NES - Luz de Metal

Metal Light

15.5x15.5x97.5 cm
2025

Unique work signed by NES, a French sculptor artist working on metal
Sculpture in Steel/Metal
Metal sculpture technique, welding
Varnished
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity
Excellent condition
Weight of the sculpture: 3.3 kg
Delivered by Colissimo with tracking and insurance

Biography

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc. Born in 1979. 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.
From a very young age, this young woman pursued artistic creation. It was in 2003, while finishing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, 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 trained in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then specialized in 2006 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, standing out with a strong originality and earning her several press articles (see press kit). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a scheme set up by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. From then on, she is frequently sought after at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the international competition of the Jeux de la Francophonie; she 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 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 in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize in art design from Rotary District 1690.
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 capacity of humans to make others suffer horrified and fascinated me at the same time. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man has shown himself to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can have of violence in it. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the ability of man to hide the part of horror he buries deep inside himself, 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 power of metal to transport the viewer 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 chain to steel lace…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge on the same goal: to give back a soul to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts, shaping hostile materials until guiding them artistically toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chains from a chainsaw, led the press to nickname her the “iron lace-maker.” Tension between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, redirection of materials.
“The questions that drive me: how to show discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a portion of monstrosity inside 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, stop concealing 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 residency (09/09–11/06/21; residency: 09/21–09/25/21, Le Trampoline, Vic-le-Comte (63))
Exhibition and selection for the “3rd International Sculpture Competition” of the Biennale Europea d’Arte Fabbrile of Stia (09/02–09/05/21, Stia, Italy)
International symposium “Metal sympozium” and exhibition on the “Metal Trail” (06/11–06/15/18, Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Exhibition during the SNBA 2018 Beaux Arts Show (12/13–12/16/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at the H.R GIGER Museum (10/17–10/23/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Capa Esculturas Gallery exhibition (09/12–10/21/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (05/09–06/09/14, Looigné, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (05/07–05/12/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at “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 sculpture exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection of Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (from 05/14/11, Corniche El Manara, P.O. Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of new works created during the “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (05/12–06/30/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Corniche El Manara, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for the international Jeux de la Francophonie competition. Residency. Intervention in a school in Saïda. (09/27/09–10/06/09, UNESCO Palace Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations et Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanese (from 10/06/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public Commissions / Public Collections

Public commission from the town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created in tribute to the patrimonial site “La Forge” - Permanent exhibition in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Juvenile Justice 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 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: town hall of Soulac-sur-Mer: sculpture created during the urban residency and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03–05/12/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission from UEAJ 33: practical workshop with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission from the Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission from UEAJ 33: creation of panels for the restaurant training “Le P’tit Creux.” Practical workshop with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection for social and professional integration (05/09–05/16/12; 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 from the town of Avensan: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Avensan town hall (33))
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration on 09/10/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical workshop with youths from Juvenile Justice Protection for social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for the school parking lot. Project carried out with the participation of children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))