NES - Darklight 7-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight 7

Luminous sculpture

(Diameter 20 x 33.5 cm H)

2023
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E27)

Weight of the sculpture: 5.1 kg

Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. 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.
Mint condition
Equipped with a black E27 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Supplied without bulb

Good functioning and safety verified

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

Parcours

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist installed in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recycled metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early, this young woman turned towards artistic creation. It was in 2003, while finishing university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovered metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she perceived as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She followed a qualifying course 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 eye, asserting themselves through a strong uniqueness and earning her several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program initiated by the Ministry of Youth. For her it was a real catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. Since then, she has been frequently solicited at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophone Games, and exhibited at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. In 2010, she was invited to UNESCO in Paris where she presented her work in an individual 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 rating 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 under the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar.
The capacity of human beings to cause suffering to others horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has demonstrated to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by a gentle appearance that hides what humanity can hold in violence inside itself. 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 buries deep within himself, 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 take the viewer 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, another more playful one, both converge on the same objective: to give soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light and contrasts, handling hostile materials until artistically guided toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, has earned her the press nickname the “iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, misappropriation of materials.
"The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone can have a part of monstrosity in them? What are the limits of humanity's extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the delusions 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?"

Some exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residence (09/09-06/11/21; residence: 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 SNBA 2018 Fine Arts Fair (13/12-16/12/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts of Fire” 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, Louvergny, 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 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