No.48 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 200 x 100 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $6500.00 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 single rounded form repeats across five horizontal bands, but colour prevents the grid from settling into uniformity. The painting makes constancy and change equally insistent.
- Nasr’s statement frames the arch as the instant before a decision rather than as architecture. In No.48, that intention is supported by forms that resemble openings yet disclose no space beyond them.
- The photograph shows upright arches contained by contrasting rectangular grounds. Shared contours establish a steady beat, while changing colour pairings create local clusters, interruptions and cross-row echoes without a fixed centre.
- The catalogue records oil pigment stick on canvas, a medium that can accommodate both drawn edges and broad pigment coverage. The photograph suggests slight contour variation, but cannot establish texture or exact colour.
- Dated 2026 and catalogued at 200 by 100 cm, No.48 provides a focused case for comparing serial abstraction: repetition operates not as sameness, but as a framework that makes each colour decision 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.
