Building Bridges No.30 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pastel on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $3000.00 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?
A dense, five-tier arrangement makes the arch function as both opening and barrier: repeated contours establish a common structure, while shifting colours and marks preserve difference within it.
- Nasr’s profile identifies the arch as the central motif of his practice and describes it as a threshold before change. In this painting, that threshold is multiplied until crossing becomes a collective rather than singular proposition.
- The photograph shows arches pressed against one another and cropped by the square’s edges. Black outlines and white inner bands create continuity, but uneven spacing, vivid colour changes and scribbled passages resist architectural regularity.
- Catalogue metadata records oil pastel on canvas. The medium supports the visible combination of broad colour fields and direct linear marks, giving the ordered scheme a conspicuously worked, irregular character; exact colour and surface texture cannot be confirmed from the photograph.
- The artist describes the series as a response to building walls rather than bridges. This work gives that claim useful tension, presenting connection as repeated openings bounded by heavy divisions, not as effortless unity.
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.
