Through his consistent experimentation, an artist has revolutionized contemporary painting by turning the inlaid technique into an actual concept.
LOS ANGELES, November 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — There was a private exhibition of the artist’s work Kaloust Güdel in Newport Beach, Ca. The exhibition of his latest immersionism collection featured a dozen paintings ranging in size from 60″ to 40″ in vertical dimensions. The enthusiasm of the collectors paid off. It was a sold out show.
Some things take longer to develop than others. The ancient inlaid technique took 4,500 years of evolution to go through its stages as a technique and to manifest itself in its purest form as an artistic concept. The great work of the marquetry master André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) was long considered the pinnacle of evolution. An application in other forms was unthinkable until then Kaloust Güdel reformulated it in his studio. The reincarnation of the inlaid technique emerged as a new artistic concept that marked the birth of the immersionist tendencies.
The oldest known patterns of inlay work were discovered in Mesopotamia 2,500 BC Chr Inlay includes a range of techniques in sculpting and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often colored, materials into indentations in a base object to form ornaments or images, usually flush with the matrix.
Guedel regards the marquetry technique as an essential element of his artistic concept, which is explored…
