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Darklight #9

Luminescent sculpture

(22x20x64.5 cm)

2023
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E27)
Contemporary design lamp. Luminescent sculpture. Artist NES, a French female sculptor working with metal, signed piece.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits a 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

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Parcours

Nes is a Bordeaux-based 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 clear identity drawn from a baroque universe and heavily inspired by punk iconography.
From an early age she turned toward artistic creation. It was in 2003, while completing a degree in Foreign Languages Applied, 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 followed a qualifying training in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then in 2006 specialized as a technician welder with 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, marked by strong originality and several press articles (see press dossier). In 2007, she won a Défi-Jeunes, a program established by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a true catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. Since then she has frequently been commissioned at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France at the International Francophonie Games competition, and exhibited at 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 in cultural creation awarded by the High Commissioner for Youth. At the regional level in Aquitaine and Charente she received the 2nd prize for art design from Rotary District 1690.
Drouot valuation during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

"When I was 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 scared by the ingenuity with which man has forged so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity through an appearance of gentleness that hides what humanity can carry in terms of violence. 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 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 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 objective: to give back a soul to forgotten industrial elements. Play 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 chains from a chainsaw, earned her the press nickname the “iron lace-maker.” Ambivalence 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 everyone may have a part of monstrosity in themselves? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception to soften this suffering, to stop hiding this dark part of ourselves? How to free oneself from prejudices and distrust 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 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” (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 exhibition of the sculpture “Carpe Diem”: private collection of 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 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 et 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 exhibition in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau (33))
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for 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 La 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 residence and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03-12/05/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33. Practice with youth from Judicial Youth Protection aimed at social and professional insertion (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission: Gironde Departmental Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde Departmental Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission: UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for the restaurant “le P'tit Creux.” Practical training with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional insertion (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: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Commissioned a monumental mission cross (02/2012, Cussac-Médoc town hall (33))
Public commission: monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Réalisation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical training with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional insertion. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Réalisation of sculptures for school parking. Project with children participation. (2009, Avensan town hall (33))