Nabil Nahas Lebanese, b. 1949
Untitled, 2021-22
Acrylic on canvas
c. 48.3 x 43.2 cm. (19 x 17 in.)
Copyright The Artist
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Untitled, from Nabil Nahas’s Fractal series (2021–2022), exemplifies the artist’s deep investigation into organic complexity, material accumulation, and nature’s generative patterns. Compact in scale yet visually expansive, the piece radiates...
Untitled, from Nabil Nahas’s Fractal series (2021–2022), exemplifies the artist’s deep investigation into organic complexity, material accumulation, and nature’s generative patterns. Compact in scale yet visually expansive, the piece radiates with clustered, coral-like forms rendered in vibrant hues, each edged in contrasting colours like living topographies in bloom. Built from acrylic and pumice, its richly encrusted surface projects from the wall, dissolving the line between painting and low relief sculpture.
Nahas channels the logic of fractal geometry by creating self-repeating patterns that suggest endless proliferation. As the viewer draws near, the rhythmic floral forms reveal a granular chaos: crystalline textures, irregular voids, and sculpted craters that simultaneously resemble sedimentation and marine life. This interplay between harmony and entropy reinforces the dualities at the heart of the work: natural beauty and environmental fragility, order and disruption.
Nahas channels the logic of fractal geometry by creating self-repeating patterns that suggest endless proliferation. As the viewer draws near, the rhythmic floral forms reveal a granular chaos: crystalline textures, irregular voids, and sculpted craters that simultaneously resemble sedimentation and marine life. This interplay between harmony and entropy reinforces the dualities at the heart of the work: natural beauty and environmental fragility, order and disruption.