NES - Darklight 14-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #14

-(12x12x28 cm)-
Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight 3.4 kg
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. Unique work signed by the artist NES, French metal sculptor.
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Emits a warm ambient light.
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Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

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Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in Médoc. Born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from reclaimed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence, a definite identity drawn from a baroque world, heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Early on she oriented toward artistic creation. It is in 2003, while completing 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 true revelation, leads her to redirect her studies. She undertakes training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then specialised in 2006 as a welding technician with industrial and space-oriented aims. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autodidactically, she completes her training by becoming a certified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, distinguished by a strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press dossier). In 2007 she won a Young Challenge (Défi-Jeunes), a program established by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently requested 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 a solo exhibition. As the national laureate of the Envie d’Agir program, she received second prize in cultural creation awarded by the High Commissioner for Youth. At the regional level in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the second prize for Rotary District 1690 art design.
Drouot rating during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At five years old, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The human capacity to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has demonstrated to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can have of violence inside 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 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 lead 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 in the same objective: to give soul back 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.” Ambiguity between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that each person can have a part of monstrosity within them? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from illusions of our perception to ease this suffering, to stop hiding this dark part of ourselves? How to free oneself from prejudice 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 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 SNBA Fine Arts Fair 2018 (13/12–16/12/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at 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, Looigné, 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 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 new 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 Francophone Games. Residence. Intervention in a school in Sidon. (27/09/09–06/10/09, UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Pulsations et 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” created in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” - Permanent exhibition in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Direction interrégionale de la protection judiciaire de la jeunesse (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 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 library (10/05/16))
Public commission: Lacanau 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 the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (15/10/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of canvases for restaurant training “le P’tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration (09-10-11/05/12; 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 – creation for the 20-year sister city anniversary 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 training with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking. Project carried out with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))