“What will be the world without screws and bolts?” It’s an unusual question that no one asks quite ever and to which very few people could give an answer. Between them there is the young Italian-Lebanese artist with Armenian origin Vahram Najjar Aghazarian. “Hidden, discreet, they are all around us, in the furniture, in eye glasses, in computers, in the parts of every day objects. They don’t let you see them, but they are there. Without them we can’t fix anything. Without screws, the world will fall!” Vahram was born in Cyprus, his parents are Lebanese, but he grew up in Italy: his culture is cosmopolitan, but it has strong roots in the Armenian culture of his grandparents. After a degree in Economics and International Trade at Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Vahram today works in Beirut in his family import-export fastener company which, for three generations, has been an important actor in its field in the Middle East. Since he was a child, he was fascinated by these little objects, omnipresent in life, around the world but he never could have imagined that one day they could become the raw material for his artistic creations. And so it happened that in a little warehouse in Beirut, from a casual arrangement of some screws on a cardboard, his first tridimensional mosaic took shape, where instead of tiles they are colored screws: a young woman’s face, an insect, a Venetian mask, a Volkswagen Maggiolino, to which he will add other subjects static or in motion with his technique. Slowly, his creations emerged from a little warehouse and landed in the art galleries of Milan, Paris, New York and Beirut. From April 1st to 10th Vahrams creations will be exhibited in Beirut for the third time through the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Lebanon. Travel is the subject of this exhibition, in its every aspect. Vintage cars, girls biking or hitch hiking, elegant women, wrapped in feathers and fur coats walking with their dogs, an exhausted clochard resting on stairs, a couple dancing to a nostalgic tango, trains and old smoking locomotive, motorbikes, pick up trucks, oil pump, tank truck, and pin ups serving fast food. A taste of Americana from coast to coast: from the Great Gatsby to the innovations of the beat generation. Through a surprisingly new artistic expression, Vahram seems to whisper the importance of motion, drawing an existential route of streets, far from one another, but fastened to each other. Because “the essential is invisible to our eyes…” http://www.vahramart.com