NES - Darklight #9-Sculpture lumineuse

Darklight #9

Luminous sculpture

(22x20x64.5 cm)

2023
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture
Weight: 4.5 kg

Delivered without bulb (E27)
Contemporary design lamp. Luminous sculpture. Signed unique work by the artist NES, a French female sculptor working with metal.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits 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 working order and safety verified

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Path

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist living in Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from reclaimed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a clear identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on this young woman oriented herself toward artistic creation. In 2003, while completing university studies with a degree in Foreign Languages Applied, she discovered metalworking during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She pursued a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then specialized in 2006 as an industrial and space-oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary art creation autodidactically, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, characterized by strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press dossier). In 2007 she won a Youth Challenge, a program initiated by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst that propelled her toward professionalism. Since then, she has been 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 show. As the 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 Rotary District 1690 art design.
Drouot 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 a human being to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has devised to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity with an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can have 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 part of horror he hides deep inside, 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 spectator into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the ethereal forms emerging from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to steel lace…
A baroque universe, a lighter, 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 artistically guiding them toward softness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, detournement of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that each person 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 side 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?”

Selected 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 in 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” (8/04-20/04/12, 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, 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 Francophonie Games competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Sidon. (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 town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created 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 the Judicial Protection of Youth (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 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 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 Cailleau media library/art gallery (10/05/16))
Public commission: the town hall 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 internship with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aiming 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 “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths from 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 from Judicial Protection of Youth, aiming at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))