No.40 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
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?
A five-by-five grid makes repetition the work’s governing condition: twenty-five arch-like forms remain structurally similar while sharply changing their colour relationships, turning a stable sign into a sequence of distinct thresholds.
- Nasr describes the arch as the instant before a decision rather than as architecture. That stated intention clarifies the repeated motif, although the painting’s effect also depends on its strict grid and chromatic variation.
- In the photograph, each compartment pairs an upright rounded form with a contrasting ground. Irregular boundaries and occasional overlaps interrupt the grid’s order, so difference persists within an emphatic system.
- The catalogue identifies oil pastel on canvas. This medium can support direct blocks of colour and layered edges; here, the photographed marks range from dense areas to passages where underlying colour remains visible.
- Dated 2025 and measuring 100 by 100 cm, No.40 provides a concentrated study of seriality: one motif is tested across twenty-five colour structures without becoming a fixed emblem.
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.
