NES - Darklight 17-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #17

-(11x11x28 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 3.2 kg
Signed unique piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French metal sculptor.
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 cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

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Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist living in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from reclaimed metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a distinctive identity drawn from a baroque universe heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early she oriented herself toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while finishing university studies with a license in Applied Foreign Languages, that she discovered the art of working metal during a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to redirect her studies. She completed a metallurgical training at IFIP in 2004 then specialized in 2006 as a welding technician with an industrial and spatial vocation. While continuing to explore contemporary artistic creation autonomously, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly caught the art world’s attention, standing out for a strong singularity and earning several press articles (see press kit). 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. From then on, she was frequently solicited 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 showcased her work in a solo 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 appraisal during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic Approach

“At 5, 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 once. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has demonstrated to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through 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 horror he hides deep inside, in order to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By liberating 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 airy shapes born from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to steel lace…
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, treating hostile materials until guiding them artistically toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the press nickname “the iron dentellière” (the iron lace-maker). Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to discern 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 illusions of our perception to ease this suffering, to stop hiding this darker 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?”

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 the 2018 SNBA Fine Arts Fair (12/13-12/16/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts of Fire” at the H.R GIGER Museum (10/17-10/23/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Exhibition Capa Esculturas gallery (09/12-10/21/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (05/09-06/09/14, Louvergné, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (05/07-12/05/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition “FIARTE 2012” (04/08-04/20/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (03/06-03/22/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent display of the sculpture “Carpe Diem”: private collection of the Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (from 05/14/11, El Manara Corniche, P.O.Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of fresh works created during the art symposium