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 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, give up?”

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of the 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 of 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 Beaux Arts Salon 2018 (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)
Gallery Capa Esculturas exhibition (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Step by Step” (09/05-09/06/14, Louvergne, 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 exhibition of the sculpture “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 at the International Francophonie Games competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saïda (09/27/09-10/06/09, UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais (from 10/06/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the Lacanau town hall: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” 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 Judicial Youth 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 Council of the Puy-de-Dôme (Le Trampoline, Place de l’Olme, Vic-le-Comte (63)) (11/13/21)
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Charente-Maritime Department 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 internship with jeunes de la Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse, 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 training “le P’tit Creux”. Practical internship with the youth of the 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 of the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))