Nasser Assar was born in 1928 in Tehran, Iran. At the age of seven, he began to paint and to familiarize himself with calligraphy. After studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran, he decided to move to Paris in 1953, eager for new experiences. His culture is marked by poetry and philosophy. His artistic influences are diverse. In the romantic tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, he claims the influence of

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  Biography of Nasser Assar

  Nasser Assar was born in 1928 in Tehran, Iran. At the age of seven, he began to paint and to familiarize himself with calligraphy. After studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran, he decided to move to Paris in 1953, eager for new experiences. His culture is marked by poetry and philosophy. His artistic influences are diverse. In the romantic tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, he claims the influence of Bonnard and Giacometti, and his proximity to Chinese painting of the High Period is undeniable. In this oriental art, he apprehends the value of real space, as well as the spontaneity of gesture. His meeting with the art critic Julien Alvard was decisive. The latter signed the preface to his first solo exhibition, in 1955, at the Prismes gallery (Paris). He then participated in several group exhibitions (Comparaisons, Salon des Réalités nouvelles, Jeunes peintres d'aujourd'hui, etc). He is associated with the exhibition "Antagonismes" at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, along with Frédéric Benrath, René Duvillier and Piero Graziani, among others. The Bellechasse Gallery (Paris) organized his second solo exhibition in 1960. In 1961, Nasser Assar was one of thirteen painters chosen to represent France at the second Paris Biennale. His first personal exhibition abroad, in 1961, was organized at the Lincoln Gallery in London. Of the nuagist painters, Nasser Assar is perhaps the most atypical, because the calligraphic sign reveals in him a certain representation of reality, a formal dimension. However, his work on transparency and depth is close to that of Frederic Benrath or Fernando Lerin. The light in his work seems inherent to the material and the color of the elements. It also testifies to the inner flame of the artist, in harmony with things. From 1964 onwards, Nasser Assar's work seems to leave the shores of abstraction for plant and animal forms; from then on, Nasser Assar paints trees, meadows, rocks, large pieces of sky, in a permanent and soothing relationship with nature. The artist died in Paris in 2011.
  

  

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