No.54 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm
Year: 2026
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?
No.54 uses a rigid nine-part grid to test how one arch-like form changes when colour relationships and partial overlaps vary.
- Nasr’s statement identifies the recurring arch as the interval before a decision. Here, repetition supports that intention without fixing a narrative: each threshold remains visually blocked rather than opening onto a depicted destination.
- The photograph shows nine equal squares, each containing a broad, rounded vertical form. Contrasting bands interrupt several arches, while dragged marks soften their upper edges. Order is therefore established by the grid and unsettled within each cell.
- Catalogued as oil pigment stick on canvas, the medium can accommodate both flat colour and direct, streaked application. That range appears important here, separating the measured geometry of the ground from the less regular forms.
- Dated 2026 and measuring 90 by 90 cm according to the catalogue, this painting provides a focused case for comparing repetition with difference: no arch functions independently, and no two resolve the same way.
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.
