Works · Nael Abdelal

Highlights

The story of a style, told backwards in four chapters. · 73 works, 2023–2026

A path back through the collection, in four chapters. It starts with the newest and largest canvases and walks back through the living surfaces of 2025 and 2026 to the serpents, spines and quick colour studies where the style began.

Chapter I · 2026

The largest

The story starts at the end: the biggest canvases so far. Smoky stone, glowing forms and black thorned veins gather everything that came before.

No. 289 · Fruits of Depth
No. 288
No. 287 · Heavy Head

Chapter II · 2026

More room to breathe

With more space the paintings slowed down: flame-like leaves, softer grounds, thorned growth and an eye looking back.

No. 258 · Landscape
No. 259
No. 260
No. 261
No. 262
No. 263
No. 264
No. 265 · Too much
No. 266 · Tearz in Blaze
No. 267 · Emergence
No. 268 · Ice Demon
No. 270
No. 269 · Formation
No. 271 · Ascenzion
No. 272 · Liqer
No. 273 · Latcher
No. 274
No. 275 · Fusing
No. 276 · Longface
No. 277
No. 278 · Tropic Fever
No. 279
No. 280
No. 187 · Thorn

Chapter III · 2025–2026

Living Surfaces

One step back, the ground itself comes alive. Smoke-grey surfaces crack, fur and bleed, with black veins running through them, and bodies, horns and figures rise out of the paint.

No. 188 · He drains me
No. 189 · Shut Up!
No. 190 · Deteriorating
No. 191 · Ease
No. 193 · The Wave
No. 221
No. 196 · Release
No. 195 · Concentrate
No. 194 · Fuse
No. 197 · Pulled
No. 211 · Bloody
No. 198 · Pincher
No. 212 · Fire
No. 217 · Open Wound
No. 210 · Passage
No. 200 · A Signal
No. 201 · Layered
No. 202
No. 207
No. 204 · Battery
No. 203
No. 208
No. 209
No. 213 · Hornicles
No. 214 · Calm
No. 215 · Elektrochemical
No. 216 · Shredder Mouth
No. 224 · Stix
No. 219 · Pockets
No. 218 · Collision
No. 223
No. 222
No. 192
No. 225 · DanBana 1
No. 226 · DanBana 2
No. 227 · DanBana 3

Chapter IV · 2023–2025

Where it began

Further back are the roots: serpents and currents, spines and vortices, and the first quick colour studies on paper and panel where these shapes first appeared.

No. 238
No. 253 · Take that!
No. 109 · Borhole
No. 68
No. 157 · My Gut is on fire
No. 156 · Tough world, c--t
No. 137 · Turmoil
No. 53 · Dancer
No. 3 · Sewing
No. 11 · Mango

Next: A5 & 25 × 25

Entropic

Entropy: order sliding into disorder. The earliest and smallest works, painted fast on paper and panel, where the forms of the later canvases first appear.

Entropic · I

A5

Acrylic on paper, 14.8 × 21 cm, 2023 · 48 works

Quick, loose studies on paper. Spirals, ribbons and colour fields spill across the sheet and dissolve: the first experiments, where the later language begins.