vahram art

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 “Attraversiamo,” let’s cross over, to life in bold, life in detail, life in color. Vahram Najjar Aghazarian is an artist who has crossed over, to an art form unlike any other. His work cannot be categorized as being singularly contemporary or conventional in terms of style. It is intended to transcend the standard. To classify it, would mean creating a class of its own, distinctly, Vahram.

Like his life, Vahram’s art is diverse, vivid and candid. Born in Cyprus, raised in Italy and Lebanon, with Armenian ethnicity, his influences stem from a strong cultural tie, a deep love of Europe and a fascination of the Middle East. Earning a degree in Economics, Vahram quickly entered the workforce, becoming a manager of an Italian hardware corporation. One might consider working among millions of screws and bolts, stifling for an artist, but what began as an experiment, eventually grew to become a new form of expression.

From New York to Milan, to Paris, Geneva and London, Vahram’s art has been sold and exhibited to great acclaim. A relative new comer to the art scene, his first exhibition in Milano was in 2007. The world he fashioned was full of contrasting memories. Churches, icons, a Vespa, Charlie Brown, portraits, crosses and a Beetle – all unmistakable, all unique.

Through Vahram, a simple screw transforms into the stroke of a paintbrush, a piece of wood, the canvas. The process is painstaking, tedious and precise. Slowly but surely, each piece of different measure and sheen, is affixed to create an elaborate puzzle. The use of color adds depth and shadow. Light is used in the overall effect, thus altering its dimension, form and perspective.

The artist’s medium can be traced to antiquity.  It is considered humble at best, both in origin and use, yet it serves a vital function. It is in its simplicity that Vahram creates brilliance. A simple, understated, often overlooked tool becomes, simply beautiful.

Annie Keropian Dilsizian

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Today there is still someone who dedicates himself to a lost art form, considered by many as obsolete.

Vahram Najjar Aghazarian creates MOSAICS.

His highly descriptive works are built on painted wooden tablets: they  release the sacredness of a religious icon, with which they share their metallic splendour.

The images are taken from a long-established tradition of iconographic art, and lead back to the  precious stone artisanat and miniatures of Armenia, which is also the artist’s origin. The sacred images such as a Madonna with Child, Armenian crosses and other religious symbols are portrayed in a hermetic and abstract language, and are followed by Pop tributes, such as a Vespa scooter and the Beetle, together with a gallery of celebrity portraits.

If you look closer and focus on the images, you will notice another truth, which is not perceived at first sight. These mosaics are not built with the usual ceramic and glass tassels, but are the result of a painstaking process of applying steel screws and bolts of different measures and colour.

The material used by the artist is commonly considered “humble”, both in its origin and use. But it is exactly this material that is transformed by his hands, and becomes precious, taking on the nuances of gold, silver and copper.

The images portrayed  become three-dimensional: the light bouncing of the steel nails are combined with a natural chiaroscuro of great effect, which transcend the mosaic technique and its limiting two-dimensionality.

Vahram started creating these works for fun, initially applying the screws he used in his every day work life on industrial cardboard. From there he realized he could draw contours and create shapes: such shapes emerged from the base, creating volume, shadows and a variety of different colours.

Since then, he has never stopped and his casual experiment has become his real passion.

Valentina Cefalù

(translation by Camilla Benedetti)

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