NES - 台灯 - 钢 - Darklight 26 - 雕塑

Darklight #26
(13x13x50,5 cm)
Luminescent sculpture
2025
Piece unique signed
Stainless steel
Varnished sculpture
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.

Contemporary design lamp. Luminescent sculpture. A unique work signed by the artist NES, a French female sculptor working in metal.
Emits a warm ambient light.
New condition, excellent condition. Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
5 cable 1.5 m black with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb (flame-shaped/elongated bulb recommended to be screwed in from underneath)
Good functioning and safety verified
The item will be carefully packaged and shipped by Colissimo with tracking and insurance.

Parcours

Nes is a Bordeaux-born artist based in the Médoc. She was born in 1979. Metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recycled metal pieces. Her work has a commanding presence and a clear identity drawn from a baroque universe strongly inspired by punk iconography.
Very early she oriented towards artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing 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 reorient her studies. She followed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004 and then a specialization 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 pyro-technician in 2008.
Her works quickly attracted the art world’s attention with a strong singularity, earning several press articles (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program implemented by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst that propelled her to professionalism. From then on, she was frequently invited at regional, national and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophonie 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 exhibition. As a national laureate of the Envie d’Agir program, she received the 2nd prize for cultural creation presented by the High Commissioner for Youth. At the regional level, Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize of Rotary District 1690 design art.
Drouot rating during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

"At age 5, 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 devised to develop so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by a surface 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 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 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 goal: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing on 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 lace-maker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of the plastic language, deflection of materials.
"The questions driving me: how to exercise discernment and live in society knowing that each person may have a part of monstrosity within 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 hiding 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?"

Exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist-in-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 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)
Exhibition at Capa Esculturas Gallery (12/09-21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05-09/06/14, Lierre, 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 (since 14/05/11, 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 (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 Saïda. (27/09/09-06/10/09, UNESCO Palace of Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection of the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanese (since 06/10/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission by the Lacanau town hall: 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 Interregional Directorate for the Judicial Protection of Youth (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 hall 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 hall 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: the Soulac-sur-Mer town hall: sculpture made 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, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde General Council. Trophies “Agenda 21 Mission” (15/10/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the restaurant training “le P'tit Creux.” Practical internship 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: Avensan town hall: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Cussac-Médoc (33))
Public commission: creation of a monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration on 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical internship with youths from the Judicial Protection of Youth, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33 (Unité Éducative Protection Judiciaire Jeunesse de la Gironde))
Creation of sculptures for school parking. Project with participation from children. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))