No. 49 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 130 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $3500.00 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?
Repeated arches are compressed into rising and falling bands, converting a familiar sign of passage into a field where every opening is visibly blocked.
- The artist profile describes Nassim Nasr’s recurring arch as the instant before a decision. In No. 49, that stated intention is supported by repetition, although the painting also makes each threshold part of a larger visual pattern.
- The photograph shows upright, rounded forms divided by sweeping curves and vertical boundaries. Filled interiors deny any view beyond them, while shifting alignments prevent a single route through the composition. Choice appears cumulative but constrained.
- The catalogue identifies oil pigment stick on canvas. This medium can accommodate both linear contours and broader colour areas, which may help connect the work’s hand-drawn irregularities with its modular structure. The photograph cannot confirm surface texture or exact colour.
- A reason to encounter this painting is its precise test of metaphor: it asks whether an architectural form can still suggest crossing after depth, location and destination have been removed.
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.
