No. 46 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 100 cm
Year: 2026
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. 46 compresses repeated arches into five slightly bending rows, turning a stable grid into a field that appears to shift between order and movement.
- Nasr’s profile identifies the arch as his recurring form and frames it as a threshold before decision. Here, repetition makes that stated metaphor collective rather than singular.
- The photograph shows each rounded opening enclosed by a contrasting rectangular block. Uneven boundaries and changing widths interrupt the modular scheme, while the bowed rows resist a fixed architectural reading.
- Catalogued as oil pigment stick on canvas, the medium permits direct blocks of pigment and drawn edges. In this image, softened contours keep the geometry visibly hand-shaped rather than mechanically uniform.
- The painting is significant for how a single motif sustains difference without becoming narrative illustration. Its serial structure supports comparison among near-repetitions, making variation itself the central event.
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.
