Building Bridges No.14 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 140 x 200 cm
Year: 2022
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 form provisional bands across a congested field, presenting connection not as a finished structure but as something continually rebuilt amid interference.
- Nasr states that the Building Bridges series contrasts bridge-building with walls and uses the arch to signify openness and thresholds. In this painting, that intention meets forms that stay open but are repeatedly obscured.
- In the photograph, broad pale arcades cross the vertical composition while smaller red, yellow and black curves overlap them. Loops, drips and abrupt colour shifts keep any single visual route from dominating.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the medium permits dense coverage and fluid linear marks. Here, layered passages appear to record successive additions and cancellations, though the photograph cannot establish their exact texture or sequence.
- As a collection work, Building Bridges No.14 provides a focused case for considering how repetition can turn an architectural sign into a social proposition. Its arches operate simultaneously as supports, openings and obstructions.
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.
