Building Bridges No.13 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 140 x 200 cm
Year: 2018
Price: $9000.00 USD
Status: available
In this series titled Building Bridges, I focus on how we spend too much time building walls, and not enough time building bridges. I use the arch as my main element since it is a structure with deep resonance. The arch embodies and symbolizes many things: strength and support, lightness and openness within density, and thresholds into liminal space. In mythology, arches are understood as doorways in time and space through which one passes to enter another kind of time and space, a concept that is deeply consonant with our ministries of both worship and hospitality. In architecture, the arch serves to lift the eye and spirit upwards to a higher plane and ideal.
Why collect this work?
Repeated arches do not resolve the painting’s density. They organize it into competing routes, making connection appear active, provisional, and difficult.
- Nasr identifies the arch as the recurring form in his practice and describes this series as a response to building walls rather than bridges. That stated intention clarifies the motif, while the painting complicates its optimism through congestion and overlap.
- In the photograph, rows of rounded outlines cross scraped-looking blocks and looping lines. Some arches align like arcades; others are interrupted, buried, or cut by dark curves, so passage remains visible without becoming orderly.
- The documented acrylic on canvas accommodates broad color fields alongside narrow, continuous marks. Their contrast lets the arches remain legible across a composition whose hues and surfaces otherwise compete for attention.
- A curatorial reason to encounter this 2018 painting is its refusal to treat the bridge as a single, stable emblem. Repetition turns connection into a structure that must be continually rebuilt amid obstruction.
About the Artist
nassim nasr
nassim nasr is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in dubai, AE.
Nationality: Lebanese
Nassim Nasr is a Lebanese artist based in the UAE, working in oil pigment stick on canvas. His practice centres on a single recurring form, the arch.
