No.43 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 100 cm
Year: 2024
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.43 turns one arch-like unit into a field of differences, using repetition not to standardise the image but to make each colour pairing consequential.
- Nasr describes the arch as the instant before a decision rather than as architecture. Here, that stated intention is supported by forms that resemble openings while withholding any view beyond them.
- The photograph shows five loosely aligned rows, each divided into coloured rectangles containing a single rounded form. Irregular edges and shifting widths interrupt the grid, balancing collective order against individual variation.
- The documented oil pigment stick on canvas permits broad, opaque blocks alongside visible edge variation. Those slight inconsistencies keep the repeated motif from reading as mechanically produced.
- Encountering this painting means testing how much difference can persist inside a strict visual rule. Its significance lies in making comparison itself the subject: arch against arch, opening against enclosure.
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.
