Last Hill of East

"Last Hill of East", the title of this collection of Karim Nasr’s paintings is a realistic reaction to the deterioration of the East in confrontation with the Hollywoodian self. The virtual King Kong succeeded in subverting the material history and traditions of this geography without any destructive intention. Karim Nasr’s orient is a deteriorating body of nations which failed to relate to the relations of the contemporary world and create the possibility of reform and recapturing their identity and tradition in their tribal and tyrannized isolation. Nasr neither gives an appreciative interpretation of his historical tradition as a narrator nor criticizes his current living: whatever he is, he can be considered a realist and his work, in Charles Baudelaire’s definition of realism, is an ‘exact description of vulgarity.’His orient is a contemporary Pompeii which will be buried under the ashes of technological and media volcano.