No. 45 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 100 cm
Year: 2020
Price: $4500.00 USD
Status: available
Each arch is the moment before a decision, the door you cannot see beyond, the crossing you make anyway. Something chosen, something given. The arch is not a subject. It's a condition. It repeats across every canvas in grids and waves, each one a different colour, each asking the same question. I don't paint places or people or moments. I paint the space just before a decision, the point where one thing opens into another.
Why collect this work?
No. 45 uses a repeated arch-like module to test how strongly colour can differentiate forms held to the same basic rule.
- Nasr’s statement frames the arch as a condition preceding a decision rather than as architecture. That intention clarifies the repetition, although the shapes can still register as openings, niches, or abstract markers.
- In the photograph, rounded vertical forms occupy a matrix of rectangular fields. High-contrast pairings and small shifts in proportion prevent a dominant centre, so attention moves laterally through comparison and interruption.
- The catalogue identifies oil pigment stick on canvas. This medium can support saturated colour and firm-edged shapes, qualities central to the composition, though the photograph cannot confirm the work’s surface texture or exact hues.
- Dated 2020 and measuring 150 by 100 centimetres, the painting provides a concentrated encounter with serial variation: a useful work for considering when repetition produces order and when difference begins to outweigh the system.
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.
