Henri Asmar is a Lebanese architect and artist who graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2017 with work specialization and interest in experience design, dance club architecture, and stage/venue design. He later pursued his education in Berlin, Germany, and received a master’s degree in Innovation Design Management from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in 2021. Henri is currently a self-represented artist and founder of Rules of Three Berlin.
Henri’s signature style comes from his quest to unpack his thoughts, ultimately leading him to the mystical origins of human tribes. Delving into that mysticism, he began developing a unique symbolry that could turn his mental processes into tangible and relatable narratives. As he expanded his new language, his fascination with the subconscious and its relationship with the conscious human day-to-day grew stronger. The result is a deeply introspective collection of artworks that positively adapt ancient spirituality to today’s world.
Through his mode of expression, Henri Asmar engages on the path of geometric abstraction. In his production, by means of a reflection in planes, forms, rhythms and colors, it is generally the interior desire of the subject which imperiously determines the form. If the planes overlap and intertwine, articulate and disarticulate in a rhythmic play, it holds, especially, the line in itself, its orientation, the shapes it traces, geometric shapes that cut the space in the heart of a pictorial world, whose key was given to him by the simultaneous meeting of three primordial elements: his training as an architect, his poetic intuition, and his spirit of deduction.
The achievements are characterized, as much, by the asceticism and the regularity of the lines and plans, as by the sobriety of the colors. What interests him, first of all, are the elements of composition, elements more of their essence than conformity with appearances, so that their various positions, in space, cause the best impact on the watcher. Through his approach, he wants to reflect on plans, geometric forms, rhythms and colors, while seeking to deconstruct and reconstitute processes of materialization of ideas, starting from a particular mode of plastic representation. It is, therefore, a research that is like many others, called contemporary, the quest for shaping and identity conditioning.
The compositions are born of fantasy, a fantasy that generates an art resulting in achievements and interpretations in which the passage from the physical truth to the plastic truth can be discerned. His work can be considered as an authentic search, a journey where the visual artist is like a traveler, at the heart of his imagination. And it is certainly in this continuous search that his truth is constructed and that he leads us to a universe beyond reality, which lies in some metaphysical domain. One could, perhaps, define it as an inner world, from which creativity is organized into an integral unity that gives it its full meaning.