Véronique CHAHBAZIAN COBTI, (Liban, 1960) Lot n° 57

ANJAR COLUMN on Bekaa Valley pattern Watercolor on paper 38 x 54.5 cm painted in 2008 signed, dated and titled lower right "Cobti chahbazian 2008 Anjar", countersigned, dated and titled on the back Private collection, Paris The artist has been living in Lebanon for over 20 years. Véronique Chahbazian Cobti, architect and visual artist, teaches at ALBA and paints in the line of the traveler to the Levant. She explores and draws landscapes "on motif" and uses a wide range of media and techniques such as watercolor, pencil, pastel and oil. With watercolor, she travels and reveals the various aspects of the urban, rural and archaeological heritage theme and their mutations. As an artist of the gaze, she weaves the bridge between the notions of place, territory, history and time. Her nomadic creations, carried out with the brush, watercolor, her preferred medium, restore the perceptions of space-time, associating a vision of the moment with the place. She invests territories always renewed with the drawing as Ariadne's thread. Her creations express this abstract link between the medium of memory, the itinerary and the trace. With "Anjar Colonnade on pattern, Bekaa Valley 2008" here is the living testimony of this archaeological site located in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. This watercolor realized in the heart of the place, shows the evocative power of the stone (stereotomy), and expresses the anchoring of this site in the history of civilizations and the symbolism of the Mediterranean space. Located at the crossroads, Anjar was founded by the Umayyad dynasty before their migration to Andalusia. Other sites such as Byblos, Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon offer the artist the basis for future stopovers. Space, light and matter unfold, marrying a scale of sounds that we travel in an itinerary of exploration and timeless imagination.