Nohra Haime Gallery is pleased to present The Unimaginable Worlds of Perfection by Nessim Bassan. The exhibition brings together 18 works the artist has created in the past three years.

 Nessim Bassan: The Unimaginable Worlds of Perfection showcases the artist’s engagementwith kinetic art, with his preoccupation with geometric abstraction enacted through mixedmedia. Bassan’s approach is at once a personal exploration of form and a reflection onobjective mathematical measurements. The artist tends to work with a color palette ofvariations of white, to which he might add flashes of color. Incorporating media such as paint,wood, linen, paper, and string into his art, Bassan interweaves textures in a way that producesa myriad of layers. Even with this complexity of detail and physical depth, these works do notconvey disorganization but rather, precision and balance. They are optical illusions at oncesimple and complex, delicate and bold, elegant and unrestrained. Born in Panamá, where he lives and works, Bassan has been a practicing artist for over fivedecades. His earliest work was recognized and promoted by critics and curators, notably suchThomas Messer from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Lester Cooke from
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In 1970, Jose Gomez-Sicre, invited him to exhibit atthe Organization of American States in Washington DC, which led to his participation in the1981 Sao Paulo Biennial. Following this exhibition, Bassan chose to leave the art world foralmost twenty years, returning to exhibiting in the late 1990s. Through his career, he hasparticipated in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including in Brazil, Colombia, ElSalvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the United States. An extensive formal retrospective ofBassan’s works is currently traveling across Central America, having begun at theContemporary Art Museum in Panamá in November 2022, before moving to the NationalIdentity Museum of Honduras, The Museum of Art of El Salvador and the Museum of ModernArt Carlos Mérida in Guatemala.