No.39 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pastel on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
Year: 2022
Price: $3000.00 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?
By holding one arch shape constant while changing its colour relations, No.39 turns repetition into a study of difference: each apparent opening is defined less by depth than by adjacency.
- Nasr describes the recurring arch as a condition preceding a decision rather than as architecture. That stated intention clarifies why variation occurs through colour while the threshold-like form remains fixed.
- The photograph shows twenty-five arches arranged in a five-by-five grid. Offset bands along one side of many forms suggest illumination or shadow, yet their shifting hues resist a consistent spatial reading and keep the surface optically unsettled.
- Catalogued as oil pastel on canvas, the medium permits dense blocks of colour alongside slightly irregular contours. Those softened edges prevent the modular structure from reading like a mechanically printed pattern.
- For a collection examining serial abstraction, this painting provides a focused example of how a repeated unit can carry metaphor without becoming an illustration. Its strict grid makes each chromatic deviation consequential.
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.
