No.41 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 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?
No.41 turns one arch-like unit into a dense, edge-to-edge system; irregular rows prevent the repeated form from settling into a fixed architectural order.
- The artist profile identifies Nassim Nasr as Lebanese and UAE-based, and describes the arch as the recurring form in his practice. Here, that sustained focus makes small differences in proportion and colour consequential.
- In the photograph, rounded openings fill adjoining blocks of contrasting colour. The bands bend slightly and forms are cropped at the perimeter, so the grid appears continuous while remaining visibly handmade.
- Catalogue metadata records oil pigment stick on canvas. In this work, the medium supports broad, opaque colour areas and direct edges; minor variations in contour keep repetition from becoming mechanical.
- Nasr describes each arch as the moment before a decision. The painting makes that intention legible but also complicates it: no threshold is privileged, and choice becomes a crowded sequence rather than a single crossing.
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.
