No.51 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 100 cm
Year: 2021
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.51 turns one rounded opening into a measured sequence: repetition establishes order, while shifting colour pairings prevent any single arch from becoming definitive.
- Nasr’s statement identifies the arch as the instant before a decision rather than as architecture. Here, that intention is supported by forms that appear open yet disclose nothing beyond themselves.
- The supplied photograph shows fifteen upright arches arranged in three rows of five. Their consistent scale and frontal placement bind the grid together, while changing grounds make each repeated form register as a separate proposition.
- Catalogue metadata records oil pigment stick on canvas. The medium makes possible broad, direct blocks of pigment; in the photograph, slight variations along contours temper the otherwise firm geometry.
- Made in 2021 and measuring 150 by 100 cm according to the catalogue, No.51 provides a focused encounter with how serial structure can frame difference without resolving it into a hierarchy.
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.
